33stone at aged 15!!!!

[puddicat]

This girl from wales is britains fattist teenager not a title i would want,how the hell did she let it get so bad,think the parents are fatties also,they say that parents of obese children believe their kids are a healthly weight !!!!!!

[andy-hughes]

This can often be a matter of perception.

Remember, no-one gets out of bed weighing 33 stone, it creeps up on the individual very slowly. If her parents simply think she is getting bigger, they will buy her bigger clothes, and simply ignore the fact that their daughter is dangerously obese.

From the girl's perspective, she may have low self-iamge issues, and feel unable to talk to her family about them, and before long, you have a classic denial situation, where no-one talks about anything concerning this poor young woman and her weight issues.

It is easy for us to step in at the stage, throw up her hands and say "How could she / they!" but life is rarely that simple.

What is needed is some practical advice for parents who may simply lack the skills to acknowledge and deal with such an issue.

Everyone involved deserves our sympathy, but being the 'fatist' society that we are, I imagine the Sunday red-tops are gearing their headings as I write, and such useful and helpful terms as 'gut bucket' will be shrieking at us across our Sunday breakfast tables.

[puddicat]

I take on board to a certain extent what you are saying!!but as for sympathies no not really, we have to get to get back to basics, educating parents,is the key,healthy eating and excersise from child hood, these parents feed them rubbish from babies and dont do any kind of interactive excersise at all, put them in front of the telly or computer, then kick off when the medical issues and social issues come into play,then they want someone else to sort it out, i hear now that she is going across to the states now to one of those fat camps, hope they are funding this and not the nhs!!!!

[RevFunk]

Burger me like her self esteem is going to get better by eating lol

Everyone has s*** in their lives, but dealing with it thro food, alcohol drugs isnt the answer.

She wants to get a grip.

Was she force fed lard with a ladle/bucket

[vehelpfulguy]

Article here

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/rea l_life/article1499935.ece

[gelda]

I watched a programme last night where a chap weighed 88 stone, he hadn't been out of bed for7 years ( this is in America ) He had a daughter who had a 4 month old baby and she as feeding the baby on burgers and chips, beggars belief !!!

[beejaybee]

I recorded that programme gelda. I had to rewind it just to make sure I was nt imagining that I saw the baby being given burger & fries. What hope has that baby.

[Velvetee]

It's really sad, it appears she's very depressed and has little in her life, except being a carer for her mother.

If she does manage to get down to a healthy weight, she will probably be left with loose, hanging skin and flesh, thats a problem in itself.

[puddicat]

Yep velvetee thats another few ops that the nhs will have to fork out for!!!

[evedawn]

just a thought....if anorexia is an eating disorder that the nhs pays for (and rightly so!) then surely overeating is also an eating disorder and as such should be dealt with on Nhs? (via counselling / educating / dieticiens etc)