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Yes. some people are fat. Some are *way* above a healthy weight. Others are "just overweight (and sometimes because doctors *ignored* important symptoms because they were overweight, which lead o *more* weight gain before the symptoms of what was *causing* the weight gain (not over eating or under exercising) became impossible to ignore)
So now we have people *starving* babies (and children) because they think that being "chubby" is *wrong* at their ages.
Unless you are someone's doctor, don't go making judgments about their weight. *Especially* don't assume it's because they don't exercise or eat too much.
Keep in mind, btw, that once you hit a certain point, you *can't* exercise using most normal exercises. I know several folks who decided to take up jogging or even running to lose weight without checking with a doctor first. They did *permanent* damage to their knees.
I'm lucky I can ride my bike, because I can't *afford* to go swimming. Yeah, it costs *money* to go to the public pools, and private ones? Don't even think about it. Besides, due to the venous insufficiency on my left shin, I frequently having healing scrapes (that look a lot worse than they are due to the slow healing) and I wouldn't be *allowed* in the pool anyway.
And even if you are someone's doctor, check your damned assumptions. The height vs weight tables are badly broken. My supposed ideal weight is 10 lbs *less than what I weighed when I was on the high school wrestling team (and if I ever find my yearbook I'll post a pick that shows I was skin and bones at that weight).
I really *am* "heavy boned".
Besides the height weight charts, doctors need to quit automatically assuming that because a person is overweight that *that* is the problem. LISTEN to your patients. Especially, quit assuming that they are lying about diet or exercise.
Consider that it's possibly to be healthy *way* above what those charts say. Also consider that the weight might be a *symptom* of something else.
Like, oh, say *sleep apnea*. That's how I gained over 100 pounds that I still need to lose most of. Because the doctor *ignored* clear symptoms that I *told* him about.
I've seen it in many other people's blogs. Doctors will see the weight and ignore everything the patient tells them. Hell, there are documented cases of people *dying* of preventable things because their doctor was too focused on weight and on *telling* them what was wrong instead of *asking* them.
Yes. some people are fat. Some are *way* above a healthy weight. Others are "just overweight (and sometimes because doctors *ignored* important symptoms because they were overweight, which lead o *more* weight gain before the symptoms of what was *causing* the weight gain (not over eating or under exercising) became impossible to ignore)
So now we have people *starving* babies (and children) because they think that being "chubby" is *wrong* at their ages.
Unless you are someone's doctor, don't go making judgments about their weight. *Especially* don't assume it's because they don't exercise or eat too much.
Keep in mind, btw, that once you hit a certain point, you *can't* exercise using most normal exercises. I know several folks who decided to take up jogging or even running to lose weight without checking with a doctor first. They did *permanent* damage to their knees.
I'm lucky I can ride my bike, because I can't *afford* to go swimming. Yeah, it costs *money* to go to the public pools, and private ones? Don't even think about it. Besides, due to the venous insufficiency on my left shin, I frequently having healing scrapes (that look a lot worse than they are due to the slow healing) and I wouldn't be *allowed* in the pool anyway.
And even if you are someone's doctor, check your damned assumptions. The height vs weight tables are badly broken. My supposed ideal weight is 10 lbs *less than what I weighed when I was on the high school wrestling team (and if I ever find my yearbook I'll post a pick that shows I was skin and bones at that weight).
I really *am* "heavy boned".
Besides the height weight charts, doctors need to quit automatically assuming that because a person is overweight that *that* is the problem. LISTEN to your patients. Especially, quit assuming that they are lying about diet or exercise.
Consider that it's possibly to be healthy *way* above what those charts say. Also consider that the weight might be a *symptom* of something else.
Like, oh, say *sleep apnea*. That's how I gained over 100 pounds that I still need to lose most of. Because the doctor *ignored* clear symptoms that I *told* him about.
I've seen it in many other people's blogs. Doctors will see the weight and ignore everything the patient tells them. Hell, there are documented cases of people *dying* of preventable things because their doctor was too focused on weight and on *telling* them what was wrong instead of *asking* them.
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Date: 2015-07-05 06:03 am (UTC)One other thing that House teaches is to keep bugging the doctor when they're clearly making assumptions. House always assumes people lie, and tends to make assumptions about patients, but there are lots of episodes where the patients get angry with his assumptions, push him to look at other things, and he does, and ends up learning something himself.
I've been lucky, so far, to not have any doctors telling me anything about losing weight or making assumptions based on my weight. Or if they did, they kept it to themselves.
"Consider that it's possibly to be healthy *way* above what those charts say. "
Also consider that muscle weighs more than fat does. And also that fat people can be in very good shape otherwise. I had a PE teacher once who had a huge beer belly, a lot of people assumed he was out of shape. But at his weight, he could jog for longer and at a faster pace than most of the kids in my high school, and wasn't a slouch at running, either. (I liked that guy more than any other PE teacher I ever had, because he understood about my asthma and being unable to run for more than a minute or two at a time, so he let me walk my laps instead of run, and didn't insist I run in games we did, either. And I wasn't the only one. He was of the philosophy that any exercise is better than nothing, and I appreciated that a lot.)