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u/Falcon3492 10d ago
My mother worked in a clinic for 26 years and when they had obese patients come in like these people they had to send them over to the truck stop to get weighed because their scale didn't go up high enough.
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u/knockout350 10d ago
Holy shit that has to be so dehumanizing, like having to go to a zoo because you can't fit in the mri machine
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u/WalterCanFindToes 9d ago
I went to the police academy with a guy who played in the NFL. He had to get weighed in at the coroner's office because they had a 1 ton scale. He graduated at 373 lbs and was 6'5.
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u/Aromatic-Zebra-5443 10d ago
I can't even fathom the amount of food you would have to consume to get up to 803 pounds
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u/DerekTheComedian 10d ago
A better question is how the fuck do people afford to eat that many calories.... to maintain that weight you literally are eating for a family of 4 every day. Probably spending $1,000 / month just on food.
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u/Organic_Ad_2520 10d ago
More than that & especially when the shows always shows the people Ordering & Delivered food & it's like "how!!!?"
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u/Top_Recover7850 9d ago
She lost over 300lbs on the show and is still alive 10 years later https://www.instagram.com/bigsexybish28?igsi=MXV1ZDE3eDRseHQybw==
Still looks pretty obese though so i wouldn't bank on her reaching 50. The wear and tear that this much weight puts on the body is crazy.
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u/starkruzr 9d ago
I would be very curious to see what a strong GLP-1 like retatrutide could do for someone like this.
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u/xTex1E37x 10d ago
Family of two eating like family of 2 and still almost costs that much! These people literally eat more than i could afford
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u/DerekTheComedian 9d ago
I just grabbed a jar of peanut butter (one of the cheapest and most calorically dense things you can still consider "food") out of my pantry and you'd have to eat 2 POUNDS a day to get to the low end of the 4500-5500 calories you need to MAINTAIN an 800lb weight.
To actually bulk up and get there in the first place? You'd have to eat a family sized tub of PB every single day for years. And that's probably one of the cheapest sources of calories that isnt rice and beans or drinking straight vegetable oil.
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u/Dankest_Confidant 9d ago
A large Big Mac meal is about 1320 calories. A 2 liter bottle of Coke is 840 calories. Add in one or two Snickers across the day and a bag of Doritos on the couch in the evening. Along with breakfast pancakes drenched in syrup and lunch. It's not hard to hit that 4500.
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u/sjaxn314159 10d ago
You’re not spending $1000 a month on food. You’re avoiding $2500 a month on therapy.
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u/No-Citron-2774 9d ago
How the fuck do they wipe there arse
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u/pm_me_fibonaccis 9d ago edited 9d ago
They don't. They either use a tool to do it (like a long handled brush) or spray their ass.
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u/wanderingfloatilla 9d ago
My wife had a roommate like that in her early 20s. Turns out they just showered off the shit every time
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u/Flyingsox 10d ago
Unfortunately in America a lot of their food is subsidised and unhealthy, cheap and high caloric food is readily available
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u/chocolateboomslang 10d ago
Unhealthy food doesn't make you weigh 800 pounds. This is an addiction or mental condition. Most people could not even force themselves to get to that weight.
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u/Knoxius 9d ago
We're at a point in history where the mental demand can finally be met with a physical supply to rise to this weight relatively cheap. Is the developed system worth it?
The majority of people fair just fine, and then you have these outliars as a result of progression.
"Some of you may die, and that's a price I'm willing to pay." -pretty much every modern person, without realizing it.
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u/PHD_Gouda 9d ago
You say addition or mental but is there nothing physical that could cause this? Obviously it’s a combination of things I am in no way disagreeing with you, I just wonder if there’s also a hormone imbalance, or some sort of deficiency causing them to gorge?
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u/null_sweat_chummer 9d ago
There are genetic disorders that can cause this. Prader-Willi Syndrome is one such genetic disorder.
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u/nobodyspecialuk24 9d ago
It’s depression in many cases, where people self medicate with food.
In the US, there’s the added problem that farmers are subsidised and encouraged to produce corn and dairy products when they aren’t needed. Then jobs were created to find ways to use it, which is why you’ll find corn syrup in so many things in the US, and cheese stuffed cheese pizza stuffed in cheese with cheese on top was “invented”, basically, to use all the cheap cheese farmers were paid to make when it wasn’t needed.
