My doctor is absolutely hilarious. I went in for my regular checkup last week, and he told me to lose weight. This morning, I got a phone call from a gentleman saying, “Hi, I’m Dave from Dr. Rabinowitz ‘ s office. He asked me to call and remind you that you need to lose weight. I will call next week to remind you, as well.”
So now I’m weeping with laughter and I don’t know how I will manage to collect myself for the final exam I’m administering in 9 minutes.
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I know you are Ukrainian. But, if you stop eating salo that should be sufficient to lose the weight. 😎
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The tragedy of the situation is that I haven’t had any for years. 🙂
But it’s true that we all have very weird eating practices because of our historically fucked up relationship with food. I’ve gotten somewhat better but there’s still a long road to travel.
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My doctor calls me with similarly annoying and mostly useless messages – not about weight loss (they’d really like me to be 10-20 pounds heavier, I’ll take some of your weight ;)), but about birth control pills, which I’ve now gone through every option for and every option makes me either suicidal or gives me stroke symptoms, so no, I’m not taking them anymore. Oh yeah, and I don’t actually need it in the first place for the reason they keep insisting I need it, because yes, I know how babies happen, and no, that’s not happening, never has. But that doesn’t stop them from calling me repeatedly reminding me I should be on something…
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I refused statins so the doctor said it’s either losing weight or accepting the statins. I think it’s cute how he’s trying to badger me into weight loss. Let’s hope it works.
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Also, while I’m at it …
Try K vitamins and ascorbic acid (vitamin C). They can produce the same effects. I prefer the pills and capsules to eating stinky natto for K vitamins, and you might too.
Pay attention to the warnings about bleeding — K vitamins will affect blood clotting. When I’ve taken K vitamins, I generally have to look for smaller capsules, usually half of the standard dosage.
Have another doctor check your vitamin D levels since this doctor wants to sell you on statins. (That’s suspect in and of itself — I’d seek another doctor if I felt I had someone pimping statins to me without first advocating dietary adjustment and running some tests to confirm avoidable conditions.)
I’ve personally found that consuming vast quantities of whisky helps reduce arterial plaque — apparently wood tannins are excellent for that. Even cheap Canadian rot gut would do the job, although I prefer my whisky to be Irish (and misspelled as “whiskey”) … 🙂
As for the tension, I suggest berberine and honokiol — goldenseal and magnolia extracts should do the job.
http://www.wisegeek.org/which-foods-contain-natural-statins.htm
(annoying pop-up will go away, look for the X at lower right)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3750820/
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As a marketer, I’ve always noticed that doctors have a very poor follow up strategy if any. That might look funny, or even unprofessional, but if doctors would implemented some sort of follow up on any treatment or lifestyle change prescribed, I’m sure results would improve dramatically.
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Has your doctor been taking lessons from my mother? Because she does exactly that.
I am trying to lose weight now, because I’m vain and plus-sized clothes are hideous in Canada, but her strategy just fans the flames of my terrible relationship with food.
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The doctor is trying to motivate me with my fear of pills. He says I either lose weight by the end of winter or he’s putting me on medication. Let’s see if that terror works. 🙂
Good luck! Weight loss is hard.
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Yikes! Good luck to us both! I’m doing two new things per week so that my body/brain can get used to a new routine. The hardest one so far is trying to wake up early to go on a morning walk.
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“That’s nice. My grandmother weighed twenty-four stone when she died, and that’s when she was ninety-four. She also smoked, and she died of so-called ‘natural causes’.”
I take no shit from doctors. 🙂
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This reminds me of a story of my friend’s grandmother. She was heavy all her life and everyone was always telling her to lose weight. Then sometime in her 80’s or 90’s, she said “I am still here, and they are all dead.”
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