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user-inactivated  ·  2738 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 28, 2016

    Know what's awesome? When your insurance says "your blood pressure is too high, get yourself on a statin so we can lower your rates" and two different doctors say "your blood pressure isn't even vaguely high enough to treat." It's almost as awesome as when they say "you're fat" and then you say "help me not be fat" and they say "you're not fat! Who called you fat? Why are you drinking half a gallon of creamer a day?"

My BMI is 40. My cholesterol is 140-160 with the LDL in the 80-90 range. My BP is in the 110/60 range. I routinely dead-lift 300+ pounds. I can do 20 pushups. I can trot on a treadmill for an hour. I should not be this healthy otherwise, according to two other doctors. Yet I feel like shit and can't figure out why. But I've dropped $5500 so far on MD's this year to tell me shit I already know. At least it is not cancer, heart disease or stroke related.

When you find out why you are not losing weight, share it with the rest of the class, please.





kleinbl00  ·  2738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This may seem ridiculous, but do you drink diet soda?

user-inactivated  ·  2738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I drink about 2 pots of coffee a day, and a ton of diet soda. If I don't take in 2 gallons of fluids a day I seize up. And no, not diabetes. Insulin tests all come back normal.

thundara  ·  2738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Echoing bl00, I went through an Arnold Palmer binge last year and the sugar-free aspartame version would always make me feel terribly bloated and all around shitty.

kleinbl00  ·  2738 days ago  ·  link  ·  
snoodog  ·  2738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So how about that follow up liver test?

kleinbl00  ·  2738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Whelp, the three blood tests since have been drearily normal.