Sad part is that NONE of this is brand-new -- the New England Journal of Medicine debunked the "Fat = Doomed" crap in their January 2000 issue. But reassuring people that they're not going to die if they're a bit hefty doesn't sell $50 billion worth of pills, diets, quack cures and intestinal surgery every year, does it?
I used to have a physician who measured all my health by my weight. She tried to scare me in winter by weighing me with ALL my heavy winter clothes on and then passing that off as Dangerous Weight Gain. (I stripped down for a reweigh, DESPITE her protests -- and the Dangerous Weight Gain magically went away.) When I dropped 20 lbs due to raw stress when I bought my house, she praised me for losing the weight...and did NOT say a word about my higher blood pressure. Once escrow was over, I regained the exact same 20 lbs without changing a mouthful of food, my BP went down...and she went right back to nagging me. (She also kept giving me Weight Watchers biz cards...wonder what HER share of the take was for those $10/session weekly meetings WW does?)
Now, ironically, because I've stopped obsessing about my weight, my looks, or what I eat...I've been slowly and neatly losing a pound here a pound there. Go fig. (I also lost 125 pounds of irritating dead weight -- when I dumped that stick-bug bitch of a doctor.)
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I used to have a physician who measured all my health by my weight. She tried to scare me in winter by weighing me with ALL my heavy winter clothes on and then passing that off as Dangerous Weight Gain. (I stripped down for a reweigh, DESPITE her protests -- and the Dangerous Weight Gain magically went away.) When I dropped 20 lbs due to raw stress when I bought my house, she praised me for losing the weight...and did NOT say a word about my higher blood pressure. Once escrow was over, I regained the exact same 20 lbs without changing a mouthful of food, my BP went down...and she went right back to nagging me. (She also kept giving me Weight Watchers biz cards...wonder what HER share of the take was for those $10/session weekly meetings WW does?)
Now, ironically, because I've stopped obsessing about my weight, my looks, or what I eat...I've been slowly and neatly losing a pound here a pound there. Go fig. (I also lost 125 pounds of irritating dead weight -- when I dumped that stick-bug bitch of a doctor.)