Confessions of a Seminar-Stressed Nutrition Student

With less than two days ’til seminar, I’ve been totally stressed out today–especially when my internship case study took all morning and my health program planning took all afternoon. I had no choice but to spend all evening on seminar. So, when I got out of class a bit before 8 this evening, I went shopping.

And what, you may ask, does a dietetics intern and nutrition grad student purchase to tide her over during what is sure to be a late night writing?

Try donuts, potato chips, Veggie Tales fruit snacks, sardines in mustard sauce, Swiss rolls, Hot Tamales, Boston baked beans, a hot spiced cider packet, dried apple rings, sour gummy worms, cherry sours, ramen, and grapefruit juice.

To my credit, I didn’t eat it all–apparently my binge eating powers have decreased in the last couple of years. All I had this evening was the sardines, a third of the bag of chips, a donut, 3 packets of fruit snacks, a few pieces each of each of the candies, and half the jug of juice.

It’s a sore blow to my olden days eat everything in sight motto–but if I maintain this level of “moderation” (if you can call it that), I may have some snacks to finish my seminar with tomorrow. And if I’m really lucky, I may have some for finishing up my project proposal on Thursday night. It’s too much to hope that I’ll have anything left for Tuesday night, when all my papers are done and my roommates are gone and I’ll be vegging out.

And then I won’t eat another bite of junk food for another couple of months until the next big stress event occurs. (Or Christmas, whichever comes first.)

Such is the life of THIS dietetic intern!