Happy birthday, Laura!
Doctors don't believe that she eats a ridiculously low-calorie diet and still gains weight.
One of the many depressing parts of Gina Kolata's
Rethinking Thin
was that one of the things that retarded research into obesity is that doctors simply did not believe their patients who said they were only eating 800 calories a day and not losing weight. It took studies in which there was no way the patients could be sneaking these mythical calories to show that one can indeed not lose weight on extremely low calorie diets. The doctors who still believe in those mythical calories still abound, though.
I have had many doctors who were wonderful in their specialties but who still do not believe middle-aged fat women who say they died and exercise. It's just ingrained in their view of the world.
who say they died and exercise
Yeah, that's the way I feel about it.
Just today my sister and I were talking about how her dairy sensitivity is worse if she eats NO dairy and then eats some as opposed to always eating a little.
I found the same thing to be true of me and bread. If I eat NO bread for a long while, then when I do eat some, I get sick. But if I eat a little bread regularly, I'm fine. I read somewhere (I should take notes) that the body can react badly to practically any food that it doesn't consume regularly, without necessarily having an allergy or a systemic intolerance, per se.
I think extremely low-calorie diets only work for people who already have fairly high metabolisms. Like, young people, and naturally thin people. My niece can subsist on Diet Coke and crackers for a week and drop five pounds. I'd probably gain weight if I did that.
who say they died and exercise
Yeah, that's the way I feel about it.
Now I have to leave the typo.
Being often on the fat end of things (I am right now), and having medical professionals scattered throughout my family, I have to say that even the otherwise nice and sane medical professionals often have weird and stupid issues around weight if they themselves have a body set point in the normal range. It's depressing, but so many of them take the lose-weight-be-healthy-you-can-do-it as a matter of faith or something.
My mother, a medical professional, is constantly worried about my Dad's weight ruining his health. Other than his blood pressure (under control with medication, and actually controlled better than hers), his numbers are fine. Losing weight or gaining it hasn't changed them. Just like me losing those 40lbs I regained didn't fix my blood pressure, and regaining them didn't hork anything else.
And yes, his knees are bad. And that's one thing where weight loss may help. BUT, he blew one out 50 years ago playing football, so it's not like his weight caused his knee issues.
Heeeeeeeelp. I have no food in the house and no desire to get dressed and go outside to get food. And yet, still hungry.
(Okay, technically I do have food in the house, but nothing I could put together into a complete-ish meal. Like, I have PB&J but no bread.)
Jess, pancakes? French toast? Order in pizza?
Pizza would still require me to get cash first, which brings me back to the issue of pants.
