Frustrated with my doctor - Health, Fitness, and Sports - Wrong Planet

I'm really frustrated with my doc. His answer for everything seems to be lose weight, I know I need to lose weight. I have about 30 more pounds of excess weight I have no need of that I can lose. That's wonderful. My problem is that my right knee is messed up. It hurts so much sometimes that walking and using an elliptical can be excruciating. The Doc's answer, is you might have guessed it, to lose more weight.

I already diet, eating a lower than 1200 calories a day, I eat small meals every few hours to cheat my stomach on feeling full. I take appatite suppressants to cheat my stomach when the small meals don't do it. I stay away from known food allergies. I prepare my own food for nearly all of my meals through the week. The food is healthy. Except for some seasoning mixes(curry seasoning, hot sauce, etc...), nothing is pre-mixed/pre-made and I put everything together.

My weight has been plateaud for the last year with a fluctuation of a few pounds. The only thing I can do more of is to further restrict my caloric intake which may actually make my body hoard calories which has happened before so I'm leary of that. Or I can increase my activity which is very very painful to do in any way that will have an impact. I guess I could work on upper body and core strength, but I'm MTF Trans, so I don't want to do this without doing the same on my legs.

The Doc I'm seeing is also the doc that I see for being Trans, and he's the only one in the area that I know of that has any experience with this. I'm looking to see if there are others, but I have got nothing back so far.

It's just so frustrating that I'm not getting any help on this from the one person who should be helping me on this when I ask about it. I really want to drop this weight, and I should be able to without resorting to going under a knife. I've gotten more help from the Masseuse I see once a month than my Doc. That shouldn't be the case.

There, I've vented. I feel somewhat better now.

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