Hi folks, just wanted a bit of advice and have been told this site is really good! So I went for a check up at the doctors the other day (they advise you to go at least every 5 years at my practice) and the practice nurse weighed me, took my blood pressure etc. When I asked if everything was OK she said your blood pressure is fine but you could do with losing some weight. I wasn't that surprised by this as I am 5ft 10 and about 14 stone which gives me a bmi of about 28. However she then told me that I was borderline obese and asked to measure my waist which she said was 43 inches (I wear a 36-inch waist in jeans!). After measuring my waist she said she was going to have to put me in the obese category because of my waist measurement and handed me a list of options for losing weight (including Weight Watchers and slimming world, she also said I could consider a gastric balloon, surely that can't be right?)
Is she being melodramatic or am I in denial, what do you folks think?
Is she being melodramatic or am I in denial, what do you folks think?