Good question. It's a longish story. When I went to get her to sign off on my application to have gastric bypass surgery, she assumed this is something this not-as-fat-as-he-could-be guy had his heart set on. She was going to just sign my paper and get rid of me. She is vehemently opposed to the surgery because people do die from complications, and it severely limits the nutrients the body can absorb, good and bad. She's one of these Luddites who thinks diet and exercise can cure the world. And she's one of those rare Ashkenazim who got the high metabolism gene.
So she had only allocated 5 minutes for our meeting, instead of the half hour which I expected for some good information. I insisted on her telling me why she objected, and giving me a viable alternative.
In a rush, she gave me the diet and exercise line, and then she gave me a Food Plan™ to follow. Since it takes months for Kaiser to approve bariatric surgery applications, I figured I would give it a try. When I got home and read through it, the plan looked seriously good. It was basically stuff I was eating anyway, minus the three scoops of light ice cream every night. The portions were actually larger than some of the frozen dinners I was used to.
Then she phoned the next day to say if I was really interested in learning more, she was offering this class, starting in a couple of weeks. So I signed up.
The class was postponed for a month. By the time class started I'd lost 30 lbs on the Food Plan™. It would probably be more if I got more exercise.
I was hoping she knew her stuff, being fairly young and not more than a couple of years out of school. My experience with medical people is the more recently they graduated, the more they had to learn to get their certs. It's been true of my diabetes care people and cardiologist.
But she's the exception. She doesn't believe in the genetic component in chronic disease, and she doesn't have any background in chemistry. She's been calling me the Rocket Scientist because I asked her a simple 6th grade question on the first night of class - what's the diff between simple and complex carbs. Her answer was basically "that's not my department". She isn't a scientist, and doesn't know how to think like one.
The short answer is she's hella cute, Jewish and single. ;-)
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Date: 2005-05-25 03:05 am (UTC)So she had only allocated 5 minutes for our meeting, instead of the half hour which I expected for some good information. I insisted on her telling me why she objected, and giving me a viable alternative.
In a rush, she gave me the diet and exercise line, and then she gave me a Food Plan™ to follow. Since it takes months for Kaiser to approve bariatric surgery applications, I figured I would give it a try. When I got home and read through it, the plan looked seriously good. It was basically stuff I was eating anyway, minus the three scoops of light ice cream every night. The portions were actually larger than some of the frozen dinners I was used to.
Then she phoned the next day to say if I was really interested in learning more, she was offering this class, starting in a couple of weeks. So I signed up.
The class was postponed for a month. By the time class started I'd lost 30 lbs on the Food Plan™. It would probably be more if I got more exercise.
I was hoping she knew her stuff, being fairly young and not more than a couple of years out of school. My experience with medical people is the more recently they graduated, the more they had to learn to get their certs. It's been true of my diabetes care people and cardiologist.
But she's the exception. She doesn't believe in the genetic component in chronic disease, and she doesn't have any background in chemistry. She's been calling me the Rocket Scientist because I asked her a simple 6th grade question on the first night of class - what's the diff between simple and complex carbs. Her answer was basically "that's not my department". She isn't a scientist, and doesn't know how to think like one.
The short answer is she's hella cute, Jewish and single.
;-)