Fat bloke from Pompey tries to get fatter so he can stop being fat

[The Cat]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3372590/Fattening-up-for-weight-loss-op.html

[trousers]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3372590/Fattening-up-for-weight-loss-op.html

 

This is precisely why we should be devolving treatment decisions to GPs...

[OldNick]

it was so funny seeing him in his Pompey slippers standing on the scales. As a citizen though it makes me sick seeing these people trying to suck the NHS dry in their selfishness. The money needs to be used for the truly sick.

[toofarnorth]

If he put the same effort into exercising rather than his increased eating he may not need surgery. Plank!

[Frank's cousin]

Sure he should do his bit but the principle of the postcode lottery is something he is right to highlight. I have no idea whether a BMI or 45 is clinically the best point to consider this surgery, or 42 as it in in sussex, but we should at least have a national standard.

[Huffton]

If he put the same effort into exercising rather than his increased eating he may not need surgery. Plank!

 

This. All skate baiting aside, I hope hedoesn't get the op. Less food and more excercise.

[tony13579]

If you google for it you can find forums where people are trying to get gastric band opps. Some of them only weigh about 12 stone.

[buctootim]

They should offer gastric band ops with enough Tesco club card points. He could afford it in a couple of months.

[chrisobee]

Um, last I checked diabetes, which he suffers from, is an illness

As in this case you often gain weight over time so even if he exercised he would still probably continue to gain weight. So aside from wherever he comes from the correct medical treatment for him would be the operation. Being turned down as he is not big enough is just wrong.

[bridge too far]

Um, last I checked diabetes, which he suffers from, is an illness

As in this case you often gain weight over time so even if he exercised he would still probably continue to gain weight. So aside from wherever he comes from the correct medical treatment for him would be the operation. Being turned down as he is not big enough is just wrong.

 

He might have Type 1 diabetes but I'm guessing he's got Type 2 diabetes and that is usually caused by being overweight in the first place. The medical advice for controlling diabetes is to lose weight and to exercise. If he doesn't control his diabetes, there's a good chance he will have a heart attack, lose his sight, and / or possibly lose one or more limbs.

[simo]

Lock the fat **** in a cage with a giant hamster wheel and feed him bread and water if he's that interested in losing weight !

[Pugwash]

What I don't get with the super-obese stories is that there must have come a point at which they became immobile. You know the ones - been in bed for three years or whatever. Why do they not seek help at that time? Surely they must realise that 12-egg breakfasts and three-pizza snacks aren't normal? Don't their friends and family realise the problems, even if the person involved doesn't?

 

The country as a whole needs to get a handle on this problem fast. Few people realise the enormous and totally disproportionate amounts of NHS money that is being spent to deal with a relatively small percentage of patients.

[Fowllyd]

Lock the fat **** in a cage with a giant hamster wheel and feed him bread and water if he's that interested in losing weight !

 

Sounds good to me. He can power the floodlights at Nottarf at the same time as losing weight.

[carljack]

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