Like MrBrown I lost weight - 126 pounds... He has the right idea, but I will NEVER disparage or put down anyone who is having difficulty losing weight. It is VERY difficult, and you have to find the way that works for you - otherwise you will not succeed (or the weight will come right back).

What obese people need is not a critic - but not an enabler either - they need support.  But they will only lose if they do it for themself.

I had a 500 pound patient collapse and die in her kitchen while I was assessing her - she fell and was wedged between a counter and the dishwasher. Pararmedics not available, so we two EMT's gave CPR for 45 minutes awaiting the firefighters to help get her out.

As an RN I could have pronounced her, but I wanted the family to see we did all we could.

The only thing I can think of, is that they have some serious enablers at home.

ick....

thanks for the mental image

Sure you can be any type of addict you want to be, sex, food, drugs, nicotine, ETOH, whatever just realize there will always be limited healh resources to take care of you and they will get more and more limited as our aging population grows.  Deal with the results of your food addiction, I will take care of you when admitted  clean your yeast filled skin folds, find the sandwich you lost in your skin folds  (I'm not kidding), clean you up and slim you down as you are tubefed on the vent because you are too large to breathe efficiently on your own.  But I will anticipate you to be discharged back to whatever home you have with all the enabling intact and you probably won't make it back into the hospital next time.  Your rates should be higher for insurance as well as airline seats,  or I know let my bags be free since me and my 56 lb bag weigh 166 pounds, and you weigh 300 plus without your bag. 

MegSRN says ...

Its one thing to be "overweight" or maybe even borderline "obese" but to be "morbidly obese" with no true medical condition behind it? Im thinking its more than 1 portion of fish and veggies for dinner. People have a right to be as fat as they want, its not my problem. But dont try to convince me that its not a persons own fault if they are "morbidly obese" without a true medical condition causing it.

The problem comes with the use of BMI as the deciding tool.  It has been proven that BMI is inaccurate,incorrect and should not be used. The correct way of deciding heath risk is waist to hip ration. BMI does not take in bone structure or muscle mass. I would challange anyone of you that are on your fat bashing trip to go and tell our top basket ball, football,baseball players (among many other sports) that they are ALL MORBID OBESE ACCORDING TO THE BMI SCALE. Let me know when you set out to do this. I want to sell tickets.

For the critic of my fish servings... My total meal is 4 OZ. I had a gastric bypass in 2004. If I eat anymore than that I would puke in your lap!

GP goal of weight loss is 1/3 of total wt. So when you start out at 300 lb you max allowed wt loss is 120 lbs. 500 Lb then 190 lb max wt loss. So take that number with BMI and find out you are STILL morbid obese by some bizzare person' s idea of this is how to measure this health risk .... It is very disheartening to people who are of great wt to go thru the surgery and still have this classification. I wrote a paper about obesity discrimination. Everyone of you who have a negative opinion on larger people need to do some reading-rather a lot of reading. You are part of the problem and not part of the solution. The very obese do not seek early medical care because they are treated poorly by all parts of the medical community-including dietitians. If you would like the various reference that I used in my paper-both pro and con I would be happy to share. Stop bashing and start educating yourself. As more and more of the diagnostic limits for many chronic diseases come down, more people will be diagnosed at lighter weights and younger ages. The new recommendation for diagnosing Type 2 DM is now fasting glucose of 100 or greater. There has been a huge jump in the number of people I see as a DM nurse and a younger population. The dx limit was brought down to  hopefully  slow or minimize damage to eyes,nerves,feet and kidneys. Be truthful now.. How many of you are now Type 2 when at your last physical you weren't? Remember people who live in glass houses.... BTW my fasting glucose is 82, BP 126/74  and I weight 228lbs.  What's yours?

no because most ofat people have heart disease,diabetes,hypertension and they dies early

Fatness=laziness

Me = fat