Do you girls ever go to the doctors and dread the scale? I do. Everytime I go I know I am overweight and I don't wanna hear a lecture from the doctor on it. I never have gotten a lecture but I am determined to lose weight because of this as well. I hate having the feeling of the nurse or doctor judging me because of my weight.
I don't dread the scale just because it's the only time I know how much I weight. What I dread is being told my colesteral is high and I need to change my diet and how i'm over weight...yet my doctor is over weight too...hmm oh well.
Ugh a couple times ago at the doctor the nurse was going over my chart and under "chronic conditions" it said Obesity ewwww. Well the nurse looked at me and said "obese? pft!" and erased it off my chart I could have kissed her!!
I hate that too- but what I hate worse is it going up and staring me in the face reminding me that I am not healthy.
The past few times since I've gone to the doctor it's gone down, sure it's slowly, but it's another one of those things that make this journey worth it
Ugh, I hate it. I haven't been to the doctor since right after my son was born... That was horror. I loved going when I was pregnant, hearing the heartbeat and stuff, but dreaded the scale. Since then, whenever I am sick, I go to same day care. They don't weigh me.
You can always refuse to get weighed. I'm a pain in the booty but I refused for about a year or so, I knew I was overweight, nothing had changed. You do not have to do anything you do not want to do. If you arent comfortable tell them!
Ducky, sounds like we had the same OB/GYN lol ... here I am already uncomfortable having her all up in my business and all she can do is tell me repeatedly that I'm fat. Not overweight, not obese, but fat.... like I wasn't aware...
I had a doctor say to me "your fat and you'll always be fat because your mom's fat so you better do something about it". I was 12..and I was anorexic by age 13..wanted to prove her wrong I guess. It's taken me years to get over it, I still kind of hate going to the doctors.
Doctors can be wonderful or terrible..but I think people generally know when they're obese.
agreed! I know they do it so they know how much to perscribe if a perscription is needed but still, sheesh. Maybe I can turn the other way next time lol. I hope to have lost enough weight to have the nurse want to check it twice.
Doctors can be tricky. On one hand, obesity is very much a health issue and they wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't address it. On the other hand, they have a tendency to look at your weight and ONLY your weight and who knows what they're missing?
I do remember that feeling and still have it, actually. I haven't been lectured on my weight at the doctor since I was 12, but after that point I only went to the doctor to get birth control pills (not when I was 12!!!). I was terrified of going to the doctor and only got the guts to go when I lost weight (and even then I was uninsured, so it was still rare). But I do remember when I broke my ankle, laying on the gurney being wheeled into surgery and on a full elevator the nurse asked me how much I weighed. I knew I couldn't lie because it was for anesthesia, so I had to fess up. Talk about a wake up call. I began losing weight soon after.
But anyway, even now that I'm not at risk for the ol' lecture, I still stand backwards on the scale. I know it's incredibly odd to the nurse and I always find out anyway (and it's never that much off of my home scale), but I think it stems from that original fear.
I hate going to my doctor, every time I go she lectures me on my weight.
But she does say that I'm "still young and should have no trouble getting the weight off if you try hard enough." So I guess I just hate her for giving me the kick up the back-side I needed...
I don't mind it.
its just one of those things where "great I'm overweight"
last time I was in the hospital the guy nurse made we weight myself in the busy hall and after I got down he loudly proclaimed I was "197" boy was the embarrassed.
I couldn't even focus on telling the doc my swine flu conditions.. because after I worked so hard to get down to 155 all summer the scale in the doc's office read "173". I was flabbergasted.
Dread the doctors cause of the scale.
I could have kissed her!!
