My Shocking Story

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I got in from work last night around 10ish and was mindlessly flipping channels... and stumbled into yet another sensationalistic "how'd i get to be so fat' show on one of the cable networks..

My Shocking Story
Too Young To Be So Fat


16-year-old Dexter weighs 340lbs. He attends the Academy of the Sierras, probably the only year-round boarding high school for morbidly obese kids in the world. We film Dexter's emotional change as he confronts why he has eaten excessively.


One of the kids featured in the story was a 13 year old girl who weighed according to her doctor 320lbs... and was trying to get medical clearance for liposuction... She never did end up getting clearance because her iron levels were too low for surgery to be performed safely.. but this girl and her mother were completely infuriating... The mom kept going on about how it's not her fault... Umm -yeah right... And she was mad that her daughter couldn't have the lipo.

At one point the mom decided to change their meals and the girl had salad and steak for dinner - at age 13 -she had never had a tomato before... and the faces and dramatics she was making after eating the tomato were aggravating.

The boy featured, who was attending this fat high school, seemed to be making changes in his life and teh school seemed to have a genuine interest in educating the high school kids about nutrition as well as getting to the reason why they overate to begin with.

This girl though - the closing scene was the doctor telling her that she couldn't have the surgery = and telling her that she needed to lose weight... by moving more and eating less... and her acting like a 13 year old.

and her mother was even worse - at one point they show the mom and her daughter going off to vegas for a "bonding trip to get the girl healthy" mom goes to the casino t gamble and get drunk - the girl eats herself into a coma practically... and mom doesn't give acrap

Lipo as a solution to an emotionally disturbed 13 year old... i'm glad she was turned down for the lip... because she'd just need it again in a few months.. .because she wasn't changing habits
 
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Well that explains her eating problem doesn't it. I do feel sorry for children that age who have been sabotaged by parents. An adult is responsible for their own obesity, even if it originates in childhood, at some point THEY have the control, but a child is still at the whim of their parents whether it comes to hygiene, eating, or activity.:banghead:
 
And this is a fine example of why humans should have to pass a thorough exam to be qualified to reproduce.
 
I think i watched all of 15 minutes of this program -and it's still irritating me...

the mother just infuriated me...

a lot of dexter's issues wth food ( and maybe they're excuses but children aren't always equipped to puttiing voice to emotions) came from being the youngest of 5 and watching his parents go thru a divorce and not understanding it completely.. His father seemed to realize that he shouldered some of the blame and really encouraged his son to get help...

the mom of lipo chick -her idea of help ws getting lipo...
 
What I don't get is...what's the point of lipo on someone who weighs 320 lbs? Did they think the doc could just suction out ALL the excess fat?
 
I thoughti heard the number 80lbs - which is a huge amount of fat to suck out...

but thats what she was expecting seemed dangerous to me...

-I think she was hoping it would give her a jumping off point - but watching her eat her feelings with fried food and dessert at the las vegas buffet - it wasn't going to help her much..
 
maleficent said:
I thoughti heard the number 80lbs - which is a huge amount of fat to suck out...

but thats what she was expecting seemed dangerous to me...

-I think she was hoping it would give her a jumping off point - but watching her eat her feelings with fried food and dessert at the las vegas buffet - it wasn't going to help her much..
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I thought lipo was just for removing smallish amounts of fat; isn't it a pretty traumatic procedure recovery-wise?

I wonder why they thought "lipo" and not "gastric bypass" or "lap band". Some doctors are performing bariatric surgery on teenage patients with excellent results, but your head really does need to be in the right place for it.

My parents' neighbor's granddaughter keeps trying to get a gastric bypass and doctors keep turning her down because she's not right in the head in terms of her attitude about health and food and her expectations are not realistic. The granddaughter's mother (the neighbor's daughter-in-law) had a gastric bypass with incredible results.
 
This show has really stuck in my craw...

one of the comments this girl made was that lipo was her last chance...

I really wanted to reach into the tv and smack her hard.

Dumbass - you're 13... you've got plenty of chances ahead of you...
 
maleficent said:
This show has really stuck in my craw...

one of the comments this girl made was that lipo was her last chance...

I really wanted to reach into the tv and smack her hard.

Dumbass - you're 13... you've got plenty of chances ahead of you...
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She is a dumbass, but she's only 13. Most 13 year-olds are dumbasses on some level.

