Why do so many companies have to be on the diet wagon?

I just want to set something straight before I go on a rampage about the N.J. women who wants to weigh 1000 pounds.  I do not hate morbidly obese, or obese people.  I was considered morbidly obese two years ago, and lost 120 pounds, and now I’m still technically obese.  So this hit me pretty hard when I heard that she had two kids.  Part of my reason for losing my weight was so I not only could be a better mother to my little one, but so I also would be around to see her grow up.

My mother past away when I was 30 years old, and she was overweight too.  She died at 63 years old from a blood clot in her leg that caused a massive heart attack.  This Donna Simpson woman goes on to say how she is not hurting anyone by doing this, and has a right to eat, and do what she wants.  This is somewhat true.  She does have a right, but at the cost of not only killing herself, but leaving her two kids without a mom is just selfish.  She weighs 602 pounds already, and can’t walk more than 20 feet right now.  She says she is normal, and healthy, though I really find that hard to believe that at that weight anyone could be healthy.  I wonder what kind of cholesterol medication she is taking.  As far as normal, who is going to clean her when she can’t walk anymore?  Who… her kids?  How is that normal.

She does not ever say what type of insurance she has, if any.  I’m sure we the taxpayers are flipping that bill.  She does say how much her grocery bill is.  It costs her a whopping 750.00 a week.  How does she pays for all this?  Her main source of income to support herself is by appearing on a web site where people pay to watch her eat food, and get photos of her showing of her extra bulge in a bikini.  She has a boyfriend who she says supports her 1000 pound goal, and thinks he would like it if she were bigger.  Now how is that called love if he doesn’t care if she dies by doing this to her self?

I will say this whole story upset me so much, and not because of how much she wants to weigh, but because she doesn’t seem to care about her two kids, and what she’s doing to them.  I really feel this should be a case DYFS should look into for the safety of the poor kids.  Maybe that would be an eye opener for her.  Then her new goal could be to be a good mother by living longer to see her kids grow up.

Some side notes… She already holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s fattest mother.  The current world record for the fattest woman was also held by a N.J. woman who weighed 1800 pounds.  She died in 2008, and was only 49 years old.  If you heard about this story, or just read it here I would like to know how you feel about what she’s doing.  Is this fair to her kids, or even normal.  Who knows maybe she will read it, and see it as an eye opener to not kill herself by reaching her goal?  In the end that’s what will happen, and her two kids will pay by not having a mom any more.

P.S. I also don’t have a problem with her selling photos to make money, as that’s her choice.  It’s why she’s doing it that upsets me.

I’ve talked to a few people who used it in the past, and they said they lost weight, but when they stopped using the food they would put the weight back on.  This was because the one thing it didn’t do was teach them the right way to eat.  Things like what foods they should stay away from to help maintain their weight loss after they got to the weight they wanted to be at.  The one thing that I seem to hear from lots of people that I talk to about weight loss is how hard it is to keep it off after you loss it.  Maybe the only good way to lose weight is by learning how to eat right and exercise.  What are your thoughts about this?

Aside from regular exercise, and eating the appropriate foods I found out that protein is also helpful in weight loss.  So I’ve been using a protein supplement along with eating right, and exercising, and it’s really helped me loss a serious amount of weight.  A few years ago my doctor wanted me to get the “Surgery”, and I declined.  I don’t want to have to worry the rest of my life about what I eat, and if it will have side effects on me.

But as far as keeping it off it’s going to take a lot of discipline, and dedication.  I keep telling myself that it’s O.K. if I mess up once, and a while, and I just remind myself how far I’ve come so far.

What do you do to beat the winter blues?

Recently he went over some different tests that he had run, and informed me that I had changed a lot of factors, and that might change my needs for the medicine that was originally prescribed.  Now the doctor has totally pulled me from medicine, and told me to keep up with my routine of walking, and watching what I eat.

I am very relieved at this point.