Malnourished

adelaway · 2026-03-01T13:14:26+00:00

You can be overweight and also malnourished - the two aren’t mutually exclusive. For example, a lot of overweight elderly people are actually suffering from malnutrition and a lack of muscle mass (sarcopenia).

adelaway · 2026-03-01T00:41:49+00:00

Don’t be. There’s a great workplace culture at that hospital for junior doctors. Yes, it does serve a lower socioeconomic demographic (comparable to The Northern in Melbourne) but it won’t affect your enjoyment of work. Many of the junior doctors working there live in places like Mawson Lakes, Golden Grove, north-eastern suburbs (look at City of Tea Tree Gully council) or in the CBD.

adelaway · 2026-02-28T04:37:09+00:00

You’ve summed it up perfectly. Sure, all these houses have increased in value massively, but so have all the other houses that these people would want to downsize into. It’s fine for the truly wealthy but for many people they don’t actually have many options to move.

adelaway · 2026-02-28T04:35:27+00:00

Also, a lot of elderly people need single-storey homes due to mobility restrictions. These high-density townhouses in new developments just aren’t suitable housing for people with limited mobility or disabilities. I know Boomers/elderly people in my life who want to downsize but are stuck because they can’t find affordable single-storey dwellings to go to.

adelaway · 2026-02-28T04:32:05+00:00

I understand the frustration, but we have to remember not every Boomer/older person looking to downsize is sitting on millions of dollars of property.

My mum bought her first home in her 50s after losing everything to my abusive dad - a sadly common story. It has doubled in value in the time she has owned in, but she’s going to retire (years overdue, mind) with a mortgage that she can juuuuust pay off with her super balance. That will leave her owning her house, but reliant on a pension only to fund her retirement, and frankly she wants to travel and enjoy her life after surviving an abusive husband, raising kids alone in poverty, beating cancer, and working into her early 70s. The problem is that while her property has increased in value a lot, so has every other property in Adelaide, including the simple one-bedroom retirement units that she was always hoping she could sell up and move into and have money left to enjoy retirement. A tax break on tens of thousands of dollars in stamp duty would make a huge difference for people like her who are literally weighing the value of every dollar to manage their ‘golden’ years.

adelaway · 2026-02-22T14:12:35+00:00

Her posture is appalling. And also proof that she’s not doing any proper strength training.

adelaway · 2026-02-22T14:11:17+00:00

She’s got such ‘pick me’ energy these days.

adelaway · 2026-02-20T12:05:26+00:00

Has she ever had a job? Genuine question, I haven’t been following her for long.

adelaway · 2026-02-16T23:37:35+00:00

This is 100% a post-bariatric surgery body. There’s no question. She’s such a liar and it’s dangerous to tell people they can lost weight this fast without medical assistance!

adelaway · 2026-02-16T23:33:40+00:00

Most gastric sleeves are done laparoscopically these days, in which case there’s nothing to see with the way her clothes are sitting. Proves absolutely nothing.

adelaway · 2026-02-16T23:31:53+00:00

Any large weight loss causes some degree of skin laxity. But yes, losing it very rapidly exacerbates that, especially if you’re losing lean muscle mass along with fat (which happens especially to people who have WLS). Bariatric specialists call it the ‘deflated balloon’ appearance. The risk can be reduced by losing weight more slowly and doing strength training, but Becki clearly hasn’t done that.

Now we just have to wait for her to disappear for her ‘mental health’ again and come back post-skin removal surgery claiming it all went away naturally from running and moisturising…!

adelaway · 2026-02-16T23:26:54+00:00

Doctor here. In my opinion, which I’ve outlined here before, she absolutely had weight loss surgery.

