Re: Scary Shows On TLC

I haven't seen this show, but I have seen others. I always know that
the super-obese really have something wrong with them that makes them
want to eat that much. I could see eating a ton of starchy stuff, as
starchy stuff just makes me want to come back for more, but I have
seen alot of them who do things like eat 4 chickens in a meal. Now, I
could never, never, never eat that much protein at once. It would be
horrible. I am probably a carb addict. I can really only keep my
eating under control by reducing carbs or by smoking. If I try to eat
what I would think of as a typical diet (in familes of people around
me), my eating gets out of control. Smoking really works for keeping
my eating under control too. I am not smoking right now, but I am
always tempted because of how it makes me able to not eat much and
still be happy. I think I have some kind of serotonin imbalance as
eating carbs and smoking both raise serotonin levels, and I seriously
crave to either eat carbs or to smoke.

Anyway, back to the super-obese. I really don't blame them at all for
what is happening to them even if it is the behavior of eating that is
doing it. They are being driven to it by something in their bodies.
When scientists genetically change mice to make them have problems
that make them overeat to obesity, nobody would think the mouse has no
self control. We are animals too, and some people have stuff wrong
with them that drives them to eat that much. Within 10 years I am
sure they will have a host of effective anti-obesity meds that can fix
these problems as they are making alot of breakthroughs about the
endocrinology of the appetite. I have seen researchers compare this
time period in obesity medicines with the time that they made alot of
break throughs in the problem of high blood pressure. In the meantime
I am just trying to do the best I can to lose more and most
importantly not gain more.

KC

On Jun 3, 6:28 pm, kevinbertsch...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I watched a couple of scary shows entitled "Inside the Brookhaven
Obesity Clinic" on the Learning Channel this afternoon. This is a
clinic for the morbidly obese, and there were patients who weighed
480, 570, 600, and 700 lbs among those featured. Naturally, they had a
great many problems, not including the expected diabetes. One man had
not been out of bed for six years, not even to go to the bathroom.
Others were restricted to one floor of their house, because they
couldn't navigate stairs. When one man collapsed in his apartment, it
took 20 police officers 4 hours to get him down 4 flights of stairs
(eventually, they wrapped him in a cargo net, and carried him down
that way). One man's leg was grotesquely swollen from blocked lymph
nodes to the extent that he was considering amputation. Diabetes
contributed to many of their problems.

Amazingly, a number of residents at the clinic continued to cheat on
their diets despite knowing that they were killing themselves. One man
had a bucket on a rope which he lowered down from his window with
money to pay for his fast food order, and then pulled the food back
up. Others just had friends smuggle food in for them.

One man consumed 33,000 calories in a single day. When they laid out
the food he had eaten, I noticed one distinctive thing - it was all
brown or beige. Four racks of ribs, fries, mashed potatos, sausages, a
plate full of biscuits, a bucket of fried chicken, a plate of
hamburgers, a plate of bacon, a plate piled high with french toast
next to what looked like a quart of syrup, etc., etc. Nothing that was
green, or red, or yellow. Another woman consumed 14,000 calories in
one day; that's a week's worth for me.

Just watching this self-destructive behaviour only increased my desire
to improve my adherence to my low-carb diet. I have gone from 205 lbs
to 190 in the last month, and my goal is to be under 180 by July 1. My
motto to reach this goal is "no brown food" (with the exception of
lean meats - no more bacon or sausage.) If these frightening
documentaries are available in your area, I strongly suggest you watch
them; they will keep you motivated to carry on with your diet and
exercise plans.


.

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