Who watches my 600 pound life? What’s your opinions on the people and show?

[Aneeda72]

KingsX,

What did you think of the show? And the overweight people?

Olivia

Exactly! You hit the nail on the head. Everyone think of all the woman and some of the men on the show who have been sexually molested/raped. Think of all the people the doc sends to therapy for emotional problems. Think of the disgust some of the men on the thread have mentioned towards the woman.

Then retired traveler mentions such an overweight state is immoral and he is disgusted-these people are sexually invisible to him because he is disgusted. Gosh, the discussion just got really, really interesting. What does everyone think now?

Gluttony. One of the seven deadly sins. For some people it always comes back to religion, whether they are aware of it or not. The seven deadly sins originated in early Christianity. I think gluttony was the first sin. How does religion figure into weight gain? Or does it?

Then retired traveler also brings up of shades of our childhood. Who else, when they read his post, heard their parents’ voices saying “eat your food, children are starving in China”? Lots of the people on the show bring up their parents “clean your plate” attitude as starting them on their road to extreme weight gain.

Retired traveler continues to rail against obese people by saying “they don’t deserve to live in a free society”. WOW! I have to wonder what happened to make traveler feel this way. Still, great post traveler. (The free society comment is interesting, I’m going to start a thread on that, thanks.)

Marie5656,

I am jealous! Lol, wish I had thought to say that! You’ve got a quick mind and great sense of humor. 7lbs 8 ozs-still laughing.

 

[Gary O']

Gary O,
To use Radish Rose’s point of view, I don't know what being incarcerated has to do with this thread. Not sure what your point was.

No point, I guess
More incidental, probably

But, that’s where I found the most disgusting, or rather, easy to hate.
Societies’ dumping ground.

I was wunna them

In any event, you have/had something that people on the show don’t. The ability to recognize you were getting too heavy, and the ability to do something about it. Sharing that information would probably be helpful to others.

That’s too easy.
Just gotta get sick of yerself

Best to do that somewhere before the scale runs outa numbers, however

There’s many weight loss avenues
Pick one
Stick with it

Mine was more accidental
I built our cabins

Tough to move around at first
Grunting, wheezing, resting
Finding pathetic ways to bend down and pick up a tool

But, the longer I did it, the more weight came off
I rather liked the results
Felt better

Then, watched my intake a bit

no calorie counting, or counting or monitoring anything

Ate to get unhungry, not to fill up
No longer stuffing savory stuff on top of other savory stuff already fermenting in my gut...because there was room

Thing is, when busy doing something, anything….besides eating…..it’ll happen
Obviously, doing something physical is best

I got so involved in building, even into the night, I didn’t stop to eat, let alone rest
Just grab a banana and a cup of coffee and keep goin’
Then drop…onto the sleeping bag

My lady has done somewhat the same with walking

Trick is, once tubby, everthing is a chore

But walking, hey, that’s one step at a time

Just like eating...one bite at a time


But after getting to 600 lbs?

Doctors have to be involved

 

[retiredtraveler]

"....Then retired traveler also brings up of shades of our childhood. Who else, when they read his post, heard their parents’ voices saying “eat your food, children are starving in China”? Lots of the people on the show bring up their parents “clean your plate” attitude as starting them on their road to extreme weight gain....".

Now that is the difference between being a responsible adult and acting like an adolescent. My parents came off farms, and my Dad especially, knew what hunger was when they lost the farm during the depression. We were all brought up 'cleaning our plates' and told 'there are starving people in Africa'. Our family was also brought up on high fat, high calorie meals as parents had on the farm.

But if that 'attitude' starts you on the road to extreme weight gain, I would argue that you are 'two sandwiches short of a picnic' (to use a food metaphor) if you can't figure out that sensible eating is what you need to do to handle your health in life. If your bad adult behavior is simply blamed on childhood experience, you're not an adult.

I always rail on the lack of responsibility so many people show in their lives..........

 

[Aneeda72]

Retired traveler,

Totally agree. The lack of responsibility of some people drives me crazy. Also, I think I said in the beginning that the extreme weight gain was a psychological problem, IMO.

Gary O,

Thanks for sharing. That’s the key, you can eat as much as you want as long as you move enough to burn the calories off. That’s why the doc puts people on a low calorie diet and tells them to walk. They need to do both.

 

[Trade]

Different bods, I guess

40s fall off of me

If you say so Gary.

All I have to go by is personal anecdotal experience.

My old man wore a size 36.

Here he is at 6-2 175 lbs. doing his "I'm more macho than you" number on our 5 foot 8 neighbor Emmett.




How do I know he wore size 36?

Well after he died when I was 9 my mother kept a lot of his clothes.

And by the time I reached the 6th grade I was the "Big Fat Kid" in class at 5-5 and 160 lbs. and I was wearing size 36 pants.



