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Originally Posted by JohnDABaptist
I would automatically exclude smokers, or any obese folks from any medical help. During your life you failed to care for yourself so you are on your own. Here in America that would leave many with the help of oxygen. Since most adults are obese, at least 50%. In my age group here in Idaho, 50-60 years old, it's more like 75%.
That would solve the problem. Save those that showed they cared for themselves. The gluttonous slobs and smokers get nothing.
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How about those who HAD those issues, but have worked very hard to overcome?
You obviously haven't tried to quit a substance that is more addicting than cocaine and heroin.
You obviously have never struggled to lose 30#.
You obviously have not had to medications or have steroids, which causes a rise in blood sugar, causes ravenous hunger and allows for weight gain.
You also apparently have never been poor enough to where 2 bags of $0.69 bags of chips MAY be easier to purchase than a $1.29 head of lettuce, and will last longer.
Medications to treat health conditions I have caused weight gain. Sure the heavier I got the more I ate...call it what it is... emotional eating.
I was pre-diabetic for a decade. I mushroomed up to 320# ( on a male 5'5" frame...yep short and fat). When I turned diabetic 2 years ago, I already knew I had to do something about my weight, but then I got serious about losing my excess weight.*
I also fir a decade was hypOglycemic, meaning my sugar dropped to levels so low I'd pass out if I didn't get something to eat, too low and the bad/quick way to raise it was to eat a candy bar as fast as I could before passing out, shaky and dripping with sweat.
The first 30# came off as soon as I started on a sugar control med. Why? It was water weight...that NEVER would have come off without a sugar control med, as high sugar drives thirst in an attempt to dilute sugar in the blood, I was drinking a bottle of water about every 20minutes.
I spent 10 hours in a course to learn how to eat as a diabetic. It's not ALL veggies, but limiting carbs to a set determined amount per day via the exchanges allowed as calculated per Individual in the course ( I'm allowed 5-6 a day). I learned which foods are "free foods", broccoli is one, fortunately I love broccoli, fill up half my plate please!
The next 30# came off with the diet changes. Then I hit a road block. I have bad back, hips and knees, so exercise is limited. **
But adding more walking and activities that are mild and non-injury producing for me, and vastly reducing any intake of food at all (basically starving myself on a salad and a sandwich a day) eventually slowly helped lose another 40.
So, over a two year period I lost 100#.
YOU try to lose 100#!
I still need to lose about another 30-40#, VERY hard to do.
If it makes you feel ANY BETTER, I just had breakfast, it is 6:00am my time. I had: spinach, spring lettuce, julienned carrots, 4 cherry tomatoes, a diced slice of ham, a diced slice of Swiss cheese, what was left of the Bleu cheese crumblies, and to top it off, french dressing and pepper.
That will be all until dinner, which Tonight will be corned beef, cabbage and carrots and onions.
IF I'm ravenous hungry between? Ill have 1/2 a roast beef sandwich.
Lastly I'm a "reformed smoker". I grew up with a mother who smoked in the late 50s and 60s, as
It was more "fashionable" then. In the 70s, my teen years growing up, they were just starting to pass laws against tv and magazines. But I picked it up from mother, and was basically a lifelong smoker, quit for 10 years now. ***
*: You DO NOT HAVE TO BE FAT to be diabetic. Mary Tyler Moore weighed no more than 110# EVER in her life, and had diabetes.
** I suppose because I have: scoliosis osteoporosis spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease in my back YOU would automatically disinclude me from being"savable"?? Knees and hips need steroid shot s every 6 mos, Again, I suppose you would automatically disinclude from " savability??
*** Does a 'reformed smoker' count among those worth saving?
And:**** ( no **** in the post, this is an addition):
Because of my health problems, I DO draw SSDI, but I am also allowed to work and earn up to a certain amount before they take away my SSDI check per month. It's kinda like taking early SS.
I suppose YOU would consider me "expendable",' even though you might want to check into the hotel I work at for a night's rest, and you'd like me to check you in. Or is that job only fir the young, healthy whippersnappers??
I certainly don't wish you bad health, but there's a phrase attributed to native Americans you'd do well to learn and contemplate:
"Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins"
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