RelsonGracieBJJ;595662 wrote:You have to lol at FAT Fucks like this. I say good riddance when she drops dead. It's because of FAT people like her that people are starving.

Lol people are starving because they cannot afford food. Not because she is eating all of it.

wow, grease that hog up and pick a fold and fuck it.

Maybe I'm just a buzz kill or 'that guy', but I just don't find this funny at all. In fact, I'm very sympathetic. I know some people won't believe this, but there is actually a variety of other factors that go into weight gain other than just eating. Genetics, secondary health problems, physical impairments, medications, etc. Does poor diet and a lack of intervention by friends and family have a lot to do with it? Definitely, but don't be so quick to assume it's the only thing going on here.

Sounds like she's always just been bigger for her age all through life, which you can attribute not only to her diet and, but to her culture ( i.e. soul food) and surely genetics as well. That extra weight all through life probably took a mighty toll on her knees, leading to the severe arthritis, as mentioned in the article. When you get arthritis that badly in the knees, it's game over. Physical activity becomes a privlege rather than an every day part of life at that point.

Damn me for choosing to have a career in the medical field, I guess.

vball10set;595098 wrote:Fab1--are you out there???

...since he hasn't replied, I'll reply for him


I'd hit it!

charliehustle14;596079 wrote:Maybe I'm just a buzz kill or 'that guy', but I just don't find this funny at all. In fact, I'm very sympathetic. I know some people won't believe this, but there is actually a variety of other factors that go into weight gain other than just eating. Genetics, secondary health problems, physical impairments, medications, etc. Does poor diet and a lack of intervention by friends and family have a lot to do with it? Definitely, but don't be so quick to assume it's the only thing going on here.

Sounds like she's always just been bigger for her age all through life, which you can attribute not only to her diet and, but to her culture ( i.e. soul food) and surely genetics as well. That extra weight all through life probably took a mighty toll on her knees, leading to the severe arthritis, as mentioned in the article. When you get arthritis that badly in the knees, it's game over. Physical activity becomes a privlege rather than an every day part of life at that point.

Damn me for choosing to have a career in the medical field, I guess.

That logic can all be applied to a person under 500 pounds. Once you get to that you are basically just worthless.

charliehustle14;596079 wrote:Maybe I'm just a buzz kill or 'that guy', but I just don't find this funny at all. In fact, I'm very sympathetic. I know some people won't believe this, but there is actually a variety of other factors that go into weight gain other than just eating. Genetics, secondary health problems, physical impairments, medications, etc. Does poor diet and a lack of intervention by friends and family have a lot to do with it? Definitely, but don't be so quick to assume it's the only thing going on here.

Sounds like she's always just been bigger for her age all through life, which you can attribute not only to her diet and, but to her culture ( i.e. soul food) and surely genetics as well. That extra weight all through life probably took a mighty toll on her knees, leading to the severe arthritis, as mentioned in the article. When you get arthritis that badly in the knees, it's game over. Physical activity becomes a privlege rather than an every day part of life at that point.

Damn me for choosing to have a career in the medical field, I guess.

I'm in the medical field as well, though I truly feel for her and understand her weight issues as a child that doesn't nec. excuse her from not taking action as an adult. I am more than sure as a 20, 25 or even 30 year old woman that she could look in the mirror and see she was overweight. In today's day and age, heck even 10 or 15 years ago, it was known that being overweight and eating a high fat diet was not good for one's health. Though I do feel for her current predicament I also know that if not solely genetics or a metabolic disorder she could have maybe changed a bit to help lower her weight BEFORE the knees became a problem and in turn mobility then became an issue further hampering weight loss. God bless her, I hope she is able to lose some weight and get some help sooner rather than later.

Buckeyechick;596903 wrote:I'm in the medical field as well, though I truly feel for her and understand her weight issues as a child that doesn't nec. excuse her from not taking action as an adult. I am more than sure as a 20, 25 or even 30 year old woman that she could look in the mirror and see she was overweight. In today's day and age, heck even 10 or 15 years ago, it was known that being overweight and eating a high fat diet was not good for one's health. Though I do feel for her current predicament I also know that if not solely genetics or a metabolic disorder she could have maybe changed a bit to help lower her weight BEFORE the knees became a problem and in turn mobility then became an issue further hampering weight loss. God bless her, I hope she is able to lose some weight and get some help sooner rather than later.