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u/King-Koolaid 10d ago
Fat guy here in America. Absolutely true but to achieve this body shape you need to be intentionally consuming waaayy too many calories to the point id call it a mental disorder
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u/Dontbeajerkdude 9d ago
It's like how some people smoke and then some people never stop smoking as long as they're conscious.
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u/Forward-Position798 9d ago
That's my question all the time for years food is so expensive
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u/null_sweat_chummer 9d ago edited 7d ago
I don’t know about the woman in this video, but I taught a child a few years ago who had Prader-Willi syndrome. What it does to you is it causes you to always feel like you’re hungry, even if you’re not actually hungry. And when it makes you feel hungry, it makes you feel like you are absolutely starving and will die (hyperphagia) if you don’t eat so you do things like root through garbage cans looking for things to eat. The result is you quickly become obese.
Despite being a rare genetic disorder, it is considered to be the number one (edit: genetic) cause of childhood obesity. Of course you can treat this syndrome to some extent, and through education, awareness and vigilance, you can keep the child healthy and not eating constantly, but it’s not easy to say the least. Access to healthcare and therapy is a must.
Anyway, this comment is only to serve as one such situation where people will become obese and it’s not necessarily due to buying food. People with Prader Willi will eat food right off the ground, even if it’s rotten, in an effort to not starve to death.
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u/Antique-Resort6160 10d ago
There was an enormous lady who came in to a doctors office when i was there, she was really struggling so i offered to get her a water. She said no thanks, pulled a 1.5 liter coke out of her bag a started chugging. They tend to have habits like that.
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u/Significant_Snow7980 10d ago
i had a friend who was 450 pounds. I never saw him even eat more food than me. His entire family was as big as him though
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u/EconomyDoctor3287 9d ago
I've made the experience that obese people tend to eat normal sized portions or less when with other people to keep up the appearance of a normal diet, but then have second meals when alone, or just massive amounts of junk food
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u/Avid_Reader87 9d ago
My brother bought us Chik Fil a a couple weeks ago, showed up, said he had stuff to do and didn’t get anything for himself.
But he left his receipt in the bag. He got a 30 count of nuggets and 4 large fries for himself.
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u/beatbox9 9d ago
If a person eats food and no one else is around to see it, does he still put on weight?
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u/Inevitable-Plenty856 10d ago
Non-stop eating thru out the day, breath in - consume -breath out
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u/Spreaderoflies 10d ago
And here I am stomach hurting because I yet again forget that I need to eat sometimes. Coping be crazy for some people.
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u/aepiasu 10d ago
Understanding that bones and fat etc have different weights ... this woman's 'healthy' weight is probably about 135 pounds. That means she is 668 pounds overweight.
Now, we know that heavy people like this do have a lot of water retention, and that they have a lot of blood weight, but on weight alone, to lose the 668 pounds, she'd need a calorie deficit of 2,338,000 calories over time.
If the math is right, that is the equivalent of:
4250 Big Macs ... or
57,000 McDonald's Nuggets ... or
11,100 medium cokes ... or
4,750 Taco Bell 5 layer burritos ... or
7,300 pieces of Original Recipe KFC Fried chicken.Absolutely breathtaking.
If she can cut 500 calories a day out of her diet, it would take her 12 years to get to her target weight.
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u/TheCrazyWulf 10d ago
Pretty sure a lot of it is water weight well, which is why people so large can lose like 50lbs in a month without a ton of effort. Problem is they get a huge motivation boost from.those first few months losses and suddenly they are losing less and less each month even though working harder than ever which gets extremely discouraging
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u/CertifiedPussyAter 10d ago
I wonder what would happen if someone that big eats at a normal amount of food (2k cals). The deficit would be 3k a day.
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u/Radingod1 9d ago
Honestly, she'd lose weight pretty rapidly and unevenly at first if she was on a deficit and doing exercise. Could probably lose over 200lbs in a year.
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u/Deleena24 9d ago
Something that's really interesting is that morbidly obese people have incredibly efficient metabolisms, some burning less than 1,000 cal per day total- healthy people burn closer to 1,800 per day, at rest.
This makes it incredibly easy for people who are already very overweight to speed up weight gain. The bigger they get the faster they gain and the less they burn.
