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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 2. 08. 2024
- Virgie Tovar writes to her new fat positive doctor...
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A doctors job if they are being ethical is to tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.
Yes. Like Gandalf did to Théoden.
Agreed. You can make the argument that a doctor not wanting to work with their patients obesity and lying to them is neglect. Just like it would be neglect if a doctor refused to tell a patient they have cancer or refused to do anything to treat that cancer patient. Itâs straight up neglect to me
THANK YOU!!!!!
My relationship with my doctor better be a hierarchy - he/she BETTER know more about medical science and be higher up that ladder than I am or I'm out đ€·ââïž
Hierarchy isnât about knowing more in a specific field than someone else. Itâs about power. I think a doctor-patient relationsship shouldnât be based on power, but on trust. On the trust that you know that he knows his shit. So no, I think a doctor-patient relationship should nor be based on hierarchy thus power!
@@scipiadellarovere1233 it wasn't a serious comment and I was being facetious, I thought that was pretty obvious by the phrasing đ€·ââïž
@@lellyt2372 Sorry, english isn't my first language, so getting the "undertone" is sometimes pretty hard...
@@scipiadellarovere1233 A nice way to see if something is a joke, look for emojis. or the /s at the end of the comment...text in general makes it hard to catch jokes, I can't catch jokes in comments most of the time but a good amount of people tend to use emojis when joking. (though some don't so...no idea]
My dad is a doctor, and I know that if he received a note like that he would laugh his ass off at it.
Asl your Dad for us, would he turn her away of she started playing games? I mean his time could be used to actually help people that want and need it..
I believe a lot of us here are not doctors and are laughing our asses off as well! đ€Ł
I would laugh my ass off at it. I DID laugh at this stupidity. I watched doctors on youtube and weight loss is recommended as it's the least intensive and the cause of many issues. They're doing their job
@@GluttonyIsMySin Are doctors even allowed to send people home?đ€
@@rowennightfall1369 that's a good question...
Iâm going to school to be a nurse and I canât imagine trying to spare someoneâs feelings instead of saving their life.
I hope their doctor send them a reply with, "You NEED a psychologist/psychiatrist, not a primary care doctor" WOW
how does their brain come up with this crap. Im not that level off crazy when im drunk and stoned.
@Silicone Julie idk if thats a joke or a real thing. But we can teach tricks and methods to weaker minds like papa swoll.
The body positive loons are the flat earthers of health and fitness.
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Hi Papa,
I canât agree more with your words.
I am a Veterinary Surgeon and sadly, this SJW speech has come to this field. The majority of clients donât want to listen to me when I say their pets are overweight. Some of the clients even feel extremely offended. It is very common seeing overweight/obese owners owning overweight/obese pets.
I canât understand the victim role and how selfish people can be. Animals donât have the need of social attention and donât victimise themselves, and guess what: they literally suffer because of their weight.
Painful arthritis, endocrine problems, higher risks with anaesthetic, intolerance to exercise...and pills that can cause kidney failure in a long-term, just because (most of) the clients donât want to listen the truth and feel offended because they can see themselves in their pets.
Throw out the bedside manner. Tell them you dont wanna hear it when they need their pet put down from health issues or when they wake up to their pet all stiff. Or wait till it happens and just tell them its their fault their pet past early. Feelingd ruin everything
I mean same as people arthritis pills etc we just have a higher tolerance for it compared to dogs who already have short life spans
As a groomer, I've had to tread lightly on this too. Had a few dogs and cats that were so overweight, they couldn't stand for the whole groom and several had UTI because they couldn't reach to clean themselves. Some have fat rolls covering their butts and vulva. It's sad. One dog is so heavy he torn a tendon in his back leg and his owner still says he's fine and just big boned. I hate it. People can choose to fat, animals are stuck in our care and rely on us.
That's fucking sick. A pet is completely dependant on its owner. That's 100% animal abuse, and then they spin it around and blame a professional vet? Jesus.....
