Problems of weight loss

Georgiegirl256

Well done! Keep up the good work! Hope your DH is on the mend.

Heinz Tomato soup is my comfort food too. Always has been, ever since I was little.

~Chameleon~

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Well done! Keep up the good work! Hope your DH is on the mend.

Heinz Tomato soup is my comfort food too. Always has been, ever since I was little.

It's the only tinned soup I would ever eat. You just can't replicate it. A sprinkling of black pepper and has to be accompanied by a slice or two of thick sliced white bread smothered in butter :drool:

Mojisola

margaretclare wrote: »

I've recently had DH in hospital, a flare-up of infection in his 4th knee replacement, been in hospital for a week on IV antibiotics. Apart from one or two mini pork pies bought at the WHSmith shop in the hospital foyer, I haven't gone mad with anything not in my plan. It would have been very easy, and I imagine some people would have done, gone mad with sweet things, but I didn't. We tried to get away from the ward when possible - last Sunday afternoon we went to the Sunday evening service in the hospital chapel, and then another 2 days he met me downstairs in the Costa Coffee shop. In between all the sweet things on sale there and in the WHSmith shop opposite, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to say 'oh s*d it, I need comfort' but my only comfort food really is a tin of Heinz tomato soup!

When Dad was in hospital for several months, I was shocked at the poor quality of food available for visitors at the hospital - basically sugar, sugar and more sugar in a massive variety of forms.

The food provided for patients is reasonably good but the message doesn't seem to have spread to what's provided for visitors.

Georgiegirl256

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

It's the only tinned soup I would ever eat. You just can't replicate it. A sprinkling of black pepper and has to be accompanied by a slice or two of thick sliced white bread smothered in butter :drool:

Same here, I'm not really keen on any other tinned soup apart from Cross & Blackwell's Minestrone. But Heinz tomato is the only one I really eat regularly.

I've never tried pepper on it before, but love bread (probably too much!) with butter with it, I have about 3-4 slices! :eek:

tesuhoha

Well done and I hope your DH is now fit enough to come home.

maman

Mojisola wrote: »

The food provided for patients is reasonably good but the message doesn't seem to have spread to what's provided for visitors.

I haven't read the rest of the thread but this jumped out at me. Last year I accidentally ended up in hospital overnight (should have been a day procedure but no doctor available to do the discharge:mad:) and the food was incredibly unhealthy. No fruit at breakfast, bread was white or brown (just coloured not wholemeal), cereal was just filler like cornflakes(no wholewheat). Evening meal equally full of carp. In the end I decided if I was going to eat carp I might as well go the whole hog and had crisps and chocolate bars from the shop. At least that was tasty!:rotfl:

Mrs_Ryan

Oh I know what you mean maman! I was in hospital overnight at the end of January and when I asked did they have anything healthy for tea and lunch they looked at me like I had just landed from Mars I eventually managed to get a salad and a jacket potato out of them, and asking for semi-skimmed milk with my breakfast caused a flurry of panic I got it eventually though. And to be fair I got Weetabix and a banana without too much trouble. I had to go without a drink at breakfast though as they only had fruit juice (don't do fruit juice- syns ) and when I asked for coffee they said I would have to wait- no biggie, I know what breakfast times are like in hospitals, manic- but I never got one so I went down and got my own from Costa after breakfast. When I was in hospital for a week after my hysterectomy I only ate one meal a day of their food- always a plain tuna salad, my Mum brought my lunch everyday and I even had my own cereal- I wouldn't drink their tea either as being staff I knew how horrible hospital tea is

margaretclare

Thanks to all. DH got out of hospital on Friday afternoon.

As a guy who always eats protein for breakfast, even something simple like a boiled egg, and who has a daily battle to control his blood glucose, he was appalled - although not surprised - at what the NHS is pleased to call 'breakfast'. Cereal in little individual boxes, and there's always an offer of 'do you want sugar on it?' Well, no, the darned things are full of sugar to begin with, although some people do want sugar added. And then, a while later, toast and marmalade, either white or brown toast but nothing like the bread that we buy, which has nuts and seeds in it. So, a high glucose breakfast. Not good for an insulin-using Type II diabetic.

He's meant to be on antibiotics for a further 3 weeks and then see his consultant again. However, he's now decided not to take any more antibiotics at all. The ones he was supposed to take, within 24 hours i.e. the middle of Saturday, he was feeling very very dizzy and unsteady. He changed to the others he was taking before, and is still getting the dizziness. It's making him feel awful. So he's now refusing to take any more antibiotics at all and see how it goes. His leg is 1000% better than it was, so hopefully it will be OK.

I appear to have lost another 7 ounces from a week ago, nearly half a pound. I don't mind how slowly it comes off, just so long as we're going in the right direction.

Person_one

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

No, I was a vet and now a nutritionist (registered) so I can fully account for your confusion

Is it appropriate for a nutritionist to describe themselves as 'qualified' and 'registered' without explaining what their qualification is and who they are registered with?

Its not a protected title, so it could mean anything!

~Chameleon~

Person_one wrote: »

Is it appropriate for a nutritionist to describe themselves as 'qualified' and 'registered' without explaining what their qualification is and who they are registered with?

Its not a protected title, so it could mean anything!

Yes, because many are not. And this has been discussed in other threads.

There's a world of difference between someone taking a six week diploma course in basic nutrition to one who has a MSc degree in nutritional science and human health which is accredited by the Association of Nutritionists and as such are able to be registered and use the title of RNutr after their name.