Half Tonne Man

anyone think the wife was more to blame? i mean she's feeding him the junk food while he should be getting more veg + meat ideally.
mind you he seems to think that someone's just added the fat onto his body at night or something for no reason at all :/
also, VERY surprised the doc let him out while he was 44 stone odd :eek:
i mean we (in the UK) would probably wait till the person would be around the 20 stone mark i'd have thought?
 
VeNT said:
it may be an addiction but by god its a hell of a lot easyer to give up than most others (heroin etc) unless you have been brought up to expect everything to be done for you.
people like this make me sick, its no wonder your fat if you're drinking coke like water and eating KFC every day.
heres a hint on how to stop being so fat, PUT DOWN THE FORK!
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Vent, I'm not sure that's really fair ...... you don't usually get forks with KFC :p

But I agree completely, while any addiction is a bad thing, like you say addiction to food is much easier to solve with a modicum of self control. Blaming it solely on an upbringing or "chemical imbalance" doesn't really address the fundamental problem.
 
"omg im hungry i must eat right now this instant"

thats chemicals for u, even if ** constantly starving eating obviously isn't going to help... so u might as well not eat, and loose the weight :(
 
Loki said:
The Doc said the chemical imbalance was the hormone that said to the brain "I am no longer hungry". Basically they just don't know when to stop eating
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It's just common sense surely, just order 1 hamburger, eat hamburger, don't order more....

I refused to watch the program ( i was stuffing my face with pizza and it was putting me off), but I kind of got the impression whis weight should have been self regulating. If you can't get off your lardy arse to get another KFC family bucket how can you eat more??
 
Insanity said:
Well, im rather stocky myself (i got nothing on this guy though) and as odd as it sounds, its easier to eat than it is to stop.

You get extreme cravings, much like smoking for smokers and alcohol for alcoholics. Believe it or not, food can be like a drug to a point, and you cant just "stop eating". When you get into a habit of eating a lot constantly, your stomach stretches and it takes more and more food to fill it.

But in saying that, thats not an excuse to not eat healthy foods, which is my downfall, i dont eat a lot, but what i do eat is garbage. :p
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This is a good point... Many of the things we are addicted to in food are the sugars and adittives.

I watched that Paul McKenna (look into the eyes, not arounf the eyes but into the eyes) thing on Sky the last few weeks and there was a Girl who drank inordinate amounts of a certain fizzy drink. She was most definitley addicted physiologically to the sugar. I've seen people come of another type of coke look a lot better than she did. (3-2-1 your back in the room)
 
divine_madness said:
Ok, you feel hungry all the time - you don't have to eat 4 bloody KFC buckets for dinner though do you?

They could at least try and exercise a small amount of self restraint.
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As an experiment to see how difficult it is being hungry and the cravings you get, try not eating for 3 or 4 days... I tried this and couldn't do it, and I consider myself really strong willed. Food is everywhere and a small choclate abr won't hurt.

I didn't see the program and have no idea whether this condition is "fat" genes, but I would guess that there is a lot circular conditioning at play, his body craves food because he feeds it excessive amounts of food. Some posts seem to imply that the bloke lost a lot of weight when his gut was stitched - fair play to him.. I hope he stays away from KFC.
 
JollyGreen said:
That's exactly the problem though, "food" isn't usually what's make these people fat, it's crap.
takeouts, chocolate bars, everything snacky.
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I couldn't agree more, I'm just trying to illustrate how difficult it is living in todays western society and be hungry all the time.
 
aztechnology said:
As an experiment to see how difficult it is being hungry and the cravings you get, try not eating for 3 or 4 days... I tried this and couldn't do it
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I'm not disputing that he might have had insane hunger telling him to eat, but why not at least try to eat something remotely healthy, say something like a bowl of rice and a grilled chicken breast. There is nothing in his genes that force him to eat buckets of KFC for lunch and dinner, drink coca cola by the gallon, and top it off with a large pizza or two.

aztechnology said:
the bloke lost a lot of weight when his gut was stitched - fair play to him.. I hope he stays away from KFC.
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The incident I remember seeing (unpacking at least 2 large buckets of KFC) came after he lost the weight, so even now the docters helped him out, he is barely trying to help himself still.
 
Loki said:
Did anyone see the programme on channel 4 last night ?

Not half as disturbing as the weight loss guru with his leo sayer bouffant and short shorts! But thats bye the bye I guess

Some fella had a fighting weight of 85 stone. EIGHTY FIVE ENGLISH STONES I tells ya. The doctor put a lot of it down to chemical imbalances which may or may not be true. The fella hadnt been out of his house for 10 years or something. Don't get me wrong I could do with shedding a few stone myself but I just cant comprehend beging that big. Its not just as easy as some people think and sometimes people dont want to be that big. The main point was that the guys were addicted to food. After a bucket of KFC and a meal they were Hungry again after 10 minutes. Usual lunch for one guy was 20-22 hotdogs. 6 portions of cheesy fries. The doctor calculated that to maintain that weight gain then they must eat around 15,000-20,000 calories per day
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I'm the same matey.

Not 85 stone :o

Once i eat my lunch or dinner, i'm hungry again 10 minutes later and i don't know why.

So if anyone knows why, please help me :(
 
Aruffell said:
I'm the same matey.

Not 85 stone :o

Once i eat my lunch or dinner, i'm hungry again 10 minutes later and i don't know why.

So if anyone knows why, please help me :(
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It's probably to do with the kind of things you are eating. Without knowing your dietry habits I couldn't really say exactly but try to eat things that the body needs to process more. Stay away from any processed food, cut down on fats and sugars (these create signals in the brain that make us want more), eat slower, eat more beans and pulses.

If you want to read more about it pick up a book on GI diets, i know that these seem to be a bit of a curent fad, but I think that they are excellent, healthy diets. (The diet seems to be bit of a re-hash of food combining and Hayes diets that where popular decades ago but these seemd to work too).

I'm not suggesting that you have to live like a hermit and only eant beans all the time, I think there is nothing wrong with the occasional currry or sugary sweet, I just see no reason to have sugar added to baked beans, or drink 8 teaspoons or sugar solution when I'm thirsty, I just don't have the energy requirements of a hummingbird.
 
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