I don't work in the pet feild...but in pet groups on facebook you can tell from the owners who's gonna have a pet that's overweight or constantly getting sick. It's sad...and I also don't just mean appearence wise, there is a set kind of behavior I've seen coming from everyone whose cats are throwing up like every other day without having some extreme medical condition.
I work in a medical office and if we received a letter like this we would put it right in the shredder no doctor deserves to be questioned when they present the facts, this patient would be viewed as a law suit waiting to happen, non compliant waste of time. Unfortunately as a plus size person you do have your "weight" problems front and center to all your medical issues its just a fact.
I've had the same doctors for over a decade. One for almost 15 years, I was one of his original patients. He threatened to drop me for non compliance if I didn't lose weight...he said, I'm responsible for you, I'm going to help you fight for disability because you're going to be in a wheelchair in a few years and then I'm washing my hands of you. He said some other doctor can stand by and watch pieces of you get chopped off. Less than a year later, I dropped almost 100 pounds. I shudder to think about it still because the outside date he gave me was I'd be in that wheelchair by 2019 and dead probably 5 years after that. People need to be told the reality of their health status.
@@bellawolff2011 congrats, thats amazing! You should be so proudđ
Papa resembling Thor wayyyy tooo much in this video đ€©đ„
Hail Thor Swolio!!!
Always đ€ŁđđȘ
Damn straight
Dear Miss Tovar,
Thank you for your letter. It let me know exactly where you are coming from. I regret to inform you that I cannot be your doctor. I do not think I can live up to your expectations. I do not believe in Health at Every Size.
Best of luck,
Any Doctor worth a damn.
Doctors can absolutely fire patients. Pediatricians will fire parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against anything. She is not entitled to anyoneâs practice or services.
I am a nurse and I am hallucinating with her reasoning, its sooo twisted
If you want to be fat, just go be fat and keep quiet. The HAES community promotes self love so much but they cry about acceptance. I donât get it. I guess I understand the victim mindset. Whatever, Iâm going to lift some weights now!
Let the church say Amen!!!!
Itâs not the white men itâs the white flour đ
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Her using the term feminism is an insult to all women. She's not a feminist, she's a joke. I'm sure she uses this term to make sure other women will agree with her, but that has quiet the opposite effect on me
Agreed! Feminism is about equality not getting privileges because youâre a woman. If she was actually honest she would call herself a man hater
Exactly!
She cloaks herself in causes she isn't a part of to deflect very well earned criticism.
Im so glad someone said this.
Feminism is cancer. If you want equality go for humanism. Especially current feminism hates women who don't want to be victims and dare to think for themselves .
âSelf advocating patient.â
Donât most people advocate for themselves when they go to the doctor?
Iâm guessing what she actually means is âI want a doctor to agree with my self diagnosis and give me the treatment I want rather than the one I actually need.â
Iâm sure there are doctors out there whoâd be willing to take your money in exchange for pandering to you. Donât count on finding a reputable one, though.
âFuck your pumpkin spice!â
I mean I like pumpkin spice...but not *that* much.
I would still be (morbidly) obese, if my doc hadn't spoken up and asked me: Why are you gaining weight so fast? (about 15 kg/year), had some blood tests done: Fatty Liver and imflammation. Decided too loose weight. Dropped 36 kg in 20 months. So I'm really grateful for my doc and his question.
If I had a suspicious, cancerous-like tumor, I'd expect my doctor to be blunt and tell me rather than trying to skirt around in order to avoid hurting my feelings or seeing me cry. Our medical conditions are not always pretty but we NEED to know about them.
Doctors will tell you info you don't want to know. For instance I was told I am an inch shorter than I thought oh well
You should sue that dr its soooo fatphobicđđđ
Imagine going to your mechanic and telling him he doesn't know how to fix your car đđđ
Or accusing your mechanic of shaming your car for needing a starter...
This is EXACTLY why many mechanics either don't allow it, or charge extra if you watch.
