Britains/Worlds Fattest Man

Durham_Lad

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A link from a British newspaper about the worlds fattest man.

he was 70 stone so 980lbs 445.5kg

he is now 50 stone so 700lbs 318kg

I wouldn't pay much attention to the comments at the bottom, the paper is rabbidly right wing and the comments reflect this.
 
Jeepers! i recall the doco they did on him. there was one weird guy with a funny hair do who said he was heavier but refused to be weighed, so never got the title.
 
wow 518 lbs...I feel almost horrible for saying about this but it makes me feel a little better about my issues and is a good reminder to get slim. I can't possibly imagine myself eating 20K calories a day though. Ah, and the comments are NOTHING compared to Yahoo news items.
 
wishes, this is a different peson, i remember the doc you are talking about the bloke had weird boot polish hair (they weighed him in a follow up at 35 stone (490lbs) or thereabouts so he was lighter. This is a different fellow, they cut off ONE of his rolls of fat from one of his legs, 4 stone (56lbs) gone.
 
What struck me was that he told them it was emotional-
"You could say that I ate to fill a crack in my heart."

But still they attacked and cut out a big part of his stomach.
Isn't that attacking the effect rather than the cause?

What would have happened if we could have helped him deal with the emotional side?
Do you think his eating habits would be different?
 
at that point and that weight, you have to take care of the immediate problem. By the time you fixed the mental, he would likely be dead.
 
I dunno, to me using something that happened that long ago seems like more of an excuse than a reason.

Not saying he shouldn't have gotten control of himself, but if you had - as an example - a gambling problem, never going to a casino might not be controlling the 'cause' i.e. your problem, but it might still be a solution. Likewise, maybe preventing him from eating so much could make him actually face his issues instead of avoiding them. ... Of course, maybe if his mom hadn't taken out a mortgage to feed him that would have been even better! I mean... if you're pushing for survival you can't just scarf down 20k calories in a single day.

There's a lot more wrong in this picture than just whether or not the guy was having an emotional issue. I sure wouldn't mortgage my house so that someone could eat themselves bedridden!
 
Yes

That is true.

I watched the programme and the chap clearly needed immediate help.
I do hope that he finds a solution in both the surgery and being able to overcome whatever was driving him to eat that much. It is clearly an extraordinary case.
 
How on earth can anyone afford to eat 20,000 calories a day? Who's paying for that diet?

gotta love the Mail, like a grown ups version of The Sun.
 
How on earth can anyone afford to eat 20,000 calories a day? Who's paying for that diet?

gotta love the Mail, like a grown ups version of The Sun.
I think his mothers second mortgage (why he no longer talks to her) and tax payers
 
he is now threatening to sue the NHS as they didn't help him, he went at 20 stone they told him to exercise but he expected more. he went back at 50 or 60 stone they sent him to a dietician but again he thought they should offer more. So now he is suing them.
 
The NHS should sue him instead. If he was there at 20 stone and they told him to exercise more, he clearly disregarded their advice, in which case they shouldn't be liable for anything. AND they should get the money back that he cost them so far.

I am trying to be empathic, especially because I'm a fat cow myself, but....I just can't. He's a grown man who is clever enough to milk the system for everything it has to offer (benefits etc.), and who is trying to make me believe that he ate himself to this unbelievable weight because of a 'broken heart'??

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It's an excuse. Everything he says sounds like an excuse. 'I wanted to, BUT...', 'I should have, BUT...'. He knew what he was doing to himself, and decided to continue doing it. When he couldn't do it himself any more, he got others to do it for him.

That's the only point at which I think that somebody other than him has a responsibility - his feeders. Obviously his mother, who seemed to have financed his excessive eating, and anybody else who enabled him to keep eating while housebound.

Stuff like that makes me incredibly angry. There are people from all walks of life, with loads of problems that they have to deal with, and they all manage to work on themselves, exercise, change their lifestyle, do whatever it takes to get themselves back into shape and healthier. And a lot (probably most of them) have bigger problems they struggle with than being an idiot and falling for somebody who clearly just wanted a handyman.

That guy has brought everything onto himself, and he sits there, probably cashing in the cheques from the magazines he sold his story to, and he wants me to feel sorry for him? After stealing from people to feed his habit?

Sorry, but I don't think so.
 
... Suing the NHS for letting him get that fat? Why doesn't he sue his mother next! ... Then he can either 1) use the money he wins to pay back some of his medical expenses or 2) .... buy more food. Given the guy's history I wonder what he intends to do with any money he wins in a law suit.

I have to admit, the 'broken heart' business sounds like something he came up with to make him seem more sympathetic and less like the bad guy that the real cause for his issue. Not saying that he wasn't depressed, but to me anyway, being bedridden from being overweight and needing to wear adult diapers etc. would be more depressing than a breakup 20 years past.
 
This is just sad on so many levels. There are starving children who will die tonight because they haven't eaten in days/weeks but he.....*sigh*
 
I think he should man up, and take some responsibility.
No-one forced him to eat 20,000 calories a day, that he did all by himself.
As for his mother taking out a second mortgage, that was probably motherly love going too far.
The NHS gave him advice to exercise and sent him to a dietician, but he disregarded the advice.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
Honestly, I hope he loses the lawsuit.
NHS already paid for his surgery, isn't that enough?
 
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