Agree with all points. My problem is just the perception people have about obese people, especially the morbidly obese. There's so many secondary things going on that take it to that level.

This is why socialized medicine is a joke. Let that idiot die already.

Why don't they just do a stomach staple or lapband?

CenterBHSFan;597174 wrote:Why don't they just do a stomach staple or lapband?

You can be 'too big' for that type of surgery. I'm sure that option has already been talked about amongst them. She more than likely has to drop some weight to be able to have that surgery.

GoChiefs;597199 wrote:You can be 'too big' for that type of surgery. I'm sure that option has already been talked about amongst them. She more than likely has to drop some weight to be able to have that surgery.

Maybe I'm being too technical here for Serious Business... but, isn't that kinda of a roundrobin? I'm not arguing with ya, it just doesn't make sense to me. But, I'm not familiar with those procedures, so basically I'm dumb about them.

CenterBHSFan;597225 wrote:Maybe I'm being too technical here for Serious Business... but, isn't that kinda of a roundrobin? I'm not arguing with ya, it just doesn't make sense to me. But, I'm not familiar with those procedures, so basically I'm dumb about them.

Yes, but those procedures are more for the 'obese' type..between 300lb - 500lb, not a 700lb woman. Many more risks involved when you try to have that type of procedure, well, any procedure, on someone that large.

Lap bands are done laparascopically in almost all cases because of all the benefits, such as shorter recovery, decreased risk of infections and complications, shorter time in OR, etc. Those benefits are ideal, especially in those who are obese because they are already at a disadvantage when it comes to recovery anyways.

Because it's done laparascopically, a person can just be too obese (too much fat tissue to work through) to perform it in that matter. They can still use the open method for gastric bands, which is the old fashioned way of doing it by just cutting the person open. However, it's a lot riskier compared to doing it laparascopically, and in a person who has reached that level of obesity, it's not worth the risk. A 700 lb. woman is going to have an extremely lengthy recovery time, especially if she can't even get out of bed. Not to mention she'd almost be certain to develop some kind of post-op complication, more than likely infection and pneumonia.

And as someone else mentioned, a person of that size is going to have to be put under with a lot more anesthesia, which is very risky in itself.

The fact is that many physicians have no interest in performing a gastric band on a 700 lb. woman. It's not worth the risk and with a 700 lb. woman, there's no guarentees that she is going to alter her life for the better to make the gastric band worthwhile. At least if she drops like 200 lbs, that shows the physican that she is getting into the habit of being healthier and dropping the weight, which makes it more appealing for the physican to perform the procedure. No physician wants to perform a lap band if the person shows no desire of altering their life for the better.

Exactly.

I had a football coach in HS who was obese to the point that a lot of the other coaches and even us kids were worried about his weight. Several of us had talked to some of the coaches about some of the options above, in addition to others, but honestly, he was too big, and any of the options were either incredibly high risk procedures, or they would have a high potential of sending his body into shock.

Thankfully, he was still able to walk and move around (he was about 6' tall, and in the low 500s), and since then, he's done a fantastic job of losing some of the weight. Last I saw him was a couple years ago, and though he was still obese, you could tell he'd been working on losing the weight and had made fantastic progress (if I had to guess, he was probably in the mid-300s by that point).

That point when you are no longer able to stand and/or walk seems to really a point that limits your ability to turn around weight problems from an exercise standpoint.

charliehustle14;596079 wrote:I know some people won't believe this, but there is actually a variety of other factors that go into weight gain other than just eating. Genetics, secondary health problems, physical impairments, medications, etc. Does poor diet and a lack of intervention by friends and family have a lot to do with it? Definitely, but don't be so quick to assume it's the only thing going on here.

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While all that is true (genetics playing into overweight), I don't care how bad your genetics / physical impairments are, at some point you gotta withhold food from the person at some point long before 700 lbs. I mean, when she hits 350, I think it's time to stop feeding the person.

Sick thought... what goes in has to come out. How'd you'd like to have the job of cleaning up THAT?!?!?

Her picture if fap-tastic!

Now that's a FUPA