@@bellanoir420 what do you mean a 6 cylinder will cost more engine performance at every size
To be fair, I have.... Because he was trying to rip me off cause he assumed I didnt know anything about cars.
Went to a better mechanic.
Her skin condition looks so bad...
izabeleus I still canât believe sheâs not even 40 yet!
she looks waaaay older than she really is xd
@@Maki-00 Wait, she's not?
Hiddlestown 38 years old! Can you believe it?
@@Maki-00 I had to Google it. I have relatives that are in their 50s and 60s and they look younger than she does.
I would love to this women do a 12 and half hour shift in hospital then letâs see what she would have to say!
Actually, there is a slight bias in medicine against women. Mostly because medical studies were historically conducted with only men. And from what I heard (this is just hear say though) women are also treated not the same mostly by older doctors (at least in the US).
John Oliver did a piece on that, you can watch it here on CZcams if you're interested.
Papa Swollio; do you think you can get a virtual interview with an actual doctor in the Sickcare USA system one day, see whatâs up from the inside?
Dr. Proctor would be great for that.
This is actually very useful. Iâm going to do a âfind/replaceâ with âbeerâ and âbeer consumptionâ and send it on to my doctor...
The only time a doctor should be âcollaboratingâ is when you guys are working together to follow HIS advice. Doctors should be leading us, not following
I have ultra respect for my Doctor for being completely honest with me about my weight and the path o could be taking. She scared me into changing.
The gym is a place to get healthy and stay healthy. The doctors is a pace to check on your health so they can diagnose you if you are not well
Hows that. So many germs in a gym. People were healthy before gyms and people only have gotten sicker with more gyms.
Boris Kuznetsov that can be largely eliminated by regular handwashing.
I think in general, all people need to be sensitive to others BUT it's our own responsibility to not take offense to literally everything. We have to meet in the middle. I feel like she wants everyone to come to her and listen, while simultaneously refusing to listen to anyone in return.
You wanna hear fighting at the doctor's office? I'm underweight with a kidney disease. I've had really bad doctors all my life and I only recently got a nephrologist who takes me seriously and actually treats me properly. It's not something that only happens to fat people. Those doctors told me to eat more too, but they're correct in saying so
The fact that she wants her doctor to be a "collaborator" and thinks she should set "standard of her care", shows me two things:
1. She thinks that in a medical setting (a doctors appointment), the doctor is her equal, even though she has received no medical training. Gives me very narcissistic, delusions of grandeur, type vibes...
2. She has no interest in the advice or knowledge that a professional expert can offer her at all. Instead she desires to look down upon experts because they are not as ideology driven as she is.
I think really, all she wants from her medical provider is for them to keep her alive long enough so that she can keep stuffing her face. Oh and using them to provide her with moments of social justice glory like this on twitter ofc.
As a trans person, I wish she would stop comparing her lack of self control and it's consequences to our struggles. She brought her reality upon herself, and we have a legitimate medical/mental health condition.
When you read âED awarenessâ I was literally wondering what erectile dysfunction had to do with this argument đđ
" V for Virgie Vigorously Vociferous"
Oh Virgie, I really hope her account is a parody. I hate to think someone actually thinks like that.
No it's not
You don't look like that and consistently stay that fat for a joke, if you did the joke would be on her.
Sadly, both she and her account are real.
Everything about her is disturbing AF.
When I see Virgie Tovar in the title, I click on the thumbnail. Didn't even read the rest of the title.
My doctor told me to stop my hardcore intermittent fasting. I only eat once a day to stay thin. I was upset but I have to admit I was wrong. I want to eat healthy and stay thin but I don't know how. Especially now with covid. I don't want it to eat me alive.
I used to fast too! Now, I've found my BMR (basal metabolic rate) and I just watch my calories. Eat lots of healthy various foods, and just don't overeat! So simple, and it works without guessing or feeling hungry :) đ€·đŒââïž
Disclaimer, I'm no doctor lol but it's what's worked for me and other people in my life
@@wells4203 the little food that I do eat is not healthy. It's fast food. My job involve lots of physical activity and when I get home I just want to eat and sleep. It's a bad combination.
