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Reply to "Going NUTS trying to fain weight!!! UGH!!!!"

CTB23,

Thats very disappointing as far as insurance not covering the cost of the registered dietician or nutritionist. I recall at one time I also saw a registered dietician or nutritionist at Yale but it was in the context of a seminar. This was around 8 years ago and I learned about it through a CCFA support group I was in at that time. It was a very good seminar although the focus of it wasn't really weight gain but more along the line of eating healthy for purposes of good cardiovascular and gastric health generally.

I find it somewhat ironic that there are more threads on the board about gaining weight than losing weight, although I have seen a number of threads on both. The irony is that the real health problems come from being overweight and unless one is emaciated due to bulimia or the like, I don't think being underweight or lean is necessarily a bad thing. Once the weight creeps up over what it should be, for most people it becomes hard to keep off and health problems like high blood pressure, creaky knees, sleep apnea and diabetes start rearing their ugly heads. My problem is that I can actually eat anything, am a foodie by nature and tend to overeat, tend to gain weight by genetics, don't exercise enough (worsened now by Covid) and have a sedentary lifestyle.

In my CCFA support group I remember a very attractive young woman who was on the lean side but not unhealthy looking. She was always trying to gain weight and was bananas neurotic when she couldn't. She gave up vegetarianism, due to it keeping her weight down. She had Crohn's (no J Pouch), but I kind of thought she was constantly worrying about a problem that wasn't really a problem as far as I could see.

Ultimately it should be your primary care doctor's call on whether you should need to gain weight. If the PCP isn't worried then you shouldn't be. If you did get that opinion from the PCP to gain weight, then ask the PCP to write a letter on the insurance coverage issue. Maybe you get hardship coverage.

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