{"id":587,"date":"2006-12-22T19:40:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T17:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/587"},"modified":"2006-12-22T19:45:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T17:45:06","slug":"the-waiting-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/587","title":{"rendered":"The Waiting Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had an appointment with my dietician.&nbsp; It has been a few weeks since I&#8217;ve seen her and I was dreading the weigh in because I knew I hadn&#8217;t lost as much as I could have during that time.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I made my usual trek to the hospital and when I rounded the corner to the dietician&#8217;s waiting room it wasn&#8217;t the unusual amount of people waiting that caught my eye, it was this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/blogpics\/wrcookies.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What in the <em>hell<\/em>?!&nbsp; A plate of chocolates and cookies on the table in the middle of the waiting&nbsp;room for a DIETICIAN?!<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t bothered by it in the want to jump on it and scoff them all down way, more just confused and dumbfounded, I mean&#8230; what if I <em>was<\/em> tempted by them?&nbsp;&nbsp; Was I meant to sit there for however long it took my turn to come around just looking at them?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, who visits dieticians?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People who want to lose weight<\/li>\n<li>People who want to learn to&nbsp;eat healthy<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes patients<\/li>\n<li>Heart patients<\/li>\n<li>Problematic pregnancy patients<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You get the point&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>How many of these people need to be sitting around a waitingroom looking at a plate of cookies before being called in to discuss why we shouldn&#8217;t be eating them?&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I actually looked around the edges of the ceiling to see if there were cameras, like if we were being tested.&nbsp;&nbsp; If it was, I passed&#8230; but the annoying little yappy snot of a 5 year old with her screaming 2 year old brother and apparently blind, deaf and dumb mother failed badly.<\/p>\n<p>It took 20 minutes before it was my turn and I&#8217;m not sure what drove me more crazy.&nbsp; The cookies, the kids, the mom who let the kids act like little retards, or the dude sitting next to me who was not-so-subtly trying to look over and see what was on my camera.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, waiting rooms are creeping higher on my stuff I hate list.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I was actually down 2 kilos from the last visit.&nbsp; Good thing I didn&#8217;t eat the cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had an appointment with my dietician.&nbsp; It has been a few weeks since I&#8217;ve seen her and I was dreading the weigh in because I knew I hadn&#8217;t lost as much as I could have during that time.&nbsp; I made my usual trek to the hospital and when I rounded the corner to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-tantrums-rants","category-weightloss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}