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Today Programme
Heard this yesterday. At about 1 hour 39 minutes, a woman describes how weighing 40 stone affected her - diabetes, joint trouble, high blood pressure, gout, skin infections etc, plus the indignity of not being able to keep herself clean.
She has now had expensive surgery on the NHS to help with what she reckons was a food addiction. (I'd question the point of using surgery to deal with a mental health issue, but it seems to have worked.)
The surgery has brought its own problems; when an article was published about it, the family received public abuse and had dog mess thrown at them by people who felt that she didn't deserve it.
What interested me about this was the woman's own attitude to her problem.
She stopped going to her doctor because he kept telling her that all her health problems were caused by her weight, but she didn't believe him.
Then, when she eventually did see a doctor one March he told her that if she didn't lose weight she'd be dead by xmas, which scared her enough to accept the drastic measures. Until then, it was denial all the way.
Some of the fattest people I know are members at my gym. They must be the ones who've listened.
Heard this yesterday. At about 1 hour 39 minutes, a woman describes how weighing 40 stone affected her - diabetes, joint trouble, high blood pressure, gout, skin infections etc, plus the indignity of not being able to keep herself clean.
She has now had expensive surgery on the NHS to help with what she reckons was a food addiction. (I'd question the point of using surgery to deal with a mental health issue, but it seems to have worked.)
The surgery has brought its own problems; when an article was published about it, the family received public abuse and had dog mess thrown at them by people who felt that she didn't deserve it.
What interested me about this was the woman's own attitude to her problem.
She stopped going to her doctor because he kept telling her that all her health problems were caused by her weight, but she didn't believe him.
Then, when she eventually did see a doctor one March he told her that if she didn't lose weight she'd be dead by xmas, which scared her enough to accept the drastic measures. Until then, it was denial all the way.
Some of the fattest people I know are members at my gym. They must be the ones who've listened.