I have Obesity.

My Dr., not so recently diagnosed me with Obesity...

According to Wikipidea:

Obesity is a condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that health may be negatively affected
The symptoms of Obesity include Increased weight, Increased BMI, Increased abdominal girth, and Secondary medical complications.
It's a disease. I know because I paid a skilled MD $85 to diagnose me with it. It dosn't matter HOW i got, what matters is what i'm doing to cure it.

I don't like how thoes of us with this disease are classified as "Obese" when someone is diagnosed with cancer do we call them "cancerous". No! Yet to say "I have Obesity" sounds somehow incorrect. Almost like we should allow ourselves to be labled simply because we suffer from a disease.

This disease is so complicated to me...for instance would you say that Obesity is caused from being overweight, or that being Overweight causes Obesity. Technicly you can be overweight without being considered "obese" yet you cannot be "obese" without being Overweight. I'm starting to confuse myself but what I'm trying to get across is that thoes of us who suffer from Obesity have a disease, and weather or not we,are to blame for it we still suffer as victims from a disease. If someone gets Melanoma from getting a sunburn would you say "well you did it to yourself, so your less deserving of sympathy"? No.

I just wish that society would adjust their perspective on this subject and stop looking at people who suffer from Obesity as someone who is deserving of their condition. Maybe someday.

Very well written!  You spoke much of what I've thought over the years concerning being diagnosed as obese.  When I first saw my diagnosis as obese, I swear it was probably the biggest slap in the face EVER, but it was also something of a wake-up call to look at myself more closely in the mirror, to figure out what I could do to change it.  Do I think I deserved it or did it all to myself, no.  I think I helped it along, but my co-morbidities didn't help it any.  Am I glad that I had the option of WLS and am now a "normal" BMI? You betcha!  And, it has definitely taught me not to judge others by their looks/weight and to get to know them and that, my friends, is the most important lesson I probably learned from all of this.  Thanks for listening to my rant~ *hugs to all*

Have you ever noticed that alot of the docs who say or said we are were obesed..Are morbid obese....
What has bothered me is not that I was obesed..Just the word sucks....ANd have you ever noticed that women when are as I use the word fluffy are considered FAT when a man can be stocky..
It just does not make sense to me..the terms we are called....
Thanks for this post....either or you are simply marvelous to me

I guess if you were to play the glad game, you could say that at least he didn't call you morbidly obese! I over heard my heart doctor talking into his tape recorder one day and heard him say I was mildly obese! I nearly went out and hugged him! However; other doctors say I am morbidly obese....I agree we do carry "titles" that we sure don't want to hear....however it is a fact and the numbers don't lie....Thus the surgery so no one can call me anything anymore!!!