My date with a nutritionist

First a little background information.

I have never been a healthy eater.  I have subsisted on about 700-900 calories a day for as long as I can remember and had a severe bout with anorexia that is under control now.

I joined my good friend's gym and had him recommend a trainer for me and he played a dirty trick on me.  He set me up with a trainer who was also a nutritionist.  I know he did this because he loves me and wants the best for me.

It was an eye opening experience.  I am 33 years old and if I don't get my act together soon, things are going to go downhill fast.  During my bout with anorexia my kidneys started to shut down.  I know the effect that nutrition can have on your organs and other health related problems.  I was shocked to learn that you can also get diabetes too from poor nutrition.

We talked about healthy food options but food to me is so overwhelming.  On my own, I can not think of food to make.  I try to write grocery lists but come up with 3 or 4 items.  It has always been easier to eat dinner at my parents and just skip the rest of the meals.  But now I was expected to change my poor habits and eat 5 meals a day.  I have never eaten 5 meals a day.  I eat one.

So tomorrow starts a new way of living for me.  For breakfast I have been given permission to eat my favorite, a chick fil a breakfast burrito.  For my mid morning snack (so weird to think of), I will have applesauce and a mozzarella cheese stick.  Lunch will be a strawberry protein shake from GNC and mid day snack will be a strawberry Special K bar.  It doesnt sound exciting, but its what I found in the house. 

Here is my first grocery list:
Granola
Applesauce
Plain oatmeal
Plain Greek yogurt
low fat cheese sticks
packages of apple slices (how do you keep apple slices from going brown?)
Bananas
Almonds

My trainer/nutritionist also provides a meal service which I will use for a while that will make 4 of the 5 meals for me.  I will pick it up every morning at 7 at the gym.  Hopefully after a month or so I will know enough to make my own food.

I also learned that I probably gained the ten pounds I joined the gym for was probably due to stress.  It is all in my midsection and I started gaining right when things got very stressful at work.  So tomorrow I will start my day at a 6am yoga class.

Here's to me getting healthy in 2012!