In a first world country, what in the world does it take for us to go and get help? it’s actually offered every step of the way
Oh really is that your knowledge from uk wide research or is it just your limited experience ?
Totally NOT my experience
I get berated and completely unrelated health issues blamed on my weight though
It takes one simple test to do a follow up with your GP regarding even the thyroid-related obesity issues!
Again very much not my experience nor of many others, plenty of threads on mn alone by patients who've had great difficult even getting gps to agree to do initial blood tests!
It costs billions which can be spent on Health issues like endometriosis and other women health issues. funny you should mention endo. One of my conditions that I've had since I was a size 4 teen and that has at times been blamed on my weight!
@Totickleamockingbird I'm guessing you're not nor ever have been overweight and certainly not with conditions/medications that make it hard to shift the weight!
@Happyheartlovelife I've told this story before, as a student nurse at one point had a young man (early 20's) on ward due to complications of poorly managed diabetes, we struggled to control his sugars despite an apparently strict ward controlled diet, turned out his mother was bringing him bottles of lucozade at visits! NONE of the hcps they'd ever spoken with or had dealt with him re his diabetes had made it clear to them that drinks were included in "diet" seems daft but they weren't the most intelligent to be honest I even suspect possible undx learning difficulties in both not just because of this but certain other things they struggled with. Hcps have a responsibility to properly assess the patients ability to understand what they're told too. The mother had bought into the lucozade advertising that it was a "health" drink - that advertising bears some responsibility too in my opinion!
Even at that, being a fairly well educated and trained person myself I was shocked at the calorific content of some items - especially drinks, fancy coffees are a massive culprit for this, there can be up to 2 meals worth of cals in some of them! - when doing ww (I think a lot was more forgotten than not known, bad habits creeping in etc), also alcohol is shockingly high in cals and only recently have manufacturers started including this information plus if pouring at home very very easy to fall prey to "portion creep" on these.
I do believe there is a huge proportion of people who don’t understand ‘healthy’ eating applies to slim people too.
I've known people in real life have very poor diets but be very slim and some of the comments on here by slim people - like carbs and fruit are evil tends to be most common - are bonkers.
Funnily enough I noticed the other day a show I used to watch - supersize v superskinny has just dropped on prime. I remember a lot of the skinny ones often lived on caffeine drinks and tobacco! Various tests were done on the participants to assess their health status and the very slim were often just as unhealthy as the overweight people.
Sometimes loving your body and accepting is as it is, is the first step towards a healthier lifestyle absolutely!
We need to accept and acknowledge that over eating can just as likely be a form of disordered eating as under eating is.
So so often drs especially gps see weight as the CAUSE when it may be a SYMPTOM if they'd just listen to patients and check certain things.
Personally I think a huge problem is the reactive model of the nhs when it should be preventive