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Somehow I don't think she was going to live very long either way. I guess I can understand people gradually ballooning up to 250, 300 pounds over the course of their lives. 980 pounds - and only 25 years old? I don't think so. I don't know if she had some underlying cause for her weight gain, but I will take a guess and say that she was eating more than necessary. Surely by time she reached 400 pounds someone should have come in and stopped her weight gain. There is something mentally and/or physically wrong with you if you gain that much weight.

I'm actually the heaviest person in my family, at 182 pounds. A year and a half ago, I was only 145 pounds.

(no, it wasn't the cheeseburgers)

“Somehow I don’t think she was going to live very long either way. I guess I can understand people gradually ballooning up to 250, 300 pounds over the course of their lives. 980 pounds - and only 25 years old? I don’t think so. I don’t know if she had some underlying cause for her weight gain, but I will take a guess and say that she was eating more than necessary. Surely by time she reached 400 pounds someone should have come in and stopped her weight gain. There is something mentally and/or physically wrong with you if you gain that much weight.
I’m actually the heaviest person in my family, at 182 pounds. A year and a half ago, I was only 145 pounds.”

I think there’s a tipping point, where your blood chemistry and metabolism is just completely out of control, and your body just gets over efficient at storing fat. Also, those morbidly obsese can have a significant amount of weight added from fluid buildup in their bodies, a lot of times they experience massive weight loss when the fluids drain. These people are in conditions that have nothing similar to someone who’s 20,40 even 100 lbs overweight, this is massive abuse of the body and the effects are widespread, it takes more than just cutting a few meals to tackle their situations.

Having said that, she probably did have enablers. Any documentaries I’ve seen about the morbidly obsese generally hints heavily at a spouse or family enabling them. Not all, but many of them. She had kids, who were probably the ones who later on fed her. Most of them lose weight when put in calorie controlled environments, so it’s a behavioral problem most of the time, IMHO. I suspect they have emotional damages similar to anorexics and cutters, it just maniftests itself through insatiable appetites and a refusal to care for themselves, an almost psychotic inability to control their eating or weight gain.

Shame she had to die, so young, sad for her kids. I hope they don’t have similar issues later on, eating disorders can be learned at the feet of mom and dad very easily. I sometimes wonder if it’s suicide by the fork, as opposed to the knife.

I quit smoking 18 months ago, and have gained FIFTY pounds, despite trying to restrict my food intake.

EVERYTHING the anti-smoking folks tell you about the after-effects of quitting other than the weight gain is a FLAT OUT TOTAL AND UNEQUIVOCAL LIE!!

Everything tastes like CRAP, my smeller is no more sensitive, and the 4-5 hundred bucks (1 1/2 to 3 packs daily) is NOWHERE to be found.

I have found (that isn’t mentioned) that I DO drink more. With the idiocy I find, it’s small wonder, but still...