Don't pay attention to those standard labels that they like putting on people. The only thing that matters is that you feel comfortable in your skin. Anything beyond that is just bullshit.
About that comfort thing ...ed_rexJune 29 2014, 16:47:41 UTC
Since I'm not (nor am ever likely to become, given my age and inclinations) a serious athlete, but would still rather look down at chiseled abs than at the "one-pack" I actually have, I'm afraid I'm going to have to settle for "acceptance", rather than feeling "comfortable". But I can live with that.
Welcome, by the way. I presume you got here by way of abomvubuso.
No, seriously, I'm so sick of the BMI thing. I've dropped about 25 pounds in the last year, but the first 10 pounds were a massive struggle - because I was putting on muscle, so was in that weird stage where my clothes were suddenly a size too big, but I'd barely lost weight, and yet I could suddenly carry things that I hadn't been able to carry before.
And this was my goal - weight is an easy number to track, for comparison sake, and BMI is therefore an easy number to track, but I would be just as glad to have lost 0 weight and yet packed on massive amounts of muscle. 180 and able to lift a horse with 1 hand? YES PLEASE. 180 and barely able to walk up stairs? No.
So when I was at the doctor appointment the other day, she asks if I have diabetes. I say no - though it hasn't been checked in a bit, my A1c runs around 5.2, which is great... but, even after that 25-pound loss, I'm a bit chubby, and she eyed me when I said no, I'm not diabetic
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So when I was at the doctor appointment the other day, she asks if I have diabetes.
Could that just have been a routine question? (Though, when you see a new doctor down there, don't they make you fill out a form listing your known medical conditions, etc?)
... being "overweight" does NOT automatically mean I'm a diabetic, or anything else.
No, it certainly doesn't. I know a man now in his 80s who drives his girlfriend (75ish, adult-onset diabetes, controlled through diet and exercise, not insulin) crazy because he does everything wrong.
He is fat, he eats like a proverbial pig (loves his ice-cream!), gets very little exercise and yet ... heart rate, blood pressure, almost all of his vital stats are in the awesome range, and not just for a man his age.
Genetics can be a real bitch.
Back to the BMI, though.
But it's fast and easy and lets doctors off the hook for an in-depth evaluation of physicality, and all that. Only bad doctors. I'm pleased to say that, though my GP has told me it would hurt me to lose a few pounds, she's
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Re: Diabetes?sinnamongirlJuly 3 2014, 23:37:19 UTC
Yeah, they ask on the questionnaire itself, and granted as a free clinic she may not have looked at the history, but she did that sort of eye-flicker, mouth-purse, and skeptical "hmmm...." when I said my last A1c had been 5.2. There's the possibility I'm being defensive, of course, but it seemed, well, skeptical. I used to type a doctor who would always say something like "Patient is surprisingly not diabetic" for anyone he considered even mildly obese, and that may be something I'm hyper-alert for and defensive about. But, eh.
Good for your doctor! I'm so tired of running into the BMI thing... especially as I have been working out the last few years, so my weight is down (like 20, 25 pounds), but it didn't go down at all at first, and my muscle tone was way better, so I figure a fat to muscle ratio would be a better indicator, you know?
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Welcome, by the way. I presume you got here by way of abomvubuso.
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Glad you added me back!
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And this was my goal - weight is an easy number to track, for comparison sake, and BMI is therefore an easy number to track, but I would be just as glad to have lost 0 weight and yet packed on massive amounts of muscle. 180 and able to lift a horse with 1 hand? YES PLEASE. 180 and barely able to walk up stairs? No.
So when I was at the doctor appointment the other day, she asks if I have diabetes. I say no - though it hasn't been checked in a bit, my A1c runs around 5.2, which is great... but, even after that 25-pound loss, I'm a bit chubby, and she eyed me when I said no, I'm not diabetic ( ... )
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Could that just have been a routine question? (Though, when you see a new doctor down there, don't they make you fill out a form listing your known medical conditions, etc?)
... being "overweight" does NOT automatically mean I'm a diabetic, or anything else.
No, it certainly doesn't. I know a man now in his 80s who drives his girlfriend (75ish, adult-onset diabetes, controlled through diet and exercise, not insulin) crazy because he does everything wrong.
He is fat, he eats like a proverbial pig (loves his ice-cream!), gets very little exercise and yet ... heart rate, blood pressure, almost all of his vital stats are in the awesome range, and not just for a man his age.
Genetics can be a real bitch.
Back to the BMI, though.
But it's fast and easy and lets doctors off the hook for an in-depth evaluation of physicality, and all that. Only bad doctors. I'm pleased to say that, though my GP has told me it would hurt me to lose a few pounds, she's ( ... )
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Good for your doctor! I'm so tired of running into the BMI thing... especially as I have been working out the last few years, so my weight is down (like 20, 25 pounds), but it didn't go down at all at first, and my muscle tone was way better, so I figure a fat to muscle ratio would be a better indicator, you know?
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