“Yes, perhaps morbidly obese, but NOT 1000 lbs!”
I recently saw a story about an enormously obese man and when he was weighed on the show he was “down to” 712 pounds. The doctor asked him what was the last time he had seen the lower end of 700 pounds. His answer? 6th grade!!!
Somebody who can weigh 700 pounds at age 12 is simply not normal. There are some terrible health and metabolism issues there that you and I can’t even imagine.
Some of these folks also have some wacky brain chemistry. There are people who the more they eat the more their brain tells them they’re hungry. They’ve eaten a gigantic meal, and yet they feel like they haven’t eaten in days. This is NOT just a simple matter of self-control, although they do have to work on that. These people can’t stop eating completely, of course, and yet every time they eat something that triggers a need to eat more.
Yes, most overweight people simply need to change their habits and learn self-control (I could stand to lose 25-30 pounds myself and I could do it with better habits) but there are a small percentage of folks with serious problems.
Clearly there is a serious problem with something if they can get to be 1000 lbs.
susie