Villan57
Alert Team
I'm under the care of a consultant with regards to my weight and have been for the last 3 years.
Got referred by my doctor to Heartlands Hospital, with the view to gastric bypass operation.
A long story this but I had to attend a dietician clinic for for for 12 months Prior to even getting to see a consultant.
I waited so long for my first dietician appointment I lost 3 stones in weight by dieting or as they call it healthy eating.
I attended the 12 sessions once a month, which cost me the best part of a grand in lost income.
The dietitians all lovely young very underweight ladies, very good at explaining all the things we have all had drummed into through TV adverts and programs for many years now. I felt a little bit patronised but went along with it.
Having lost 3 stones already I felt like a fraud as my BMI was now down below the 40 marks that you needed to be to have the operation, other members of the group were 25 stone plus and far more needy than me.
Eventually, I got to see the consultant who checked my weight blood pressure height etc and told me, the operation would not work any better than I was already doing by my own eating plan but he did prescribe some Orlistat tablets and told me to come back in 6 months. I lost my job and decided that was the push I needed to retire. Since retiring the weight has gone back on I'm now almost back to where I was before.
The consultant told me if I could get down to 15st he'd be happy with that as no matter what I did I'd never get to 12st even with a bypass operation. My thyroid doesn't work at all and my knees are not up to silly amounts of exercise. During the lockdown, I've pretty much-eaten anything I want or rather could get. My weight problems started when I was diagnosed with thyroid problems for which I take thyroxine which meant I got free prescriptions so it's far more serious than most people realise.
I do realis that most people who don't have a weight problem just think its a case of eating less and exercising more but for people who are obese it's very much more difficult than that, it's like just saying to someone with depression snap out of it you fanny. Really doesn't work like that.
Got referred by my doctor to Heartlands Hospital, with the view to gastric bypass operation.
A long story this but I had to attend a dietician clinic for for for 12 months Prior to even getting to see a consultant.
I waited so long for my first dietician appointment I lost 3 stones in weight by dieting or as they call it healthy eating.
I attended the 12 sessions once a month, which cost me the best part of a grand in lost income.
The dietitians all lovely young very underweight ladies, very good at explaining all the things we have all had drummed into through TV adverts and programs for many years now. I felt a little bit patronised but went along with it.
Having lost 3 stones already I felt like a fraud as my BMI was now down below the 40 marks that you needed to be to have the operation, other members of the group were 25 stone plus and far more needy than me.
Eventually, I got to see the consultant who checked my weight blood pressure height etc and told me, the operation would not work any better than I was already doing by my own eating plan but he did prescribe some Orlistat tablets and told me to come back in 6 months. I lost my job and decided that was the push I needed to retire. Since retiring the weight has gone back on I'm now almost back to where I was before.
The consultant told me if I could get down to 15st he'd be happy with that as no matter what I did I'd never get to 12st even with a bypass operation. My thyroid doesn't work at all and my knees are not up to silly amounts of exercise. During the lockdown, I've pretty much-eaten anything I want or rather could get. My weight problems started when I was diagnosed with thyroid problems for which I take thyroxine which meant I got free prescriptions so it's far more serious than most people realise.
I do realis that most people who don't have a weight problem just think its a case of eating less and exercising more but for people who are obese it's very much more difficult than that, it's like just saying to someone with depression snap out of it you fanny. Really doesn't work like that.