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Originally Posted by GayleTX  Regarding your family who says you don't need to lose weight....doctors figure your 'need' for weight loss based on your BMI (body mass index). (google BMI calculator)....at 4'9" and 235 lbs
your BMI is 51....that is classified as "morbidly obese." So, yes, you do need to lose weight. I'm betting you are quite young and look really cute and cuddly right now, especially to your family. But along with obesity eventually comes poor health....we don't retain the cute and cuddly when the health begins to go. Your family loves you like you are, but you love yourself enough to want to be the best you can be in the future and to have a long and happy and healthy life.
Dallas is a great place to find an experienced, competent weight loss surgeon....some of the most respected ones are right there - Dr. Wade Barker, Dr. Richard Benevides, Dr. Joseph Cribbins, Dr. Steven Hamm are all very well thought of - as well as others. Methodist Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital are both Centers of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery and have outstanding programs and staff for weight loss surgery.
However, none of them work for free....not many people do. You say you don't have insurance or any credit at all....are you on Medicaid by any chance? They cover weight loss surgery. If not, you need to begin trying to establish credit of some sort....just a credit card or a store account with a small limit is a beginning - making payments, never be late in making payments (that's the key) to getting a good rating.
I hear your frustration about dieting. It's easy to diet, easy to lose weight - and even eaiser to gain it back ....I 'dieted' myself up to 350 pounds.....so much yoyo dieting that my metabolism went haywire and eventually only went one way - UP- on the scale. I hope you can find a solution to your weight problem soon, whatever it may be.
Best wishes to you....... |
Gayle Tx, thanks so much for all your important information. YES the family thinks I am A ok because I dont have health problems "AT THE MOMENT". My mom is very heavy set and she has alot of health problems and she is really scared of weight loss surgery. I am scared too but I have to do something to make Lora feel better. I have gotten depression and it has caused me not to feel attractive at all. I dont want to live this way no more. I have been on too many yo-yo diets and I am just tired of it. I loose good at first and as you stated I gain it back and some. As far as my credit goes, I have some but not enough and my income is too much for medicaid. I am going to have insurance as of Aug 1st but beeing that it is going to be a new policy for me at a new job I am not so sure that is going to go too well. Thanks for all your information and I will let you know as I move forward.
