Dietician/Nutritionist consult

I finally did it - I gave in to every doctor's recommendation for me, and saw a nutritionist today. I mean, I know things have to change, but I know what to do, what to eat, yadda yadda. Any funny thing - weight still wasn't coming off.

So I went to the appointment, just at least to say I'd GONE. And y'know, the gal was pretty nice. We chatted about the shite our little family has been through this last year and a bit (IVF, J's stroke, PPD, etc) and when she asked me why I'd finally chosen to "do something about my weight", I was honest with her. that I was honestly fine in my skin, and that I'd taken the appt to shut up the doctors. But I guess something just clicked as we were talking - maybe it was the fact she didn't focus on numbers, or just say "you're fat, you need to diet". She said she LIKED my attitude of being comfortable in my skin - that so many people who look healthy are neither healthy or comfortable. There were a few things we focussed on: her expectations, being a mom and not taking time to eat/snack healthily, my emotional eating, and she taught me about hte HALT principle.

She told me that many people come to her and expect huge weight loss, but that's not why she's there. She said she expects 5-10% of starting weight over 4-6 MONTHS.. for me that 5% works out to just about a pound a week. sounds easy enough, I hope I can do it.

as far as eating/snacking healthily - she wants me to eat SOMETHING whenever I make kidlet a bottle (usually every 3-4h). small snacks from 2 food groups to keep up my energy during the day, so I don't feel draggy assed.

As for the HALT principle, it works like this...
People generally eat for HALTing reasons:
Hungry
Angry/Anxious
Lonely
Tired (bored)
Basically, when you want to eat, ask yourself "WHY" and if it's not because you're Hungry, instead of eating and then (sometimes) feeling shame/guilt/regret, do something instead of eating. For me, it'd be going down & being crafty, go to bed, read, brush teeth, or play on computer (blog/twitter/FB/play bejeweled or whatever). When I said that the last one was no good, bc I eat WHILE i play on the computer, she came up with a challenge. My laptop can't be on if I'm having a snack. This is HUGE for me. Once kidlet's in bed, I tend to flip on TV, forage and snack and play on laptop til I feel tired enough to go to bed. Now though, I have to choose. Laptop or snack.

in addition, I've been walking with Joel a LOT. I did 14k last week, and have already done 6k since Monday (and we didn't walk today). I make myself walk routes with hills, and my pace has improved since the start of summer. Hopefully between the small changes she's asked me to try, and our continued walks, I will have started to see some success by our next appointment at the end of next month. 6 lbs gone by then - totally doable, right? Right?