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April 24, 2006, 11:23 pm PDT
 Quote From: rtrouble If a person is 200-300 lbs. to begin with, it don't take long to become 400-600 lbs. since they are already hereditarily obese. Fat don't appear from nowhere, it appears from all the fattening food we stuff our faces with everyday!! And their metabolism don't allow it to be burned (plus they have a hard time moving effectively to begin with), so they become morbidly obese from the combination. I personally am 5'3" and weigh 130 lbs. I am considered overweight according to the "health experts". When I weighed 120-125 lbs. everyone thought I looked anorexic!! The epidemic we have going on is fat vs. thin and it should be healthy vs. unhealthy. Being over 300 lbs. is just totally astonishing to me. As people get older, they gain so many lbs. per year, it's a proven fact. These morbidly obese people just do it faster and need some hypno-therapy to refocus their thoughts so they can lead good, healthy lives instead of lay in a bed and become like beached whales. Occasionally I do see people who weigh over 300 lbs. out and about and I at least give them some credit for getting up and out of bed everyday. Their problem is that they binge eat and are addicted to food. I hope Dr. Phil can help more people who are suffering from this disorder. "If a person is 200-300 lbs. to begin with, it don't take long to become 400-600 lbs. since they are already hereditarily obese." A person who is 200-300 lbs is not automatically hereditarily obese. I'm not sure if you meant to word that that way or not. "Fat don't appear from nowhere, it appears from all the fattening food we stuff our faces with everyday!! And their metabolism don't allow it to be burned (plus they have a hard time moving effectively to begin with), so they become morbidly obese from the combination." I wouldn't say that necessarily. Calories go in, calories get burned. That is true for MOST people. Including the many many many (much too many) who blame their fat on bad genes. Someone who's "metabolism don't allow it to be burned" just has to learn to eat few calories, since their body obviously doesn't need that many calories. "These morbidly obese people just do it faster and need some hypno-therapy to refocus their thoughts so they can lead good, healthy lives instead of lay in a bed and become like beached whales." They don't "do it faster" they eat too much and move too little. It's that simple. People who have physiological reasons for being overweight do not end up that fat. They might always be a tad rounder or it might be a constant battle but people do not get that fat out bad heredity! Also, hypnosis has never ever been proven to be effective and has been shown to be harmful to some people. It's a psuedoscience and should be avoided. "Occasionally I do see people who weigh over 300 lbs. out and about and I at least give them some credit for getting up and out of bed everyday." I think you might have a skewed view of what 300 lbs means. I weigh 250 (yes, I am very very fat, but I am using Dr Phils book and a 1200 calorie diet and I'm having success.) And I am out and about constantly. I play outside with my daughter, kick the ball, chase her around. I walk everywhere. I even do some yoga. I'm a "solid" 250, I have lots of muscle and I move around a lot. There are some "marshmellow" people who weigh the same as me but don't move around as much and look much larger then me. "heir problem is that they binge eat and are addicted to food. I hope Dr. Phil can help more people who are suffering from this disorder." This I agree with you on. This is an eating disorder. People who eat that much. I myself have very wrong thinking that I use to eat too much food. I eat when I'm sad and I tell myself I'm ugly anyway so I might as well be fat too. This is not a gentic disease, this is an emotional problem that can be corrected through therapy and exercise and diet. |
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April 27, 2006, 4:50 am PDT
Quote From: rtrouble If a person is 200-300 lbs. to begin with, it don't take long to become 400-600 lbs. since they are already hereditarily obese. Fat don't appear from nowhere, it appears from all the fattening food we stuff our faces with everyday!! And their metabolism don't allow it to be burned (plus they have a hard time moving effectively to begin with), so they become morbidly obese from the combination. I personally am 5'3" and weigh 130 lbs. I am considered overweight according to the "health experts". When I weighed 120-125 lbs. everyone thought I looked anorexic!! The epidemic we have going on is fat vs. thin and it should be healthy vs. unhealthy. Being over 300 lbs. is just totally astonishing to me. As people get older, they gain so many lbs. per year, it's a proven fact. These morbidly obese people just do it faster and need some hypno-therapy to refocus their thoughts so they can lead good, healthy lives instead of lay in a bed and become like beached whales. Occasionally I do see people who weigh over 300 lbs. out and about and I at least give them some credit for getting up and out of bed everyday. Their problem is that they binge eat and are addicted to food. I hope Dr. Phil can help more people who are suffering from this disorder. I understand what both of you are saying. You don't just gain 300lbs over night. It happens from being inactive. In 2000 I found out I was pregnant and quite my job because the environment was not healthy for me to be in during my prenancy. I ended up staying home and I am still a stay at home mom. Since then I have gained at least 100lbs since then, most was with my pregancy and I have not been able to loose it. I am a very active person I think. I just have a very crappy metablosim. I have thought about the gastric by pass surgery, but to me that is like cheating on a test it is taking the easy way if I can't loose it now whose to say after the surgery I won't gain it all back and then have had to go through this procedure for nothing. For me if I were to try to go to a gym I would be afraid of all the THIN people laughing at me while I was trying to work out. Being made fun of for trying to loose weight is not a motivativor. |
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April 27, 2006, 7:50 pm PDT
Quote From: rtrouble If a person is 200-300 lbs. to begin with, it don't take long to become 400-600 lbs. since they are already hereditarily obese. Fat don't appear from nowhere, it appears from all the fattening food we stuff our faces with everyday!! And their metabolism don't allow it to be burned (plus they have a hard time moving effectively to begin with), so they become morbidly obese from the combination. I personally am 5'3" and weigh 130 lbs. I am considered overweight according to the "health experts". When I weighed 120-125 lbs. everyone thought I looked anorexic!! The epidemic we have going on is fat vs. thin and it should be healthy vs. unhealthy. Being over 300 lbs. is just totally astonishing to me. As people get older, they gain so many lbs. per year, it's a proven fact. These morbidly obese people just do it faster and need some hypno-therapy to refocus their thoughts so they can lead good, healthy lives instead of lay in a bed and become like beached whales. Occasionally I do see people who weigh over 300 lbs. out and about and I at least give them some credit for getting up and out of bed everyday. Their problem is that they binge eat and are addicted to food. I hope Dr. Phil can help more people who are suffering from this disorder. Are you kidding me....300 lbs and laying in bed like a beached whale??? Give me a break. AT 415 lbs I was working full time, cleaning house and doing all the things "thin" people do but in alot of pain. Just becasue people get fat doenst mean they are lazy and this is the exact attitude we need to fix. Maybe you need to give yourself a good wake up call. Every woman in my family on both sides have to much weight. I fought it for years...I bet I can diet better than most. I deprived and then rebounded...and it went on and on. I never felt full, I never felt good about myself..I also ate right just to much...and I found out I also had to fight gentics. No matter what I knew it wasnt healthy and finally had surgery in 2001 to correct it. I now am a normal weight and love life and feel good and fight for others that are trying to get surgery, trying to find health and want to get away from the negative remarks of unthinking and uncaring people that dont understand how horrible being fat is and that its more than just laziness. |
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