And my mother, since we were poor, decided to hem up my old man's pants and make me wear them to save money. In this case "hemming them up" amounted cutting about a damned foot off the legs. Do you know what 1940's and 50's style mens pants look like when they've had that much cut off the legs? It was humiliating. Not to mention the fact that I was wearing a dead man's pants. You know that's a good idea for a parody song. "Dead Man's Pant's" to the tune of "Dead Man's Curve by Jan and Dean" I oughta work on that.

Anyway, between that and being teased as "The Big Fat Kid", I decided to reinvent myself. So over the summer between the 6th and 7th grade I went to work on myself and lost 30 lbs. I also grew taller. So in junior high I got the nickname "Skinny Man". I wore size 30 then.

 

[Aunt Bea]

If you say so Gary.

Maybe one of these waistband stretchers would help.layful:nthego:

 

[KingsX]

KingsX,

What did you think of the show? And the overweight people?

Since I only recently began watching.... and no one in my family was ever morbidly obese... my opinion is for whatever reason, food is a huge addiction for some people.

In one of the shows I watched, the woman had also been previously addicted to drugs... and it appeared her daughter was also bordering on morbid obesity... so maybe genes as well as lifestyle are a cause.

I do have an elderly friend who is morbidly overweight. She is always talking about how badly her mother treated her. Not only her mother... but she continues to dwell on many others through her life who in one way or another did her wrong. We have all had people in our life who have wronged us. But most of us are able to move on and not allow the memory of people who treated us badly [many of whom are now dead] to keep hurting us.

.

 

[Trade]

In one of the shows I watched, the woman had also been previously addicted to drugs... and it appeared her daughter was also bordering on morbid obesity... so maybe genes as well as lifestyle are a cause.

I do have an elderly friend who is morbidly overweight. She is always talking about how badly her mother treated her. Not only her mother... but she continues to dwell on many others through her life who in one way or another did her wrong. We have all had people in our life who have wronged us. But most of us are able to move on and not allow the memory of people who treated us badly [many of whom are now dead] to keep hurting us.

I was a normal weight kid up until I was 8 years old:



Then I made a conscious decision to get fat. I'm pretty sure I did it for attention. I was a shy kid.

So I started eating more and more trying to gain weight. And it worked. That's how I ballooned out to 160 lbs by the end of the 6th grade.

And it got me plenty of attention all right, but it wasn't the kind I wanted. Being teased as the "Big Fat Kid" wasn't much fun at all. If you think fat shaming is bad now, try elementary school in the 1950's. So that's when I made another conscious decision to lose weight.

That's why I believe that whatever weight you are, it's a result of your own choices. I know it is with me.

 

[C'est Moi]

I suppose any addiction is "the result of your own choices." But it is an addiction nevertheless.

 

[Gary O']

What!

How is that possible!

I'm at 210 and I'm wearing 40's!

I do like my clothes loose. I suppose I might be able to squeeze into 36's, but it would be ugly.

Gary, I agree with Trade though, surprised at your waist size.

So, after you guys’ questioning my pants size credibility, I went and rechecked my Wranglers

With my reading glasses

Freaking size 38!!!

Some of my 38s are hard to read
Mistook them for 36s

Checked my ‘gonna get smaller’ stash
Size 36
I can wear ‘em, but they’re snug…uncomfortable

I have one size 34. Not sure why now.
It’s on top of my size 36 stash (4 pair)

Thought they were all 34s

Thing is, my 38s are a bit loose

Trouble with that, I hate belts and my 38s have a tendency to work their way down

And I have no hips or hind end, just a line, with hair on it
So, I’m the guy you see in stores occasionally hiking things up

Oh, I just rechecked those size 34s
They’re relaxed fit (‘a skosh bigger’ as the ad says, in a place I don’t need)
I need the regular fit

Goodwill will be getting a very nice pair of Wranglers



wunner what size a 600 pounder needs

 

[Trade]

My 40's will fall right down to my ankles if I don't hold them up witth a belt. But that's the way I like my pants to fit. Tight clothing, and tight pants in particular are bad for one's health.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/pain-management-pictures/ways-clothing-can-make-you-sick.aspx

Which makes sense if you think about it. How could wearing what amounts to a tourniquet around your guts be anything but bad?

As for a belt, I always wear military style canvas web belts. They are cheap, durable, and best of all, micro-adjustable, so your belt never has to be either too tight, or too loose.

 

[Gary O']

My 40's will fall right down to my ankles if I don't hold them up witth a belt. But that's the way I like my pants to fit. Tight clothing, and tight pants in particular are bad for one's health.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/pain-management-pictures/ways-clothing-can-make-you-sick.aspx

Which makes sense if you think about it. How could wearing what amounts to a tourniquet around your guts be anything but bad?

As for a belt, I always wear military style canvas web belts. They are cheap, durable, and best of all, micro-adjustable, so your belt never has to be either too tight, or too loose.

Yeah, I can't do tight pants

I might check out those web belts