This is gonna hurt someone’s feelings, but doctors don’t call people fat unless they’re overweight. It’s just that, as a society, we are fucking delusional about obesity and lie to ourselves and others constantly, distorting what a healthy weight even looks like.
Okay, but being fat isn’t relevant to someone’s broken arm or many other diagnoses, the point is that they act like it is the only thing when it is clearly not that.
Hell, in my experience you have to be solidly obese before they will say anything, and even then only with something else to point to, like out of range liver enzymes, cholesterol, or sugar.
I had doctors tell me to lose weight and eat more fiber - I was literally hypocalcemic and dying of celiac. They wouldn’t address the celiac/conditions I was there for because I was obese (because I was starving from being severely malnourished from vitamin deficiencies due to malabsorption). I was shitting ONCE A MONTH on 10-20 fiber pills a DAY. I had microcytic anemia for years at this point. I had very low blood pressure (nurses ask me if I’m about to pass out). I was sleeping 18-23 hours a day. My normal body temperature was 93-95F (93F is hypothermia fyi), incl an episode on a hot day in the south inside my car in full sun with the heat on and me shivering.
They kept telling me it was weight and needing to eat more fiber and exercise. I was, prior to this, someone who jogged every day and ate healthy btw and a normal BMI.
I ended up getting my own genetic tests and diagnosing myself, later confirmed by a gastroenterologist. They use “you’re fat” so they don’t have to do their jobs and think further.
Now at a normal BMI, I get simultaneously “You’re too young for this,” and “you’re too old for this,” and “You look too healthy for this,” and still they do not give a FUCK about my celiac and barely understand it.
This is gonna hurt someone’s feelings, but doctors don’t call people fat unless they’re overweight. It’s just that, as a society, we are fucking delusional about obesity and lie to ourselves and others constantly, distorting what a healthy weight even looks like.
Okay, but being fat isn’t relevant to someone’s broken arm or many other diagnoses, the point is that they act like it is the only thing when it is clearly not that.
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Hell, in my experience you have to be solidly obese before they will say anything, and even then only with something else to point to, like out of range liver enzymes, cholesterol, or sugar.
I had doctors tell me to lose weight and eat more fiber - I was literally hypocalcemic and dying of celiac. They wouldn’t address the celiac/conditions I was there for because I was obese (because I was starving from being severely malnourished from vitamin deficiencies due to malabsorption). I was shitting ONCE A MONTH on 10-20 fiber pills a DAY. I had microcytic anemia for years at this point. I had very low blood pressure (nurses ask me if I’m about to pass out). I was sleeping 18-23 hours a day. My normal body temperature was 93-95F (93F is hypothermia fyi), incl an episode on a hot day in the south inside my car in full sun with the heat on and me shivering.
They kept telling me it was weight and needing to eat more fiber and exercise. I was, prior to this, someone who jogged every day and ate healthy btw and a normal BMI.
I ended up getting my own genetic tests and diagnosing myself, later confirmed by a gastroenterologist. They use “you’re fat” so they don’t have to do their jobs and think further.
Now at a normal BMI, I get simultaneously “You’re too young for this,” and “you’re too old for this,” and “You look too healthy for this,” and still they do not give a FUCK about my celiac and barely understand it.