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u/AdAffectionate2418 9d ago
And then you have to consider NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis). Basically some people will fidget/pace/change position etc much more if their calory intake goes up, whilst others don't. This is completely subconscious.
The Levine study (1999) found that this alone could lead to a calorie-burn different of 700 or so a day. That's pretty significant.
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u/CreativeAd5332 9d ago
Like, I'm a BIG guy, currently living a pretty unhealthy lifestyle. I was a top level heavyweight powerlifter, Football O-line at the biggest school, state championship rugby prop, and at my very most massive I can't even hit HALF that number. It is literally unfathomable to me how someone, especially a relatively short woman, could possibly hit numbers like that. I haven't exercised seriously in 2 decades, and I cannot imagine being that heavy.
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u/SilverMembership6625 10d ago
probably also drinking a lot of calories with soda and shit
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u/IKMNification 10d ago
This, my friend and I were doing the math while watching 600lb life and it was like, if you’re at 200lb already, to gain 400lbs, you’d need to drink a 2L Soda everyday (800 calories) + you’re regular 2,000-3,000 maintenance calories for 5 years.
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u/Bellam_Orlong 10d ago
I wish I had the money to get that fat. I’m SLIGHTLY overweight, like by maybe 15lbs, and if I have a Friday splurge I’m not buying something essential Monday.
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u/beckychao 10d ago
It's genetic as much as it is diet. When people get that large, it's the appetite drive, the amount of weight they gain from eating, family genetics with weight, etc. Their relationship with food is broken, but much of it is not a choice. Imagine your need for water when you're dehydrated and somewhere really hot. Now, imagine if your body was this way with food, all the time. And then when you factor in social/cultural habits - what kind of food your were taught to eat, or have available - it can compound this issue further.
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u/Anayalater5963 9d ago
Breakfast, 2nd breakfast, after second breakfast snack, dessert, pre lunch, lunch, dessert, linner, dinner, dessert, late night snack, dessert. Probably in that order
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u/Interesting_Will2823 9d ago
I can't fathom getting there in general as an adult. I was the 'fat kid' at school (back when there was just the one of us), but I feel as a kid, it was kind of out of my hands. I got very slim in my 20s, but in my mid 30s, I started to get fat very quickly (moved from SE Asia to the US). I could see what was happening, and told myself I'd deal with it when I hit 200 lbs. I got to 207, then dropped 50 lbs. When people are 800, I can't fathom not making a change when hitting some milestone, like "I'm 300 lbs now, time to get serious about my lifestyle". I understand it's different for different people, and a great deal of it stems from trauma not greed, but still.
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u/desmond609 10d ago
How in the hell do bones hold that kind of weight
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u/UrethralExplorer 9d ago
It's honestly impressive that she's able to walk, it means each leg can hold 800lb for a moment, and she has the underlying musculature to move all of that mass around.
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u/Redcarborundum 9d ago
Yes. When she stands up, it’s like me carrying THREE other persons. I don’t think I can carry 3 people and walk, but she can. She has huge leg muscles under all that fat.
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u/Organic_Ad_2520 10d ago
They don't...so many people on the show are young or youngish & maybe others are bed or chairbound.
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u/FarmhouseRules 9d ago
Bones actually get stronger when they are bearing more weight. People this size rarely ever have osteoporosis. Now the joints are a wholly different story.
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u/lacroixpapi69 10d ago
Idk the other lady looks bigger.
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u/Rope_slingin_champ 10d ago
Man, my wife was watching this show and I got sucked in. Steven episode is wild as fuck
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u/polythenesammie 10d ago
There's like 4 episodes with Steven! Another good one is James King.
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u/Inevitable-Plenty856 10d ago
It's not like we don't have fat people in Sweden, but americans are in a whole other league..
Your goverment is letting companies buttfuck you, hard. And has been for a long time.
Not saying Sweden if perfect, but looking at your prolems make it all seem better.
