I seriously doubt doctors are aggressively pushing eating well and exercising.
Have you ever... been to a doctor when you've been obese? I assure you that they will indeed push eating well and exercising to obese people. Even when you've already been eating well and exercising. This will not be an intervention by the PCP themselves - your primary can really just refer people to substantial interventions - but they will try to refer you to one of three things.
First, they will recommend a book on healthy eating and exercising.
Second, there is behavioral weight loss, which generally is a combination of an appetite-suppression medication like phentermine and a Very Low Calorie Diet through a pre-made controlled calorie diet (such as Medifast or Optifast). A program like this will absolutely require weigh-ins and blood tests.
Third, they will recommend surgical weight loss, most likely gastric bypass, such as Roux-en-Y. There are guaranteed to be medical follow-ups after the surgery.
If you are not clinically obese, and that's great, no, your PCP will not provide that type of advice. They're not there to help you with subclinical concerns with weight. There are plenty of dietitians out there who can.
Anyway, that's not a resounding no - it is extremely common to be referred to these programs if you have any substantial level of obesity. If you're obese, and you haven't been referred to these programs by your PCP, that might be an issue with your primary.
What's exciting about these new peptides is that a simple once-a-week injection might be able to be prescribed by a primary with limited intervention or without outside specialists or surgery and still have good results in terms of weight-loss, as opposed to the truly exhausting requirements of a medically-assisted VLCD or weight loss surgery.
Finally, I have no idea what you're talking about Vitamin D. I've both been diagnosed with a Vitamin D deficiency by my primary (through blood tests!), and Vitamin D supplements are easily available over the counter without a prescription.
If you are not clinically obese, and that's great, no, your PCP will not provide that type of advice. They're not there to help you with subclinical concerns with weight. There are plenty of dietitians out there who can.
yeah. If you are losing weight unintentionally, docs will care a lot and will run tests. Otherwise, being overweight, not so much. Weight loss is a bigger concern than weight gain from the perspective of doctors.
Legally in some states some doctors are mandated to bring up weight loss to sufficiently fat patients. But also, fat loss isn’t covered by insurance generally unless it’s paired with an existing health condition. So fat people who don’t have health problems don’t get help to lose weight but get all the shame. :)
Vacuously false. Do you think "eat well and exercise regularly" is some kind of magic switch? One day you are 120lbs overweight but then you eat well and exercise for a week and star in a film?
Have you ever... been to a doctor when you've been obese? I assure you that they will indeed push eating well and exercising to obese people. Even when you've already been eating well and exercising. This will not be an intervention by the PCP themselves - your primary can really just refer people to substantial interventions - but they will try to refer you to one of three things.
First, they will recommend a book on healthy eating and exercising.
Second, there is behavioral weight loss, which generally is a combination of an appetite-suppression medication like phentermine and a Very Low Calorie Diet through a pre-made controlled calorie diet (such as Medifast or Optifast). A program like this will absolutely require weigh-ins and blood tests.
Third, they will recommend surgical weight loss, most likely gastric bypass, such as Roux-en-Y. There are guaranteed to be medical follow-ups after the surgery.
If you are not clinically obese, and that's great, no, your PCP will not provide that type of advice. They're not there to help you with subclinical concerns with weight. There are plenty of dietitians out there who can.
Anyway, that's not a resounding no - it is extremely common to be referred to these programs if you have any substantial level of obesity. If you're obese, and you haven't been referred to these programs by your PCP, that might be an issue with your primary.
What's exciting about these new peptides is that a simple once-a-week injection might be able to be prescribed by a primary with limited intervention or without outside specialists or surgery and still have good results in terms of weight-loss, as opposed to the truly exhausting requirements of a medically-assisted VLCD or weight loss surgery.
Finally, I have no idea what you're talking about Vitamin D. I've both been diagnosed with a Vitamin D deficiency by my primary (through blood tests!), and Vitamin D supplements are easily available over the counter without a prescription.