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luke
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 Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:35 am Post subject: Britain's fattest teen weighs 33st |
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| Quote: | Britain's fattest teen weighs 33st
Georgia Davis ... what she eats in one day
FOOD addict Georgia Davis told last night how eating is a drug as deadly as heroin for her — and has driven her weight to a life-threatening 33 STONES at 15.
The scared schoolgirl admitted: “Doctors have told me I could drop dead at any moment.
“I can’t walk more than a few steps without getting out of breath and a few months ago I developed Type 2 diabetes. When I look in the mirror I feel sad and go to my bedroom and cry.
“I know it’s partly my fault. But it’s so hard to stop eating.
“It’s like a drug. Some people choose heroin but I’ve chosen food and it’s killing me.”
Georgia, who stands at 5ft 6ins, munches her way through a calorie-busting succession of unhealthy snacks every day.
A typical daily intake includes processed ready-meals, several sandwiches, multi-packs of peanuts and crisps, sausages, pasties, chips, chocolate and chunks of cheese — washed down with litre bottles of Coke or pints of milk.
It adds up to 13,538 calories a day. The average 15-year-old girl only needs 2,000 calories a day and should weigh 9st 4lb.
Georgia, from Aberdare, South Wales, has even been banned from her school canteen for over-eating.
Worried doctors have now told her she must lose 20 stones or she could die. But the NHS has ruled that the size 38 teenager is too young for gastric band surgery, slimming pills or gym membership.
Now her only hope is the Wellspring Academy, in North Carolina, USA — a tough fitness and weight-loss boarding school for obese youngsters.
Georgia, who measures 64D-62-74, traces her battle with food back to the age of five.
She watched her musician dad Geoff die from emphysema and turned to eating for comfort.
Georgia recalled: “I was a real Daddy’s girl and miss him dreadfully. That’s when I started using food for comfort. It started with sweets and chocolate bars. By the time I was seven I was 11 stones.
“The bullying at school was really bad. I would get called ‘fatty’ and ‘tub of lard’.
“I used to go home and cry in my room. It made me turn to food. I would secretly eat cakes and slice after slice of bread.”
Georgia, originally from Gravesend, Kent, moved to Wales with her mum Lesley, 53, in 2002.
The youngster said: “I have some good friends at school who stand by me but some of the skinnier girls can be really cruel.”
Her day begins at 6am when she struggles out of bed.
She said: “I sleep on a low futon as I have to kneel before I can get to my feet. I use a walk-in shower before eating a large bowl of cereal with toast, butter and jam.
“Then I watch TV before getting into my school uniform, which I have to order from an out-size company over the internet.
“Before lunch I’ve usually had a couple of cheese sandwiches and prawn cocktail crisps.”
Georgia has taken a packed lunch since she was banned from the canteen this year. She said: “I was eating sausage rolls, pasties and chips. Then a teacher said I wasn’t welcome any more.
“I still get friends to sneak things out for me though.”
Georgia stopped attempting to join in PE lessons a year ago.
When not at school she watches TV while snacking on the sofa. She said: “I eat sandwiches, toast, peanuts, crisps and Coke.” Georgia’s size rules out many of the things teenage girls love. She tried to dance at a school disco but fell and twisted her knee.
And shopping for fashionable clothes is definitely out.
She said: “I have to buy all my clothes off the internet and they aren’t very fashionable.”
Georgia’s favourite pastime is adopting a “cyber” alternative identity on Second Life-style websites.
She said: “You can be who you want to be. No one judges you on what you look like. On the internet I’m married and living in a little house with two children.
“I would love that to be the real me one day.”
Georgia will fly out to the US Wellspring camp on September 1.
She will spend up to six months there achieving an initial 20 stones and will be taught how to shed the remaining weight back home.
Georgia said: “Last Christmas I spent the entire holiday eating everything in sight. This Christmas I hope to be eating salad.” Georgia’s mum Lesley also struggles with a weight problem. She was 31 stones but has slimmed to 20 stones. And she feels she is to blame for Georgia’s weight gain.
Fighting back tears, she explained: “As a baby, Georgia wouldn’t keep down normal milk so I gave her condensed milk.
“She’d spit out baby food, so I gave her things like tinned potatoes. We didn’t have much money so it was a case of filling up with food we could afford. Georgia was around four when I realised she ate more than other children. One Easter she munched her way through seven large eggs.
“Then when her dad died we would comfort eat together.”
Lesley now lives in fear of her daughter dying. She added: “Sometimes Georgia’s left leg gives way and she crashes to the bottom of the stairs. It’s very scary. But to me she will always be beautiful.”
A quarter of British boys and a third of girls are overweight. Teenage girls form the majority of the one million obese under-16s.
Wellspring Academies operate nine “fat camps”, including one in the Lake District in the UK.
Each child follows a diet of 1,200 calories and must take at least 10,000 steps a day. Counsellors help change attitudes to food.
