what does your doctor say?

Not to lose 40 lbs in a semester again, use an inhaler before mma, and to do incline pushups to work back down to full pushups.

And then there are those of us that were so obese..2 dr's asked me to consider weight loss surgery...in the end I decided "no." I see another cardiologist in April that I haven't seen in a year...think he'll be surprised.

keziak1 wrote: »

I remember asking my OB/GYN about the weight I was gaining in pregnancy and he said they never bring it up because it just makes women cry!

Sounds like a good reason. A business should never make a customer cry EVER.

My doctor asked me about my workout habits because it's standard at that group to ask for cardiovascular health, there's a big push with it lately.

It led to a longer conversation about health and fitness, but since I've always been healthy it had never come up in a different way before. I am going in next week for a physical, though, because I've lost 1/3 of the weight and just want to make sure I'm still doing ok. I turned 24 and hat's when my mom's health had scares and I'm sure it will come up now.

She never told me to eat low calorie, just suggested finding something that works and coming back if I needed pointers.

I went to mine once when I was significantly overweight and she mentioned it and I said I was working on it and said what I was doing and she said it sounded great and that was that (I had no health issues and my tests were good). Most recently I went when I was probably about a BMI of 26 (years later, I'd been in-between when not overweight but hadn't been for a while), and she mentioned I was technically overweight but not much and since my indicators seemed good and I seemed really fit it wasn't really an issue, barring something in my tests (there was nothing). She also asked about exercise and diet and liked my answers and said not to worry about it. I said I was working on losing weight and she said that was fine too and asked about my goal weight.

That's all.

She didn't seem to think my diet needed to be medically-supervised, obviously.

My insurance company (which I cited on that waist test thread) has a fitness assessment too, but there's no reason to do it unless you want to. I did ours for some reason--motivation, I suppose.

I switched to a new doctor recently and her only comment about my weight was to ask if it was correct (it was). I then asked if she thought I should lose weight, to which she replied "Sure, if you want."

This was after I'd had a full blood panel and all my screens were up-to-date, so she knew everything was okay there.

NikonPal wrote: »

And then there are those of us that were so obese..2 dr's asked me to consider weight loss surgery...in the end I decided "no." I see another cardiologist in April that I haven't seen in a year...think he'll be surprised.

No doubt! That ticker is quite impressive.

When I snuck into the overweight category by BMI he told me to lose weight and gave me a diet hand out. When I came back the next year 20# lighter... he told me to maintain weight and gave me the same hand out that told me not ot eat more than 3 egg yolks a week but 7-11 servings of white bread a day was golden. LOL. He kinda phones it in but I need to go to get labwork done. This year he actually asked me why I come every year if nothing is wrong with me.

The doctors that I see most often are my endocrinologist and neuroendocrinologist, so yes, weight is a key part of what we talk about.

I was told that with my health conditions, it would be impossible for me to weight less than 240. So far, my lowest weight was 208. Both of these doctors seem kind of shocked that I've been able to lose weight and keep it off. I guess they underestimated my stubbornness!

When I lived in the U.S., every doctor appointment had my weight checked and I was told to lose weight (no handouts or point one on how to start). In Canada, I've never been weighed by a medical doctor (have been by psychology students for a WL study). My GP asks what my weight is and writes it down. The last physical I had, she gave me a look that said "you got an eating disorder?" because I'd lost 120# since my last check-up.

I've had very supportive doctors. The doctor who referred me to the Bariatric program was very focused on weight loss for the very logical reason that it would reduce or eliminate all of my chronic health conditions (and it has). The doctor who took over was very interested in the program I've been involved with and says I look healthier, "perky".

My chronic health conditions included type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and plantar fasciitis.

My doctor monitors my weight because I take the pill. She advised me to increase my calories a little at one point when she thought my BMI was getting too low, but other than that she never mentions it.

I spent the better part of a year working with a therapist on CBT methods to help me overcome emotional overeating while at the same time researching lap band surgery. I saw my doc and she noted that I had lost weight since the last time I had seen her. I explained at great length what I had been doing, told her that I had been obese for the last 10+ years (she hadn't known me that long), and that I was considering the surgery. She nodded and suggested I try Lean Cuisine. *eyeroll* I stopped confiding in her after that.

I was morbidly obese for years -since my late teens in fact - but always had normal blood pressure, great blood work, excellent cholesterol levels, etc. I almost never get sick - haven't taken any prescription drugs in 15 years - and typically just go every couple of years for necessary physicals and of course, pap etc.

My doctors usually just told me to look at portion sizes and getting more exercise. The most any doc ever said to me was "I'd really like to see you lose 10% of your body weight" and at that time I was at my absolute heaviest so it would have meant losing 30 lb of 300. Not a lofty goal really and I accomplished it, and have now lost over 100 more but haven't been to the doctor since. Just haven't gotten around to it. I'm almost looking forward to seeing a doctor as a person within the normal weight range, it's like a novelty to me!

Oh...but as a kid between ages 8-12...life was absolutely hellish when I had to go to the doctor. We saw a really quirky osteopath who made sure I was bawling after 2 minutes in his office while he told my mom how fat I was, and couldn't she do something about it, and that I was fatter than most grown women. Thankfully he retired shortly after that and I went to a normal doctor who simply noted I was tall for 12, and within a normal weight range (for the last time until recently, but oh well).