Saw my medical records.
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Mine said,"Severely comminuted intra-articular right Colles fracture," but that was only because I destroyed my wrist in a motorcycle accident, so... oh, wait.0
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Don't be too offended, these terms are often used together by medical professionals.
http://www.atlanticare.org/index.php/understanding-obesity/what-is-morbid-obesity
However, given your height and weight you are probably better described as obese rather than morbidly obese. I am obese (meaning I am heavier than I should be). The key is really just eating healthy foods and getting a sensible amount of exercise.
Also, if you are serious about losing weight and you are committed, please first talk to your doctor. Healthy weight loss is actually a slow process, you do not want to lose 10 lbs in a week for example, that would not be healthy way to lose weight.
I shoot for 1 maybe 2 lbs / week as I lose weight for example.0 -
JeffArmstrong112 wrote: »Don't be too offended, these terms are often used together by medical professionals.
http://www.atlanticare.org/index.php/understanding-obesity/what-is-morbid-obesity
However, given your height and weight you are probably better described as obese rather than morbidly obese. I am obese (meaning I am heavier than I should be). The key is really just eating healthy foods and getting a sensible amount of exercise.
Also, if you are serious about losing weight and you are committed, please first talk to your doctor. Healthy weight loss is actually a slow process, you do not want to lose 10 lbs in a week for example, that would not be healthy way to lose weight.
I shoot for 1 maybe 2 lbs / week as I lose weight for example.
Actually the key is a calorie deficit, does not matter the types of food in regards to weightloss.0 -
I can definitely relate. At one point my weight dipped into the obese category (although, while I've always been chubby, I don't think you could tell I was obese...) and it sucks so bad.
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You're nowhere near morbidly obese, and you're only a few points into the obese category. Your future doctor will surely disregard the "morbid" part.0
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Bronan_The_Brobarian wrote: »Your doctor probably just hates overweight people
Yeah, no. Not at all.0 -
Bronan_The_Brobarian wrote: »Your doctor probably just hates overweight people
Doctors should love us. We're cash cows!... so to speak.
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jenniferb973 wrote: »So I had to switch primary care physicians because my doctor was moving out of state. I picked up a copy of my medical records....the first report said:
"29 year old morbidly obese female with complaints of chest pain......"
Well I never!!! Morbidly obese?!?!? Granted, I am 186lbs and 5'4....but I thought I wasn't that bad....I didn't feel like I looked morbidly obese...but hey....HERE I AM!!!!
words hurt lol....I'm having my second go around on MFP...hopefully this time around I'll stick to it, and get to my goal
good luck everyone!
I have trained myself to not get upset by labels. However at 5'4" and 187 pounds, or I at 165 pounds at 4'11" we both carry too much weight around, no matter what anyone calls it.
Good Luck to you !
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It's a medical term and describes your BMI. It's not a personal offence. As an example, a woman pregnant with her first child who is over 35 years old is termed 'elderly primigravida'. 35 years old is hardly elderly but that's the term anyway.0
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I am your height and weight and I am very happily out of the "morbidly" tag. Still obese. Own the obese.
The doctor was only partially right.0 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »Bronan_The_Brobarian wrote: »Your doctor probably just hates overweight people
Doctors should love us. We're cash cows!... so to speak.
I guess I should consider myself lucky. The terminology used by my GP is much more politically correct, but, instead of making me mad, it makes me laugh because it sounds so silly. On my reports, weighing 230 lbs. in 2014 and 202.5 lbs. when I saw him 5 months ago, it said: "patient is well-nourished." Ya think?!?
I will be interested to see what description they use at my next appointment, as I left "obese" 9 pounds ago, and should be within 15 to 18 pounds of "normal" (if things keep going the way they have been) when I next see him.
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I'm in the camp with those telling you obese yes, morbidly no. It does matter what he calls it because it is a medical term and it's being used incorrectly. I don't take offense to it, but I agree it's an ugly word. :laugh: I started out actually morbidly obese and have dropped the morbidly part, so I guess that's progress. Next goal: overweight! Look at it this way, with a BMI of 31.9 you have only two points to go to downgrade your status. 0
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jenniferb973 wrote: »words hurt lol....I'm having my second go around on MFP...hopefully this time around I'll stick to it, and get to my goal good luck everyone!
Yeah, that old saw about "sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me"? Doubtful, but the kernel of truth is that it's all about how you react to the words, or the situation that triggered them. And being overweight *can* hurt you.
You can lose weight if you commit to it.
I started out at 183 pounds in April 2015. I'm 5'5". That's "obese". I even briefly argued with a nurse practitioner who told me I didn't look obese. I told her to calculate my BMI; I knew it was technically obese. (I may be enough more muscular than average to make a difference, but I doubt it. I think it was just that as a very active person, my face & arms are not as doughy-looking as some of the people she was used to seeing at that same weight.)
I just hit 139 this morning, for the first time since the 1970s (I'm 59). That's a middle-of-the-range normal BMI. For my frame, I've probably got another 10-15 pounds until GW.
I'll get there. You can, too.
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That is incorrect. I am that height and weight and not morbidly obese, it is obese class 1. Between 77.7kg and 88.8kg is class 2, and above that is class 3.
YOU might feel morbidly obese but I sure don't, I've had a BMI of 52, this puts us at a BMI of about 33.0 -
hey guys thanks for the input....I wasn't truly hurt by it.... it was more of an inspiration if anything...I'm just such a word fluffer when I talk to people and make things sound nice lol....so I was like oh my!!! lol... For whatever reason, I was warned for this post...not sure why. I don't think it's offensive. I wanted to see if people could relate, or share what was their own inspiration to really do something...hopefully no one was offended. I saw the humor in it...as I joke with the dr. all the time...lol
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As others have said, you are not 'morbidly' obese, you're only just into the obese category. Your doctore mis-classified you.0
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Doctors *sigh*
They use BMI to determine weight - I certainly think the 'morbidly' was added in error. Don't let it hurt you
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I always hated the Wii fit game saying "that's obese" in that squeaky voice when it shows your weight. I feel the offended and motivated vibe, lol.0
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My point is not everyone falls onto that BMI scale that doctors go by. Ive had doctors tell me it would be impossible for me to get to my actual weight. When they tell me a goal weight Im still overweight or obese. If she is at a weight that is healthy she doesnt necessarily need to be at the actual BMI.0
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