1000 pound man
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Heres another story i found, but this one is actually worse. http://www2.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/C50275/
Even in our busy world, I cant see how things can get that bad. Instead of sitting down on the couch and watching tv, go for a walk. On your lunch break, walk to a local sandwich shop instead of driving to burger King. I understand that there are some things that nothing can be done for, genetics, but too many people are using that as an excuse for being lazy. As for kids in school being overweight, that is the parent's fault. Make the kid play real football instead of Maddox no rule football on X-box. Last yr i walked on average 2.6 miles going from class to class and not including the training i did for football and lacrosse. Put them in a pool if they dont like running.
OK im done ranting for today. 2501970- Good for you for trying to get healthier. If you want any ideas on some work outs, PM me since i have a ton from trainers, coaches and freinds. All are about cutting fat and gaining muscle.
Even in our busy world, I cant see how things can get that bad. Instead of sitting down on the couch and watching tv, go for a walk. On your lunch break, walk to a local sandwich shop instead of driving to burger King. I understand that there are some things that nothing can be done for, genetics, but too many people are using that as an excuse for being lazy. As for kids in school being overweight, that is the parent's fault. Make the kid play real football instead of Maddox no rule football on X-box. Last yr i walked on average 2.6 miles going from class to class and not including the training i did for football and lacrosse. Put them in a pool if they dont like running.
OK im done ranting for today. 2501970- Good for you for trying to get healthier. If you want any ideas on some work outs, PM me since i have a ton from trainers, coaches and freinds. All are about cutting fat and gaining muscle.
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[QUOTE=james's f_1_fiddy01]i have no sympathy for prople that big....they created their own problem by eating too much, now we are what..sposed to feel sorry for em...well boo hoo man shut your freakin food recepticle and get up and walk a bit....dont gimmie the "i dont know how i got that big" line you know damn good and well how you got that big...you had a bank style vacum tube installed from your bed to the McDonalds grill.....they set you up on a credit card like Lowes or Home Depot, now $75,000 later you weigh a metric ton and you want my sympathy....good luck....youll have an easier time losing weight.[/QUOTE
I sincerely hope that the time never comes that I am without empathy for one who suffers from a condition I have not experienced and do not understand. Addictions and mental disorders and the resultant suffering they cause are complex and should not be subject to simple judgements.
Dono
I sincerely hope that the time never comes that I am without empathy for one who suffers from a condition I have not experienced and do not understand. Addictions and mental disorders and the resultant suffering they cause are complex and should not be subject to simple judgements.
Dono
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From: Idaho
I think sometimes we all are appalled or disgusted by things that are out of the norm. If you haven't walked a mile in someone else's shoes.....I am thankful for the mental toughness I have. I don't have addictions, and I have the discipline and physical ability to hit the gym 3 or 4 times a week. I agree, to a point, about obesity being the fault of the person. There has to be a point one says, 'no more', but that point is different for everyone. Even though one may be addicted to food, most are still able to exercise, until the size gets out of hand, which the exercise would have prevented in the first place? Some sympathy is merited, do you feel disgust and scorn for the skid row homeless, begging for a dollar so he can buy another bottle of beer? I would guess most obese have the means to support their 'habit' without begging? I don't recall seeing a 'fat' beggar. Weird.
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I'm sorry, but I don't have much sympathy for those types. I ballooned up close to 300 myself a few years ago, and knew to quit eating so much and so badly. Lost back down to about 245 now, and still I feel I am too fat. At some point these guys have to stop eating, pure and simple, and realize the problem.
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From: Virginia Beach
Thanks for the Uncle Fester shot...
It is easy to say "Just quit eating..." when you have never had a compulsion. Quitting smoking, or drinking is very similar. These folks have to reach "Rock Bottom" before they look for help. It is just unfortunate that they become a burden (no pun intended) on society as a result of their unhealthy lifestyle.
But the thing I don't yet understand is at what point do you realize that this is out of control? Do they just stop caring? Because they obviously don't just wake up one day unable to fit thru the door.
It is easy to say "Just quit eating..." when you have never had a compulsion. Quitting smoking, or drinking is very similar. These folks have to reach "Rock Bottom" before they look for help. It is just unfortunate that they become a burden (no pun intended) on society as a result of their unhealthy lifestyle.
But the thing I don't yet understand is at what point do you realize that this is out of control? Do they just stop caring? Because they obviously don't just wake up one day unable to fit thru the door.
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I think giving up something you love, comforts you or has become a habit can be very hard. I'm not overweight, not alcoholic(Well not by most people's standards) and I'm not a smoker. But I am addicted to one the last drugs you'd suspect. Caffiene, it may not be too hard on my health but it sure puts a dent in my pocket. I usually will have atleast 6-9 Venti/Large Starbucks Carmel Frappucinos or Borders Mocha Freezes a day at 4 bucks and some change a pop.
