@$#% Dietician

(Renee Slaughter) #1

Ok went to my dietician. Mary was pro keto and was very interested on my journey to health. Mary is gone. Enter Tina. Advised her I was keto. She started with the dogma about not sustainable. My cholesterol was high. Y’all know the crap. Never said anything about my A1C in normal range or the fact that I lost 5 lbs since the last time I was there. She quoted her vague studies about plant based being optimal. Told her it didn’t work for me. Arrgh! Freaking frustrating. So I have to see her again in 2 months. Plus I have to document my food. Where’s Mary??.@$#% dietician

(Jo) #2

chin up… good luck and KCKO!

(Chris) #3

Are you being forced to see a dietician? Unless there’s some reason to keep going, I’d just quit. Too much of a headache.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #4

Log in MFP, and open an Instagram account. Turn up with the greatest epic keto log into 2 months. Final week before you go back for next lipid panel, only fast the 12 hours before and make her eat it.

(Garry (Canada)) #5

I can certainly understand your frustration…
My 76 year old neighbor/good friend has T2D 120 units/day and his dietician tells him to eat whatever he wants… just in moderation. WTF???

Absolute Ignorance within the entire medical profession!!!

(Renee Slaughter) #6

Thank tou. You’re right I don’t have to go. Done.

(Chris) #7

My wife had a visit with a dietician recently and the information was ridiculous. She actually was recommending to replace butter with margarine! Good ol’ food pyramid. Do more, eat less

(Chris) #8

I admire that. If you still think you need local support though, it still may be worth trying to find another keto-friendly RD in the area.

BTW I saw your starting and current a1c numbers, great job!!

#9

Hey RS, a couple of things I noticed right off the bat in your post. Mary was a positive influence and your next dietitian was negative “Keto is not sustainable”, sticking to the party line of plant based diet (you’re doing it wrong)… is going to get you nowhere fast. (FYI: you can’t get the enzymes needed to metabolise stored body fats by only eating plant based fats) My wife’s MD is the exact same about Keto, lots of not’s, can’t, and shouldn’t (s). Her MD put her through a canned “Drs Weight Loss Program” (800 kcal per day of mostly high sugar, high carb, very high cost prepared food packets) with zero results. We switched to Keto a year ago and researched the dickens outta it, all our blood values are textbook normal, we have lost over #100 combined. Stick with this forum, surround yourself with positive, knowledgeable sources and stick with it! Tear it up Girl!

(Adam Kirby) #10

Seriously get the hell away from this person, she will do nothing but derail your progress.

(Renee Slaughter) #11

Seriously I’m canceling my next appt.
Done

(Adam Kirby) #12

:+1:

Sadly I would say visiting a non-low carb dietician is worse than useless.

#13

Agree completely. I visited a dietician after I had been on keto for my seizures (self-controlled) for about 6 or 7 months just to get confirmation that I was doing it correctly.

She seriously knew less than me and provided me nothing more than things she had printed out from online sources that I had already seen and read the first week I was researching.

Worse than useless. LOL

(Darlene Horsley) #14

Renee don’t need no stinkin’ Tina. :smile:

(Renee Slaughter) #15

Lol Darlene, lol.

(Keto in Katy) #16

Dammit Tina

(Renee Slaughter) #17

The cholesterol conversation with Tina
Tina: How are your labs?
Me: I have them on my phone
Tina: on your phone?
Me: Yes there’s an app for that
Tina: You don’t have them on paper?
Me: Why?
We discuss my lab results. A1C 5.3, total cholesterol 220. HDL 65 LDL 134 Triglycerides 100 down from 135.
Tina: your cholesterol is high
Me: Not really worried. My triglycerides have come down 35 points and my HDL has come up by 20 points since last year. My triglycerides to HDL ratio is not bad and is a good indicator of my LDL levels.
Tina: Does your Dr know about these levels.
Me : Proably since he gets the same labs I do
Tina stares at me like I have a third head.
Guys I think I’m gonna have some fun with her. Blow her narrow mind. LOL

(Chris) #18

From the transcription of this conversation you really seem to know your stuff. Tina should go look elsewhere for clients imo.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #19

Dietitians and doctors go crazy in congregations but they only get better one well informed patient at a time.

(Todd Allen) #20

The problem is the dietician, your labs look good. And perhaps most important they’ve been trending better.