Hospital stay last week - food choices were terrifying

(Antony Collins) #1

Hey guys,

I was in hospital overnight last week for a knee reconstruction. I managed to eat Keto the entire time by avoiding the food they offered and having family members bring me alternatives!

For dinner I had barbecued chicken with Spinach and Parmesan salad and for breakfast I had a coffee with heavy cream and three hard boiled eggs🔲…

When I look at this menu, it’s no wonder we have weight, insulin and inflammation issues…and this I’m sure has been designed by an nutrician expert…

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Have you tried to Keto ..while in Hospital?
(Antony Collins) #2

Breakfast was by far the worst !

#3

@Antony_Collins No wonder people are becoming obese and diabetic when choices like this are presented at the one place you go to get healthy. It really makes you scratch your head!!

#4

Definitely designed by a dietitian, not sure if I’d call them a nutrition expert. You poor thing. Lucky you had support from your family. Hope you are on the way to recovery.

#5

The breakfast options are atrocious but the rest can potentially be keto-fied by smuggling in butter. Good thing you have people on board with you who can help!

(jketoscribe) #6

Except for breakfast it looks doable to me–like Nettles points out you need someone to bring you some butter or coconut oil (if a planned elective procedure I would take butter or coconut oil with me, maybe some olive oil too, for salads).

For Thursday dinner I’d choose the baked salmon and the rocket salad with some olive oil from home (my favorite “dressing” is olive oil, a squirt or two of lemon juice and some salt). You could add butter to the salmon for more fat.
For Lunch the steamed chicken would be OK with seasonal vegetables (hopefully not just peas and carrots!) and a side salad.
Breakfast though–what a disaster. I’d do what you did–hard boiled eggs from home if necessary and load my coffee with coconut oil and butter.

My family is under orders if I’m ever in the hospital to bring me thermoses filled with hot, homemade bone broth every day. And extra veggies with butter would be appreciated, too!

(Bacon for the Win) #7

I had a patient the other night who came in with a septic knee. It will be his 4th revision which means they have been in the joint 6 - 7 times already. Not much bone left and they are talking about fusion and possibly amputation. His A1c was 10 something.

When the attending saw him in the morning, he lectured him about getting his A1c down, telling him that healing will not happen in the presence of so much glucose. He needs to make better choices yada yada yada.

Now this is a young attending surgeon, a mover and a shaker. He’s on the right track as far as being anti-sugar. Now I just need him to take it to the next level. I plan on speaking to him about this the next time I see him. It’s one thing to tell patients what they need to do, but then we throw up every obstacle imaginable such as the menus posted above.

Telling a person to make better choices and then make that impossible is just cruel and wrong.

(Antony Collins) #8

I just had the family bring me in food…all I had in hospital was water
and a few cups of tea :>0