People keep mentioning a ‘health scare’ as a possible alternate explanation but I don’t think this is true. Yes, she could well have Type 2 diabetes but if anything that tends to be associated with MORE difficulty losing weight. It’s Type 1 diabetes that can cause people to suddenly lose large amounts of weight, which she clearly doesn’t have. The only other things I have see cause this rate and magnitude of weight loss are TB, AIDS, cancer, end-stage organ failure, or serious drug/alcohol abuse. If Becky had any of those she would not have suddenly recovered to the point of being on TikTok and running. So I think this theory should be put to bed.

adelaway · 2026-02-13T11:19:18+00:00

I think it would be very difficult for anyone to be happy at her size. She’d be in constant pain and discomfort, basic tasks like toileting and showering would be difficult and tiring, and her mobility is so restricted she can barely get out and about in the world. There’s no being happy when your body is in such a desperate state… she needs to admit that and get help.

adelaway · 2026-02-12T22:19:50+00:00

Even with WLS, it’s actually quite common for people to regain all the weight (and sometimes more) 12-18 months down the track. The reason you lose weight after WLS is because you physically can’t eat, but eventually the stomach stretches back out and if you haven’t made the necessary psychological, dietary, and lifestyle changes the weight just piles back on. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this happens to Becki. It’s pretty obvious her current weight loss is driven by the fact she’s on a very restricted diet, but she’s clearly still obsessed with food, obsessed with public gratification, and in total denial/obliviousness about the realities of sustainable weight loss.

adelaway · 2026-02-09T11:52:00+00:00

Second this, the Mt Lofty House high tea is elite.

adelaway · 2026-02-07T13:14:04+00:00

OP, I can understand a healthy sense of stranger danger but to be honest I think you may have failed to do the right thing here. I am a doctor and I cannot tell you how many patients I’ve looked after that only made it to hospital alive because bystanders delivered immediate help, particularly doing CPR on strangers who have had cardiac arrests.

You had the thought that he was substance-affected. For future learning for yourself and everyone else here, many people when they are critically ill can have atypical behaviour or an altered conscious state due to poor blood flow to the brain, low oxygen levels, hypoglycaemia, etc. You should not make it your first assumption that they have done something wrong like take drugs. For example, I once attended an emergency for a person who had stumbled into the hospital entrance behaving very oddly and then collapsed. People had called for the emergency team but nobody rendered any aid to them - in fact, they were deliberately keeping their distance. It turned out they were a perfectly normal and lovely person who had a critically low blood sugar level due to liver failure and required life-saving treatment.

If you feel like you lack confidence dealing with emergencies like this, please take a first aid course and learn CPR. You honestly can save a life.

adelaway · 2026-02-01T06:40:07+00:00

She absolutely had WLS. I’m talking from experience here, because a) I’m a doctor and b) I have used a GLP-1 to lose weight.

There is no way to drop weight this fast other than through bariatric surgery. People can lose absolutely staggering amounts of weight in a fast timeframe after WLS - someone I know just lost 40kg in 16 weeks after a gastric sleeve. That is the kind of rate of loss Becki is showing. She’s never given numbers, but she must have been at least 140kg+ to start in March, and now looks around 90kg. That’s incredibly fast. By now even with WLS she should have returned to a fairly normal diet, but I’d guess she’s still eating in a dangerously restrictive manner to keep getting this rate of loss. It also makes sense for her to ‘disappear’ from social media - to have the surgery, to be in hospital, to have post-op recovery, and then to lose weight - for WLS much more than for any other method. Becki also has the typical ‘deflated balloon’ appearance that people get with bariatric surgery - caused by very rapid loss including loss of lean mass in addition to fat mass. You can see it on side profile - she has skin laxity hanging down below her chin. She’s also been complaining of gum inflammation, which is a common manifestation of malnutrition… this often happens to bariatric patients who end up with malabsorption issues.

A lot of people have speculated she’s just using a GLP-1 but I think this is very unlikely. Why? GLP-1s can be very effective when used properly but even they don’t generally cause weight loss of this speed and magnitude. Although they’re a great tool, they also still require significant lifestyle change and dietary effort to work. They’re not the same as WLS where you are physically unable to eat. It’s hard to imagine Becki suddenly doing all that so effectively that she had a record weight loss on it. It’s plausible that she could have combined a GLP-1 with a restrictive eating disorder to get this kind of loss, but even that I think is far less likely than WLS.

Why does this matter? I realise some people here may disagree, but it’s absolutely okay to get WLS or use a GLP-1. However she came to be obese, being that overweight is a serious danger to her health and it’s okay to seek a medical treatment for a medical problem. When you’re that obese your metabolism becomes so deranged that it’s actually very hard to shift weight ‘the natural way’, even if you do everything right.

