Poor kid. It sucks being big when you're that young. It's not mentioned in the article, but I hope her parents are taking her to a shrink as well. It looks to me like she has an eating disorder (binge eating/compulsive eating: webmd.com is our friend), and all the diets and surgeries in the world aren't going to help her if they don't have someone help her battle depression and low self-esteem. The lying and stealing aren't doing her any good either.

The blame definitely lands on her parents. Her mom says that she has to keep junk food in the house because she's afraid of what her daughter will do to get food. It's this enabler mentality that's screwing up the kid's life.

For those of us who are conversion impaired: 1 stone = 14 pound


This girl is 25 stone or 350 pounds - 15 years old at 5'6".

very sad.

In all fairness, 7500 calories is like two Big Macs.

Ditto above. This girl and her parents need help. And quickly before she kills herself with junk food.

A Big Mac has 540 calories. It's more like 14 Big Macs.

OK, two Big Macs and a shake then.

We don't buy sweet snax as much anymore. I'd rather eat raw cauliflower, hubby's choice is celery.

He's lost 25 lbs in a month, I've lost 2 of course, but he's able to exercise and walk daily.

We have ice cream - he likes the soy cuties, and I like the fruit bars.

I'll eat fruit a lot, and he just doesn't snack as much.

He doesn't have diabetes anymore, and he's really hot now! I try to do DDR and stretch, and the elastic bands when I can't stand up. Can't eat like a kid anymore, but the 'diet' food available now is good.

We avoid aspartame, sodium and fat. He stays under 1200 calories a day per Dr orders, I'm well under 2000 a day.

If the parents just get better quality of food, the kids will slim up.

Or, do like my mom did when I was a kid, and we were impoverished: she padlocked the fridge!

Hitting 7500 Calories a day takes some effort, but can be achieved with combinations of high fat fast food and high sugar drinks.

A healthy diet includes fats, but they should be unsaturated, not saturated or trans fats. Fast food doesn't have much good fats or complex carbohydrates.


For weight loss, a calorie deficit greater than 750 Cal or 25% a day is counterproductive, hinders your progress and will harm your body.

Off topic. Susan, the new avatar? It looks like you're going to take one for the team...or, take the team. ; )

Very true. Or at the very least, once you lose the will power to keep such a diet going, the weight is going to pack on fast.

It's one of our bodies defenses. If it goes without enough food for a while, when it starts getting enough again, it'll pack it away in storage since it doesn't know how long it'll keep coming.

a psychologist probly wouldn't hurt

Sheesh, the things I do for Fancy Avatars Friday! ;)
Back to my troll look.

Too large deficit will cause your body to lower its basal metabolic rate, eventually halting weight loss. Breaking the diet and eating more will pack on weight because it's far greater surplus than it was with the BMR before dieting. Recovering from such a state can take months.

In the long run, eating less = weight loss, eating a lot less = weight gain.

"This is horrible! She's contaminating my chocolate!"

It would be nice if parents educated their children from babies.

I'm sorry but the parents really should be done for child abuse