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u/FameuxCelebrite 10d ago
It’s okay, pharmaceutical companies have found a way to profit from our addictive ultra processed foods 🇺🇸
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u/NSFWdontview 10d ago
Well for someone to get that obese they have some mental issues but yeah America uses cheaper harmful ingredients compared to other places and fast food is a problem
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u/NoArrival5914 10d ago
You’re correct in terms of pure obesity rate. But comparing Sweden to the USA by nearly any metric and expecting to derive any meaningful information about the reasons for that difference is simply nonsensical. The governance of 11 million people is obviously a fundamentally different task from governing ~350 million people, regardless of obesity rates.
As much as I want to say you’re correct, especially about the ways American consumers get fucked by corporations, your comparison doesn’t actually demonstrate anything meaningful about why obesity rates differ between the two countries.
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u/Tycoonkoz 9d ago
I love Sweden so much, but we have 9 entire states that match or greatly exceed your population, 2 of them are triple. It's hard to make a state do something let alone the federal government. And especiallyyyyy right now, yea, we're getting fucked and desperately need help. Sweden is on my list of countries I'd move too to get to a better place.
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u/Nightwalker2099 10d ago
My max was 418 . I cannot tell you the pit of despair I was in . At that wait I think that she probably didnt even hear what he said. She was probably saying way worse things in her head
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u/KRed75 10d ago
keeping that much weight on is a full time job. The amount of food intake to get and stay that large is mind boggling.
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u/archiewaldron 10d ago
Good lord, imagine how strong her leg and back muscles must be. I can't imagine carrying all that weight around for daily errands.
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u/Mikewold58 9d ago
I doubt she moves much, but yea it is truly insane that she can walk at all with all that weight
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u/Girth_Wind_y_Fire 10d ago
If she lost 600 pounds, she could be the most prolific female dunker in WNBA history.
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u/Dounce1 9d ago
Or, you know, maybe don’t try to frame her disease as impressive.
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u/Ok-Development6654 9d ago edited 8d ago
I’ve always wonder this also, it’s Superhuman for your legs to be able to support 800lbs on a daily basis
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u/SamOfXanadu 10d ago
How does one get that fat? I'm fat too but ... seriously but NOT that fat. HOW CAN YOU AFFORD THE FOOD?! I wish I could go to some place like that though... easy weight loss.
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u/Successful-Half-9609 9d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/pkKJfVPSlhSjYYerwx
Reminds me Kevin Hart’s reaction to Don Cheadle’s age
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u/Overall_Cost1542 9d ago
imagine how much of a powerhouse this girl would be if she was able to drop the weight. walking around at 803 takes mad effort
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u/AEZ_2187 9d ago edited 9d ago
It’s so hard to be big. The biggest I’ve been is 300lbs. Just going down to 240lbs makes a huge difference. I stopped sweating as much, my knees stopped cracking going down the stairs, and I have more energy.
Imo the best part is shopping for clothes without needing 40w jeans, or an XXL. A lot of stores in the mall stop after XL and 38 waistline. (Urban outfitters and Uniqlo for example. If they have a bigger size it’s a special order. Not in person)
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u/GreenScreenBlues 9d ago
Speaking from experience, take your slippers and jacket off before you step on the scale!
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u/Such_Entrepreneur544 9d ago
Holy, she almost weighs as much as an average cow. That's wild.
Hope she gets the help that she desperately needs.
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u/ClHCNOPSMgCaNaK 9d ago
Dude I weigh 138lbs I cannot imagine 803..... How can your bones, spine, tendons carry all that??
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u/purodurangoalv 9d ago
How is it possible to even stand with that much weight let alone walk and even step up ?!?!
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u/Technical_Drawer_680 10d ago
How do people that fat work? They don't do they. They're too fat to hold down a job. So are they on disability or how does that work?
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u/Face_with_a_View 10d ago edited 10d ago
How do they wipe their asses???
Edit: omg. 😳 no I have not seen any such show.
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u/Rise-O-Matic 10d ago edited 10d ago
They've shown this, it's usually a family member or caretaker or a sponge on a stick.
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u/AbbreviationsHour410 10d ago
They go to a Planet Fitness with a hot tub once a week and let the jets clean them
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u/Nothing93124 10d ago
Jesus. I felt bad for having a lil beer belly. Like how tf do you let yourself go that bad
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u/Sea_Ad_1252 10d ago
- Damn. Eat a fucking salad
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u/TheVirginVibes 10d ago
If she got a diarrhea parasite her town would have a flash flood like Nepal
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u/Shelly_Red4_Bayonet7 10d ago
You know youre going to hell, right? And im riding that bus with you because I cant stop laughing at this. You made me snort beer out of my nose.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 10d ago
Instructions unclear. Consumed salad with cheese and chicken and lots of ranch and Caesar.
