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Oh my god!
OMG! I couldn't believe Helen's mother! She stood there and said that they must have a "fat gene" because they eat everything in moderation. This is immediately after her daughter has said that she eats almost constantly, that she gorges on chocolate and crisps after school, eats dinner then goes to the shop in the evening for more rubbish to eat. When her dad came to visit I agreed with everything he said, and felt sad for him because he was so upset that his daughter was going to have gastric bypass surgery. I believe she could have achieved the same weight loss on a calorie controlled diet with exercise - plenty of other people have, but both mother and daughter are far too lazy and too busy blaming being "big" on their genes. Just made me grrrrrrrr!
But I did feel hugely sorry for the girl who had to have all her excess skin removed from her stomach after losing 8 stone. What a shame, to have to have that done and she's only 22. But well done on her for losing the weight before it did her some serious damage.
Next time I feel like scoffing tons of food, I will remember the inside of Helen's body, with the layers of fat coating her internal organs! Bleeeurgh!
OMG! I couldn't believe Helen's mother! She stood there and said that they must have a "fat gene" because they eat everything in moderation. This is immediately after her daughter has said that she eats almost constantly, that she gorges on chocolate and crisps after school, eats dinner then goes to the shop in the evening for more rubbish to eat. When her dad came to visit I agreed with everything he said, and felt sad for him because he was so upset that his daughter was going to have gastric bypass surgery. I believe she could have achieved the same weight loss on a calorie controlled diet with exercise - plenty of other people have, but both mother and daughter are far too lazy and too busy blaming being "big" on their genes. Just made me grrrrrrrr!
But I did feel hugely sorry for the girl who had to have all her excess skin removed from her stomach after losing 8 stone. What a shame, to have to have that done and she's only 22. But well done on her for losing the weight before it did her some serious damage.
Next time I feel like scoffing tons of food, I will remember the inside of Helen's body, with the layers of fat coating her internal organs! Bleeeurgh!
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But yeah the skin on that girls stomach I was very shocked at that...
But Helen, she eats more in one day than I consume in a week!
Good on the girl who lost all that weight through a healthy diet and exercise though. Shows that is the only thing that really works.
Had she not thought of seeing their doctor,asking friends or going to the library if she was really too thick to work out that the junk food she let her daughter have was making her fat?
Also felt sorry for the dad of the teenage girl, he was so right. Glad she lost some weight but will she be able to cope for the rest of her life? How soon before she liquidises Mars bars?
[wails]
"BUT I DON'T LIKE BEING FAT!"
"We don't like you being fat either"
How simply LOVELY!
<nods sagely>
As for the mother of the six year old, did she have no brain? To do nothing for a year (except carry on feeding chocolate to her child!) because their was no dietician available was extraordinary! And even when she had been to the appointment, she was still picking up junk food in the supermarket.
Well done to the girl who had managed to lose 8 stone - perhaps all young people and their parents should be shown the footage of the fat around her stomach!
I almost started a thread on this last night but held back because some of the things on the program have got me to do some quite serious thinking.
Some of it for me, was quite difficult to watch, especially the girl who had lost the weight and was having a full body tuck. Her attitude to life is very much like my own at the moment - I sometimes feel like walking up to people and having a rant at them when I see them walking down town with a pie in hand.
The other problem though is, I'm now going to be walking around and wondering who is staring at me cos they know about the secret folds of skin that haunt me. Certainly, most of the people I work with and my friends have known me for years and so know that I used to be 'bigger'. Must be those gene's eh?
I maybe shouldn't be saying this on an open forum as I haven't fully thought it out in my own mind. She took a very very brave step to have that surgery. Any surgery, no matter how trivial, is dangerous and to have such a lengthy operation (7 hours) to look 'normal' - I can only nod my head in approval and say "Go to it!".
However, would I be brave enough to take that step?
I was quite shocked at the mother of the thirteen year old and the thing about it 'being in the genes'.
And when they were tucking into a massive trifle the week before saying about making the most of it because we'll not be having this ever after next week. I found that quite sad - if they weren't eating it in the first place, they wouldn't be thinking about the surgery.
The father was soooo right in what he said. I just don't understand how the girl couldn't see - what was the comment? "So, if I walk around for 24 hours, I'll lose weight" - in an incredulous voice? Of course you will.
You see, I feel quite guilty about commenting on any of this because I used to be like that. I was very very blinkered in my views and angry at anyone that made any sort of reference that I didn't want to hear about weight.
Right, back to work - still thinking on it though.
<lurking re-cloak>
With the Government removing competitive sports from schools and replacing playing fields with houses they are hardly encouraging the population to be healthy but the main blame goes to the parents.
In some respects feeding children junk food and causing health risks is a form a child abuse and the quicker this is realised and addressed the fewer children will have to contend with the issues addressed in the programme
I was stunned when the mum said she didn't know what to do to help her child, surely everyone really knows what to do in order to lose weight it's just down to whether we want to or not.
Having seen some of the other points on this thread I am almost glad I didn't see the rest of it as I think I would have got very annoyed!
Children can teach their parents a thing or two, you know, and educating the children just might have them pestering their parents for better food.
Also, these kids are the parents of the future, so if their parents are feeding them crap, they will feed their kids crap unless the government does its bit and educates the kids.
BUT I do think the government has a responsibility to educate children about healthy food, and where it is responsible for giving children a meal, i.e. at school, then it should be as nutritionally balanced and healthy as possible.
If parents can't do the job properly, then I believe the government has an obligation to step in and try to rectify the situation best they can.
Second point - Yes, parents do have to pass the responsibility over, like everything else! Jeez...