100 kilo kids: obesity SOS

[GoldenKelpie]

Its on channel 4 9pm tonight. I am just watching now. I was reluctant because I wondered if there was any hope for these young people with the advice and support they are being given at this hospital.

It upsets me greatly you see because I have been obese my whole teen and adult life up until I was 52 years old and I discovered the secret to losing excess fat and maintaining that loss permanently. Well, I'm 56 now, so four years.

They need to find out the emotional reason for the overeating too. The 14 year old boy just looked desperately unhappy and my heart went out to him

What is the secret by the way? I want to lose weight too!

I lost 100lbs of fat by cutting out most carbohydrates, all starches and sugars.

Yes it appears extreme but it worked beautifully. I had an addictive response to certain carbs and the carb/fat combination was deadly. So ice-cream, cakes, pasties, chips, crisps caused me to binge and overeat even when stuffed. I couldn't get enough.

The sweet taste I adored. Boxes of biscuits, cakes, chocolate bars -packs of 7 or 8 - wolfed down but never filled me, somehow.

I am doing similar so fingers crossed!! Low carb combined with intermittent fasting. You sound amazing Op- well done!!

Well, Witchofzog I wondered too what my emotional reasons were for bingeing and I wondered whether I would be able to cope at all without my fix when I switched to LCHF. I didn't think I could but committed for one month (March 2016).

After a couple of weeks I realised I didn't have an urge to binge at all, in fact I felt great, my mood really improved.

So, here we have a lovely young teen who is going under the knife when he could have a go at eliminating the foods (carbs, sugars, starches) to see whether that helped. He could make some temporary changes like I did and get back in touch with eating real food. I don't know, my heart is breaking for these young people made to feel that it is their fault that they are obese.

It itsn't. It is the food environment that is being cruel to them, telling them that "eating less moving more" and "eating a balance diet" is what they need to do.

I tried that for 40 years and failed. No, I didn't fail, the advice failed me.

I'm overweight, but my DC aren't because I've never filled the house with crap for them to constantly graze on. I've also tackled my own weight head on since being diagnosed diabetic, and really watch my carb intake these days having lost 3 stone.

If you starved a child, you'd be in prison for neglect. I don't see how feeding a child to such gargantuan size that their hips collapse is any different, tbh.

These young people are being given the wrong advice and it is heartbreaking to watch. I long to tell them there is a better way, it is not you that is failing, it is the advice that is WRONG for you.

That young teen is facing a serious risky operation! It is crazy! Why is Low Carb Healthy Fat not being considered first?

I’m struggling to watch . I’m 21 and a half stone, I’m 28 . I was 22 stone something on 1st January .

I was 14 stone by 14, self harming and just miserable . I didn’t have friends . I had a hellish home life where I was effectively the ‘parent’ from a very young age and I always felt so alone . Simple things like being told to keep my home life a ‘secret’ and having no real stability makes you feel very anxious .

I hid behind a wall at lunch and my mum made me lovely packed lunches , because she knew I was alone - cold pizza, pork pies, sweets and cakes etc , but in the long run that probably exacerbated it all .

I’ve gone through endless MH support, medication, psychiatrists, psychologists and I know now why I was so dreadfully unhappy and why I looked to food for comfort , but my God undoing the patterns of 23 years is so very , very hard ... Hope to God these kids can get the help as kids, to stop it getting worse .

Toria what is ironic is that obese people ARE malnourished. They are hungry all the time. I remember being like that. I could never, ever get full when eating carby foods. It was weird.

How can someone obese be malnourished?

Nowadays, I eat twice a day, lunch and dinner. That is it. No snacking needed between that. Sometimes miss lunch, it is not a problem now. LCHF enables you to reconnect with real foods; proteins, fats and a garnish of above ground veg. It is really simple. I wish I had known about it when I was a teen.

Tommy's mum saying that she could have done the exercise programme with him at home (when he was hospitalised for obesity) right after showing him gaming for 8+ hours a day.

mnnn IT.IS.NOT.YOU!!!

See that young girl having the tantrum. They say she is "hungry all the time and they don't know why". It is the food they are feeding her, low fat and carby, that is making her constantly hungry. Poor child.

Please take a look at this webside which has a lot of info for you to read and digest www.dietdoctor.com. It is a wonderful resource for people like you and me, (and those teens),

I've been massively discouraged from low carbing by my diabetic nurse. And given the usual Slimming World and Weight Watchers spin.

The NHS has a long way to go with dietary advice.

@TinnedPearsForPudding his mum is really annoying me. She's in complete denial and actually quite rude. She wants a miracle to happen but doesn't want him (or her) to have to do any hard work.

She's a feeder.

And not helping him one bit.

Arghhhhh no wonder the kid has problems

I had to wait until I was in my fifties before I learned about the truth about the food we are encouraged to eat for our "health". Low fat means we have to make up the calories by upping the carbohydrates, but that means rice, potatoes, pasta, cereals, and that stuff makes me HUNGRY! Al the time!

No wonder we have developed a snack industry to cope with all the hungry people who have eaten a carby, sugary breakfast and need to eat again mid morning. Then a healthy carby lunch and a mid afternoon snack to tide them over to tea time. Then supper later. Madness!

This woman is dangerous to her own son. It's completely her fault he is like this and even worse, she's now trying to hinder his chances of losing weight!

I'm struggling to watch this too as I think the one mum is actually really harming her son! She should be stopped from visiting if she's going to be disruptive to the boys treatment!

The mother of the 14 year old boy is awful, totally causing his issues poor boy. She's got all the help she needs for her son and she's crying and having tantrums like a child, shocking to watch. As for the five year old they need to learn to feed her properly and say no!

Toria, yeah, I know exactly what you mean about diabetic nurse advice. They are in denial. It means that people are doing it for themselves and making themselves well, reversing their Type 2 diabetes, coming off medications. Google Dr David Unwin, he is a Southport GP who discovered low carb for his patients six years ago and has supported many of his patients to reverse their Type 2, plus a number of other health issues. He is inspiring and helping to educate other GPs around the UK to do the same.

What the fuckkkk is she doing

Yes indeed, that is why they were talking about "treating the whole family" at the beginning of the programme. They have to if the child has become so obese at such a young age.

Can social services take him away from her? I hope they do

This kid's mother has Munchausen's by proxy or something. She's not right in the head.

Oh my god, that poor lad doesn't stand a chance, does he?