So, I went to the doctors the other day and I'm having some troubles with it and I was hoping that I'd get some help here.
For some background, I'm a 32 year old female who lives in California. Back in May of 2018 I started losing weight and in the past nearly year and a half I went from 325lbs down to 210lbs(ish). I did it with the iTrackBites app, as well as calorie counting. I also have been doing cardio 5x a week this whole time and started running last May. I usually run between 2-3miles, 5 days a week and my diet consists of 1200-1600 calories a day. My goal weight is between 160-170lbs. My main thing is that I want to get to a healthy BMI. I've been overweight all my life and just can't take it anymore.
I had been losing weight pretty consistently but back in July my weight loss practically stopped. I tried intermittent fasting, tried adding more exercise and nothing seems to be working. Granted, I fell off the diet train a little in November-December for the holidays, but I didn't manage to gain anything back. I simply wasn't losing anymore.
I finally worked up the courage to go to the doctors in the new year to get a physical as well as a full blood panel. At this point I was sure that there was something wrong with me that I wasn't losing an ounce of weight in 9 months, even given my cheat days over the holidays.
I went in on Monday for the results and everything came back normal. My hunch that this was a thyroid problem proved to be wrong (we have thyroid issues in my family), so I was curious as to why I wasn't losing anymore.
I tried to voice my concerns to my doctor but I could tell that she wasn't listening to me. I have Medi-Cal, which is the low-income medical insurance in California. I'm sure I was one of 50 patients she had to see that day, so I only had >5 minutes of her time before she rushed off to the next person.
She told me that the only way I can lose weight fast and keep it off is with the gastric sleeve surgery.
I told her that surgery wasn't really the way I wanted to do and asked if she could recommend a nutritionist or dietitian or anything else I could try. She told me that “they will tell you what to eat but not how to lose weight”. She assured me that I was young and healthy and a prime candidate for the sleeve surgery. That she could get me a referral to a doctor she knew, he could give me a consultation and get me approved for surgery in 2 days.
Needless to say, I left the appointment disappointed. I couldn't believe that a physician would give me the brush off like that. All my life I avoided doctors because they all told me how important it was that I lose weight, all the different ways that I could change my lifestyle to get healthier and now I'm asking for help and she couldn't give me the time of day.
I'm going to give it another try in a couple weeks when my work schedule loosens up. I'm going to make an appointment with a weight loss specialist (or someone who can help me find one), see what other options there are out there for me. I'm not 100% against going under the knife, there's just no way that I'm not going to try my other options before I do.
TO GET TO THE POINT, I'd like some pointers here. Does anyone have anything they can recommend I do to get losing weight again? I have a feeling that I cut calories -way- too quickly and now my metabolism has tanked after a year and a half. I don't know what I can do about that, really. I've been thinking about Intermittent Fasting but with my work/run schedule that's going to make things difficult. Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
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