DO YOUEVER FEEL LIKE A FAT PERSON TRAPPED IN A THIN BODY ?

I am where I need to be weight wise. BUT , I had a real flash back last Wednesday. I had to go to a cardiologist for an echocardiogram. I was explaining some of my medical history to the tech. about WLS and she was obviously quite ignorant and said well, I just don't understand how people can let themselves get that way. (obviously she didnt see the morbidly obese person lurking inside of my 135 pound body. ) I did my best to talk about hormones, heredity, other health issues. etc you know the story. she says to me well THEY just need to exercise more. I said it is awfully hard when your knees, feet, back etc are in awful pain when you do. Then she says well then THEY should jus t stop eating. I in my usual beating my head on a brick wall mode tried to explain, and she says - well I eat 2500 + calories a day and *I* dont gain all that weight. All I could say was well then you are very lucky, BUT it may catch up wth you someday. and shut my self up. You know - leaving I felt like the old morbidly obese person I was before instead of the healthy looking beautiful person I am.... My self esteem was in a rat hole. I felt my self moving slow and heavy and felt just HUGE. I had to really look at my self in the mirror to see if the 125 # were back. Then I had to go buy myself a brand new black leather coat size Med and some med petite sweaters. At least I didn't go on an eating binge and I feel pretty again. I feel like saying something to the cardiologist about his employee when I go back tho.

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