Have you ever saw this on Discovery? It was on again last night. I honestly can't believe how much some of those people eat in a day. When they put all the food they consume in a day on a table, I about barfed. 700 grams of fat a day. Wow.
If I laid out all the 2000-2300 calories I consume in a day, it may fill up a TV tray and not a dining room table that's for sure.
I saw something like this, one guy would eat cereal with waffles in it covered in chocolate sauce and all this other stuff. oh and the title worries me for a second lol
Is that actually possible? 
I mean, what are they eating and where is it all going? Surely your stomach cannot possibly hold that much?
Three of the four people profiled each weighed around 700 pounds, so I don't think room is the problem. On average they did around 15000 calories per day. I think only one of the four profiled actually was still pretty mobile and routinely left the house. The two men are pretty much bed bound.
What I hate about these type of television shows is the self pitying crying fits. Unless someone ties you down and force feeds you, take some responsibility for your own actions.
Kobayashi eats around 20,000 calories every eating contest he does.
I've seen him once eat 30,000 calories in a single sitting though. It was about 25 lbs of food.
And I wish the kids/people in their lives would stop enabling them! If all the family members bought was fruit and veggies instead of cupcakes and cookies, they'd binge on that and my guess is they'd eventually start loosing a little at least. Some at the end were enlising professional help to diet but the other story that I say (the NC woman) didn't really have an ending, just "I need to eat better" at the end of the show. I mean really? That's it? You need to eat better?! I hope they get the help they need to at least get healthy.
That's what you call a diet!....wow!!
Wow, I'd like to see that show.
Just for fun I checked the burn meter if I were to weigh 700 pounds, and it was only 4600 per day. So if these people are eating 15,000 calories per day, I'd guess they're gaining about 2.8 pounds PER DAY. But that would be 1,042 pounds per year, so maybe not.
And if these people are bed bound, WHY are their family members aiding in killing them by bringing them food?
The Harris-Benedict formula used to calculate BMR doesn't apply well to extremely obese people. With added weight comes changes in metabolism.
Original Post by daddyjaxx:
What I hate about these type of television shows is the self pitying crying fits. Unless someone ties you down and force feeds you, take some responsibility for your own actions.
I can understand where you're coming from but those people have actual binge eating disorders. They may want to stop and they probably fight as hard as they can not to eat all the food that they do but they can't.They don't know how to say enough is enough. It is just like anorexia or bulimia, an illness. Like I said though, I can understand where your coming from, it annoy's me sometimes, too.. But mostly I just feel sad. And sick.
Anyways, I watched the same thing as you on TLC last night. It makes me sad to watch them eat there selves to death, especially the ones with kids.
Original Post by daddyjaxx:
What I hate about these type of television shows is the self pitying crying fits. Unless someone ties you down and force feeds you, take some responsibility for your own actions.
^ What she said above my post.
It's a disease in which they have very little control over. A schizophrenic has little to no control over the hallucinations they experience. When treated, they can sometimes distinguish between what is real and what isn't, but they can't stop it from occuring. These people know eating this much isn't healthy, but they've gotten to the point where they have no control over their eating any longer. It would require some large outside force to interrupt their pattern.
OMG! I watched this last night too, well part of it. I used to watch it all the time but I just got tired of them moaning because they ''cant stop eating''. I know they can't help it, but gross!
When they sit there and have 20 scrambled eggs, 30 slices of bacon, a loaf of bread toasted, a box of grits, and 12 pancakes...its just crazy!!
O_O How in the world do they eat all of that!?!?
I watched it last night too. I go back and forth when it comes to believing/understanding that it's a disease. When I think addiction I think of someone who would do ANYTHING to get their 'fix'. So if that's a drug addict being homeless, or stealing, or selling their bodies, all for one more hit then yeah, addicted. With food I find it hard to see it like that. I think my problem is they only show these people eating the WORST possible food ever. Everything, I mean everything they ate was fried, greasy, chocolate, or salty. Well yeah, it's easy to binge on that food. I guess I just wonder, like how someone mentioned above, if they were only given fruits and veggies as an option would they binge as much? I mean if they are true addicts if you took away their food would they steal the family dog's food away to get their next fix? On the other hand I do realize that they are giving up their mobility, their health, their lives to the food, so yeah that's a sacrifice for a fix. I dunno, like I said I bounce back and forth. I don't mean to sound insensitive. I'm willing to admit I'm probably not well informed.. so all I am saying here is based on what knowledge I have on the subject.
Everything in moderation....even the good stuff. I saw another show where a guy loved oranges. He ate 30 a day. That's like 3000 calories a day in oranges besides an OD on vitamin C.
Lol, jaxx, I just typed the same thing up and looked up and there it was :P, but yeah, even the healthy stuff can be bad for you..
Yeah, I saw that I while back. Really disturbing that people can eat so much. I know that I could not ever eat that much.
It could be an emotional issues too. I find when I am feeling bad about myself, sorry for myself, un-loved or un-appreciated by loved ones, I eat to fill that emotional void. Then you feel guilty for eating for that reason and eat more cause once again you feel bad about yourself. I'm fat cause I eat and I eat cause I'm fat. It is a sad vicious circle to get stuck in.
Who pays for all that food? SSI/disability can't possibly cover it.
kind of sad, who is the person bringing this food to them if they are bed bound.
Where can I see 1/8th or 1/6th of a pie or angel food cake?
This is the best way to picture a portion of pie or cake: Draw a circle to represent the circumference of the cake or pie (9" pie? 10" cake?... Read more