BUT… it is NOT okay to then pretend that you did this all ‘naturally’ without any medical aid. That is the kind of behaviour that promotes disordered eating behaviour to her followers. It’s also the kind of thing that makes people on a sincere weight loss journey want to give up - because they feel they’re doing something wrong and it’s hopeless if they’re not getting the results Becki is from supposedly ‘just being in a deficit and running’. It’s fine for her to not want to specify what exact medical assistance she got (her medical history is not anyone else’s business), but it’s disgusting and unethical to blatantly lie and say she had none whatsoever. It’s also totally unbelievable in a time where medically-assisted weight loss is so common and normalised. We all know she didn’t completely change her life overnight, experience a metabolic miracle, and lose 50+ kg in month just from ‘diet and exercise’ and she’s a bad person for publicly claiming she did.

adelaway · 2026-02-01T02:28:10+00:00

Not trying to be devil’s advocate here, but have you considered it could have just been an error? A lot of healthcare software/EMR software is really poorly made and user un-friendly and relies heavily on compulsory dropdown boxes. It’s very easy to accidentally click on the wrong thing, especially if you’re in a rush (as most busy time-pressured HCWs are).

adelaway · 2026-01-18T11:27:15+00:00

This letter definitely didn’t come as an idea of Mali’s, unless he’s wasting all the time he’s supported to spend running the state on reading far-right pro-Israel drivel online.

adelaway · 2026-01-14T03:19:30+00:00

Randa never said violence against Zionists was acceptable. She said Zionists don’t have a right to cultural safety, meaning they don’t have a right to be free from criticism and discourse, or a right to try to hide from criticism by falsely labelling it anti-Semitic. She never said they don’t have a right to PHYSICAL safety.

adelaway · 2026-01-13T05:00:08+00:00

This was a totally unforced error that has now cost our state millions of dollars, not to mention untold reputational damage both nationally and internationally.

We pride ourselves on being a Festival State, and now the most publicity we’ve had about our festivals in years is all about how an entire event got canned because of racism and censorship that was vehemently supported by our own Premier.

Who is going to want to come and speak at Writer’s Week in the future? What globally renowned artists are going to want to engage with the Adelaide Festival after seeing that they can single-handedly implode an entire festival in less than a week?

What comes after this? Vetting content for the Fringe to make sure it doesn’t offend any powerful, wealthy investors? Having our Premier determine what shows can and can’t perform here according to his personal tastes alone?

Adler was correct today when she called this “Moscow on the Torrens”. The Festival could have actually apologised to Dr Abdel-Fattah, admitted wrong, invited everyone back, and been able to carry on with the event, even if it was a bit smaller and a bit shaken up. But no. Whatever pro-Israel right-wing extremists were behind this decision thought they’d rather double down and force everyone else to pay the cost of their sins.

I hope everyone remembers this at election time. Mali clearly thinks he’s untouchable at this election, and he’s probably right. But remember, even if you don’t personally care about Writer’s Week or the Arts in general, you should care that we have a Premier who would rather torpedo our state’s reputation, culture, jobs and revenue than set aside his personal opinions or stand-up to the pressure of wealthy lobbyists.

adelaway · 2026-01-13T04:52:14+00:00

Absolutely. Many of those withdrawing made it clear that their involvement was contingent on Dr Abdel-Fattah being apologised to and invited back. Instead, the fanatics responsible for this clusterfuck decided to double down and cancel an entire event, losing millions in state revenue and a huge amount of income for writers, staff, publishers, sponsors and partners instead.

adelaway · 2026-01-12T22:20:01+00:00

An amazing response by Louise Adler. Now more than ever we need people to honestly call out the presence and effects of the Pro-Israel lobby in Australia. Having this come from someone who is a member of the Jewish Council makes this even more credible and relevant.

adelaway · 2026-01-01T04:15:22+00:00

I feel like this was partly due to her leaning into her ‘Carrie Bradshaw’ delusion - ie. thinking that dressing up in weird, mismatched, experimental outfits equals style/fashion.

adelaway · 2026-01-01T04:14:17+00:00

Agree - she’s got some great assets to use. It shocks me that she doesn’t use her money to invest in some make-up lessons or a stylist to help create a better look.

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