I’m looking for advice and also ranting.
I (24F) have always been overweight. Growing up my family always made comments about my body, that I should watch what I eat, while they had poor eating habits that in turn, gave me poor eating habits.
I look back at photos of myself and see that I wasn’t even that fat, and feel like if my family had just stayed quiet, I’d have a much better relationship with how I feel about my body and food. Because now I really am fat/obese.
I’ve also been dealing with borderline high BP for a few years now, and at my last physical my doctor said it was at the point where we couldn’t keep ignoring it and I had to be prescribed something. She gave me propranolol for the high bp and also symptoms of anxiety. We had a conversation and I told her that I’d like to target the source of the health problems and not just the symptoms, which means I want to lose weight. Even though high blood pressure runs in my family, there’s no reason why I, a 24 year old who is healthy otherwise, should have high blood pressure.
So my doctor prescribed the wegovy pill, but it’s not covered by my insurance and I just learned (after a month of going back and forth with my insurance and my doctors office and the insurance and the doctors office) that the $150 out of pocket cost for the wegovy pill is actually just a limited time offer and after April 15th, it’ll be $300 a month. I already couldn’t afford the $150 but I was gonna make it work, and now I especially can’t afford the $300. The fact that no one has mentioned this price increase to me over the last month of phone calls and conversations is (imo) extremely predatory and disgusting.
I’m now waiting for my doctor to fill out a coverage exception form for my insurance as a last hurrah to try and get it covered, but I don’t expect much.
In the meantime, I feel like my other option is a weight loss program like weight watchers, but I am extremely stubborn and I don’t like when someone tells me something that’s common sense like it’s rocket science. I don’t want to pay for a program that tells me to eat fruits and exercise because no fucking shit.
I’m also dealing with my mom who has recently lost a ton of weight from using Ozempic for her diabetes and now feels like she’s the pinnacle of health. When I was younger, she enrolled in weight watchers and is telling me now that it helped her, when I know for a fact that it did not because I lived it with her. She also makes being fat feel like a moral failing when 1. There’s plenty of people in our family on both sides who are obese so there’s very likely a genetic component, and 2. The way I was raised gave me a terrible relationship with food.
If anyone has any recommendations for weight loss programs that they feel actually helped them (I.e. a better relationship with food and their bodies) and didn’t feel like an episode of the biggest loser, please lmk.
And it’s not necessary but any advice on how to deal with family who body shames while pretending to be health geniuses, please lmk. (If you would like to an example of the unhealthy eating habits, growing up we’d have to hide sweet treats in the house because the next morning we’d find that the entire box of cookies (for example) had been eaten by my mom)
Sorry this was long, thanks in advance
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