Today I had an appointment with Duke's nutritionist and it went really well! She is very nice and approachable, so that is good. She was also filled with helpful suggestions for improving my diet to help me get back on track with my eating habits and everything. I figured since sometime in the future Keegan and I would like to have some kiddos that I should get in the habit of eating well now so that when preggo time rolls around I'm not scrambling to learn how to eat better and how to raise a baby at the same time.
Anyway, her first recommendation was to start with breakfast. I never eat breakfast, generally because I'm one of those continuous snacker types that will just munch on stuff all day even if I'm not hungry. So I sort of avoid that situation by just not starting to eat until later in the day. But I'll start off tomorrow with her recommendations and move from there. I'm going to have to add a bunch of stuff I don't buy that frequently to our grocery list, but hopefully my working with this nutritionist will also help Keegan :-)
So for my breakfasts I'm going to go with different combos of cereals/milk, yogurt, fruit, nuts, and cheese. (Sidenote: is cottage cheese good? Does anyone know? Do you eat it plain or what?) Hopefully by starting out my day better I'll have more energy to exercise when I get home from work (or I can try to start going in the mornings again). Also this fall I signed up to take the weight lifting for women gym class; I will need to have lots of energy for this class I'm sure, and I'd like to be able to extend my gym time by running after the class. This will be a bit weird, for me to be at the gym in the middle of the day when I'll need to be in lab, but I will definitely be able to make up for this class time by staying later/arriving earlier. Plus since I have to take another course hour to be able to take the class at UNC that I actually will find useful, I have a legitimate reason to be at the gym.
One thing I did notice about this fall is I will have to be on campus early 4/5 days every week. MWF I will have the class at UNC at 9a.m., which involves catching a bus at Duke at 8a.m. and Tuesdays I have class at Duke at 8:30a.m. Well, whatever. I'm most productive in the morning anyway. Like today for instance, I was here at 8:15 and I was able to plan experiments, meet with the postdoc in chemistry to devise how to do the experiments, submitted my revised review paper, and had the appointment with the nutritionist. And in 30 minutes I'm going to actually start the experiments over in French. Good day all around.
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