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From: Atlanta GA
imo, People that eat like that have a big empty spot in their heart and I can not help but feel pity for them. I am overweight some, but, I can pray and fast without eating and drinking anything for 72 hours. Some people are just not as strong as others and they can not help themselves and do not have anyone to direct them to the help they really need. It must be horrible to be that lonely on the inside. I can not even crack jokes about it.
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Saw on the news last night about a very large woman who had been on a couch for SIX years! They had to use respirators, hazard suits and surgical equipment to remove her from where her "body fluids" had glued her to the furniture! What the ???????????????
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Originally Posted by Shepard
Saw on the news last night about a very large woman who had been on a couch for SIX years! They had to use respirators, hazard suits and surgical equipment to remove her from where her "body fluids" had glued her to the furniture! What the ???????????????
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From: burlington, iowa
i get a work out everyday, i drive a semi hauling a flatbed locally well to chicago and back everyday. at 6am i climb on top of my load of sheetroack and detarp it, my tarps are thick they are heavy, that gets me sweating, then i gotta put the damn things away, weigh about 125 pounds, thats gets my arms to working, then i gotta pull straps roll them up and pull the dunage off the tralier as they unload, usually about 30 sticks of dunage weighing 15 pounds each, when that is done i have to go load steel, back on the tralier goes the dunage then the chains and finally the tarps again. then drive like crazy to get back to iowa where i again pull the tarps and chains and put the dunage away. 3 workouts a day no gym fee.
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From: Tampa Fl
i stand beside my statements despite what people may think...i have quit the following without looking back...drinking, drugs, and tobbacco.....so ive "walked a few miles" with addictions.....you have to just say to yourself.."what the %@#$ am i doing??" and throw it away.....if eating is your monkey then you have to look in the mirror and realize that you cant go on like this......like was said before "you dont just wake up one day and cannot fit through a doorway" and i feel that to be the truth....if you are really that lonely maybe its the way you look and or smell....and not your personality...i have several "overweight" friends and they all know how i feel...i have told them to their faces that they could do something to make theirselves feel better and i would do whatever i could to help.....told them "lets go to my gym, ill pay for your 1st month and you can see if you like it i guarentee you will look and feel better after a month" i have so far got 2 friends addicted to the gym and making themselves look and feel better. then again this is just my .02 
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I keep asking myself sometimes: "How big am I going to allow myself to be?".
No it isn't beer,I hardly ever have beer or even alcohol.
I have a *craving different food* problem,where one time, "I need salad & lots of it" or I need some fresh bread or it could be fish, It is usually Pizza..
The one comment I will never forget was from my friends Ray's, Mother after seeing her for the first time in 5 years.
She looked me right in the eye and said:" My God Dennis, What you done to yourself".
I was speechless for a milli-second.
Rather than go into detail about my physical disabilites which now prevent me from being as physical as when I was younger, I simply said: A balloon I was blowing up exhausted all the air back into my body"
It sucks Big Time being obese
No it isn't beer,I hardly ever have beer or even alcohol.
I have a *craving different food* problem,where one time, "I need salad & lots of it" or I need some fresh bread or it could be fish, It is usually Pizza..
The one comment I will never forget was from my friends Ray's, Mother after seeing her for the first time in 5 years.
She looked me right in the eye and said:" My God Dennis, What you done to yourself".
I was speechless for a milli-second.
Rather than go into detail about my physical disabilites which now prevent me from being as physical as when I was younger, I simply said: A balloon I was blowing up exhausted all the air back into my body"
It sucks Big Time being obese
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Originally Posted by theologian
Obesity is something you have to suffer to even begin to understand. I have won my battle, and now am thin healthy and still overweight, but only just. I cannot, however condemn the obese as greedy, because now, with research, I understand the problem - addiction is not the fault of the addicted. The morbidly obese are addicted to carbohydrates, just as a junkie is addicted to heroin. Neither can decide to give up, both need help, and both need support, because both are as unhealthy as each other. I look at the morbidly obese and feel so sorry for them, but I don't try to advise them any more - in the last eighteen months I have tried to help thousands, and have helped hundreds, but I have been spat at, threatened by an obese guy, who couldn't even walk unaided, and shouted at, by hundreds of people I tried to talk to. Now I just sit in the restaurant, and watch with sorrow, at the morbidly obese piling masses of food on their plate, from the buffet.
I walked in those shoes, and nearly died from the complications I wrought upon myself, but now walk much lighter, no longer addicted to food. I still have clothing so large I cannot understand how I ever wore it. (from 65" waist to 36"..)
Theo - thinner, wiser and happy
I walked in those shoes, and nearly died from the complications I wrought upon myself, but now walk much lighter, no longer addicted to food. I still have clothing so large I cannot understand how I ever wore it. (from 65" waist to 36"..)
Theo - thinner, wiser and happy