I'm very confused actually? Does she want doctors to not tell her anything? How does one explain a sickness or disease and ways to cure or deal with it, without addressing health?
Isn't the purpose of a doctor aka PHYSICIAN to help people keep and maintain a healthy lifestyle?
When she said she had to prepare herself mentally to see the doctor.... She knows she's messing up.
@@melissaja1977 I can understand that seeing as I've prepared for MULTIPLE BACK SURGERIES. But to prepare to be told you need to lose weight for your health.. come on. And I've never met a GOD doctor... I don't think I'd want someone like that.
@@melissaja1977 I can't agree with that, I rather someone be straight forward with me than beat around the bush. I've been lucky that I've had doctor's show concern for me, I appreciate that. I get what you mean by hammering down, but life hammers us down daily, and yet we keep going.. well most of us do at least.
@@melissaja1977 if I knew you personally, I'd want the best for you regardless... I'm just a asshole naturally.. kind of runs in the family.
@@melissaja1977 definitely and very well said.
No they have almost no training on nutrition even though diet related diseases cause 1 in 5 deaths in the world. Its disgusting and wrong the way the majority of people in the USA eat....we should be eating real foods not the frankenfoods of the world today
Holistic medicine is incredible but holistic medicine isnât pro fat at all!
I swear Torvar's first instinct to sound important is to slap on more and more labels. What's hilarious is that I remember when SHEDDING those labels was necessary as we became more aware of mental health and were trying to break the stigmas.
I swear at this point Daenerys Targaryan would tell Torvar to pack it in with the damn labels and titles.
Exactly! When I was growing up in the 90's, it was all about not being labeled, and considering people as more than a label. That was the goal, and labels were looked down upon because they were so reductive. Now, it's the complete opposite, and I still cannot fathom why. WHY do people want to be labeled SO BAD? It's pathetic.
Working in the health care system I completely agree with everything you said! Omg Iâm so glad I clicked on this video. Awesome dude! đ
I just learned a new term. BIPOC. I've never heard of that.
I might get some hate on this opinion buttttt itâs whatever...
I love how she takes a point with some legitimacy like how medicine has historically been centered around men and then shifts it into an argument supporting HAES.
Itâs such a shame that doctors focus on the individual these days! I know for a fact that if I want to treat my patients, I need to look at their childhood trauma before cutting them open to fix their hearts đ
This is some âall lives matterâ sh**!
I love u very much. And you too, comment reader.
Thatâs all I got. Ok bye.
-AJ
I used to be a member but I really don't have the money. I took away alot of great information though. However, it is absolutely awesome that you are still accessible for me to listen to on CZcams. I am now going the the VA's free weight management program called MOVE! IN either case - its just common sense and know how food is processed in your body as well as knowing how the body reacts to food and movement in order to make improvements. Thank you for being you, Papa!!!
My absolute favorite thing about Virgie is that sheâs so brave and stunning that she limits comments on her Instagram posts.
I have never seen my doctor patient relationship as a hierarchy đ some of you are weirdos w authority issues
I had a patient once sent to the hospital to be checked for high blood pressure. She was morbidly obese and pregnant and was so offended at being sent to the hospital because âbig girls can be healthy too.â She ended up in ICU due to uncontrolled hypertension and seizures.
Health is not just a physical thing that you should take care of you should also take care of your mental health is just as important
I wish my doctor would care enough to help me with my weight loss and journey to a better me. I have a rare form of a genetic condition called Noonan Syndrome and It very important that I take care of myself and stay at a healthy weight because it can affect all the systems of the body. I can't even get a referral to a dietitian because she feels that it is not necessary. She won't even do the bloodwork required for my condition. I finally got fed up and took my health into my own hands, 30 lbs down so far 10-15 more to go. Virgie should thank her lucky stars that she is able to have a doctor that actually gives a crap.
