Wellness Dietitian

Over the weekend I went to see a very well known dietician. I had had enough of being over-weight and decided that it was time to do something about it. I have tried many different forms of weight loss program, all with a lack of success. I am pleased to report that this dietician has shown me where I am going wrong and has put me on a diet which I am very confident will work. In this article I will describe this diet to you.

The name of the dietician is Linda, one of the first questions was not asking about what or how much I was eating, it was asking me about when I ate my meals. For the last couple of years I have been attempting to cut down on what I have been eating in an effort to lose weight. This is how I answered Linda’s question:

I rarely eat breakfast as I am normally too busy. I also do not feel like eating at this time of the day. At around eleven in the morning I might have a couple of biscuits (normally chocolate, I am aware that this is not good, but they are so nice), alternatively I will have a chocolate bar or some crisps. This is to basically keep me going until lunch.

For lunch I will normally have a sandwich, chicken or ham fillings, with a yoghurt for pudding, normally strawberry flavour. I do not like to eat too much at lunch time as it tends to make me tired in the afternoon. I will tend to have my main meal of the day at around seven in the evening. This could be one of many meals and is often followed by some form of pudding.

Linda explained that I was doing the opposite of what I should be doing. She explained it like a car journey. A car needs a lot of petrol at the start of a long journey (breakfast), it may then need a further big top up half way through the journey (lunch) and then a smaller top up towards the end of the journey (dinner). This is how your daily food intake should work; your main meal should be breakfast and not dinner. This will then enable me to stop the snack food as I will not be so hungry.

I am going to give this new form of living and eating a real go and will let you know what happens. Wish me luck.