And then in clinicals I'm actually like seeing people who are suffering from

complications of obesity. I remember seeing a patient whose BMI was I think 34 or 35.

So not even that high compared to what a lot of patients that we see.

Right and they're like well she's you know more of it, she's obese.

And all I can think is my family is like 43.

I'm like, I can't do this.

And as I'm going through and seeing patients in clinic

as a medical student,

like, well, you need to watch what you eat

and you try to exercise.

And the only thing I think about

is I sound like such a hypocrite.

Like all I have had to just look at me

and obviously I don't do any of these things.

This is episode number 88 with Dr. Rebecca Blonski. Hewes. Welcome to Pursuing Health.

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Hi everyone welcome back to pursuing health. I am super excited to be here today with Dr. Rebecca Blonsky and you'll get to hear

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