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Last Friday I had a Drs visit with a new Dr. I am always a bit cautious of Drs visits because my entire life I have been told all my health problems are because of my weight. I even had one Dr basically tell me at 5'2" and 190-200ish lbs, I would never lose the weight myself, and in a few years I would be coming back to him needing bariatric surgery, so there was nothing he could do for me now. This was a liver specialist I was seeing because labs had shown some issues with my liver. So, since he told me there was nothing he could do for me until I gained MORE weight and needed the bariatric surgery, I never went back to him.
Last week I was back at a different GI/liver specialist because things seem to be going wonky again. I currently weigh 155 lbs. Not ideal by any stretch but a huge improvement. This time however, the Dr actually said given my age and height and based on how I look and carry the extra weight I do have, he thinks my weight is perfectly acceptable. That if I want to continue losing weight, that's fine, but not to fixate on what the charts tell me I ought to weigh because I really don't have 40 lbs more to lose. And I agree. I think I will be done at 15 to 20 more lbs.
This felt like such a huge win for me. To have a medical professional actually tell me I look like I am approaching a healthy weight/size without focusing on just the numbers on the scale and the BMI charts. I have spent years being told to do Atkins, keto, go vegan, eat 6 meals a day, try intermittent fasting. I've briefly tried all those and none were sustainable for me. What worked this time was plain old common sense. Eat less than I used to. Did I do that every day? No. But overall on a weekly basis, yes. And it worked. Slowly, but it worked.
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