To be really saddened by the whole Georgia Davis thing?

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www.metro.co.uk/news/900190-home-dismantled-to-free-63-stone-teenager-in-need-of-medical-attention

It's just So Sad

I saw a doc years ago, I never thought it would still be getting worse a young girls life defined by this she should be out doing the stupid things 19 year olds do.
I know not the most profound post but just very saddening.

It terrifies me- it could have been me. So easily. I weighed in at 21st at age 19, I could have kept going oh so easily. It gives me shivers, yes I am still very overweight- oh ok, obese, but I'm down from morbidly obese. The thing is once you get so big, it's a lot easier to keep going, eating to escape your situation. I'm still trying to get down to healthy but I know full well had I not hit that point and decided to change you'd all be reading about me in the papers.

What will happen now.... Anyone know?

I really hope she doesn't live at home again, she needs support to lose weight not her mother who has been her feeder. So sad for the poor girl.

I genuinely think her mother is guilty of abuse- she had so much help over the years, and I wish Georgia had been taken into care at 13 or so when she was first in the papers and on tv.

Thing is she can't be forced to live away from her mother now can she? And she can't be taken anywhere else at that size.... So what options does she have. Surgery won't be an option at that size would it?

Hope the housing association bill the mother for the damage to that house as well! They won't tho, as she is on benefits. They will have to pay.

Poor girl.
Will she ever be able to get away from her food addiction. She needs lots of help, psychological, emotional, practical.
Hopefully this media attention will allow the correct help to reach her.

I suspect being her mothers 'carer' will have had a lot to do with this loosing a parent and then becoming one essentially very young will cause a lot of problems.

You read about poor Georgia and how on her first day home she was presented with takeaway fish and chips for tea and want to weep for the world.

Then you read about this Mother; Mrs Hall and her daughter Jade doing everything she can to help her daughter be healthy and become the happy young woman she is. Saying no out of love. Amazing loving family.

I think that it is unfair to lay blame only at the mother's door.

There has been criticism from expert doctors about the lack of professional support.

This isn't just a matter of withholding food, which would be illegal to do it an adult with capacity, anymore than it is a parents fault that an adult child dies from, anerexia, or an addiction of any sort.

This isn't an eating problem, it is a MH problem, probably on both sides.

Intervention should have come much sooner, just after starting school.

www.guardian.co.uk ? Life & style ? Health & wellbeing

True but how many people on here post about their dcs being weighed and measured at school and being advised that they are overweight? Then they post saying that their dcs have a bit of puppy fat compared to their friends. Nearly everyone posts saying how outrageous it is that the school has done such a thing.

I think a carer for the mother should have been sorted,
leaving a child to do that work whilst grieving for her dead father, is negligent at best.

This is so sad, I was heartbroken when I read that her first meal at home on returning from Wellspring was fish and chips. I do wonder about the quality of everyday food in the UK because at Wellspring Georgia had become accustomed to low fat meat (buffalo steak) and couldn't find anything equivalent at home

However, even if the whole family were on maximum disability benefits (and maybe claiming carers' allowance for each other?) I still don't know how Georgia alone was able to consume 13,000 calories worth of food per day? And her mother has an obesity problem too. My income is around £12k per year including WTC and DLA and DS and I can't manage to eat more than about 2,000 calories a day each.

I always have the same puzzle when I've watched the US documentaries about the morbidly obese too. How is it possible to afford the amount of food required to gain and maintain that amount of weight?

The problem is often poverty though in the us and uk , most cheap food is crap.

"most cheap food is crap." True but 13,000 calories a day would do a family of four for a day and a half. And takeaways aren't cheap.

Fruit and veg if locally sourced is very cheap. I don't think that can be used as an excuse, poverty is a cause of poor diet, but poor as in lacking in nutrition and undernourishment from not enough of the good stuff.

Mandy cheap food is often very calorie-dense, its high fat content packing the maximum calories into the minimum volume. And if you have a look at the BOGOFs in supermarkets, that is the type of food that dominates.

It is so sad. I remember the documentaries about her and she was the most lovely girl. Just before she went to Wellspring she was so excited about being able to buy clothes when she'd lost weight and all sorts of other things and she did so well out there too and was looking great.

Trouble is, once she was past, say, 35 stone, I can't imagine she was getting out to do the shopping so not only was her mother not supporting her in terms of cooking healthily, she must have actively been buying the crap that has meant that her daughter has soared to (possibly) 60 stones plus. It's criminal.

I can't imagine what sort of life Georgia can ever have now. Firstly because how do you even lose 30 stones plus? Even if she has weight loss surgery and is in hospital for a year being monitored, so will never be a normal weight, will always have loose skin, damage to her joints, possibly her heart etc. It's a death sentence.

I don't see how they would know the exact weight.

I also think the calories is an estimate. They aren't calorie counting themselves. It's probably reporters totting it up from examples of her daily food intake.

whereyouleftit - that's the point of what I was trying to say: on my income we can't afford more than say 2,000 calories worth of cheap calorie dense fatty food per day so I wonder how it's done.

Mind you, she's been quoted as saying she eats a couple of loaves of bread A DAY whereas we only want to eat one a fortnight (can't digest bread very well). I suppose cheap bread at 35p-60p a loaf, 2 litre bottles of own brand sweetened fizzy drinks at 50p...

She might be legally an adult, but I think she has been kept so dependent on her parents that in other ways she has not been allowed to grow up properly.

I know what it's like to be so dependent on dysfunctional parents, I had nobody else (also only child, and a tiny and equally dysfunctional 'extended' family) to look in and say "this isn't right". And when nobody points it out, you can't possibly realise, as it is all you know. It is very difficult, even as an adult, to break out of that bubble.

very true fuzzy pig

Poor girl. I saw somewhere she said she started comfort eating after her Dad died when she was just five. No doubt that death had a major effect on her Mother too.

I just read an article in the daily mail all seems so sad and exploitative.