Jesus H. Christ: 33-stone 15-year-old heads to US for fat camp
August 1st, 2008 at 8:54 by Holly
Seriously? 33 stone. In 15 years. That’s over two stone a year on average, and for a few of those years she was a baby and toddler.
We’re all for understanding, but this is pretty inexplicable. And yes, there are reasons why some people put more weight on than others, there is such a thing as puppy fat and there have always been podgy kids. But 33 stone?
Perhaps I’m wrong, but I’m fairly sure that when my parents were young, there were not morbidly obese children to such a degree, and certainly when their parents were small.
In developing countries, there aren’t morbidly obese people. But if it was purely medical, purely about glands or hormones, and not at all about food, logic would suggest there would be obese people even where food is scarce.
There aren’t.
Thirty-three stone at 15-years-old is tragic. This girl has been badly let down from a very young age. Even if she’s been stuffing her own face, she couldn’t have racked up 33 stones on her own. The food would cost too much for one thing.
We’re all looking for someone to blame. Nothing is ever our fault. In this case, the girl, Georgia, from Wales, who is due to fly to fat camp in September, blames it on addictive food, telling The Sun:
“It’s like a drug. Some people choose heroin but I’ve chosen food and it’s killing me.”
She has Type 2 Diabetes and can’t walk more than a few steps without getting out of breath. And here’s the real head-scratcher, here’s what she eats in a typical day:
A medium chocolate cake, six packets of crisps, eight pints of milk, two loaves of bread and two plates of chips. Around 13,538 calories a day.
It’s the passivity that kills me!
She eats those things. Hold up?! Who is providing those things? To a girl on the brink of death through obesity, someone is providing that food.
She’s not buying it herself, well, certainly not with wages so someone is either providing money or food. Let’s face it, you’re not going to miss a 33-stone teenager shoplifting chocolate cake, so that’s not it.
Banned from the school canteen for over-eating, she takes packed lunches and gets her friend to sneak stuff from the canteen for her. At night she watches TV, and snacks on sandwiches and junk food. Why is there even junk food in the house?
She said:
“When I look in the mirror I feel sad and go into my room and cry. I know it’s partly my fault. But it’s so hard to stop eating.”
PARTLY?!
Georgia lost her father to emphysema when she was five. And this is terribly sad and incredibly difficult for such a young child to handle, but children don’t comfort eat (again, that passivity), children are fed for their own comfort, and there’s a difference.
Until people start taking more responsibility and stop spending their time looking for someone to absolve them of their blame, more and more little girls like this are going to be jetting off to fat camp, or dying.
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August 1st, 2008 at 1:12 pm
i blame it on the parents wen i read this in the paper and saw the mother with her child the mother looks like she cud do with jetting off to fat camp with her daughter children always tend to grow up like there parennts more so in this case.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
The mother said she “couldnt afford healthy food” erm, not 13000 calories worth but im sure whatever all that junk costs is enough to feed a normal person for a week!
August 13th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Just for kicks and giggles I Googled how much a stone was (in the US we use pounds). 1 stone = 14 pounds. So for your US readers this girl weighs in at about 462 pounds! Yikes!
If the mother thinks the cost of “healthy food” is prohibitive she should weigh (no pun intended) it against the cost of medical issues this girl will face for the rest of her life. Not sure how the health care in the UK is these days but the US is over-run with the obese.
I hope someone gets this girl some help before it really is too late.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:35 am
I think your article reveals more about you than it does about Georgia or her familial situation. I can see from your perspective that you care and are shocked. I just wish you would focus on constructive and positive thought than the negative tone used in your article. I mean, come on, ‘fat camp’ is your choice. It’s a rehabilitation academy that focuses on Behavioral therapy and the development of self-responsibility. Obviously someone of this weight probably has physiological as well as emotional troubles. I wish people like you would do real research and present logical findings instead of emotional based rhetoric. But I do wish you the best.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Yes William, my tone is negative. I find the situation of this (not so little) girl quite a sad, sick representation of the troubling situation across the developed world and I find nothing to be positive or supportive about and frankly, if that’s what you’re looking for I will disappoint each and every time. However, if you want honest opinion that doesn’t pussyfoot around, stick with us!