Chellywelly
Silver Member
Ok so i've never had a rant before on here lol
Basically I was just reading at how someone has started WW which is fantastic, but she also said her GP has been bugging her to get surgery! (shes over 20st but not by that much!) this has made me so furious! I'm sick to death of GP's jumping on the gastric band wagon and basically making people feel that they can never loose weight the healthy and proper way, instead they have to get cut open and remove part of there own stomach, a hugely vital organ, live off mush for months and then slowly go onto tiny arse portions and never be able to eat like a normal person again! it DOESNT SOLVE THE FOOD ISSUES IN THE MIND! ive been on every diet going, i've gone through bulimia, anorexia and basically starving myself to a size 6 and then all the sizes in between i put the weight back on during pregnancy, food fears and weight gain are still all in my mind, ive never got help for it and i never will! why? because you have to be dangerously underweight to be taken seriously with 90% of GP's it infuriates me because as a want-to-be doctor the amount of GP's that have the intelligence, common sense and all the rest of it are so rare it's like trying to find a needle in a very messy and prejudice hay-stack! I've come across sexism, ignorance and utter disrespect (all by male GP's but thats another story all together!) in my own doctors surgery alone, and dont even get me started on the mess of a maternity ward they have in my area! When will they learn that this whole "obesity" epidemic is all a giant load of crap! NOT because alot of people arnt over weight, because they are! its because there not acknowledging the shear amount of weight people loose every year on amazing sites like this and you know what reaction and attention we get from the media? if you havent lost a staggering amount of weight? *pat on the head* well done! now please dont go putting it all back on like we think you will! and doctors ofc think the same! if you put so much on as 3lb these days (god forbid!) your branded as a stranded whale who needs to loose weight because you WILL keel over and die! do you know why i think that? well personally at 11st age 16 and a size 10/12 trousers! i was very fit and did high intensity workouts 6 days a week i was told i was obese on the BMI scale, and was told to loose 2 stone, i did by eating balls all and thinking i was repulsive and hating myself, it was evident i wasnt fat in the slightest, yet a chart designed decades ago put me into the category of someone who is not only over weight but very very "fat", not only that, did they take responsibility for the effect that a bullshit diagnosis of utter incompetence cost me? nope! because even at a size 6 and eating 300 cals a day i was still in the OVER WEIGHT category of the BMI chart at 9st 8lb! i mean WTF!
dont get me wrong BMI is right most of the time! im over weight now i know that! but at the time? no way! and as for "fixing" fat people, they have it so wrong, 90% of gastric band patients put some if not all the weight back on after sergery and greatly increase there risk of everything from cancer to heart attacks and strokes, for gods sake it all stems from something else! it's not because were greedy! or eat for the sake of it, it needs addressing mentally, my relationship with food is shocking, i HATE food but i love food also, i hate the fact it can make me fat if i eat too much of it, i also hate the arguments about food i have with myself inside of my head! a mental problem? of course not! im just a fat ba@#ard right! i cant wait to finally get my PHD so i can at least have a relevant and respected argument in the field of medicine without been dismissed as an uneducated member of the public!
*breathe* rant over! lol
Basically I was just reading at how someone has started WW which is fantastic, but she also said her GP has been bugging her to get surgery! (shes over 20st but not by that much!) this has made me so furious! I'm sick to death of GP's jumping on the gastric band wagon and basically making people feel that they can never loose weight the healthy and proper way, instead they have to get cut open and remove part of there own stomach, a hugely vital organ, live off mush for months and then slowly go onto tiny arse portions and never be able to eat like a normal person again! it DOESNT SOLVE THE FOOD ISSUES IN THE MIND! ive been on every diet going, i've gone through bulimia, anorexia and basically starving myself to a size 6 and then all the sizes in between i put the weight back on during pregnancy, food fears and weight gain are still all in my mind, ive never got help for it and i never will! why? because you have to be dangerously underweight to be taken seriously with 90% of GP's it infuriates me because as a want-to-be doctor the amount of GP's that have the intelligence, common sense and all the rest of it are so rare it's like trying to find a needle in a very messy and prejudice hay-stack! I've come across sexism, ignorance and utter disrespect (all by male GP's but thats another story all together!) in my own doctors surgery alone, and dont even get me started on the mess of a maternity ward they have in my area! When will they learn that this whole "obesity" epidemic is all a giant load of crap! NOT because alot of people arnt over weight, because they are! its because there not acknowledging the shear amount of weight people loose every year on amazing sites like this and you know what reaction and attention we get from the media? if you havent lost a staggering amount of weight? *pat on the head* well done! now please dont go putting it all back on like we think you will! and doctors ofc think the same! if you put so much on as 3lb these days (god forbid!) your branded as a stranded whale who needs to loose weight because you WILL keel over and die! do you know why i think that? well personally at 11st age 16 and a size 10/12 trousers! i was very fit and did high intensity workouts 6 days a week i was told i was obese on the BMI scale, and was told to loose 2 stone, i did by eating balls all and thinking i was repulsive and hating myself, it was evident i wasnt fat in the slightest, yet a chart designed decades ago put me into the category of someone who is not only over weight but very very "fat", not only that, did they take responsibility for the effect that a bullshit diagnosis of utter incompetence cost me? nope! because even at a size 6 and eating 300 cals a day i was still in the OVER WEIGHT category of the BMI chart at 9st 8lb! i mean WTF!
dont get me wrong BMI is right most of the time! im over weight now i know that! but at the time? no way! and as for "fixing" fat people, they have it so wrong, 90% of gastric band patients put some if not all the weight back on after sergery and greatly increase there risk of everything from cancer to heart attacks and strokes, for gods sake it all stems from something else! it's not because were greedy! or eat for the sake of it, it needs addressing mentally, my relationship with food is shocking, i HATE food but i love food also, i hate the fact it can make me fat if i eat too much of it, i also hate the arguments about food i have with myself inside of my head! a mental problem? of course not! im just a fat ba@#ard right! i cant wait to finally get my PHD so i can at least have a relevant and respected argument in the field of medicine without been dismissed as an uneducated member of the public!
*breathe* rant over! lol
