Omg, I'M Fat!

[DailyDi]

My doctor told me so! I had no idea!

Appointment went pretty good. Walk more, eat less, the usual. We made a trade-off: I'll loose 20 pounds before my next visit, and he'll make my temporary handicap placard permanent (not for being fat, lol - for the dizziness issues I have with meniere's.)

Blood pressure was fine, so I can stay on my current med and not have to take a diuretic (I'd drown in my own urine at night!)

[KittenAB]

Did he do a REAL fat content test or just look at your weight like most idiotic doctors?

[toon]

phat! lol

[Darkfinn]

So... wait. If you lose weight he will make it so you can park closer to stores, and thereby walk less?

Seems counterproductive.

[DailyDi]

So... wait. If you lose weight he will make it so you can park closer to stores, and thereby walk less?

Seems counterproductive.

Shhhhh! He hasn't thought of that!

Not planning to use it at stores anyway, I need it for concerts and festivals where you have to park a half mile away, I can't do that when my head is messed up.

[Guest munchkitten]

dd. your doctor could put you on Spironolactone, put my bp a little low, and makes me pee like a race horse... and lowers testosterone to boot. lol.

[sarah_ab]

yeah my doc looks at my height/weight tells me i'm overweight (which i am, not gonna lie), but when i go to the gym they inform me, after taking out my organ and skeleton weight i'm like 2/3 muscle and only 1/3 fat and i should weigh at least 25 lbs MORE than the doc tells me is my ideal weight lol.. if i weighed what the AMA 'says' i should weight, i'd be an extra for shindlers list!!!!!!! its rediculous... but when i told my doc what my personal trainer said my doc was pretty honest and said "he is most likely right, considering you have perfect blood pressure and cholesterol and go to the gym every day and walk an average of 5-6 miles a day at work"... so at least my doc is pretty open to the idea that the AMA is NOT god lol

[KittenAB]

The body index rating is wrong. According to it, all weight lifters are obese.

[DailyDi]

Oh, I definitely need to loose a considerable amount of weight, I just think it's funny how doctor's won't recognize that you can be heavy and healthy. Cholesterol is fine, heart is fine and even BP is just from eating out too much lately and they salt the foods too much.

Once I even had a doctor suggest an ear infection would be helped by loosing weight... I didn't know gravity had that effect on the ear canal. lol

[KittenAB]

Oh, I definitely need to loose a considerable amount of weight, I just think it's funny how doctor's won't recognize that you can be heavy and healthy. Cholesterol is fine, heart is fine and even BP is just from eating out too much lately and they salt the foods too much.

Once I even had a doctor suggest an ear infection would be helped by loosing weight... I didn't know gravity had that effect on the ear canal. lol

Yeah, I'm the opposite, according to BMI I'm "average", but have high cholesterol, and my belly is swollen from recent surgery still (bah I look funny right now). But ... I look skinny otherwise. Doctors need to start using science again someday, I miss when they actually relied on tests instead of antiquated ideas.

[pepjoe1]

My doctor told me so! I had no idea!

Appointment went pretty good. Walk more, eat less, the usual. We made a trade-off: I'll loose 20 pounds before my next visit, and he'll make my temporary handicap placard permanent (not for being fat, lol - for the dizziness issues I have with meniere's.)

Blood pressure was fine, so I can stay on my current med and not have to take a diuretic (I'd drown in my own urine at night!)

hey DD whats going on i know how you feel i just got a job last week after been laid off last year and i went for a a DOT fizcal and i found out i wigh now 200lbs i am makeing sure i start loseing my fifth wheel now ,but keep up with the walking and i think u will be there in no time and i know what u maen about drown in my own urine at nightcause i do to

[heartwood]

There was a time I weighed 300lbs in my youth. Now a young adult and many liftstyle changes later im down to 175 and have the body I have always dreamed of. Its not just diet and being active. It is an entire lifestyle change. I wish you the best. I would like to recommend a radio show, M-F 11-12am EPT. Dr. Kris is amazing in describing what is in our foods and how it affects you.

here is a link to the radio station, http://www.wgunradio.com/ I live in Atlanta and listen to the show every day on my lunch break. It is fascinating and what he says makes you wanna stay away from junk food.

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

I have to question his medical ethics. Using something that you have a medical need for by law to bargain for something else sounds like borderline malpractice. Either you are entitled to the handicap designation or you are not. Using it as a bargaining chip sounds insanely corrupt to me

[Guest rosemonde10]

I've never in my life weighed more than 150lbs.

Exercise....strict diet....little alcohol....no cigs. I'm gonna be one very old ABDL.

[Ryan23A]

I am overweight at 210 pounds at 5 feet and 8 inches of height. I do ride my bicycle 15 minutes to work and 15 minutes back, I push carts all day at Walmart and I feel great doing all of this. For the BMI scale that is just plain stupidity right there, however a healthy weight should be where it does not tire the person by the end of the day. And to judge health based on body weight should be a percentage of body fat to muscle weight. That is just my 2 cents.

[Yvhuce]

Oh, I definitely need to loose a considerable amount of weight, I just think it's funny how doctor's won't recognize that you can be heavy and healthy. Cholesterol is fine, heart is fine and even BP is just from eating out too much lately and they salt the foods too much.

