RoseVille Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 A good friend of mine is about 5'1" and 105 pounds. She works out almost everyday when her work and family life doesn't interfere. She wears a 0 or 2 in dress suits. She said her doctor told her she needs to lose weight. She's become very self-conscious about her "fat." Have you ever heard of a physician telling someone with a BMI of 18.9 (.4 away from underweight) that they need to lose weight? Link to post Share on other sites
WhatYouWantToHear Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 She's lying to you to head off your thoughts about her needing help for her anorexia. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Author RoseVille Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 She's lying to you to head off your thoughts about her needing help for her anorexia. She's not anorexic. I've seen her eat, and it's often normal people food (just now: stew; this meaning: large Noah's bagel and cream cheese). Link to post Share on other sites
introverted1 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Her BMI is actually 19.8. Her weight is fine. Link to post Share on other sites
Maleficent Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Well besides the fact being concerned about your weight doesn't necessarily mean there is an eating disorder at play... I really don't think her doctor would tell her to lose weight though... Link to post Share on other sites
regine_phalange Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 it may be an excuse to lose more weight, especially if her family worries about her low weight. Doctors tell people to lose weight when they are obviously overweight and have specific health problems because of it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Els Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 There is no way a doctor would say that. Either she is lying to you, or her disorder is so great that she genuinely hears that in everything everyone says. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Her Bridges Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 A good friend of mine is about 5'1" and 105 pounds. She works out almost everyday when her work and family life doesn't interfere. She wears a 0 or 2 in dress suits. She said her doctor told her she needs to lose weight. She's become very self-conscious about her "fat." Have you ever heard of a physician telling someone with a BMI of 18.9 (.4 away from underweight) that they need to lose weight? Did she expand on that further or just say her doctor said to lose weight? The only situation where I could think of that she "needs" to lose weight is if she's entering in a competitive sport of some sort and looking to cut weight for a certain weight class, or looking into a fitness modeling opportunity. But that's "cutting weight" which is a temporary thing (to pass the weigh in or define your muscles for the photo shoot) that is not something anyone is expected to or able to maintain. Link to post Share on other sites
Hope Shimmers Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 (edited) She is clearly not overweight and as you said, is almost underweight. In some pretty rare situations I can see this happening. If she is of very small bone structure (BMI doesn't take that into account, which is why there are efforts to find another, better measure that does) and if she has a disproportional amount of fat to muscle ratio... and/or (and this is probably the most likely scenario if this is actually valid) if most of her fat is distributed around her mid-section and she has pre-diabetes or a strong family history of diabetes, it is possible that the doc could have said that as it would be good to lose fat around the mid-section. Most docs would not phrase that as "you need to lose weight", though. So I'm just grasping at straws here. Edited August 5, 2015 by Hope Shimmers Link to post Share on other sites
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