Too big to have baby?

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Andrew_Ryan_89 wrote: »

What exactly are you looking to get from here? .

Pot kettle black

Say's he who starts many naive threads.

As to the OP I think I'd be more worried bringing a child into this world with difficulties at 35+ our chances have now increased. So a lot more than the weight to worry over.

Mupette

I don't know if this is nation wide, Boots is doing free SW or WW if over your set BMI, that 14 weeks (or is is 12) free classes, It sounds like you need motivation, that's what you will get there.

You won't be mocked or laughed at, everyone has their goals and need encouragement and support from others to help them get there.

You will not be the largest person there, you'll be part of the gang.

It's your mindset that needs changing, your halfway there, you've admitted you need to do something, now its time to put those words into action. I no longer do SW but i still carry on some of their things, i still snack, i'm an emotional eater too, and sometimes i need to reign myself in, husband doesn't help heaping the food on my plate, so i tell him smaller plate please, he's getting there and it's working slowly. the 2 stone i lost, i gained 1. my determination is not to gain more but to loose more as i have a major transplant in September next year that i need to be prepared for.

Starlight123

Thanks Mupette, will take look on their website. I also may look at book too on Gillian:T

richardw

You're young enough in that you'll eventually see the end of a predominantly free NHS, so being unhealthy is actually going to cost you a lot of money in the future.
So from a Money saving point of view, it's best to get healthy.

msb5262

ripplyuk wrote: »

My granny was a size 24 when she started having babies (all NINE of them!) so there's no way excess weight is a good contraceptive.

She's 89 now and still insists she's going to start dieting next week/month etc. :rotfl:

Research actually shows that obesity has a direct impact on fertility, so while nobody is claiming that "excess weight is a good contraceptive", I'm afraid the OP is right in suspecting that it won't improve her chances.

fierystormcloud

ripplyuk wrote: »

My granny was a size 24 when she started having babies (all NINE of them!) so there's no way excess weight is a good contraceptive.

She's 89 now and still insists she's going to start dieting next week/month etc. :rotfl:

msb5262 wrote: »

Research actually shows that obesity has a direct impact on fertility, so while nobody is claiming that "excess weight is a good contraceptive", I'm afraid the OP is right in suspecting that it won't improve her chances.

Have to agree with msb5262. And I have known quite a few women in the recent past who have struggled to conceive because of being obese. And I am actually gobsmacked at how being very obese and a size 24 is being brushed off as normal.

Whilst I don't think it's particularly good or nice to fat-shame, I think normalising obesity is no better. That's why I hate things like supersized stretchers, and reinforced beds for morbidly obese people. We shouldn't be spending PUBLIC money on placating people who are very large, we should be spending it on helping them find a healthy way of eating, and a healthy lifestyle.

richardw wrote: »

You're young enough in that you'll eventually see the end of a predominantly free NHS, so being unhealthy is actually going to cost you a lot of money in the future.
So from a Money saving point of view, it's best to get healthy.

This. ^^^ :T

gettingtheresometime

fierystormcloud wrote: »

Whilst I don't think it's particularly good or nice to fat-shame, I think normalising obesity is no better. That's why I hate things like supersized stretchers, and reinforced beds for morbidly obese people. We shouldn't be spending PUBLIC money on placating people who are very large, we should be spending it on helping them find a healthy way of eating, and a healthy lifestyle.

The problem with this train of thought is whilst the motive is sound if you follow the logic through should the NHS spend money on treating people who have got injured through dangerous sports etc?

Person_one

fierystormcloud wrote: »

Whilst I don't think it's particularly good or nice to fat-shame, I think normalising obesity is no better. That's why I hate things like supersized stretchers, and reinforced beds for morbidly obese people. We shouldn't be spending PUBLIC money on placating people who are very large, we should be spending it on helping them find a healthy way of eating, and a healthy lifestyle.

And how would you care for them if they need to be in hospital or need urgent medical attention? Tough luck no CT scan, no ambulance ride for you to get that stroke looked at, no treatment for that heart attack you're having right this minute until you have a healthier way of eating?

It isn't 'placating' its providing essential equipment for a small proportion of the population who need it there and then.

Gloomendoom

Person_one wrote: »

It isn't 'placating' its providing essential equipment for a small proportion of the population who need it there and then.

I agree that emergency medical care should not be refused under any circumstance.

I might, however, put a substantial tax on these things...

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/04/the-mobility-scooter-plague/

pollypenny

Person_one wrote: »

And how would you care for them if they need to be in hospital or need urgent medical attention? Tough luck no CT scan, no ambulance ride for you to get that stroke looked at, no treatment for that heart attack you're having right this minute until you have a healthier way of eating?

It isn't 'placating' its providing essential equipment for a small proportion of the population who need it there and then.

When we have to spend p thousands, taking windows out or even taking walls down to take a patient to hospital things have gone too far.

Let someone feel uncomfortable in an average size wheelchair or bed, then they might face up to problems they are causing themselves.

Severe anorexics are sectioned. The morbidly obese are provided with enormous chairs.