I'm sitting home, doing laundry and have been caught up in a marathon. It's a TLC show called Inside Brookhaven Obesity Clinic. I know I've talked about another fat people show before, the one with the gastric bypass doctors. This is somewhat similar.
Let me preface everything I say beyond this but letting you know that I have serious sympathy for people who are morbidly obese. I know how hard is to lose weight, and I understand that it's a disease, and people have addictions, so please understand that what I say below comes from someone who knows what it's like to have an addiction to food. I'm not some skinny dumb girl who just thinks these people should just stop eating. With that said, these people need to stop eating.
Let me preface everything I say beyond this but letting you know that I have serious sympathy for people who are morbidly obese. I know how hard is to lose weight, and I understand that it's a disease, and people have addictions, so please understand that what I say below comes from someone who knows what it's like to have an addiction to food. I'm not some skinny dumb girl who just thinks these people should just stop eating. With that said, these people need to stop eating.
This show is about a clinic in NY that caters to severely obese people. And when I say severely obese, I mean like Orca fat, more than 400 pounds, most of them close to 600. This one guy has this disgusting growth on his leg. And when I say disgusting I mean like Elephantitis. Some of the people on the show are determined to get better and are doing their exercises, eating right, and listening to the doctors. Then there are the patients who just don't care. I'm not sure if they thought by walking into the building they would start automatically losing weight or what. Most of these people are quite delusional, blaming everybody but themselves, blaming genetics, saying they don't really eat that much. I mean, if you think four packs of double stuff Oreos, five gyros, two bags of Lays potato chips and three 2 liters of coke isn't a lot.
The most obnoxious patients even order from restaurants around the clinic who deliver food to them. I'm not sure where the security guards are, but my thinking is they should probably restrict that. I mean, the clinic does what it can, these are adults, but there are people who have been there for 2 years and have lost no weight, or even gained weight. Personally, I think that's reason enough to kick someone out. If they were at a drug rehab clinic and the person was doing smack in the broom closet they would get kicked out.
The most obnoxious patients even order from restaurants around the clinic who deliver food to them. I'm not sure where the security guards are, but my thinking is they should probably restrict that. I mean, the clinic does what it can, these are adults, but there are people who have been there for 2 years and have lost no weight, or even gained weight. Personally, I think that's reason enough to kick someone out. If they were at a drug rehab clinic and the person was doing smack in the broom closet they would get kicked out.
This show also shows us what a piss poor health care system we have. Not that we didn't know that, but these people, who are 700 pounds, are having their insurance revoke the coverage for the clinic. One woman, who was finally making progress, got her insurance taken away because she was doing so well they didn't think she needed it anymore. What? Bunch of frakers.
Anyway, the show is quite interesting, and you should check it out.
**Programming note- There are no pictures on this post because as we speak, the Emmys are going on. Living on the West Coast we don't get the live broadcast. If I search the web for pictures I will inevitably see who's winning. Bastards.
Anyway, the show is quite interesting, and you should check it out.
**Programming note- There are no pictures on this post because as we speak, the Emmys are going on. Living on the West Coast we don't get the live broadcast. If I search the web for pictures I will inevitably see who's winning. Bastards.
