SHOCKER: Obese Patients Don't Need Dietary Counseling... So, I quit smoking almost a year ago and I immediately put on some pounds. Not enough to take me above a normal BMI, but enough to effect my pain levels (135lbs-should be 115-125lbs). You see, I have severe chronic pain issues and I will require lifetime management and treatment. Because of my specific conditions, I have to maintain a certain weight range. After I quit smoking, I went over that range and have been battling to get back "in the zone". Eventually, I asked my doctors for a referral to a nutritionist because obviously I'm fucking up somewhere.  Anyway, none that is really the issue. I will get the weight off. So I get to the referral expecting to meet a physician, be put on a restricted calorie diet, be given a menu plan, new physical therapy regimen, possible blood work, possible classes, etc. To my shock and surprise, I was sent to the diabetes treatment clinic. No. Seriously. I was sent to the diabetes treatment clinic. I'm pretty sure that I was the thinnest person in the building. The parking lot was full, obese people everywhere, and there were individuals with missing limbs. Everything you would expect. I make my up to the nutritional center on the second floor (pondering the irony of my situation) and the waiting room is empty. EMPTY. Let me be clear. The parking lot was full. The building had tons of patients in it. But the nutritional/dietary education clinic, was empty.  You know, cause fuck the beetus. They need their sugahs.