Blobs and water fasts

If bartenders can say "don't you think you've had enough," waiters and grocers should be able to do the same.

While I don't necessarily disagree, in this case waiters and grocers won't be saying that to these people. These people are so huge they can't move to go to a restaurant or grocery store in the first place.

So they are basically in an emergency situation. Doesn't that call for drastic measures?

However, I wonder if you would get sick if you don't eat, even if you are enormously fat. I'm not sure how it works.

It would probably be a massive shock to the system.

yes, i think it would end tragically, just like when alkies try to stop cold turkey.

No, you dizzy queen. The body would begin to consuming muscle for protein after a few days, and not very discriminately. Your kidneys and liver would start to shut down and your heart would give out.

If someone is too big to move they are being fed by an enabler. Cut the food intake to protein shakes, salad and water and if all mineral and vitamin requirements are being fulfilled they should start to lose weight. The excess skin would have to be removed later but it’s got to be better than being in essence a breathing, eating & excreting corpse.

Is the OP retarded?

Here's some research: Abstract: "The weights of 207 morbidly obese patients were reduced via prolonged fasting. Half the patients fasted for close to two months, losing a mean of 28.2 kg; one fourth fasted for less than one month; and the other fourth fasted for more than two months, with a mean 41.4-kg loss. This latter group was heavier initially, and more than 50% attained near-normal weight.

Patients with onset of obesity in childhood had the lowest tolerance for fasting and the lowest success rate in attaining normal weight.

Over a 7.3-year follow-up period in 121 patients, the reduced weight was maintained for the first 12 to 18 months. Subsequently, regain proceeded equally in all groups irrespective of length of fast, extent of weight loss, or age at onset of obesity.

Regain to original weight occurred in 50% within two to three years and only 7 patients remained at their reduced weights. Regain to greater than original weight was more common in childhood-onset obesity."

1 kg = 2.2 lbs

Water fasts are all the rage.

It would probably kill her. Most people of this size are severely malnourished despite their huge weight. She should be taken to a hospital, if necessary someone should get the paperwork to become her legal caretaker and let the doctors reduce her safely. About half way down she should start getting intense psychological therapy to keep her from just eating her way back once she goes home.

First of course they would have to rule out any physical cause for such weight gain. She would need at least a year in a hospital. Who the fuck could pay for that. Even if she has Medicaid I doubt it would pay for the kind of care she needs. She might first even need heart surgery before any kind of diet is attempted.

She's not just a fat person. She is a critically ill person, physically and mentally.

Most of these super-sized people are almost certainly diabetic and in that case fasting would cause blood sugar issues. But as long as that is properly taken care of, R6's suggestion seems pretty practical

She will have to lose weight slowly and under the care of a doctor and a nutritionist.

Jason Fung, a nephrologist, is probably THE expert on the subject of fasting.

Dr. Fung would agree with the statements in this article that longterm fasting doesn't do much for weight loss, but regular intermittent fasting does.

Why the sudden onslaught of fatty threads? Have fatties replaced the trannies as the new freak we love to hate? So many questions...

Fatties aren’t squeezing themselves into psychiatrists offices and demanding to be called anorexic on the basis when they look in a mirror they see a fat person r15 so the comparison doesn’t stand - just like the fatties.

I've read of an extremely obese man who in a medically supervised fast in the late 1940s had only a multivitamin and water and safely lost hundreds of pounds. Even under medical supervision there is some risk in undertaking a water fast, but not as much risk as remaining over 500 lbs.

A protein sparing modified fast (just water, vitamins, minerals, and 50-80 grams of protein a day) would be safer, preserve more lean tissue, and be just as effective in facilitating rapid weight loss in the morbidly obese.