Supersize vs Superskinny

VfM4meplse

adandem wrote: »

My daughter and I sat and wept at the lady who'd overcome her ED, I hope and pray she can stay well.

I had to think for a second - ED is the acronym for erectile dysfunctiion although I can see that you meant eating disorder.

I agree that she looked like a different person. Importantly, she looked happy. As the programme demonstrated, it takes a long time to make a recovery and I don't think eatiing disorders ever leave you.

I also agree that there's nothing clever about being a superskinny. Some of the skinnies revel in an inappropriate sense of superiority - the middle-aged woman in last week's episode being an example - and many of their dietary habits are just appalling. I also wonder what men find physically attractive about skeletal women, IMO it's on a par with fancying children.

Gloomendoom

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I also wonder what men find physically attractive about skeletal women, IMO it's on a par with fancying children.

Do you also regard men who fancy obese women in the same way?

TimBear

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Do you also regard men who fancy obese women in the same way?

I think what the poster meant is that skeletal women are so lacking in any of the 'typical' womanly curves that their bodies are childlike.

murphydog999

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I feel for him. The realisation has hit him hard, bless.

And there was his family sat around him having dinner at his Nans. The pile of spag bol on his plate was massive, and his Nan said, "well you just have to give 'em what they want!!"

Where's their realisation?? In the last series another young girl, living at home, had the same problem - super obese, bullied at school, hated herself etc etc - but her mother was just giving her what she thought she wanted 'because she loved her,' -when in fact she was actually killing her.

This poor guy must have had years and years of mis-placed abuse by his family, it's a disgrace.

166million

I watched this before dinner, after I'd got home from Kung Fu training - i was looking at the lardy plates of food and going ooohhhhhh yes.:drool:

The lady who recovered from anorexia looked great

saidan

what i'd love to know is...........

how do the supersize afford all the food & takeaways?

i have no idea :money:

trumpton

I was moved to tears too by the recovery that the anorexic lady had made. She was unrecognisable. I thought that she seemed the most entrenched of the group women with eating disorders and I really feared for her health. What a remarkable transformation.

I also think the big guy could have lost more - he was so big that the pounds should have fallen off him once he started eating sensibly. Still, he has been obese for a long time and seemed to be surrounded by family who equate food with comfort and love, so he obviously has a lot of issues to overcome before he can really change.

I do agree though that the bed-ridden obese people seem to have enablers around them who just cannot say, 'Enough...I'm not bringing you this junk anymore'.

So little of eating disorders is to do with food - most of it is psychological - and I wish the show would look at the psych issues a bit more.

Gloomendoom

TimBear wrote: »

I think what the poster meant is that skeletal women are so lacking in any of the 'typical' womanly curves that their bodies are childlike.

I see.

They don't look like any children I have ever seen... apart from in news reports from famine areas.

shellsuit

saidan wrote: »

what i'd love to know is...........

how do the supersize afford all the food & takeaways?

i have no idea :money:

I'd love to know that too!

The woman last week who drank 10 cans of Red Bull a day, how much does 70 cans a week cost? I bet it's about £40 if not more! Disgusting :eek:

BlondeHeadOn

I couldn't understand how the young fat bloke managed to eat all that food with ony 6 teeth. You could see he was having trouble with the "lunch" of a single salami sausage, but how does he manage to eat full breakfasts and toast etc. with so few teeth?