I get that there are those who just are fat because they're lazy etc but I'm rather stunned by the call for not allowing healthcare for those who are overweight. Are you not aware that it is often a symptom? Yes, I am. But being fat is often not that simplistic. I am fat, in part, due to other conditions and bad genetics. You are more apt to be fat if your parents were etc. Those like the ones in that video are obviously mental and their mental disorder should be addressed. Their weight is a symptom of their mental illnesses. (Disclosure: I only watched a few minutes. I could not stand and really don't have the time to watch the whole thing.)
My weight problem mainly stems from mobility issues NOT CAUSED BY WEIGHT. Rather they have caused weight gain because I can no longer move freely and because opiates have been demonized, my chronic pain is undertreated. So far, I've been allergic to every non-opiod pain med tried. They have landed me in a hospital near death. (Side remark: one of them was the one Trump declared never killed nobody; I was booing him for saying that about a drug that nearly killed me.) I'm severely crippled by osteoarthritis that is caused by an underlying incurable degenerative bone disease. Yes, the weight makes things worse but I will still have the problem even if I'm anorexically thin. I can no longer run or climb stairs. After I reached that point, my weight steadily climbed.
This is also added to due to digestive issues. I cannot digest fiber. If I eat a lot of high fiber food, well, let's just say it's not a pretty picture and I will be incapacitated as I was the other day. I lost an entire day due to well I thought I was being clever. I have to rely on procssed foods because I have trouble cooking due to the severe arthritis. You do not want to feel the pain in my hands if I try to chop, peel and wash aka prep food also flipping, stirring. Or my back, spine and hips if I stand cooking. Yes, I have tried using those counter top stools. They do give some relief. Some.
I worry all the time about calories, sodium, fat and sugars in said processed foods. I thought I hit on a brain storm. I would buy Herb Ox low sodium boullion and frozen veggies which are already prepped for me. Preparing the veggies in the broth instead of plain water will give it a nice flavor and in just a few minutes boiling them in it, I'll have a nice vegetable soup. Yes, it actually was good. It also had me writhing in stomach pain after eating a bowl of soup that was 1 cup broth, and a half cup each of green beans and carrots and running constantly to the bathroom from the bed. You want to see a life you don't want to live, try that one. Yeah, so going back to the TV dinners. At least I can semi-digest them.
Name me the healthy low cal, low fat, low sodium food also low in fiber. Please! And make it something that isn't horrible to gag down because it tastes so nasty you'd rather puke than eat it though honestly I can't think of one that even tastes bad and if you can, I'm open to hearing about it. Make sure it's non-dairy too while you're at it because lactose intolerance.
There's also a reason we're not going to doctors. I know the last few years have changed me from simply not trusting them to downright fearing them. Don't get me started on what I actually believe Covid to be. You will only think me a paranoid crackpot which I hope I am in that regard but, well, I'll just say this - have you noticed that all the day of the pillow boomer hate ceased immediately with its onset? Then ask yourself why the DOJ is refusing to even investigate the four governors that purposely infected nursing homes with Covid by sending Covid patients in with that vulnerable population? I live in one of those states. I'm supposed to trust our health care syistem? Get real. I utterly believe I'm still alive because I stopped going to my doctors and only because I did. I may be right. I may be wrong. I sincerely hope I am wrong but the fact remains I'm alive and so many of those in poor health that fit the same categories I do aren't after letting themselves be tested and treated and vaxxed. My trusting doctors who did not stand up for their patients against the govermnet in this utter madness and governmental overreach is not going to happen. Period. Point blank.