The girl's MOTHER is the real idiot here. Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids. I'll probably never get to have any because I can't find a man mature enough to want them with me...but idiots like that get to reproduce and pollute their children with their stupid bullshit. It really pisses me off.
 
the mom wasn't thin but she also wasn't obese either...

Reality television and I do not get along - i've watched 5 minute spurts of I'm abad parent come save me nanny programs and really wonder what the hell is wrong with people...

Some might say it's a good thing that a car accident took away my ability to procreate -i'm far too selfish to ever be a parent... .but jeesh... paying attention to a child isn't that tough...
 
This all ties into why I've been looking into getting a degree in nutrition. Kids don't know why they're fat. Sounds like some parents don't know either. Although the lipo-mom sounds like she doesn't have the brain cells to comprehend the facts in the first place. This is why obesity is the $$$$ industry that it is.
 
Steve said:
And this is a fine example of why humans should have to pass a thorough exam to be qualified to reproduce.
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It's required to drive a car, but I don't see very good drivers out there. People are stupid and always will be.

Even this guy :iamwithstupid:
 
I tried to watch the reality show they did a while ago 'Honey, We're Killing the Kids' about families who overreat and it got to me....I would never want my child to have to deal with the crap that I did with eating and emotions. I also watched or tried to watch an episode of Maury where a mother had an 80 lb 3 year old....what the heck???? And she said he could have anything he wanted..chicken wings, french fries, hamburgers.....gah....it drove me insane.

I used to work in child care and there was a child, who had quite a bit of weight on him at a centre where I was completing my placement and he always acted up, hitting other children, and grabbing them and pushing them and we were trying to work with him on getting him involved with other kids, and the one day he literally shoved a kid into a wall and hitting him in the stomach. When staff tried to talk with his mother about what happened, she said to him 'No MacDonalds for you today!' because as it turns out, she takes him to MacDonalds every day after daycare......as it turns out he ended up being taken away from his parents because they were hitting him, hence where he got the behaviour, but they just fed him MacDonalds and never anything else....gah...infuriates me, just thinking about it.
 
Oh yeah... I remember that train wreck of a show. Mal, you lasted a lot longer than I did... I think I maybe lasted 3 minutes.

Once again, the 13 year old girl's mom has shown us a prime example of an utter lack of self responsibility. Too much stupid out there, and it continues to reproduce.

I feel bad for the girl. I remember being 13, vaguely, as a random nightmare anyway. I can't even imagine what it must be like to be 13 and 320 pounds. Not surprising she acted the way she did, given the stellar parental figure she had to look up to as an example.
 
This is unfortunately an example of what I see every time I look around. It drives me crazy, because people don't seem to take responsibility for their own actions on any level at all.

"oh, he had a rough childhood, thats why he is a serial killer now", "he is just misunderstood" WTF?? Anybody remember Warren Zevon's sarcastic song "Excitable Boy"?

I'm overweight because I didn't push myself away from the table soon enough, and didn't exercise enough. Not because my parents didn't love me enough, or because some TV show told me to do it or any other reason. Nobody force fed me half a birthday cake, I did it myself!!!! I'm fat because I made myself that way!

Drives me nuts!!!
 
BTW, I'm agreeing on the parental comments though. Kids, until they are able to make adult decisions, rely upon the judgment of their parents, who seem to be lacking a lot of common sense these days.
 
I would be a strong supporter of a reproduction license. =P

I worked with a woman who had a 11 year old daughter who was pushing 200. She claimed she only fed her healthy foods and she still gained the weight. She would go into these fits about it and how there seemed like there was nothing she could do.

One of the other women who worked there babysat one day for her and the only vegetables or fruit in the entire house was a rock solid frozen thing of peas.

Parents like that just go into denial mode. That mother from the show sounds like she has some sort of constant victim syndrome where nothing is ever her fault and she's angry all the time at everyone.

lipo for a 13 year old... thats just insane. Anyone who would do that procedure is disgusting. To think it would do anything except momentarily reduce her weight till she gained it back in a few weeks its ridiculous.
 
It's child abuse, plain and simple. To me it's no better than beating your children. In some ways it's a lot worse. Bones and bruises can heal. Diabetes is irreversible, and you need a liver to live.

It made me think of this article published years ago by the BBC, detailing the explosion of type II cases in children:

BBC NEWS | Health | Child diabetes time-bomb warning

It's happening in the USA too. Tragic.
 
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