The Fat People Being Airlifted From House/Fused to Couch Thread - Page 2

Or, "All the elastic in the world, tied end to end in an endless loop around my gut is getting a little snug."

My uncle used to be a firefighter. I'll have to ask him if he has any stories about bringing in a crane to get some 900 lb. guy out of his house.

You'd be fat too if you ate these:



WTF?!

But... but... how else am I to grow a beard!?

Actually, I ate an entire one of those two weeks ago on a Saturday night. (Useless aside: all me dietary restrictions are freely ignored on Saturdays) It's actually pretty damn good, though the Oreo is suspiciously soft and chewy.

So I am guessing people this fat are bedridden. Does that mean that they actually wash themselves with a rag on a stick?

It seemed to impress the media when Bart did it.

Speaking of chewy oreos and fat people, have any of you tried those Oreo Cakesters? Mmmm, delicious!

Is that thing real?
No wonder Americans are fat.

Mmmm.. I mean, shame you can't buy just a slice or two.

I'd like to agree, but I don't think I can. It's a neutral thing on its own. I think everyone can agree that there's nothing wrong with dessert...food should be delicious.

My personal impression of the root cause of the problem is that fact that Americans don't recognize moderation as a virtue. One slice of Oreo Pizza is 120 calories. A slice or two for a person who eats a reasonable diet is just fine. Unfortunately, it's seen as a positive if you eat the whole damn thing, and that will fatten you up just right, especially if you do it three meals a day.

Once or twice a year. I honestly thought it would happen more often.

What's almost as disgusting as the "too fat to exit their home" crowd is the "I'm such a fat hambeast, I refuse to walk in the fucking store, so I'll drive around in the motorized cart and run Chris over crowd". Hey, fat-fuck! Guess how you could be less of a pull on gravity? WALK. I say this as a fellow fat-fuck, I am by no means "in shape" (unless you consider rotund a shape), but I know I could never bring myself to that level of laziness.

"Couchie"??? lol. No really, I laughed out loud just then. Did you mean coochie? Either way that's some funny random shit.

That commercial is pretty odd, and not for the beard growing thing. The kid doesn't refer to the man as dad. It seems to me like its a kid hanging out with this older guy who buys him treats and then touches him.

And that oreo pizza thing sucks. Oreo Pizookie, now that's the shit.

Man, I don't get how these people get to weigh this much. I mean, last year, I pretty much just ate pizza and ice cream, and I only got up to 230 tops (down to 200 now...haven't eaten chips in months...cheese and crackers seal the deal, thank you very much Wallace and Gromit). It's hard to feel bad for these people, it seems like they had to go out of their way to get this fat. All it takes is a little bit of vegetables with every meal and some lemonade instead of soda. Losing weight isn't easy, but gaining that much seems pretty hard to me.

What do you call the bed-ridden? Beddites?

That is correct. Regardless of eating or not, the people with that syndrome always feel hungry. They cannot ever satiate the hunger sensation.

Excessively overeating is pretty much always flagrantly irresponsible with regard to one's own health, regardless of why - at least as much as excessively undereating or pretty much any amount of purging.

The trouble is often that some people are genetically predisposed to put on more fat than others. I used to consume 2000-3000 calories a day in Coca-cola alone (plus another 1500-2500 in food) - yes that's 3500-5000 calories a day - and never weighed over 180. There were plenty of times in my life when I ate more (every day, for months) than my 350 pound, 6'8" father.

Thyroid issues, diabetes, and other problems (like exercise induced asthma) can cause people to be predisposed to put on weight and not exercise as much.

Also, fat puts out hormones that make you more diabetic and more likely to keep/grow fat. So pretty much once you have fat its much harder to lose (compared to just staying lean).

Further, once you have a 40 or 50 year history of a particular lifestyle, and are already weighing in at 400 pounds, it's difficult to change, it's very easy to have depression which reduces your motivation to change, and even if you're motivated, it's hard to diet, exercise and make progress.

The good news is that the heavier you are, the quicker you lose weight (that is, the first 10 pounds is much easier to lose than the last). So if you weigh 400 pounds, you are darn likely to make it to 300. From 300-200 will be more of a struggle. And getting under 200 (presuming that weight is appropriate for your body size and type) and down to your ideal BMI is much tougher.

Yes, but don't you get to a point where it's hard to move and makes it more likely you will keep going in a downward spiral of fat before your body suffocates itself?

True, but it's at that point you should probably stop eating so damn much.

If you reduced your caloric intake to an acceptable level, some of the weight would start coming off on its own, no exercise needed. Then as more and more weight came off, you could slowly increase the amount of movement, thus burning more weight. It isn't easy, of course. When you've been bedridden for any length of time, your muscles start to atrophy, so you aren't going to be doing much moving anyway. As you lose more of the weight and are able to move more, you can start working your muscles back into shape, but it is by no means easy.

There have been a few (VERY few) cases of people in these morbidly obese situations coming back from the brink using diet, willpower, and exercise. God knows there aren't many of them, becuase that's one hell of a mountain to climb, but they do exist.

That said, you're going to have lasting health issues. By the time you reach that point, you're almost certainley diabetic, your kidneys are probably shot, your liver is extremely fatty and not functioning all that great. As previously said, your muscles have atrophied, your gastro-intestinal system has probably been abused to highly dangerous levels, you've probably got gall and kidney stones, and your respitoary and cardiac systems are probably barely functioning.

So yeah, while it is possible to come back from this, the number of things that are caused by it means that most people won't ever lose the weight, at least not naturally. But lipo is dangerous as well, because your ability to heal is almost non-existent when you're that fat, so having surgery can (and often does) result in a ton of terrible side effects.

Lesson: When you've reached the point where stores no longer carry your pants size, re-evalute your life. At that point, there's still hope. If you keep doing what you're doing, however, you're fucked.