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Rant about weight and doctors
Sep. 21st, 2020 09:55 amContent: Weight Gain, Medical visits
Weight is weird. I was in okay shape through high school and college with minimal official working out, but I did a lot of walking regularly. After college I worked a very physically (and emotionally) demanding job. Then I got a desk job and my mental health improved and i put on weight. Then i started running (which i basically hate) and was losing weight then got pregnant. At this point doctors would be like, exercise is good, make sure you do it.
After the pregnancy which was smooth and gave me an adorable baby, i gained weight. Something about loosing all my free time and energy and the inability to shift my schedule on a whim has something to do with it. So i ended up gaining weight until I gain 40 pounds and weighted about as much as i did when i was 9 months pregnant only without the baby.
At the start of 2020, a lovely friend and I decided to be workout buddies. I got to leave the house 3 times a week after kiddo went to bed, and see a friend and we would do a combo of cardio and a weightlifting routine. I was really starting to enjoy it when the restrictions came into effect. Then I couldn't go out to a gym, I couldn't go see a friend to do it. And thus my whole exercise routine when out the window. which sucks. I was starting to enjoy it and it was just taken away from me.
I have done some walks while we were all home, but nothing like the hour long routine that would make me sweat and groan and then feel better about what my body would do.
Then I went to the doctor a few weeks ago due to pregnancy. The ultra sound was great. the tech showed everything off. The nurse took my vitals, BP was perfect. Then the doctor came in and 90% of what she talked to me about was my weight and what I should and shouldn't be eating. And that I was obese. which was not what i was expecting. yes I have gained weight, but BMI is bullshit, I am a tall lady and no one ever believes how much I weight. So I cried while waiting to get my blood drawn. Thankfully I was able to get myself together for that and for making my appointment for the glucose test, which because of my weight she is making me do early. even though I have NONE of the other risk factors for gestational diabetes.
Oh and the bloodwork has all come back perfectly normal. So the only thing that is a problem is my weight. And i guess the hardest things for me is that this is so different then last time when my weight was basically only talked about in regards to about how much I should gain while pregnant (which was about 25 pounds) whereas this time, the doctor has said, that I should aim to gain nothing. that way, after the baby comes i will just loose 25 pounds.
I have decided to not scheudle anymore appointments with that doctor. There are plenty others in the practice so that is easy enough.
Weight is weird. I was in okay shape through high school and college with minimal official working out, but I did a lot of walking regularly. After college I worked a very physically (and emotionally) demanding job. Then I got a desk job and my mental health improved and i put on weight. Then i started running (which i basically hate) and was losing weight then got pregnant. At this point doctors would be like, exercise is good, make sure you do it.
After the pregnancy which was smooth and gave me an adorable baby, i gained weight. Something about loosing all my free time and energy and the inability to shift my schedule on a whim has something to do with it. So i ended up gaining weight until I gain 40 pounds and weighted about as much as i did when i was 9 months pregnant only without the baby.
At the start of 2020, a lovely friend and I decided to be workout buddies. I got to leave the house 3 times a week after kiddo went to bed, and see a friend and we would do a combo of cardio and a weightlifting routine. I was really starting to enjoy it when the restrictions came into effect. Then I couldn't go out to a gym, I couldn't go see a friend to do it. And thus my whole exercise routine when out the window. which sucks. I was starting to enjoy it and it was just taken away from me.
I have done some walks while we were all home, but nothing like the hour long routine that would make me sweat and groan and then feel better about what my body would do.
Then I went to the doctor a few weeks ago due to pregnancy. The ultra sound was great. the tech showed everything off. The nurse took my vitals, BP was perfect. Then the doctor came in and 90% of what she talked to me about was my weight and what I should and shouldn't be eating. And that I was obese. which was not what i was expecting. yes I have gained weight, but BMI is bullshit, I am a tall lady and no one ever believes how much I weight. So I cried while waiting to get my blood drawn. Thankfully I was able to get myself together for that and for making my appointment for the glucose test, which because of my weight she is making me do early. even though I have NONE of the other risk factors for gestational diabetes.
Oh and the bloodwork has all come back perfectly normal. So the only thing that is a problem is my weight. And i guess the hardest things for me is that this is so different then last time when my weight was basically only talked about in regards to about how much I should gain while pregnant (which was about 25 pounds) whereas this time, the doctor has said, that I should aim to gain nothing. that way, after the baby comes i will just loose 25 pounds.
I have decided to not scheudle anymore appointments with that doctor. There are plenty others in the practice so that is easy enough.
