Has anyone been to their doctor for help
glitterandsparkle8
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Hi
Has anyone been to their doctor to help them lose weight?
If so what do they recommend?
Has anyone been to their doctor to help them lose weight?
If so what do they recommend?
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Doctors can't do much with your weightloss. You lose weight when you eat less, consistently, and for a long time. You are the one who has to do that.10
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The right doctor can do a lot. Mine pointed me to weight loss center at the hospital with dietitians, nurses and doctor that specializes in weight loss. They helped me learn what is healthy, right portions and give feedback on my journey and guess what my insurance pays for it.9
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...or you can learn about portion size and get feedback on your journey using MFP and a set of scales. Which is free.10
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Getting a referral to a dietician from a doctor would be a good first step. Doctors are sooo short staffed they have no time for weight loss counseling.1
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Mine recommended pushing away from the table - move more, eat less.4
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Advised to go to a gym and join a slimming group. Not much help.0
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Most doctors have very minimal education/training regarding nutrition. Not worth it IMO.6
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The two times I went to doctors for this, they were disastrous. One called me a fat *kitten* and said to work out and eat less, the other wanted to prescribe a pill that would do it all (as in no focus on diet/exercise). So I started researching.
See if your doc can point you to a nutritionist, or if they can help you get fitness benefits through your insurance. Then, become good friends with Dr. Google. I don't mean to be short or anything, but a general health doc won't be of much help aside from those two things. Visiting with a nutritionist was the most important thing I could have done for my health, ever. I visited just twice, but learned SO MUCH.5 -
Doctors learn nothing about nutrition so I would never ever go to mine for help regarding diet. You are better off seeing a nutritionist honestly, I was lucky and found a therapist (This was for depression/anxiety rather than weightloss) who was also a nutritionist and she helped more than any Dr/bottle of pills!!0
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Side note, I love that a curse word is automatically changed to "kitten" ... I thought people did it themselves. This is hilarious.7
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I found that the younger doctors at the surgery had a better understanding on weight loss, but google and you tube are a mine of information.I did ask the doctors if they would pay for a gym membership for me, haha but not suprisingly they declined....having lost 185lb they now ask me what i have done!!4
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My doctor always advised going to Weight Watchers, which I knew wasn't for me. Then a health adviser that worked for my health insurance company recommended MFP, which fits my personality better (I would only be irritated by a system based on public weigh-ins and cheerleading other people and inexact point systems; a system that lets me track actual calorie intake with reasonable accuracy suits my comfort with data, logic, and science). I kept checking in with the health adviser about once a month for about six months, and by the end she said that she was using me (without my name, obviously) for her "poster-child" example of how well MFP and calorie-tracking can work.4
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My Dr has medical weight loss posters all over her office, as she lost wt thru them. I never looked into it(it was some sort of minimal invasive surgery) but she was always after me to lose wt, so when I did, she was so glad0
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Yes. I had lost 17 pounds and then stalled. I asked my Dr., and he told me to read Forks Over Knives. He was about 80 pounds overweight and told me he was thinking about doing what that book said. I don’t know why I asked him.1
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Several friends have asked their doctors for advice on losing and are usually given solid yet common sense advice like getting more exercise, drinking more water and cutting back soda/coffee/alcohol. None of them have been given any Earth-shattering tips from their doctors but a lot of them are told about various weight loss procedures, even when they're just 15-20 lb overweight with no medical problems. That kind of freaks me out, honestly.
My current doctor thinks I am a good weight for my height & build even though I am still technically still a little overweight.
When I was morbidly obese, my previous doctor told me that I needed to lose about 30 lb (I lost 130 lb), and he didn't believe my migraines were associated with my obesity at all since I didn't have high blood pressure. I think he was wrong, since I totally quit having terrible migraines once I got to a certain weight. However, I think different approaches work with different patients, and I 100% think his "30 lb" recommendation was PERFECT for me because if he said "130" I would have just felt depressed & wouldn't have even tried...
Anyway, all this anecdotal stuff...I agree that dietitians and nutritionists are the real experts on losing weight and eating healthy.
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for those saying a nutritionist. a registered dietitian is a better bet. since now adays anyone can become a nutritionist and many states you dont even need a license or degree to practice. with a RD you do have to have a degree and a license to practice(in most if not all states) and are backed by the AMA,3
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I had a BMI of 26 which would not budge.