One point I will add is that I acknowledge that doctors don't know everything. You definitely have to be your own advocate if things don't get better after listening to a doctor. I say this from experience with a mother with a rare cancer where several doctors made critical mistakes during her treatment, later corrected by other doctors (we lost her two years ago, and my view of doctors has changed a lot). HOWEVER, denying your own disease (mental and physical) due to your own delusions isn't the doctor's fault. It's a fine balance between being your own advocate and delusional. Many medical pros are super overworked and miss certain things, especially when what you're dealing with is rare or often misdiagnosed (I have endometriosis and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and it took 5-10 doctors to diagnose). Obesity does not fall into any of those categories, pretty obvious that you're obese and have issues associated with it, any GP can diagnose obesity.
As Iâve said before, these same âbody positivityâ people would ask invasive and rude questions about my scars, and justify it by âyouâve never been bullied because you have never been fat.â
She is absolutely correct. No accountability for anything until the $ runs out. Who foots the feed bag, rent, utilities etc for these people who can barely walk? Clown world.
Papa Swolio: Drop whatever you have in there
Me: *drops labia*
This womanâs letter was designed to impede any realistic conversation about her actual physical condition.
She is signalling to her doctor that she is unwilling to accept medical facts that advise that obesity is a health risk.
If I was a doctor, and a patient came in with a letter like that, I would simply tell them that âI try to treat my patients based on the many years of training, experience and perpetual education that I have attained. To do otherwise would be medical malpractice. I refuse to tailor my medical advice to suit any other agenda. I frequently have to tell people news that they probably do not LIKE to hear, but NEED to hear, to face their condition, and the best course of treatment, head on. This is my ethical responsibility, and I will not abdicate that. Therefore, I cannot be your doctor. I advise you not to restrict the means, methods and terms of your medical care. This is detrimental to your health. Best of luck.â
It is funny how prejudiced many people who claim to oppose bigotry, actually are. She presumes that a person is prejudiced based on their race!
really liked the video ... very logical and getting straight to the point
Papa, you're being too generous. She's never played baseball lol
I would pass the whiskey around however I don't have any
That v for vendetta clip was comedy gold. Idk it just seriously cracked me upđ
How are these people practicing sexism & racism right out in the open & no one is calling them out???
I don't want my Doctor to be my Friend or to protect my feelings. if I go to the Doctor at all it's an acknowledgement that I need help with whatever the issue is. Environmental Factors do play a part in the health of somebody but she seems to think the Individual has no input on how healthy they are which is insane. anybody supporting this nonsense is helping these people die.
If a real doctor ever received this, he/she would refer this lady to a good psychiatrist
Good Job Swolen!
....Virgie - please do everyone a favor and go chat with your caterpillars.
I know itâs been a year since you posted this, but I just started watching your content. I donât agree with you on EVERY level, but I agree with most of your content about the HAES/fat liberation community. I was obese for 10 years and yes, there are times where medical professionals were focused on my weight - like getting five diabetes blood tests in a year when none of them showed I was even pre-diabetic, I ended up having Rheumatoid Arthritis that developed after a bad bout of flu that affected my joints. However, my weight was a concern overall and I was never mad at my doctors for saying as much. Itâs their job & they werenât wrong, it was just frustrating to get tested for the same issue over and over when it kept coming up negative, as if I had no common diabetes symptoms but it still managed to pop up in a matter of months. My rheumatologist didnât mince words, ever. She talked about my weight every appointment and shamed me for drinking a Starbucks when I came in with one. My weight and my diet were affecting my inflammation & while I canât cure the condition with weight loss I could help it. Still, it took the shutdown to actually start losing weight. Not out of fear of the virus, but because I ate at home. I wasnât working for 7 weeks because my job was forced to close & in that time I lost 25 pounds, I felt great and kept going to 50 lbs down. I still want to lose 25-30 lbs, but the motivation came from realizing how much better my life was without the weight. Iâve been a runner for 5 years, and I had better endurance JUST from losing weight than I had from training for races. I no longer have acid reflux that wakes me up at night. I can squat ass to grass and touch my toes again.
