Every time I would go to the doctors they would tell me I needed to lose weight regardless of the fact that my blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol was perfect.
I would tell myself that doctors are just prejudiced against fat people, social programming and unrealistic standards etc. Something they never properly explained to me, something I don’t think many physicians properly explain to their patients, and something I have only been taught in my further education, is the role of fat in the body.
Fat is not a passive storage system, it is an endocrine organ releasing hormones into the body in response to its situation. If you have a lower fat mass, the hormones released can be beneficial, however if you have higher fat mass, the hormones released are damaging to your body. It doesn’t matter how well you eat, or how much you exercise; these things are beneficial, but at the end of the day, the excess fat in itself is damaging to the body.
Of course, some people can go their entire lives without any negative effects from obesity, but for most people it is just a matter of time.
I might have thought differently about my own weight loss if this were properly explained to me before, because if I’m honest, the main (only) reason I wanted to lose weight was to be hot, not for my health. Why would I want to struggle so hard to lose weight when I truly believed there was nothing wrong with me being that heavy? “I am the healthiest fat person ever” direct quote from me, at 145kg as I ate my fourth cheeseburger!
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