I went to the doctor for help. She told me that she has no problem maintaining her weight and that I was too small to get any assistance. And then I got a creepy smile.
Don't know why I bothered.
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I did over the years always get told by various doctors to lose weight but none ever told me how but 1 nurse actually said you should lose weight and go to medical weight loss center and listen to them. That changed my life. It's a sad state most doctors and health care system in general only treats the problem but never helps solve the real issue of how the problem started.
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My experience with drs and weight is limited. Very rarely has my weight even been raised, actually only when preg. I raised it at a Pap smear appt since that’s the only time I go without being sick. Got told to eat less and move more despite saying I ran and had issues with lack of full feeling hormone. Even the dr who prescribed me Duromine last week didn’t give me any advice, granted she knew I had previously lost 10kg so I obviously knew what needed to be done. She told me to stay away from alcohol.
I’ve only been to a nutritionist once, interesting advice about not exercising too hard coming back from injury as it places too much stress on body and isn’t good for visceral fat. Apparently I didn’t look like I drank too much alcohol so it must be stress causing mine.
I have never tried ww or Jenny Craig but the feedback has been better from people who have done it.0 -
Seen my doctor for a general blood test. Told him my general daily meal plan and he suggested that my carbs intake is a bit on the high side. I am now reducing carbs, mainly switching over to low carbs meal items with my usual protein / fat intake.0
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Overall, I've never found it very beneficial but I did sign up for monthly check in's where I weigh, get my blood pressure checked, and just usually chit chat for a few minutes. I see a nurse practitioner and am normally not there much longer than 5 minutes but that 5 minutes can be truly motivating. Seeing the blood pressure and weight changes, plus no longer fearing doctor visits since I am on the right path, really has helped me.0
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Overall, I've never found it very beneficial but I did sign up for monthly check in's where I weigh, get my blood pressure checked, and just usually chit chat for a few minutes. I see a nurse practitioner and am normally not there much longer than 5 minutes but that 5 minutes can be truly motivating. Seeing the blood pressure and weight changes, plus no longer fearing doctor visits since I am on the right path, really has helped me.
That’s sounds great, I would love to have an appointment to have to show up to. I guess a personal trainer fills that role for some people but the gym doesn’t fit into my lifestyle atm. It would be a bit of accountability. I was thinking yesterday I would love a weight losss coach who took measurements, was able to have a chat with you about emotions/ accomplishments/struggles who would honestly tell you if they can see a dif in you. But I don’t want a friend to play that role it would have to be an outsider.0 -
As previously stated, doctors aren't nutritionists. They can only advocate eating less and moving more. Which isn't bad advice, really.
They can also test your thyroid to see if it's underactive.0 -
I brought it up to my family doctor a couple of times. He suggested Medifast which was created by doctors. I couldn't afford it so instead got him to sign off on weight watchers since I was a teenager. It worked but I cheated a lot and didn't lose as much as I could. In college, I tried Medifast for a month and it was awful! Will never do that again. MFP has helped me the most but I do best is someone else keeps me accountable. There is a weight loss center in my hometown but my insurance doesn't cover it. I had to ask my family doctor to check my thyroid, he did and it is normal. The only doctor to ever bring up the weight topic first was a doctor's now walk-in clinic doctor. He was really respectful about it and suggested I keep communicating with my general practitioner about what I am trying.0
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MostlyWater wrote: »As previously stated, doctors aren't nutritionists. They can only advocate eating less and moving more. Which isn't bad advice, really.
They can also test your thyroid to see if it's underactive.
Yes I do have under active thyroid0 -
A couple times. Turns out they were on medifast payroll, so basically thier "help" required stupid amounts of money for a "get skinny quick" BS scheme that I refused to pay for.1
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glitterandsparkle8 wrote: »MostlyWater wrote: »As previously stated, doctors aren't nutritionists. They can only advocate eating less and moving more. Which isn't bad advice, really.
They can also test your thyroid to see if it's underactive.
Yes I do have under active thyroid
then you need to see an endocrinologist if you dont already to get your thyroid where it needs to be(levels wise) first.0 -
My doctor told me to join weight watchers, and to never lift weights because it will make me bulky. Total waste of time.1
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crabbybrianna wrote: »My doctor told me to join weight watchers, and to never lift weights because it will make me bulky. Total waste of time.
yeah some of us wish weight lifting made ya bulky lol
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