You may very well have good blood work and blood pressure, you may very well be active, but you donât realize how much your body is holding you back until you lose weight. Movement is so important to me with my RA, it helps with stiffness and pain and keeps me off of steroids because my flares arenât as bad. Iâve eliminated most lactose because I realized that it gave me inflammation and that helped my flares. I didnât give my favorite foods up, I just learned to balance, and my life is better for it.
But the sad thing is, the rhetoric now is that former fat people are the most fatphobic when we talk about how much weâve benefited from losing weight. Like fam I just want you to find the joy and physical comfort in my body that I have, I donât hate you.
Itâs like she half-listened to the concept of intersectionality and then acts like an expert.
How old is Torvar anyway? I swear she constantly comes off as someone right out of college brimming with false confidence.
Idk why but before Papa read the "(proudly) fat" part I thought it said "profoundly" â đ
That edit is probably the only time virgie ever ran đ
I learned during this video that Virgie is short for Virginia and now as a Virginian I feel the deepsad
next week they be saying my car aint broke when it just will not go anymore to a mechanic
Can't believe I missed this vid by a whole day...usually. I get a notification every time
The only problem I have for medical care for all is that obease people, junkies, smokers and other careless people have little to no economic incentive to be healthy at all. If we do have this system in place their needs to be additional fines for these kinds of lifestyles js.
That's exectly why I'm against free universal health care. I have asthma and nobody needs to pay for my medicine or appointments. The only good thing to come from it would be the pro fat wouldn't be able to say their health is no one's business, because it would be.
I understand the sentiment. But we should have compassion for people even if they are responsible for their health problems. It's cheaper for someone to see a primary care physician than end up in the ER when their condition gets bad.
@@celestekoluria2695 I get my medical paid for by Medicare and Medicaid. I am really thankful I don't have to pay for my asthma medications completely out of pocket. Advair is expensive. I have ended up in the ER thanks to my asthma. If I had to pay out of pocket, I would be screwed. An ambulance ride is over $1000. We absolutely should have single payer universal healthcare in the US.
@@jennoscura2381 Where do you think Medicare and Medicaid get the money? From people who work. The taxes taken out of everyone's paychecks go to any kind of government assistance. I'm not saying that's bad for people who do need that help, unfortunately not everyone qualifies for that assistance even when they really need it.
@@jennoscura2381 At least asthma cant be helped obeasity can 9/10
People should absolutely self-advocate and be working together with their doctor. But this isn't what that means. I have mid-back pain and I received an injection in the muscle to make it relax. When I told the doctor afterwards that it hurt worse for three days then didn't feel any different he said that it didn't hurt worse. That is a situation where it's time to question their intentions and go elsewhere. Not when they tell you that you shouldn't be 300 lbs and 4 feet tall.
They need to be introduced to physiology. Maybe then they'll learn how their body worksđ
"subclinical eating disorder my doctor encouraged."
This is why it didn't surprise me when Tess Holiday came out saying she has anorexia, b/c all fat activists do this. She's essentially saying she has anorexia. That dieting in general, restricting calories and believing that you should lose weight when you are morbidly obese is anorexia. THAT is what they are calling anorexia. Dieting in general. Or believing that you should diet.
Hey papa I made progress: I stopped binging and felt satisfied with just three squares of chocolate instead of a whole 100g bar.
No sack here, dropping my lady lips.
Nice! I am going to have to start using the term Lady Lips.
Why do these platforms allow people like virgie to do this is beyond me.
I'm mad I'm watching Virgin Tovar before I eat
I needed coffee, too.
Iâm a registered nurse. This type of introductory letter prior to meeting a physician is actually a red flag. She may not know it, but both the nurses and doctors will document her resistance to comply. Theyâll smile in her face, take her money, and chart to cover their asses. Period.
