Half Ton Mum
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i_hate_beckham
Him From A Village
To a certain extent, it has been known for people in excess of 40 stone to almost starve to death* after the operation despite the huge 'reserves'.Pavlik said:
*Which they most certainly would have without drastic medical intervention.
It lives on reserves by consuming your own fat and muscle. Who knows what happens to metabolism at that size, if it starts consuming heart and organ tissue to survive, you can easily see how the heart might give out. Or else there was some toxic effect of the body suddenly resorting to metabolizing that much fat instead of food so suddenly. I mean, she's 6 times the size of a normal person her height.
I'm not all that familiar with the biochemistry of nutrition, but surely she was well outside the realm of normal function, and when you're in new territory like that you just can't always predict what's going to happen. I'm sure that's why most doctors wouldn't operate.
I'm not all that familiar with the biochemistry of nutrition, but surely she was well outside the realm of normal function, and when you're in new territory like that you just can't always predict what's going to happen. I'm sure that's why most doctors wouldn't operate.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
keypulse said:Seems so. Last time I bothered looking it was "Can Fat Kids Survive In The Jungle?" or somesuch barrel-scraping shit.
When do us skinny fuckers get our turn?
'Can Fat Kids Hunt', and it was fucking genius TV.
Cattermole
New Member
I'm new here and I have to say, I was expecting you all to be a little mean about the half ton mom. I'm pleased you weren't but at the same time...
I'm a big bloke myself - just under 20 stone at the moment - and I felt a certain amount of indignation watching this woman and seeing what she'd done to herself. I think she came across like a victim - 'I just want a chance to live my life' - when as far as I could see, she'd done this to herself and had no one else to blames for the state she'd eaten herself into.
Don't get me wrong, I understand about comfort eating - I've been doing it myself for about 20 years - but also, I recognise that this is a sign of my own weakness. Some people drink, some people are violent, some people eat. And so on. We're all fucked up to varying degrees, but should we all be treated as victims? Or should we be told to buck our ideas up and stop being such self-indulgent, self-centred fuckwits?
I honestly don't know but I tend towards the latter.
This woman really annoyed me.
(I missed little bits of the show and if it turns out it wasn't her fault, and she did have an accident as someone suggested earlier, then imagine I'm talking about the subject of the next documentary about a super-morbidly obese person who eats themselves into an early grave - Help! I Sweat Lard! or somesuch.)
I'm a big bloke myself - just under 20 stone at the moment - and I felt a certain amount of indignation watching this woman and seeing what she'd done to herself. I think she came across like a victim - 'I just want a chance to live my life' - when as far as I could see, she'd done this to herself and had no one else to blames for the state she'd eaten herself into.
Don't get me wrong, I understand about comfort eating - I've been doing it myself for about 20 years - but also, I recognise that this is a sign of my own weakness. Some people drink, some people are violent, some people eat. And so on. We're all fucked up to varying degrees, but should we all be treated as victims? Or should we be told to buck our ideas up and stop being such self-indulgent, self-centred fuckwits?
I honestly don't know but I tend towards the latter.
This woman really annoyed me.
(I missed little bits of the show and if it turns out it wasn't her fault, and she did have an accident as someone suggested earlier, then imagine I'm talking about the subject of the next documentary about a super-morbidly obese person who eats themselves into an early grave - Help! I Sweat Lard! or somesuch.)
Miscellaneous
Princess
I unfortunately missed this programme, but from googling it, she was always super-morbidly obese. Its a shame that he children have lost her mum. But she could have shifted that weight long before she tried, long long before she had the accident.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
madzone said:
Lardiness, surely.
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
half ton man is pretty messed up too.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Point of order: 867lbs is over 3/4 of a ton. Half a ton is 500lbs.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
mauvais said:
Sorry, I was thinking metrically.
At any rate, 867lbs is almost half a ton (if we're thinking in long tons)
No. Half a ton is either 1120lb ('long', or as we english like to say 'proper' ton), or 1000lb ('short' ton, the one most commonly used in the states). Half a tonne would be 1100lb. I'm guessing that the writers would have been using the short ton, so they are about 130lb off.
On a related note, I did watch this, and leaving aside the obvious sympathy for the poor woman (and particularly her kid's) plight, the thing that disturbed me the most was the use of a former gastric bypass patient as an advert for the procedure. Plus the whole idea that the only possible 'cure'/remedy for her condition is this, fairly serious, surgical intervention. I believe the quote was 'Its not true that I eat too much, sometimes I have to force myself to eat cos I haven't eaten for a while'. In a word, balls. Where did she get those calories from, strain them from the air? Its a sad commercialisation and 'surgicalisation' (if that is even a word) of a problem, and a symptom of the perfection and plastic surgery obcessed world that we live in.
On a related note, I did watch this, and leaving aside the obvious sympathy for the poor woman (and particularly her kid's) plight, the thing that disturbed me the most was the use of a former gastric bypass patient as an advert for the procedure. Plus the whole idea that the only possible 'cure'/remedy for her condition is this, fairly serious, surgical intervention. I believe the quote was 'Its not true that I eat too much, sometimes I have to force myself to eat cos I haven't eaten for a while'. In a word, balls. Where did she get those calories from, strain them from the air? Its a sad commercialisation and 'surgicalisation' (if that is even a word) of a problem, and a symptom of the perfection and plastic surgery obcessed world that we live in.
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
has 'can fat kids hunt?' finished yet?
was enjoying that...
was enjoying that...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
CharlieAddict said:
I still think my combination reality show, 'Borstal Dogs Hunt Fat Kids' would be a ratings winner...
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
it did make me laugh when the surgeon said to her
'the operation will be a success, the thing is, you've got a lovely face'
yeah cos if you were a minger, i really wouldn't bother
'the operation will be a success, the thing is, you've got a lovely face'
yeah cos if you were a minger, i really wouldn't bother
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
kyser_soze said:
that would be an excellent idea!!!
what about 'Borstal Dogs Hunt Fat Kids Carrying Half Ton Mum Through Jungle - Get Me The Hell Out of Here?'
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
CharlieAddict said:
We should start a production 'think tank', using old copies of 'TVGoHome' and fridge magnets, called 'Random Words Together'...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
A couple of years ago we came up with 'Junkie Brother', where substance addicts are locked in the house and one of them gets voted their fix for a week...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I figured just leaving basic household goods around would be better, you know, for improvisation purposes...
