Thread by @RebelBarefoot

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It has taken me a few weeks to process this.

Let me tell you a conversation I had with a Dr recently. Had to visit & get checked over general pregnancy niggles, they had to check my BMI.

Dr: Oh Mrs Burnett you are measuring obese, we need to look at diet plans, I can suggest the new better health app, a calorie defecit & exercising.

Me: But I am 8 & a half months pregnant & recovering from an ED.

1st of all of course I am going to be weighing more a tiny human is growing inside me, I could pop any day now. 2nd I was discharged from ed services in Jan, suggesting I diet is not a good idea. I know I would spiral quite quickly and my priority is staying well for little one

(also 95% of diets do not work). And 3rd I have pgp & been told to rest with gentle yoga physio & swimming which I do. It is a type of disability. This is what I have been told to do.

Dr: but the BMI is saying obese, we need to tackle this now. Have you looked into the app?

Me: again pal, 8 months pregnant...... Recovering from ED.

Dr: but the chart.

Me: PREGNANT

Dr.......

Me: you grow a human in your uturus & not gain any weight pal.

It took me all my strength not to tell him where to shove that chart.

The fact this was not even taken into consideration is mind baffling, I was overweight before falling pregnant, genetics, pcos and a damaged motabalism play a role in that, not just what goes in and out of my body it is much more complex then that. I accept this.

of course I am going to gain weight in pregnancy.

This is what is wrong with the BMI chart, this is what is wrong with the governments new shit show obesity scheme, this is fatphobia at its best.

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