"a blue check mark next to a lunatic" đ€Łđđ€Łđđ€Łđ
you are so fun to watch! :)
She is a self fulfilling prophecy.
the idea about health at every size medical care is to not focus on weight but on health promotion strategies. That may include suggesting dietary changes, or adding exercise and walking to their daily routine without addressing the elephant in the room. the hope is that by encouraging change in other areas of their lifestyle their weight will as a result begin to come down. its a load of bs but you gotta keep patients happy
I'm late, but she has NO IDEA. I have Trigeminal Neuralgia, a very painful neurological condition. Try going to the doctor in this age of opioid hysteria with a pain condition. See how they would treat you then. I can't control my condition and am just trying to find someone who will help me improve the quality of my life. I can't even function most days. I WISH I was obese instead. That is a controllable problem. She is SO PRIVALAGED and has the nerve to bang on about oppression. Truly oppressed people don't complain about it. One, because they are too oppressed to do so, and Two they are grateful for the things they do have. SHAME ON HER!
My mother's doctor has blantly made it clear to her, that he doesn't give advice to his patients to lose weight anymore, cuz many don't want to hear it and he doesn't want to fight with them verbally. Only if the patients volunteer information about weightloss, then he helps them.
I prefer #donthateloseweight lol
Being fat is like complaining your house is dirty, and they're too lazy to do housework.
One reason I had cancer was because I was forty pounds overweight!
Down forty pounds, eating healthy, lifting weights.
As an RN, there should be no such thing as a âfat positive doctorâ. Itâs like saying thereâs a âdiabetes encouraging doctorâ or heart disease, cancer or any other pathology that is synonymous with obesity. I donât even know how an MD goes through med school and residency and condones an unhealthy weight gain, itâs negligent and harmful and I would question the doctors mentality if he encourages this! Also, I really wish people like Virgie would use the energy and time they put into doing mental gymnastics to excuse that theyâre fat and put it into actually making the necessary changes to get healthy.
I'm kinda upset that she thinks that blaming culture, country or race somehow takes away from health? Like sure some cultures use food as a way to bring ppl together, to celebrate or whatever but you can't wonder why the people in your community or country are getting sick and when given the solution you're like "but my culture." That doesn't change the fact that you're unhealthy, also even if food is a big part of your culture, why not eat less or add more healthy options to that? I live across the road from a mall, so mcdonald's, wendy's, taco bell, and a five guys is literally a 5 minute walk for me, we literally choose what we eat or what we are willing to pay for in most cases. There's an Asian market about a 10 minute drive from me, where I can go to, to buy a variety of fruits and vegetables and make my own food instead. She needs to stop blaming everything else for the choices she chooses to make and then get mad when her doctors tell her that a lot of her medical issues are related to her weight. Thats literally their job
I'm trans and I'd like for this lady to leave me out of her complaining. Being fat is not the same as being trans. No one has killed anyone for being fat.
But i'm trans and fit so I guess I don't exist or matter...
I mean, sure I don't want to hear it more often than not, but no one forced me to overeat and not exercise for years. But, I would never go back to a doctor who told me I'm fine and don't need to change anything. I still have a long way to go on my weight loss journey. I want to be actually healthy, not just coddled, and told I'm "Healthy Enough."
I came for the tea, stayed for the unicorn
She is basically saying everyone who has self control and conscience over their eating habits and making healthy choices are suffering from ED.
I can see a doctor praising the benefits of having fat aka being "fat positive" if you have 1% body fat, not when you have 50% body fat.
My doctor is obese...
I definitely think you should advocate for yourself in a doctorâs office. You deserve the best care possible and in some cases, particularly for women of color, your concerns get played down or dismissed. However, thereâs a difference between not allowing a doctor to brush your symptoms off and arguing against science.
If you don't agree with your doctor you are welcome to get a second opinion