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half tonne woman

  • 07-08-2009 10:33pm
    #1
    Jwacqui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭


    I don't know if this is the appropriate place for this or not and I am in no way putting down this woman.

    I just came accross this video and I am totally in shock! I myself have a weight problem but I just don't truly understand how it could go to the extreme of weighing 64stone. There really has to be some serious underlying issues.

    She says in the video that sometimes she has to force herself to eat.

    How much would somebody have to eat to put on this much excess weight. It's quite upsetting and I just feel so lucky and grateful that even though I have weight to lose that I should be thankfull that I am healthy enough and can live my life.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UrdSzR0BxU&feature=related


Comments

  • #2
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Just 29 and she's basically disabled and bed-ridden. Food is nice, but it isn't worth that.


  • #3
    Fugly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 250 ✭✭Fugly


    I think someone that obese is simply using food as a method of self harm, you could label it under an addiction similar to alcoholism or an side effect of depression. Clearly psychological underlying reasons, food/fat simply side effects. It could also be a neurological, or hormonal.
    Security may be gained and responsibilty relieved by the disabilty, or a slow form of suicide. Many reasons it could happen.
    Very sad for the daughter...:(


  • #4
    El_Dangeroso
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    There's an underlying metabolic condition to anyone who gets that big.

    If everyone of us made a concerted effort to eat as much rubbish as we could for the next ten years I doubt that one of us could get that big. Cases such as this are very rare for a reason and it's not because of the population's collective self-control :)

    That woman was born with some form of insulin resistance which clearly developed into a more serious metabolic disorder through continued yo-yo low calorie dieting thus allowing her body weight set point to get to the stage it's at now.

    Very sad, I hope she gets the help she needs.


  • #5
    Lordan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭Lordan


    I saw this poor womans story on tv about a year ago basically she had two daughters aged around 4 and 13, she was very mobile up until she was envolved in a car accident and then became bedridden after it. She went on to have a gastric band operation knowing the risks but realising that it was her only hope (she felt) she survived the operation and lived for about 2 weeks then she died, her heart could not take it (I think). Anyway she left her two daughters in the care of her mother and she wanted her story published to try to get help for other very very overweight people. A very sad story.


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