Your overweight dr tells you to lose weight...respond ?

Im very particular about my doctors because of this...studying to be a nurse i feel strongly about being healthy and taking care of myself if im going to tell someone they need to do it..


I dont take the advice seriously even if its true because well...they should help themselves..there are gyms in the hospitals and they are walking all the time. they know what they should do 90% just dont do it...

Just my personal opinion because I dont want to be an overweight nurse telling someone to lose weight..seems hypocritical

So you seriously don't take sound medical advice based simply on who delivers it? The truth is the truth, regardless of the messenger.

1. 10-15 lbs feels like a much less overwhelming task, and one you're more likely to commit to.
2. A loss of 10-15% of your body weight has substantial health benefits (more than you'd think, really) when it comes to how your body handles cholesterol, glucose, etc.

So it's not silly advice, really.

Thanks for sharing!

I was so confused when my doctor said to lose ten pounds..I've already tripled that and can't wait to see her next!

i wouldnt go to a hairdresser with ugly hair, or a mechanic with a falling to bits car so i wouldnt go to a doctor/specialist who wasnt as healthy as they could be...people should practice what they preach!

Me: Hey doc... I'm starting to work out... cut the whole milk and now I'm drinking 2%... cutting down the red meat... what else would you suggest I do to get my weight down...

Doc: Close your mouth.

Me: Huh?

Doc: Don't eat so much.

Uh... thanks.

My kind of doctor. I always prefer my doctor to be direct and to the point.

As someone who is quite a bit older, it reminds me of what I heard as a child: "Do as I say, don't do as I do!" My doctor is moderately overweight, but offers great advice and motivation so it doesn't matter to me. I think I would worry more if my personal trainer was overweight :happy:

If a fat person calls you fat it doesn't mean you're skinny.

i wouldnt go to a hairdresser with ugly hair, or a mechanic with a falling to bits car so i wouldnt go to a doctor/specialist who wasnt as healthy as they could be...people should practice what they preach!

Just because someone isn't healthy doesn't mean they don't know HOW to be healthy. An oncologist can still get cancer, a mechanic can still drive a crappy car if he doesn't have the money to replace the parts, a dietician can still be overweight or underweight if they have thyroid or other medical issues...

Exactly. Type I diabetes, PCOS, thyroid conditions, certain medications. All of these can cause weight gain or make weight loss difficult. Are we seriously saying that someone is a hypocrite for telling us to cut down on the oreos when they're fat from a medical condition?

Go back under your bridge, OP.

i wouldnt go to a hairdresser with ugly hair, or a mechanic with a falling to bits car so i wouldnt go to a doctor/specialist who wasnt as healthy as they could be...people should practice what they preach!

Just because someone isn't healthy doesn't mean they don't know HOW to be healthy. An oncologist can still get cancer, a mechanic can still drive a crappy car if he doesn't have the money to replace the parts, a dietician can still be overweight or underweight if they have thyroid or other medical issues...

This. Additionally, you can't tell just by looking at someone how they got to the weight they did, or where they came from. For all you know, it's completely out of their control (such as a history of living in (actual) starving conditions, which can cause what's known as "bowel distention" or what many people may see as a "beer gut" ), or something they're already working on and just haven't gotten "there" yet. Not everyone gets fat solely because they eat crap, and just because they're not skinny doesn't mean that they haven't taken their own advice.

For the most part, I think doctors KNOW all the guidelines for health, just like we do, and they can struggle every bit as much. It doesn't mean they still shouldn't do right by their patients and encourage loss.

The only time I ever had real concerns (ok, judgements) about a doctor's weight was the doctor who delivered my son. He was at least 600 pounds. He wasn't my doctor, but the practice required that you see all doctors at some point, just in case your doctor wasn't on call when you delivered.

I gained 80 pounds in my pregnancy. An absurd amount, so be sure, but it was hard to take his criticism seriously when he had a good 400 pounds to lose.

He was ultimately the one who ended up delivering my son, and very nearly dropped him at birth because he couldn't move around quickly. They even had to move the birthing bed because the way to was positioned, there wasn't enough room for the nurses to walk around the bed when he was positioned at the foot.

He stopped delivering babies shortly thereafter.

The Dr.'s health is irrelevant. The Dr. is obligated to tell you what you need to be healthy because that is their job.


However I do know a teacher who hired a tutor for their child, now that's ridiculous.

Why is it so ridiculous? There are a number of reasons a teacher may hire a tutor, not the least of which include time (a teacher's job doesn't end when the school bell rings, and so the teacher may not be able to adequately tutor the child), teaching method (some people simply don't learn well from certain teachers), area of expertise (I wouldn't expect a history teacher to know enough about Calculus to confidently tutor it), and how they handle the relationship with the child (some people believe that relationships shouldn't mix, because the dynamics between a parent-child relationship and a teacher-student relationship are different; and even if they don't believe that relationships shouldn't blur like that, maybe they tried it and a third-party could demand more out of the student than the parent could; it's a known and not uncommon phenomenon).

I was going to say all of this. Exactly. I tried to teach my daughter to read, but she didn't want to do it for me, so she learned at preschool. She was reading at school long before she ever demonstrated the skill for me.

And when I was a kid my doctor would sit at her desk and talk to me with a cigarette burning in the ashtray.

Doctors are people - they aren't perfect and they have the same struggles that we have. Who doesn't tell their kids that they shouldn't do things that they themselves did when they were young? Same thing IMHO.

Maybe he has a medical problem. Maybe he's working on losing weight and just not sharing his personal life? You don't know.

The Dr.'s health is irrelevant. The Dr. is obligated to tell you what you need to be healthy because that is their job.


However I do know a teacher who hired a tutor for their child, now that's ridiculous.

Why is it so ridiculous? There are a number of reasons a teacher may hire a tutor, not the least of which include time (a teacher's job doesn't end when the school bell rings, and so the teacher may not be able to adequately tutor the child), teaching method (some people simply don't learn well from certain teachers), area of expertise (I wouldn't expect a history teacher to know enough about Calculus to confidently tutor it), and how they handle the relationship with the child (some people believe that relationships shouldn't mix, because the dynamics between a parent-child relationship and a teacher-student relationship are different; and even if they don't believe that relationships shouldn't blur like that, maybe they tried it and a third-party could demand more out of the student than the parent could; it's a known and not uncommon phenomenon).

I was going to say all of this. Exactly. I tried to teach my daughter to read, but she didn't want to do it for me, so she learned at preschool. She was reading at school long before she ever demonstrated the skill for me.

Exactly, you tried working with your child. This woman did not even try, she has no interest in teaching. We're talking a grade school teacher, not wanting to help either of her own children with basic grade school homework, not calculus. She does not enjoy teaching, to the point that she lets her 10 year old grade her students work.

Context works wonders for understanding. Your initial comment said nothing about the teacher's personality.

That said, I can't help but wonder what possessed her to get into teaching in the first place.

Fat doctors I can understand.

However, please explain to me a fat personal trainer.. this logic still boggles my mind. Your telling me to push hard while you sit back eating donuts and fried chicken :grumble: