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"They don't realize how much they eat"


When I hear a spouse or family member say that I think...If they can't get out of bed or walk to the kitchen then maybe they don't realize how much they're eating. But the person cooking, shopping, and serving the food knows how much they're eating. A person who can't get out of bed does not need a whole pizza, sausage patties, biscuits, fried chicken, and gigantic sodas. No one on this show takes responsibility for anything.

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It's just an excuse. There is no way that someone can eat between 20k and 30k calories a day and it's not realized that it is a ridiculously HUGE amount of food.


Time wounds all heels.

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The overweight person probably doesn't realize how much they're eating, but the people who bring them the food have to know. I blame them for giving them all that food, knowing very well what's happening.

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And that's alot of going to the bathroom.

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Also eating a whole pizza or several burgers all by yourself and not to think !! that's eating a lot ???

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Have you ever noticed they don't actually focus on their food, though?

It's just an automatic hand to mouth, a cursory glance for the next bite, and repeat. A lot of everything they eat is also so heavily processed it requires very little chewing, and has verry little variation in texture, so they barely have to do more than shovel and swallow.

It's like when you're on the train, reading your book, and you don't realize hours have passed until you're at your stop and it's dark out.

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In the majority of cases the family members are just as bad with their weight management.



"A stitch in time, saves your embarrassment." (RIP Ms. Penny LoBello)

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Many of the family members are obese themselves and even though they may not be six hundreds pounds, I laugh when they criticize the person because they could afford to knock off a few hundred pounds themselves.

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Yes, absolutely! I think it was one of the women named Ashley who had an obese mother who picked on her constantly. She was a total bitch (the mother) and really pissed me off.

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