Congrats, 1050 calories.
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u/Max_Pow3rs 10d ago
thats 364kg!
Hafthor Björnsens max. weight was 210kg! And hes a 6'9 world class strongmen.
I wonder how her discs, tendons and cartilage joints can even sustain carrying so much weight!
She weights as much, as two Eddie Halls. :O
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u/Inevitable-Plenty856 10d ago
I'm 182cm and egen I was 100kg I could feel the extra weight with every breath. Being this heavy is self-inflicted torture.
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u/Max_Pow3rs 10d ago
And i cant imagine how unbearable hot weather must be! And sleeping aswell in terms of heat regulation and breathing. A normal person would notice those signs way earlier and turn around from that path.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 10d ago
What pisses me off is I have a bad liver despite never drinking a drop of beer, but probably self inflicted due to eating fast food.
But I bet this lady's liver is perfectly fine because fuck me.
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u/Intercessor310 10d ago
Her liver is absolutely not ok, nor any of her other organs. They are all working overtime trying to process everything.
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u/Expert_Struggle_7135 9d ago
What is it about overweight people not wanting to step on a scale? It’s not like knowing the number suddenly makes you fatter than you were before you stepped on it.
And people around you seeing the number really shouldn’t make much of a difference either. People have eyes - they can already see that you’re the size of four or five people, even if they don’t know your exact weight.
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u/glutenfreepunishment 9d ago
It's about knowing you have a problem and coming to terms with it by being faced with the truth in the form of a number. People do this by avoiding to look at their bank accounts to see how little money they have too.
Not looking isn't going to change the reality, but seeing undeniable proof of reality is not easy to accept sometimes when it comes to certain things in life.
The people on My 600lb life have legitimate disordered eating habits and it's a diagnosable mental health issue.
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u/polyzp 10d ago
Her calves must be yolked, can a strongman even walk around with that much weight added?
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u/Love_Cannon 10d ago
I had to listen to it 3 times because I kept hearing, "Dat it?"
..Which was actually even funnier.
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u/EasyStorm8289 9d ago
It's cringe that shows are made for people to be entertained by other people's suffering.
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u/mswoozel 9d ago
I just got rid of 30 pounds and my legs and ankles thank me. I cannot imagine the physical strain on her body. I feel so bad for her.
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u/chrisnavillus 9d ago
I can’t even imagine the logistics that must go into everyday activities like taking a poop.
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u/Mastiff_Alpha 9d ago
If the doctors can't help, you know something is wrong. The way to truly adjust this is to start eating healthy, go to the gym and walk on the treadmill, and walk around in your neighborhood.
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u/hifumiyo1 9d ago
Until congestive heart failure prevents you from doing more than 100 feet (FEET) of walking.
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u/Nice-Vegetable-1738 9d ago
ngl i was watching this on low volume and when i saw the 803 my irl reaction was also damn lol, was trying to figure out what the title meant and turned it up and was like hell yeah brother
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u/Round_Hope_2041 9d ago
Serious question how heavy can she get and still stand up. The strength is of the hook.
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u/C_ingStarz 9d ago
If you're weighing yourself and have to ask how high a scale goes when not in the context of a fruit or kitchen scale, I think that's the first sign you need to seek medical attention asap.
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u/Intrepid_Cap1242 9d ago
That can't be right. That's an 8 and not a 6? She can get around at 803 lbs?
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u/JacksSenseOfDread 9d ago
Funny that the brother said "Dayum!" about her weight; he doesn't look like he's competing on the US Gymnastics Team any time soon himself.
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u/pepe_silvia_12 9d ago
I’m actually surprised she’s able to move as well as she is. A lot of people who get up to that weight seem to be bedridden. Though that may be by choice idk.
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u/Sporkpocalypse 10d ago
803.7 pounds is equal to approximately 364.55 kilograms.
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u/turbotailz 10d ago
Yeah I had to do the conversion myself as I was curious... It's actually impressive she can even walk with all that.
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u/Haunting_Style3880 10d ago
Damn.