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Going to the doctor as a fat person sucks (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 days ago by NotLuigi@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I’m 370 lbs and today I had a doctor tell me that people who are skinnier than me are all like that because they work out and eat right. Can I get a roll call for the people who are less than 370 lbs and eat like shit or don’t work out? Because I’m pretty sure you exist.

Also, one time I had a doctor ask me “are you sure?” 4 times after I said I didn’t have any breathing problems. Like nah I’m just big.

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[-] glans@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

My advice is to leave the USA as soon as possible (I assume you're American because you used lb). Wash your hands of the evil empire.

It's good advice generally and I enjoyed reading your comment bragging about how nice PRC is and how shit Australia is. But I think you may have misunderstood the post, OP was complaining about always advice to get more physical activity etc in relation to their weight. And here you are just doing that.

Just about the only situation in which an adult person can lose weight long term is if there is a specific, identifiable cause for them to have gained weight as an adult and that cause is modifiable. Your example of a person who moves to US/UK/Canada/Australia and gains weight is a known phenomena, for the reasons including which you described. And they may be able to lose some of it if they are able to make their life (not lifestyle) more like it was previously. Another example would be like if someone is taking a medication that causes them to gain weight; stopping the medication will likely result in some weight loss. Especially if the weight gain has been recent/brief. Often these causes are extrinsic to the person, like your example of living in a shit country.

However, most people do not have something like this in their life. If they do, they have one thing. You lost 5 kg by moving back to PRC. You might continue to gradually lose for a little while (don't know your timeline) but eventually it'll plateau when you back to your baseline balance for your body. Once that happens, it would be very difficult to lose another 5kg permanently.

People who are fat as adults and were fat as children have very little chance of becoming permanently skinny (or even much less fat) other than by illness, surgery or ozempic for the rest of their lives. It's just how they are. And people who have been fat for a long time, regardless of their age, will probably be fat forever too. So offering advice about losing weight is a strange and unkind thing that everyone always wants to do, which was the gist of the post.