A very sad sight...

Its an addiction just like shyguy said, like smokers, alcoholics and drug users. I know I had a food addiction, I had to eat food when I was bored or feeling down, just like the people with addictions of what I mentioned do.

Somtimes I get real frustrated with still being fat and the fact that I been busting my butt for over 1 year now. But then I realize it took me 22 years to get this fat in the first place so im lucky in 1 year i dropped more then half of my goal.
 
That's the scariest thing about it for me. I can see how it happened. First you start out in denial or whatever. I don't think of myself as obese until I see a photo of myself. Most people aren't fat like that in their heads. It is very serious. There is no way I could live like that, but I know how he got there, that's for sure. If someone can come back from something like that, they can do anything. I didn't watch all the tapes.....do they give an update? Did he die? Did he lose a lot of weight?
 
Well lo and behold, Jerry just opened a brand new message board and I posted a thread for any info on whatever happened to this guy.

I still remember the day that show aired and I was like anyone else that saw it, pretty much sad and repulsed.

Like the rest of you, I never saw a follow up and would like to know what the results were.

Maybe we'll hear something soon...
 
I think if he wanted to lose the weight and put some serious work into it can be done, but that's up to him, it would be embarrassing if he was still as big stuck to his bad with all the help that was offered to him by Jerry Springer. I know I'm addicted to food, heck i could eat 24/7 if it didn't make me fat, it's like i get a high off of eating. But i chose to stop that, unless i enjoyed being big and miserable for the rest of my life.
 
Oh wow, i'm speechless. What's there to say, thank god we aren't in those shoes, and are fighting for a happy long life.
 
Damn I just read this whole diary and am totally speechless. I have a grandma that is very overweight but nothing like that. I usedto annoy me a bit as she'd always moan about being fat and would go to the doctors complaining that she didn't eat enough to make her this size when she'd sit watching Sky TV eating sweets all day.:rolleyes: It's odd as her husband had a heart transplant about 7 years ago and he's in his 60's. He was told at the time that heart transplant patients his age might only get 5 years or so but he started swimming and gentle exerciseand it's really helped him out. I wish he'd tryand encourage my grandma to do the same but she won'teven go out her house anymore hardly.:(
 
Wow this thread !!!
make you really stop and think
brought tears to my eyes and crunchie try to get your grandma to get up and get modivated find a real touching story like these on the thread and have her to read it
you know we wonder how these people can let there self gets big
I can say its a desease they dont realize what they done to there selves
or maybe they lost there will to care ..
but this thread isan eye opener
 
Kaitie said:
Maybe I'm dumb...but can't they just cut off all the fat?
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Actually no, the surgeons can only cut off so much skin. After a certain percentage, the body goes into shock and tries to shut down. And there's a high risk of the person dying.
 
YouTube Viewer Repsonses to Overweight People

Did you guys read the comments that were left after viewing these videos? Unsympathetic, hateful, gleeful at others misfortune. Sad thing is, some of these comments were left by people who are overweight and totally self-loathing.

Interesting that very few people bothered to watch all the vidoes (no 5 had 8,000 fewer views than no 1), and judging by the comments left those that did watch didn't seem to watch or listen very well. Scary thing is that all those negative posters probably have at least one obese person in their family.

If we were viewing anorexics, there would be a lot more sympathy, as that conditions seem to be so much more acceptable. Very sad states of affairs.
 
People are ignorant that's all, someone who is big but not as those on the pictures or videos we've seen probably feel pretty darn sexy when they see people struggeling or dieing from their weight, they use that to laugh at them just so they can say to themselves "I'm not fat at all i feel good" being in denial is easy, but acknowleding your problem takes courage.
 
hmmmmmm, you are right, i apoligize for saying 'i feel thin now', i guess i did'nt feel better about myself , but just thought "well at least i'm not that bad" wich does not make my problem any less destructive to myself and i know how it feels to be made fun of, so SUMNER thanks for the reality check, while i may not weigh 800pounds i have the same basic problem that guy does, i eat to much plain and simple. Ker
 
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