But putting Covid aside, see my avatar which I made for this forum 10 years ago. I don't remember why I became inactive for a decade here. Eh, what's it matter? Most likely just got busy with other things. But totally disregarding Covid, I give up on doctors. They don't make you better and it's not just because they aren't proactive in prevention - which seems to amount to lose weight with no real suggestion on how to do so with my mobility and digestive problems - which I'm not even criticizing really because there probably isn't one. I can't not eat at all. That's called starvation and will only lead to malnutrition - which, yes, despite taking a multi-viltamin and vitamin C, I probably am because of my difficulty digesting food, especially nuttritious food. I only seem able really to digest bread and water. Yeah, that'll really sustain life. Oh, wait there is my cardiologist who said when I told him how ill fiber makes me after recommending a salad for lunch (which I wish I could), eat half a sandwich for lunch, when I told him I already was said eat a quarter of a sandwich. Me and my daughter both stared at him like he'd gone mad. Okay, maybe not mad but unrealisitic. A quarter of a sandwich. I was going away hungry at half. A quarter wouldn't even dent my hunger and what kind of doctor doesn't know that hunger is a major driving force for all animals, including the human species?
I have one condition that makes my blood clot too easily and another that makes me bleed too much. How are you going to address that but I note that the bleeding too easily didn't start until after the doctors put me on a blood thinner for a blood clot which I promptly stopped and refused to take after a couple of attempts, at a few different medicines, due to causing bleeding (nose, ears, and unmentionable places). Years after refusing to take these, the problem persists. I'm supposed to trust doctors? Get real. One yanked out my gall bladder for stones without telling me that the gall bladder is crucial in the digestion of fat and now my digestive issues are worse than ever. After the operation, he says zero fat which is insane and impossible with my pre-existing inability to eat fiber. I love salad and I love it without dressing, which I hate. I haven't met a salad dressing yet I like the taste of so I used to eat a lot of salad without any dressing at all. Remember that old magazine ad of without our dressing your salad is just a bowl of wet vegetables? I was yeah, give me the bowl of wet vegetables. But the prejudiced against we fatties always mock eat a salad. God, wish I could. I'd eat salad for lunch every day - if I could. I love salad. I miss salad.
SIgh. I've ranted long enough. I could write a book on this but those of you who have been blessed by good genes - I decidedly have the opposite and if I had understood genetics in my 20s my daughter and grandson would likely not exist becuase I've cursed them with the same bad genetics - and are blessed with good health and a healthy weight because, for you, doing everything you should results in a good outcome because your good genetics actually allow such.
Me - I've always limped. I probably had Juvenile Arthritis but,well, can't be sure about that because it can't be diagnosed in hindsight but, in the 60s, doctors - once again those gods I'm supposed to worship - didn't catch it unless it was so severe a kid wasn't walking at all. But I've gone from that limp, to cane, to walker to power chair over the course of my grandson's childhood just as I saw my grandmother go over my childhood.
I wrote that some time ago. The five-year-old is now 19.
It's all well and fine to judge people and assume they can be just like you. It's another thing to have the insight and wisdom to realize that you can't judge a book by it's cover - even when that cover is some fat old lady in a power chair struggling at the market.
But, it's okay. Deny me care. I'm denying myself despite having good insurance. (If I had to rely on Medicare, I'd be dead already for what they won't cover.) I've given up on doctors. They poke and prod and write you off as futile care - a thing long before Covid, google if you don't know what it is - wherein they really refuse to do anything for you because they really can't. So wth is the point of my making them richer whilst subjecting myself to their medical torture. All they do is torture me and I credit at least two of my current health problems as a byproduct of being stupid enough to trust doctors in my desperation. Find doctors who have your mindset and realistically look at your problems and help you be proactive in preventing things? I'm jealous because I searched for well over a decade for this mythical being and it was as illusive as an invisible pink unicorn.
I hate doctors. It's my one prejudice. I flat out hate them and consider them all snake oil salesmen who don't care about their patients and who are in it for the money. Change my mind. Really do. I don't like to be prejudicd against anyone and always strive not to be. But I fear this one is ingrained due to their making my health worse instead of better even when I allowed myself to subject to added pain and discomfort in hope of alleviating my health problems.
