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This was my first (and last) visit to this doctor. She's treated my aunt (also fat) for a while. I was just looking for an annual check-up and instead was pressured many times about my weight. The first thing I told her was that I had been on diets since I was 8 and had no interest in losing weight. Despite a normal blood pressure and heart rate, and denying any weight related pain, she kept bringing up the fact that I was over 100 pounds overweight. She wanted to know if I'd always been this heavy, if I'd been on diets, had I considered gastric-bypass surgery. At that point I told her point blank that if the only thing she was going to do was lecture me about weight, I could just leave right then. She tried to backtrack by saying she was only concerned about my health. The entire time, I was seated across from a BMI chart provided by Slim-fast. 

What really got to me was that after she did a breast exam, she asked if I needed help putting my bra back on. When I said I was able to do it and then reached back to hook it back on, she exclaimed with surprise, "Oh, you can do that all by yourself?" Did she think that I was too fat to reach around and put my bra on? How did she think I get dressed in the morning?

Needless to say, I was not pleased. I told my aunt about it when we got home and she was shocked. My aunt has been very firm about not wanting to discuss weight. I wonder why the doctor thought she'd be able to walk over me?