Thursday, November 4, 2010

The move and a very interesting Dr's apt

Hey ya'll so I'm pretty much all moved in to my new place. I just flew back to TN and am staying here until tomarrow to finish up some stuff with school and everything. But I thought I'd share with you a very interesting doctors apt I had the other day. So I found a new Dr around where I was moving to and had to go in for a physical and to establish myself as a patient. So she got my height (still 5'1...haven't grown) and my weight (199.2) and then stared at me all confused for a second. I asked her what the problem was and she informed me that I look MUCH smaller than the scale indicated. I had on a fairly baggy sweatshirt so I told her that most of my fat is stored in my stomach. She was still doubtful so she weighed me on another scale and found the same results. I then went into the exam room with her and took off my sweatshirt so she could see just how fat I really am. She was kind of shocked when she saw how big my belly is and asked to take measurments. My waist girth is 43 inches!! Thats HUGE; especially when the rest of me is fairly normal sized. She told me that a 43 inch abdominal girth is usually found in patients well over 250 pounds and that she is now concerned about a condition called "truncal obesity". I know I have elevated estrogen levels which make me store fat in that area but based on my frame size I will only continue to look more and more disproportionate with each additional pound. I've been trying to lose some weight recently (to no avail) to help alleviate the back pain I've recently developed. I've also found that I am now restricted to ONLY wearing maternity pants, as normal ones look more and more unflattering on me. So yeah, random update but just thought ya'll would find this interesting.

3 comments:

  1. Sorry to hear about your back pain, also hopefully this truncal obesity isn't as bad as I think it is...

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  2. I wish you luck on the weight loss. But until that time I'll enjoy your sexily disproportionate figure. Its so cute.

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  3. I'm sorry Tracy, I don't mean to sound like a bitch but you do not look like you are 199 lbs. Not at all. My sister weighs 170 and is your height, and she is a lot bigger than you. I just find this hard to believe. Most people who are that size show the weight somewhere. Your stomach isn't all that big. I bet if you wore a girdle you wouldn't need maternity wear.

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