#bmi check

[sualne]

i kind of want to ramble a bit about being underweight and the way people treated me changed as i socially transitioned and aged.

for quick context i was literally born underweight, i'd been starving to death in the womb and needed to get out early, a doctor even said it was too late, that i was already dead, that was not the case.

anyway for as long as i remember people would always comment on how thin i was, as a kid it didn't mean much but approaching puberty the "you need to eat more" turned into "people would kill to have a body like yours" comments about having a wasp waist among more disturbing ones, i socially transitioned as 16, i was getting those comment at 12. i still got remarks about how i should gain weight but it was always accompanied by this "but not too much, you need to stay thin, thin is good." sentiment so gaining weight was never truly seen as an actual emergency, something that should actually happen, it was more of a reflex sort of comment, people didn't mean it too seriously.

that changed when people started seeing me as a man, suddenly i was not so thin and fragile, so feminine and pretty i was visibly weak and unmanly and that pisses the shit out of other (older) men. now people really meant it when they say i should gain weight but unlike before that vaguely "i'm worried for your health (but you look much better like this anyway so don't change it)" sentiment disappeared, it was all about performing masculinity properly, about becoming a muscular big strong manly man. you see it all the time, thinness being associated with femininity, even trans people who should know better keeps on going "wow so gender" to people who are only just being thin and otherwise pretty damn conforming. obviously a lot of this depends where you live.

now this also the moment i need to mention thinphobia isn't a thing, people don't actually care about the fact that you're thin, it's about failing to meet gender role's standards and looking visibly sick which get people Really uncomfortable, they don't want to be reminded disabled & chronically ill people exist. fatphobia is genuinely and purely about hating the fact that fat people exist, they don't actually give the slightest shit about possible health issues they're just dipshits, those are excuses to pretend it's justified so they can feel better about themselves, it's also systemic and get people killed all the time. doctor might tell me gaining some weight couldn't do me any bad but they've never insisted it was the sole and only reason for every single one of my issues, they usually don't even mention it all.

i don't have a point or conclusion for this.

[annuhhhh6]

legs bc

dont mind my big ass shoes pls😭

can someone guess my bmi plssss

[dy1ngtob3thin]

bmi 16.4 td.

its working

and my periods late

[f4y3w00d5]

.................not me making mistakes

[try-and-try-and-try-again]

The NHS is bizarre

What is going on? I’ve already come to the conclusion that NHS psychiatric care is extremely extremely messed up so I won’t bother writing about that.

My dad had a health scare this week. He collapsed twice at home and my family called an ambulance. They declared it a ‘freak blood pressure event’ and said no A and E but an emergency doctor would come the next morning. (Thankfully he tells me he’s been fine ever since. Also he happens to be due for routine cardiology stuff today so if it’s that it could be ruled out).

Before the emergency doctor came our local GP practice diagnosed him with pre-diabetes and signed him up for a diet coaching app. The app asked for his height and weight and told him he was very obese and to cut out all of his food staples. The emergency doctor checked his vitals including BM and said he definitely wasn’t pre-diabetic, he was perfectly healthy. He also took his weight and despite it being the same as usual said my dad was far from being obese and the app made no sense. What in the lying/scaremongering/over diagnosing/ diet-culture app advertising heck is going on? This system angers and scares me more every day.

Yesterday my dad celebrated his new found normality by eating porridge. Good for him. It’s his favourite but the app banned it.

[hoodie-prince-kid-archived]

ok thats worse there is no way Jamie is my weight what.

[dicketysplit]

pals, my gp is most likely going to refer me to a neurologist 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[jinxedlucky]

happy halloween beloveds remember that unless you have an explicit medical condition sugar is not bad for you and being fat is not a bad thing so go crazy go stupid have fun and be safe

[snixx]

I am simultaneously one of the physically healthiest and unhealthiest people i know lmfao

[diabetes-health-corner]

Understanding Body Mass Index (BMI)

BMI is a calculation based on an individual's weight and height. It is calculated by dividing an individual's weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters (kg/m²). This simple numerical value is validated by research to estimate body fat levels. While BMI is essential for assessing potential weight-related health risks, one must consider a holistic viewpoint of a person before jumping to any conclusion.

Read more on BMI: https://www.freedomfromdiabetes.org/blog/post/body-mass-index-bmi/3957

[surinderbhalla]

Understanding Your BMI: The Path to a Healthy You!

Maintaining a healthy body weight isn’t just about looking good on the beach (although that’s a nice perk!). It’s about nurturing a foundation for optimal health and longevity. One of the most common tools used to assess weight status is the Body Mass Index (BMI). But what exactly is a healthy BMI, why is it important, and how can we keep it in check? Let’s dive in by understanding your BMI: The…

[bookdoctorconsultationonline]

How To Calculate Body Mass Index (BMI)? at Livlong

How to calculate BMI? The Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator can be used to calculate BMI and weight status while taking age into account. Visit Livlong for more details.

[allhealthneedsdoctorconsultation]

How To Calculate Body Mass Index (BMI)? at Livlong

How to calculate BMI? The Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator can be used to calculate BMI and weight status while taking age into account. Visit Livlong for more details.

https://livlong.com/blogs/fitness-nutrition/how-to-calculate-bmi

[ked-r]

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[3liza]

the nutrition thing is so frustrating. it's just good sense to tell people to "check with their doctors" about all this stuff, and it's ethically necesarry to say that when advising anyone on the internet about it, and i'm not saying we shouldn;t, BUT to be perfectly honest i have never had a doctor give a shit about nutritional deficiencies beyond occasionally doing basic tests and then refusing to entertain any further investigation or treatment if the tests turned up in the normal ranges. none of them were aware of the tissue levels vs serum levels problem at all, many of them were dismissive when i told them about it. a doctor recently sent me trekking to a lab in person for a celiac marker test without knowing or informing me first that you cannot test for celiac markers without the patient eating gluten at high rates for at least 8 weeks beforehand, because, and both of us should have guessed this beforehand without being told because it is obvious but in my case it's because i read a lot of papers and in her case it is because she is a fucking doctor, unless your body has enough gluten inside of it to be reacting to at the time the blood is drawn, you will get a false negative. so she wasted both our time! and we still don't know if i have celiac or not!

it goes without saying that making an appointment with an allergist had to be booked out ten months in advance. still waiting.

the POTS anemia thing is so obscure, despite it, again, being a common sense result of not having enough blood, that i had never heard about it anywhere including in any POTS-specific writing by POTS experts until i read that one paper i linked to.

i think this issue is especially bad in America because nutrition is a national blind spot. every patient is assumed to have access to adequate nutrients when they walk in the door. we think that everyone in the country eats "too many calories" and is "fat" due to a personal state of sinfulness. underweight patients are considered admirable anomalies until you get down below like a 16 BMI, at which point you are assumed to be crazy and have an eating disorder. having low blood pressure is also treated like something the patient deserves to be complimented on, instead of a symptom. salt is considered poison. reducing salt is the primary intervention in all high blood pressure conditions despite it, again, having had dogshit evidence behind it for decades. autoimmune and dysautonomic conditions are never suspected, tested for or treated without the patient spending ten years fighting about it. postviral sequelae are treated like hysteria again, despite decades of evidence to the contrary.

ive never even met a doctor who knew that taking a multivitamin can fuck up your test results for thyroid markers because biotin will mask the results in both directions!

it's incredibly frustrating when ethical common sense demands that you encourage people to take care of their own safety by 'checking with their doctor' when doctors are apparently being trained roughly at the level of the school of Hippocrates, where they use augury and the colors of the local pigs to diagnose the patient and none of them have read any research at all