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Originally Posted by Beach Patrol
I think it's truly scary for people that are that big. I have a friend who is 275 - he's only 5'8''. His mother is pushing 400 and he worries about her health. (His sisters are very big as well.) He's scared that one day he'll find her dead, and he's worried about how he & his sisters will bury her. I wonder - do extremely obese people think about those kind of things?
I thought about that. I thought about how my parents would might have had to buy an extra large coffin if I suddenly died and how many men it would take to carry me out of the house. I kept thinking of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and what they did with their mother. I know I wasn't as big as she was, but I know I'd probably have to have a few more hands to get me out and a bigger coffin. I think others think of it especially individuals who can't leave their homes because they can't fit through the doors anymore.
And as for the issue of blaming parents, I blame my parents to a certain extent because I was a fat kid and my mom never made an attempt to get us healthy and always continued to feed us the most unhealthiest of foods. I chose to continue eating in this manner when I had grown into an adult, so I have to take part of the blame as well.
And for the food addiction issue, I understood every word he said about it. I'm addicted to food, and it's an overwhelming and powerful addiction. The brain of food & drug addicts responds in exactly the same way. It truly becomes a physiological addiction. BUT, I've gotten a certain amount of control over my addiction and it isn't impossible to do so and even do so completely on your own either. It just takes sheer determination and resolve. Some people just can't garner the strength themselves and unfortunately it leads to super morbid obesity. The path to homebound obesity is not made by poor food choices and a bit of laziness. As the addiction grows, as in drugs and alcohol, you consistently use/eat more and more to satisfy the physiological need. That's why someone can eat 11,000 calories a day. A vicodin addict can take 30 vicodin a day when they might have started at 2 or 3 a day. And an alcoholic certainly doesn't begin the addiction drinking a 24 pack of beer in a day. There are undeniable parallels between food addiction and drug/alcohol addiction. I don't think it could be any clearer.