Largely because of my negative experiences on this sub, I resolved that I was absolutely positively going to find a place to get a dexa scan done. For the record, any time I post anything here with my height, weight, and my best estimate of my bodyfat %, I always get bombarded with jerks telling me that I can't possibly be the way I am, that I must be 50-60% fat and just deluding myself. It got under my skin really bad because I can't even talk about this stuff in a place that's supposed to be supportive. I get told that I'm a liar, that I'm delusional, that I'm stupid, all because I don't have any reliable data that I can show to say that yes, I really do exist and I really am a very large person.
So, I resolved to find out exactly what I was made of. I work in Saudi Arabia, and it sucks here. Nobody at any gym knows how to do the calipers out here, and the handheld/standing electrical testers give wildly fluctuating results. I finally found a hospital that does dexa in Makati and I went there on vacation only to find out that the machine was broken (and had been for months, even when they told me to just come in any time). I was gutted. I eventually found a radiology department here in Hofuf that has a dexa scanner, so when I got back from vacation I made an appointment, wasted a while day waiting, and finally found out that the scanning table has a very, very low weight limit (about 265 pounds, which is just strange, considering).
I'm at my wit's end here. I think I've probably sat down with every dietitian/nutritionist at the hospitals in my town to try and find resources, but they're only there to collect their referral fees for telling everyone to get gastric sleeves. No use talking to them. The "wellness" industry here is significantly more predatory than it is in the US, because nobody here has the slightest bit of knowledge on the subject. Hucksters know that they can claim just about anything and get away with it, and I see the locals I work with constantly falling for scam products.
This has had me depressed for over two weeks now. I know that for most people here it sounds ridiculous, and I'll probably deal with a lot of hate, I just need to vent because this shit is eating me up so damned badly.
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