Posting on behalf of my mother with her permission. She's about 300 pounds, 50 years old, and desperately needs to lose weight. She may need a kidney transplant within the next 5 years. She has stage 3 kidney disease. She's a T1 diabetic (NOT type 2. It's an autoimmune disorder and did not come from a poor diet.) She is physically disabled and can not exercise to any meaningful degree, since she broke her ankles years ago and never fully recovered from a botched surgery, among other issues, so she is extremely sedentary whether she likes it or not. She has high cholesterol and triglycerides. She's post-menopausal. (Shit, even that alone almost killed her, but that's a story for another day.)
Kidney disease means low protein. High cholesterol means low fat. Diabetes means low carb. Low sodium. Low potassium. Low fluids. All of the advice contacts each other. She can't win.
She's seen multiple nutritionists over the years (dieticians? They came recommended by her doctors, so they weren't some rando). None of them have ever known what it's like to be a T1 diabetic or seemed to have any idea how to help her lose weight. The things they've told us are absurd. Things that sound good on paper but would never work in real life. Frankly, we've never met any medical professional that can manage her diabetes. Every hospital stay, her blood sugar is all over the place.
Everything is so complicated. We're so overwhelmed. I lost 60 pounds just counting my calories, and nothing I did has worked for her.
We're fighting for her life at this point, and we're getting extremely frustrated. I know we can't be alone though. There has to be others on this sub who have these kinds of extensive health issues making it difficult to lose weight.
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