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By Pinkberry2, in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

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Pinkberry2    128

Pinkberry2
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Ok i hate the fact that people (health care providers especially) think that all over weight people know zero about fitness and nutrition! Everyone doesnt just sit up and eat Cookies all day! Dont get me wrong i eat my fair amont of cookies lol but i hate that! If you have struggled with weight your WHOLE LIFE you are basically forced to learn about it. (atleast i was) ive gone to the gym with ppl 1/2 my size and could out lift them and have twice tge endurance.

#fatgirlsworkouttoo

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NeedaBreak4Me    1,755

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I have always been a skinny person in a fat suit.... i was always fitter than my skinny friends, i was healthy and my bloods were always perfect.

The only issue i developed was insulin resistance, even then it was on the lowest end, one point above normal.

I could always out run the skinny people, i can walk around for hours at a time and my friends would get tired, i thankfully never had any health issues.

However when i regained my weight, i started getting little niggly pains in my knees, i was getting more tired etc... but even at that stage, i was fitter than my skinny friends...

I had a doctor tell me once that my blood and tests show a really healthy person in a not so healthy looking body (this was when i was obese)

But since gaining i can tell the difference to my body, physically, mentally and emotionally.. now that i am losing, everything is starting to improve.

I hate sterotypes, i don't and never met any of them.

I remember when i started regaining because of my screwed up metabolism... i haf told one idiot doctor... doc, i am basically living on steamed chicken and veg, working out 5 days, watching my portions yet still gaining.... his response...

"stop lying to me and yourself.. you are sitting at home eating big macs!" I couldn't believe it! .. it was not true... now i have learned to take their subjective opinions not so personally

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Pinkberry2    128

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I cant believe your Doctor would say that! How rude (to say the least) I would have found a new Doc.

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NeedaBreak4Me    1,755

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Yeah he was an idiot... he was just a normal GP, not my surgeon or anything like that... i never saw that idiot again lol

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OutsideMatchInside    10,166

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I think the worst thing about fat people and doctors is they blame everything wrong with you on being overweight.

Like you can go with the flu and they will tell you if only you weren't morbidly obese you wouldn't have the flu, you would just a cold.

Hopefully I never have to put up with that kind of drama again.

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ella37    455

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I think the worst thing about fat people and doctors is they blame everything wrong with you on being overweight.

Like you can go with the flu and they will tell you if only you weren't morbidly obese you wouldn't have the flu, you would just a cold.

Hopefully I never have to put up with that kind of drama again.

I had one doctor whose favorite thing to do was go on and on about my weight. No matter WHAT was wrong with me he'd look me up and down and say, "you REALLY need to lose some weight".

That's great, but I think I have strep throat.. can we move on now?????

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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