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[greghousesgf]

Finally gave up and told my doctor I was going to do a different weight loss program affiliated with another hospital and when I lose the forty pounds I'll call them to make an appointment for the surgery.

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[jayregee]

I hope you reach all your goals. Even ones not mentioned.

[jerrbear_81]

Good luck on your journey! I need to gain weight and would gladly take it off your hands if I could

[svgurl]

That sucks that you've had such a hard time communicating with them. I hope the other hospital is more helpful.

[greghousesgf]

they should be. I've done this program before and it works.

[enchanted_jae]

Good for you.

[haebin]

I think that's the best decision you could make.
*hugs*

[erulissedances]

I think that's a good idea since you weren't getting anywhere with them anyway - LOL. *hugs*

- Erulisse (one L)

[lokiofsassgaard]

Genuinely, the only thing that worked for me was going on daily walks. No diet or program ever stuck. Audiobooks/podcasts, and and five miles a day. It took about a month to be able to work up to that distance, and I had to find something I was invested enough in listening to to be able to want to go out every day, but I've lost over 100lbs just by listening to the fucking Taskmaster podcast alone.

[greghousesgf]

I can't walk very far. I have really bad arthritis in my left knee which is why I have to have surgery on it to get an artificial knee put in which is why I have to lose 39 lbs. in the first place. It's bugging me especially because I used to love going on long walks before I got arthritis.

[lokiofsassgaard]

Oof. My uncle’s wife is in this same position. Needs to lose weight for knee replacement. Can’t lose weight because she can’t be active enough to manage it. Idk what her target is, but it’s a lot more than 40, which isn’t making the situation any easier.

But I do feel you on the doctor front. Every single piece of advice I’ve got from them on losing weight has been either unhelpful at best, or actively made things worse. So many of them just don’t want to listen. When my gastro specialist asked me why I lost weight, and I said it seemed like a good idea, he acted like he didn’t believe me. Then he asked me how, and I said I walk five miles a day, and I really got the feeling he didn’t believe me. All of a sudden I was getting fast tracked for every gut and bowel cancer screening known to man. Spoilers: it wasn’t cancer.

[greghousesgf]

I do swim laps but I can't do that indefinitely because it's an outdoor pool and at some point it will get too cold (or rainy) to use it.

[lokiofsassgaard]

funny enough, my husband expected it to be that way with my walks, but it's the complete opposite. It's started raining and getting cool again, and now I can actually go out daily now. It was when it was constantly hot and disgusting that I stayed home more often than not.

[greghousesgf]

I wouldn't mind going on long walks when it was cooler, that's what jackets are for, but my leg hurts too damn much to do it.

[lokiofsassgaard]

Yeah, fair.