Let me start off by saying Doug was right about doctors and low carb...I've never been so angry, defeated, and motivated at the same time. I can't wait until I step back into that jerk's office next year 100 pounds thinner and put it in his face.
Broken spirited today. I'm not sure where to start with what transpired today. I went to Houston and saw the nephrologist. He told me that at any time my kidney could turn and fail on me because I have a history of it being stressed due to pregnancy and complications afterward, and described me as "borderline kidney failure" even though the blood work is great. Sorry this will be long, don't know how else to explain it, God bless you if you finish it. This is what they told me, all my blood work came out great, except that my sugar was very low (64) and that I'm anemic still. They started by getting my history and physical, they scolded me and said that my kidney has probably been stressed because I don't drink enough water...then came back and said maybe I swell because I drink TOO much water SMH. Here's what happened. The doctor looked at me and said, "You are fat because you eat too much fat". My brain pretty much shut down at that point because he outright called me fat. I told him I'm a low-carb vegetarian that gets around 20g a fat a day IF that. Then he said that I need to exercise more...that if I don't walk at least 45 minutes a day then I'm burning 1000 calories to lose fat. I told him I can't exercise that much because I only get 500-700 at most, calories a day and if I exercise more then I'll burn more than what I eat. He told me I need to eat more sugars and stop eating cheese and olive oil. I told him I only use 2TBSP of olive oil maybe 3 times a week, sometimes less. He then accused me of eating too many chips and too much sodium, and again I told him I didn't eat chips and less than 1000mg of sodium a day (at this point, I was doing the best I could to hold back tears and just shut up and nodded my head). He told me I swell because when I eat carbs it causes a rush of insulin that caused me to retain fluid, but then proceeded to say that I don't eat enough carbs and maintained I'm fat because I eat too much fat. He asked me what veggies I liked I told him all but onions, mushrooms, and artichoke. He told me to follow Dr. Fuhrman's diet because that's how he lost weight and that I needed to learn to like mushrooms. I told him the only reason I got fat was because I just had a baby 11 weeks ago and that before her I was thinner, and tried to advocate for myself and told him I lost 45 pounds in 11 weeks on the diet I'm on and that the scale shows only 30 pound loss because I started eating more carbs for a couple weeks and regained 15 of that lost so I had to relose it again. He proceeded to maintain I needed to lose more weight because I was fat and I needed to follow his plan and see him again in a year. He did not seem impressed with my
weight loss so far...I thought 45 pounds in 11 weeks was good
. I finally cried, wiped away my tears, and talked to the Transplant Coordinating RN, she said I seemed to have a healthy diet and to keep doing what I am doing and congratulated me on my
weight loss. I wish that doctor would grow a human being in his womb and then lose 45 pounds in 11 weeks.
