Nutritionist appointment-more frustration..

I am SO frustrated right now! I went back for my
nutritional evaluation. It was basically a one on one
version of the first nutrition class that I went
through. She asked me about the types of foods I have
been eating, and about the types of beverages I have
been drinking. She asked about my snacking habits,
and about my exercise routine.

I proudly told her about how I've allready been
proactive by eliminating snacking, and beverages that
are not low calorie, except for possibly 1 or 2 beers
a week, which I'm absolutly ready to eliminate at any
point. About how I have eliminated evils such as the
Golden Arches from my life. When it came to exercise,
I explained that it wasn't from lack of trying, simply
that every time I do anything physical, I hurt myself,
and that I can't wait to drop some weight so I can get
back into exercising.

We went through the meeting, and as it went on, it
began to feel that she wasn't truely evaluating
anything, but instead, going through the motions of a
class that she has gone through 1000 times before. We
reached the end of the class, and her instructions. I
want to see you go out and excercise 30 minutes a day,
we'll schedule another meeting in a month from now to
measure your progress...

That is another month to delay all of the
administrative garbage that I need to do like getting
approval with my insurance company, or trying to find
time in the surgeon's busy schedule to schedule the
surgery. After diligently preparing for this surgery,
studying it in and out, modifying my habits WAY ahead
of time, I feel I am simply being pushed through the
maze of appointments instead of actually being
evaluated. I explained that I work overnights, I
explained that these appointments are rediculously
hard for me to make, given my schedule and the fact
that I no longer have any sick time left for the year.
I explained that because I have wanted to move
through the process more efficiently, I have put in
more effort than was required, in hopes they could see
my commitment. What I recieved was a response of
"Those things are not my concern..". It was a cold,
chilling response. She listened to my plea's with an
answer allready in mind.

So, fine. I scheduled an appointment 3 weeks out, to
meet again, and give her a report that I could give
her today.

What was MOST frustrating, is when I asked if we could
speed things along in other administrative areas, such
as getting approval from my insurance company, who
certainly does not have my health and best interest in
mind, but simply wants to make sure I am in a
situation that merits them spending the money, she
replied "well, no, because that requires our
evalutations...". What was today? Why the
unwillingness to let me move along efficiently so that
I can protect my financial means of getting the
surgery done, i.e. my job and my health insurance
benefits? Is she really so regimented that she cannot
see outside of the box to try and do something more
efficiently than in the past? Does she love the power
she holds to delay a person in one of the most
important events of their lives? That seems frankly a
bit god like, and I do NOT appreciate it!