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I am new to the board and would just like to share with you my annoyance.
I suffer from arthritis which has got progressivly worse over the last couple of years. My doctor has given me pain killers and told me if I lost weight it would be easier for me.
Now this is when my annoyance comes in. I finally met a doctor who said that although I was really too young he would operate and give me some new knees, he went on to say that I would need to lose 10% of my body weight before he would do the operation.
I tried to lose weight. Low calorie, Low fat, NOTHING. I have a border line thyroid problem I am told so losing weight WILL BE HARD
I was given an appointment to see a doctor who helps people to lose weight. He told me that I would not eat again until I had lost all the weight needed instead I would drink special shakes coming in all wonderful flavours, chicken, banana, strawberry and chocolate and it would cost me £35 per week to buy the powder to make the shakes
Knowing this way of losing weight was going to mess up my already messed up metabolism I walked away in disgust.
My doctor then suggested a tablet which removed the fat from my system, so after each meal I had to take a little blue capsule and any 33% of fat in my meal who whoosh out. God help me if I ate a little too much fat. In the end I would not take the capsule if I suspected that the whoosh would be too dramatic
Then I took out my little orange book by Dr Atkins and like flippin magic I have already lost 14lbs in a month. I am walking better and feel great, I haven't felt this well for ages.
When I go back to the doctor I know she will say something negative about the Atkins Approach, well friends I am ready with all guns blazing to tell her that if I had stayed with her approach I would still be an unhappy very fat lady with no chance of new knees. Now I am on the way and I just want to say thank you thank you it feels marvelous to be in control at long last with no capsules or silly diets.
I suffer from arthritis which has got progressivly worse over the last couple of years. My doctor has given me pain killers and told me if I lost weight it would be easier for me.
Now this is when my annoyance comes in. I finally met a doctor who said that although I was really too young he would operate and give me some new knees, he went on to say that I would need to lose 10% of my body weight before he would do the operation.
I tried to lose weight. Low calorie, Low fat, NOTHING. I have a border line thyroid problem I am told so losing weight WILL BE HARD
I was given an appointment to see a doctor who helps people to lose weight. He told me that I would not eat again until I had lost all the weight needed instead I would drink special shakes coming in all wonderful flavours, chicken, banana, strawberry and chocolate and it would cost me £35 per week to buy the powder to make the shakes
Knowing this way of losing weight was going to mess up my already messed up metabolism I walked away in disgust.
My doctor then suggested a tablet which removed the fat from my system, so after each meal I had to take a little blue capsule and any 33% of fat in my meal who whoosh out. God help me if I ate a little too much fat. In the end I would not take the capsule if I suspected that the whoosh would be too dramatic
Then I took out my little orange book by Dr Atkins and like flippin magic I have already lost 14lbs in a month. I am walking better and feel great, I haven't felt this well for ages.
When I go back to the doctor I know she will say something negative about the Atkins Approach, well friends I am ready with all guns blazing to tell her that if I had stayed with her approach I would still be an unhappy very fat lady with no chance of new knees. Now I am on the way and I just want to say thank you thank you it feels marvelous to be in control at long last with no capsules or silly diets.
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