Once I even had a doctor suggest an ear infection would be helped by loosing weight... I didn't know gravity had that effect on the ear canal. lol

They still let medical quacks practice... When we hadn't yet got a diagnosis for my PHN when I was in collage, one of the doctors I saw diagnosed it a constipation (I'd certainly hate to see the level of constipation that causes pain in the ribs, to the point of making it difficult to breathe without being in near-incapacitating pain). Recently, a friend of the family went to a specialist for an ear infection and was told to put a certain amount of cleaning alcohol in their ear every day. This made the problem worse, so they went to their normal doctor, who simply cleaned out their ear wax and told them to stop using the alcohol on their ear.

[WallaWalla]

Yeah, I'm the opposite, according to BMI I'm "average", but have high cholesterol, and my belly is swollen from recent surgery still (bah I look funny right now). But ... I look skinny otherwise. Doctors need to start using science again someday, I miss when they actually relied on tests instead of antiquated ideas.

Oh come on, some people are obviously overweight. No science is necessary at all in many(if not most) cases. When I weighed 215lb it was pretty obvious that I was too big. My skin was stretching and I felt like I was going to die if I ran 50 yards. It doesn't take a doctor to know that you need to lose weight at that point. It also shouldn't be the sort of thing that you take as demeaning/insulting if somebody encourages you to lose weight in such a situation either(unless they are being a big asshole about it of course, not saying that doesn't happen).

I will be the first person to say that our culture overemphasizes weight. However, that doesn't mean that I ignore the clearly negative health implications of being too big. Because in the end, the effects of being fat aren't strictly limited to shallow social approval of one's appearance, but apply just as much if not more to one's physical health and mood. It's not important to be a supermodel in my opinion, but I do think it's important to make an active attempt at being the most you can be in all aspects of your own life. Take care of your body and it will take care of you.

[KittenAB]

Oh come on, some people are obviously overweight. No science is necessary at all in many(if not most) cases. When I weighed 215lb it was pretty obvious that I was too big. My skin was stretching and I felt like I was going to die if I ran 50 yards. It doesn't take a doctor to know that you need to lose weight at that point. It also shouldn't be the sort of thing that you take as demeaning/insulting if somebody encourages you to lose weight in such a situation either(unless they are being a big asshole about it of course, not saying that doesn't happen).

I will be the first person to say that our culture overemphasizes weight. However, that doesn't mean that I ignore the clearly negative health implications of being too big. Because in the end, the effects of being fat aren't strictly limited to shallow social approval of one's appearance, but apply just as much if not more to one's physical health and mood. It's not important to be a supermodel in my opinion, but I do think it's important to make an active attempt at being the most you can be in all aspects of your own life. Take care of your body and it will take care of you.

Weight itself has little to do with it, considering muscle tissue weighs almost double fat tissue, bones weigh more than fat as well. As someone else stated, if you don't get tired at the end of the day then you are likely healthy. Biology is far more complex than to say that everyone a certain height should weigh a certain amount, that's irresponsible science, period. My best friend is "fat" ... she even has rolls ... but she's also very healthy and has almost no health issues. She can walk as much as I do without being winded, can even keep up (and I'm a speed walker). She keeps trying to lose weight but simply can't, I have to remind her not to listen to these other people, she works 10 hour days, on her feet most of the time, even lifting heavy stuff, she is by nature's standards a healthy human. I on the other hand, am thin, average according to the BMI, I should be healthy according to doctors, but I have high cholesterol, low blood pressure, and get tired easy (to keep up with the activity level I prefer I have to use caffeine or eat snacks), I also almost got killed by gallstones (hardened cholesterol for those who don't know). My body doesn't store fat at all, nor does it maintain a healthy muscle tissue amount. I eat more than she does as well.

Now the point isn't that the scale is exactly opposite, but that each person will be unique and a generalized scale based on one factor is simply wrong, stupid, and pointless. Back in the 80s and 90s they did fat content tests ... those were far more scientific than BMI.

[WallaWalla]

Weight itself has little to do with it, considering muscle tissue weighs almost double fat tissue, bones weigh more than fat as well.

Nevermind, there's no sense in holding a conversation with somebody who starts out by calling me a complete moron.

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

I can only go by what Dr. Dean Edell has had to say about this subject:

1. Repeatedly: BMI is a worthless fad. Do not ask me, ask him. Probably because it predicts nothing and does not match any medically proven indices. Predictive validity and "norming" a new index against proven parameters or indices are pretty much the Holy Grail of scientific studies.

2. Again, repeatedly and emphatically, referencing studies;t if you are, "fat but fit" you are better off than normal or lean but not fit and better than even "lean to normal" and fit since, having a bit more in reserve, you could wearther a medical storm like a heart attack. Now, I've had radiotherapy for lymphoma in the jaw and it abuses the inside of your mouth a bit after about 2-1/2 weeks of 5 day a week treatments. Eating is the last thing you have on your mind. I lost about 16ipoints, which I did not miss anyway. Had I been "normal" I would have been about 14-20 pounds under

Now, no doubt there are limits to that but unfortunatel Edell does not give figures. To say that obese starts at a BMI of x means nothing to me so I cannot make an informed assessment. It it means 5 pounds over, that is absurd. If it means 40 pounds over, that is absurd in the other direction

[curiositykilledthecat]

Screw it, walk in next time eating a deep fried twinkie.

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

with KETCHUP!!!

[aleyxsis]

you not fat you fluffy !!

[aleyxsis]

you not fat you fluffy !!

[DailyDi]

Lol