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Save your pity
- Nov 22, 2009 at 1:11 AM
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You can't tolerate fat people?
Going through people's "opinion" can be very disgusting especially when their opinions are projecting their own body issues. I go to school for Medical assisting and there is hardly a topic we do not cover.
With the way the medical field is changing we are learning new and exciting reasons why people might be over weight in the first place. It goes far beyond bad eating habits and we found out a lot of it has to do with hormone embalances.
Like for one PCOS makes it almost impossible to lose weight. I have to work out twice a day to lose just one pound a week. Many people who have the same condition will not know they have it and get upset if they cannot lose weight doing exactly what you do to lose it.
Which leads to depression and for some like me I can be an emotional eater or ironically I won't eat for days depending on the depression. You see I use to be a very skinny woman who thought you HAD to be skinny to be perfect and something "right" with the world. And then God decided to teach me a lesson. After I had my son I gained 20 pounds and was 140. I wasn't working out as much as I wanted due to my pregnancy. My diet was strictly vegetarian with no soda's or sweets. I couldn't eat meat at all or I would get sick. Yet I still gained all this weight. After my son was born the weight didn't go away. I worked out like I use to and it still stuck around. I tried not eating and I just got bigger. I tried everything to lose that weight but it kept on coming.
I later gave up and just ate like a normal human being. Nothing too fattening but I was tired of diets that didn't work. And work outs that worked less. The world was cruel and all my old friends didn't want to hang out with the "fatty". I had people throwing out all these suggestions like all I do all day is sit on my behind and eat donuts.
I walk to the store which is half a mile away to conserve on gas, I play with my son and my two dogs, I clean a house, I do my homework, and I some how have to have a life while in college.
While in college I started learning new things about my body. I never knew about hormones or how they could effect the body. All I knew about being fat was I was ugly to the world and it was all my fault because I just wasn't challenging my self enough. So I thought not having a period, hair growth on my chin, and all these other weird issues were just me not being active enough.
Then while in Cafemom and letting off some steam I also learned about PCOS. PCOS is a very interesting condition that causes cysts to form in your ovaries and that causes all sorts of hell on your system. For one cyst bursts suck monkey butt. And second I have to take extra precautions to take my life back from PCOS.
I recently decided to try the whole birth control route and I started taking progesterone for the whole ordeal and it has been working. I have had a period every month and have lost some inches. I haven't had a period for almost over a year so it was a great relief to finally have one.
So on to my other weight loss issue.... lactose intolerance! They did a study on people who have food allergies and found that food allergies can basically make you puff up. I stopped drinking milk, eating cheese, and substituted all my dairy recipes and I have lost more inches. So those who have food allergies don't always have clogged airways and hives when they eat something their system rejects.
It takes a strong person to do every bit of what I do to lose just 8 pounds.
We have millions of other reasons people are too large now a days. For me it is my hormones for others it can be a million other things like diabetes.
You don't need to tolerate anyone for being over weight and those who are over weight really don't care for your pity. We have our own crap to deal with without having to deal with snobs who think every persons body is perfect with the right kind of hormone levels.
But that is my two cents from being a medical student and someone dealing with being over weight. I am just getting a little tired of people who don't know what they are talking about attacking others.
I thank God that he decided to give me PCOS because it gave me a huge helping of humble pie and also he knew I was a loud mouth who would educate those who are too quick to judge those who are heavy.
Comments:
LOL, it isn't just this particular person who seems to irk me. It has been a few that feel this way.
Nothing wrong with a bit of thick skin :). I hope I don't shed that at all.
I am right there with you! I have PCOS and Hypo Thyroidism, as well as an unhealthy dose of hyperprolactinemia.
I went from being 110 lbs, to 240 and I can NOT lose it no matter what I try to do. People can be cruel...because they automatically think that you spend your day chowing down on twinkies and chocolate bon bons..
My self image sucks, and I have severe depression because of it.
Blessings,
Arianna
To every women thats concern about her weight , It doesn't matter if you are a size 2,4,6,8 or 12,14,16,18 or 20 The word of God says that we are FEARFULLY and WONDERFULLY made at the end of the day when you go to meet your creator I think your weight will be the last thing he will be concern with so hold your head up high knowing that you are a mighty women cause HE dont see the outside It's whats inside that counts.(your heart)
so ladies when you think depress you better
declare and decree I'm FEARFULLY AND
WONDERFULLY MADE!!
WOW! This sounds like me to a T. I thought I was just crazy about the not being able to lose weight thing...I can work off my ass and hardly lose anything. I'm gonna have to check out PCOS more.
Jeez I wish I had a medical issue as to why I can't lose weight. I have depression and that's just about it. No hypothyroidism, no diabetes, nothing. I truly am just fat. I can't control my eating habits, I've spoken to my doctors about an eating disorder but they just dismissed me and said I need better self control. I have the IUD, but my doctor doesn't want me to remove it because Medicaid won't pay for any other form of birth control. (I hear women have one hell of a time losing weight with the IUD.) Can someone direct me to the lovely comment that ya'll are talking about? I feel like getting enraged today.
Oh wait! I found it. #^!%#&@^u*@%!!!^#&%^*u@%$!#$#$!!!!!!
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HA! You must have just read the same comment that I did. I wrote my own journal about being fat as well.
I know that it is hard to deal with people that are rude like this.... maybe if we didn't have to grow such thick skins we could lose an immediate 10 pounds?
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