A Real Knee-slapper

I was at a church function minding my own business when yet another person found out what I did for a living and studied in college.

*Snort*

"Of course I really don't eat like this all the time, Sam." and he ribbed the next person in line at the potluck saying,"Watch out! Sam's a dietitian! Careful or she'll see what you're eating."He walked away chuckling and dramatically covering his paper plate full of potluck goodies with his hand.

It was then, with a spoonful of ice cream in my mouth, I resolved to start a blog. I needed a place to vent.

Dietitians are people too! Trust me. We get cravings and splurge and occasionally eat things we really know we shouldn't. The difference between us and the average population of America is that we could probably recite the biochemical properties of the food and tell you the latest studies about why it would be bad for us.

Plus, we use fancy words like glycosylated hemoglobin.


So, I thought some folks may find it helpful, er, um, entertaining, or even instructive if I include the great INTERNET in my life. I'll call it part journal experience and part therapeutic gripe session.

I've decided to share a variety of things on this blog. I'll post a weekly recipe that I like and why. Plus, I'll share my escapades as the wife of a 'nearly always broke' grad student, a Mom of a beautiful red headed daughter, and a little about life as a person who lives with a chronic disease.

I'll tell you more later about Hypoparathyroidism and the parathyroid gland: the worlds most under appreciated gland.

Most of all of this will revolve around food. Aaaah, food. I love it. There's so much to learn about it: how it metabolizes in our body, the nutrients it provides, how to get enough good food economically, the world of agribusiness. And the taste! Oh, the taste. There's a reason I became a dietitian. I. Love. Food.


So this blog will be a hodge podge of things as you can see. But most of all, it will be a reminder that dietitians are people, too.


So, good night for now. I've got the munchies and it's time to put my daughter, London, to bed.