Apparently this is the guy. Takes a certain pride in his condition. Has a Facebook site, and his Twitter handle is "@fatboygetdown". Pretty sad.
Posted on 10/08/2015 5:00:01 AM PDT by lowbridge
A man who tips the scale at close to 800 pounds says he has nowhere to go after being kicked out of a hospital weight loss program for ordering pizza.
Now he rides in the back of an SUV while his father drives the roads of Rhode Island, looking for someone who can help.
Steven Assanti, 33, said his eating addiction has led him to this place, living in the back of his dad's SUV with nowhere else to go.
For the past 80 days, Assanti was getting the help he needed in a Rhode Island hospital where he lost 20 pounds. But ordering pizza violated the care plan, and the hospital told him he had to leave.
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I puzzled at that for a moment, too.
OK. Fine. I can buy that. Perhaps he has an eating addiction the same way some people have a drug or alcohol addiction and he needs help to stop. But if you go to a drug or alcohol rehab and they catch you drinking or using, you get kicked out. So I'm not sure why there should be special rules for him.
I say "weakness of character".
There were no fat people in the old days, or silly excuses like "food addictions".
Another FReeper said it best when commenting on a story referencing our social decline:
I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE EMP
Zombie apocalypse rule #1, cardio.
Send him to Africa. He’ll be thin in months.
If his genes are so bad that he simply can’t help but kill himself slowly, perhaps it’s for the best he just let nature take its course.
C’mon it’s a glandular problem.
We used to get our thrills from the chase and capture of prey or enemies. Now it’s all too easy so we look for pleasure, hence these addictions. My generation started it with: If it feels good, do it.
come on people... it WAS a thin crust pizza...
give the guy a break.
sheesh.
80 days in the hospital - at taxpayer expense?
It’s the fault of the silverware....Ban Silverware!
Maybe instead of a large pizza , maybe he ordered a whole sheet pizza.
Relapse is a part of any recovery program, even a hospital should know that .
Overeaters are not a “victim” of anyone but it is definitely a form of mental illness.
I was once morbidly obese and could not stop even when losing everyone close to me and facing death.
Junk food addiction is very real. Especially when the mind is molded by it from a young age.
Some people’s minds are prone to being hijacked by these unnatural pleasure-giving substances and they lose control. Just like others are prone to being controlled by gambling, drugs and commercial sex. They even become blind to death seeking the pleasure.
Today I’m a healthy weight and can run marathons but it took a heart attack and months of someone watching me 24/7 until the insane cravings finally stopped. Once my brain chemistry was restored, I felt like an entirely different person.
I tried for years knowing I would die if I didn’t but junk food is always just a mouse-click away and I could not stop without help.
All it takes is a 1 minute lapse in judgement in an *entire day* and you have boxes of fattening junk at your door that erase a week worth of exercise. Exactly what happened to this man
Apparently this is the guy. Takes a certain pride in his condition. Has a Facebook site, and his Twitter handle is "@fatboygetdown". Pretty sad.
I worked in a hospital a few years. One poor woman was so obese she couldn’t bend her arms to feed herself. Go figure, she surely would have lost weight eventually, but her family made sure to have a bucket of chicken legs to spin in front of her mouth all day long. Not sure which one was sicker, her or her family.
Me thinks he was sneaking a lot of Pizza’s in with only 20lbs lost in
80 days.
And that’s out of 800 pounds. The guy must have been starving after losing that 2.5% of his body weight. I’m thinking that wasn’t the first pizza he ordered.
lol
That’s like saying “we never had people addicted to porn videos in the old days”.
99% of people throughout history didn’t have the opportunity and means to get truly morbidly obese until a few decades ago. Today we have tons of processed cheap junk foods a few mouse clicks away. Just like recently all these unnatural sexual videos are also a click away and people are starting to get addicted.
See my post 33
Thanks for sharing that.
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