fats clogging the system and their arteries Longtime lurker first time poster.  I'm so pissed off at my local doctors. My mum actually has a diagnosed under active thyroid she is 5 foot 4 and weighs about 105 pounds. So does her cousin who is also not overweight and so is her mother. I'm 18 5 foot 6 (short arse) and weigh 135 pounds. My younger sister is 12 and about 5 foot and weighs the same as me.  Cue rant, my sister eats about 1100 calories a day and walks around 2 miles to and from school despite this she gains weight. She has the early symptoms of an under active thyroid, tiredness, slowness, aches, skin problems and she's cold a lot. All the same as my mum at that age. Anyways they have been to the doctor twice now and they have refused to send her to an endocrinologist. Her bloods came back slightly abnormal but just within the normal range, and everyone's thyroid function levels are different and medical professionals change them constantly.  I'm so pissed at fats, specifically fat parents, because the doctors think my mum is just thin obsessed and that parents come through all the time thinking their kid has a thyroid problem when in fact they're just fat because they're stuffed with unhealthy shit. It happens so often that when someone has a legitimate medical issue the doctors are so sick of hearing it they dismiss it immediately.  Every time we go there seems to be more and more 300 pound + people in the waiting room. I'm just so annoyed because it's beginning to affect my sisters self esteem, but she keeps exercising and having a low calorie diet, so the second they give her medication the fat will melt right off and she can be fit and healthy like she's supposed to be.  tl;dr:  Sister has under active thyroid, too many fats claim the same, boy who cried wolf sort of situation. Just fats clogging the medical system, as usual.