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Well, as this is the vent and rant thread, and whilst we're talking about weight...
I am overweight. I lost a bit when I got depressed most recently, then my appetite vanished, I more-or-less stopped eating (less than 800 calories a day, most days, some days a lot less than that). During that period, I lost a little more weight - not much, and it came off very, very slowly, and then nothing for a couple of months. Every time I saw a doc, I mentioned it to them, and I swear I could see them disbelieve what I was saying, and thinking that as a fat woman I must be lying when I said I was hardly eating yet not losing weight. Occasionally they would praise me for losing weight slowly! I finally saw a nutrionist, who took one look at my meals for the previous week and told me in no uncertain terms that I was starving myself. With her help, we worked out a meal plan I thought I could stick to and, after a week long panic attack at the thought of eating as much food as was on the plan in one day, I did. This was about 2 months ago - in which time I've lost around a stone. I know GPs have a certain amount of time to see a patient, but WHY do they make these assumptions? It didn't take long for the nutrionist to spot the problem with the right information, so why not a sodding doctor?
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