You know I'm amazed at all the stories I've heard about how doctors deal or don't deal in my case when it comes to weight. I've been overweight since the age of 8, am 37 in in 3 weeks time. I've tried every diet under the sun and the most I've ever lost was 3 stone and I kept it off for 4 years but I was 17-20 at the time and physically very different. Since then I've put the 3 stone back on plus another 7. I'm in a perpetual state of 'dieting' and I'm now exhausted with it all and fighting a losing battle.
I went to the doctors a couple of years ago cos I was at the end of my rope and I got a patronising head bob and a pat on the hand (no joke) and told, I am nice and healthy and I shouldn't worry about anything and told to go on my way. Great support NOT! So I persevered and was finally referred to a dietician who was hopeless, I knew more than her so we both decided I didn't need nutritional advice so they then referred me to this weightloss clinic at the hospital where you had sessions with a psychiatrist, a weighloss group and were weighed every fortnight. Again, went for the 3 month sessions, lost 9lbs but didn't learn anything new about myself and why I was overweight and I already knew the calories in/out equation. If after a year you still couldn't lose weight you could be referred to have a gastric band.
I have never tried extreme dieting methods, pills and don't want surgery but after 30 years of being overweight these options are looking tempting now. I am sick to death of carrying all this weight around and I so badly want a baby that I don't know what to do anymore. Do we just try and hope for the best risking my life and the babies cos I am carrying a lot of weight, or do I spend the next 6 months trying to lose say 10% and then try?
I just don't know what to do for the best as it could take several months to conceive, if at all and I'm just worried about time now. Also, there's so much negativity towards overweight people, its like the only accepted form of prejudice that's allowed to go on and its blamed for everything.
I have several friends who are at a healthy weight and been ttc for a long time and haven't fallen pregnant but there's nothing to blame that on whereas in our case, its the weight thats to blame when it could just be wrong timing, stress, who knows! GRRR so frustrating.