One of my doctors told me the other day that I need to gain as much weight, and force myself to eat even if I don't want to, because the dialysis removes lots of amino acids from my blood (cool fact: every 15 minutes my whole 5 liters of blood is passed, bit by bit, through the dialysis machine, or more precisely, the artificial kidney). This can mean only one thing: I would become fat. I can exercise only so much in a week, and I am not supposed to lift heavy weights (so no serious weight training allowed). Clearly, I don't want to become fat; think of all the clothers that would have to be replaced.
Anyway, turns out it was a misunderstanding, as another doctor informed me later on. The first doctor was assuming I'd lost a lot of weight in the course of arriving at kidney failure. But this is not true; I've been at 60 kilos (plus or minus 2) for 27 years. So I get to stay at 60 kg or so.
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