Dr David Haslam, a GP and clinical director of the National Obesity Forum, said: “Georgia’s case is unique. It’s very sad. It’s important to do something to save her life.” |
from http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1499935.ece
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Skylace
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| 462 pounds. That's just terrible. I can't imagine. She needs some serious help by medical and psychological. I feel for her. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:40 am Post subject: |
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| The healthiest thing in that pile of crap she eats? The tomato sauce in the lasagne... but how can she afford it all? I wonder if her mother's as bad or just hates her! |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:44 am Post subject: |
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You do have to wonder how people can afford to eat it all. But, it's just like any other addiction, people always find a way to feed it (no pun intended).
And after all, with her weight, I doubt she gets out much to do anything that a normal teenager would be spending money on for fun or entertainment. |
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Ash
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What a sad state of affair!
I've seen one or two people like this on tv.. but I had to change the channel because I was angry, sad, perplexed- all at the same time. There are few cases where it can happen or the situation is exacerbated due to genetics. But it's largely due to lack of exercise, combination of food, drink and alcohol and psychological problems
Regarding the girl, I agree with sky...she defnitely needs to see a psychologist or someone who leads a healthy lifestyle |
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nekokate
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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I just can't believe she's allowed to eat all that shit. She's 15! "Mum, can I slowly kill myself?" "Yes, dear".
Eating like that is an illness, so if she was an adult I could understand it; she'd be making the decision to do that to herself. But she's a child.
I also can't believe the Sun actually gave her vital statistics, either! Then again... |
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SpursFan1902
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| It's really sad to see her state at the age of 15. Having a life long weight problem myself (nothing near to this girl), it know it is a tough road. When you have a drug or alcohol problem, people say "Oh, we need to get you help." When you have a weight problem, people say "Well, you should just stop eating the foods that are fattening." It just isn't that simple. It's not just a decision that you make for yourself, anymore than choosing to be an alcoholic is. Yes, it is your decsion to take that first drink, but you don't choose to be an alcoholic and you don't choose to have food issues. You can live without drugs and alcohol, your body will still function without those things. You can change your surroundings, friends and habits to live without them. You can never do that with food. |
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Twirley
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| I wonder why she has to come to the NC camp? The food in the USA is different and she may get hang-ups about what she likes and what she doesn't and what her alternatives are. I mean, even the bread here has sugar/high fructose corn syrup in it. Surely the Lake District one would be better...working with her to show her the food she can eat in her own country. Mind-boggling! |
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nekokate
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| Twirley wrote: | | I wonder why she has to come to the NC camp? The food in the USA is different and she may get hang-ups about what she likes and what she doesn't and what her alternatives are. I mean, even the bread here has sugar/high fructose corn syrup in it. Surely the Lake District one would be better...working with her to show her the food she can eat in her own country. Mind-boggling! |
If she gets hang-ups about the different food that might be a good thing. She'll be less inclined to put it in her mouth.
I hope she gets better and lives a full life - I have nothing against her - but I can't help but wonder how her mother allowed this to happen. I think it's child abuse, actually. We're not talking overweight here, we're talking so morbidly obese she could drop dead any second.
Another thing that pisses me off is that the article states she is so overweight she gets out of breath after just walking a short distance, so she clearly doesn't shop for her own food. This means that all that food you see in the staged picture that represents her daily intake is being supplied by her mother, who either buys that much shit each day, or does a weekly shop and buys all that shit times seven, and then gives it to her to kill herself with.
She looks, due to her condition, like she couldn't fight her way out of a wet paper bag, so it wouldn't be hard to reply "No" to her request for a fifth packet of crisps, or a tenth cheese sandwich, would it? |
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Twirley
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| nekokate wrote: | | Twirley wrote: | | I wonder why she has to come to the NC camp? The food in the USA is different and she may get hang-ups about what she likes and what she doesn't and what her alternatives are. I mean, even the bread here has sugar/high fructose corn syrup in it. Surely the Lake District one would be better...working with her to show her the food she can eat in her own country. Mind-boggling! |
If she gets hang-ups about the different food that might be a good thing. She'll be less inclined to put it in her mouth.
I hope she gets better and lives a full life - I have nothing against her - but I can't help but wonder how her mother allowed this to happen. I think it's child abuse, actually. We're not talking overweight here, we're talking so morbidly obese she could drop dead any second.
Another thing that pisses me off is that the article states she is so overweight she gets out of breath after just walking a short distance, so she clearly doesn't shop for her own food. This means that all that food you see in the staged picture that represents her daily intake is being supplied by her mother, who either buys that much shit each day, or does a weekly shop and buys all that shit times seven, and then gives it to her to kill herself with.
She looks, due to her condition, like she couldn't fight her way out of a wet paper bag, so it wouldn't be hard to reply "No" to her request for a fifth packet of crisps, or a tenth cheese sandwich, would it? |
Ah, I never thought about it like that.
I agree with what you say about her mother. How on earth could you let your child get like that? Even if you do it to yourself you certainly wouldn't allow your child to go the same way. I know the mother had a major trauma in her life with her husband dying but there comes a point when you get through it and just say "enough's enough."
I, too, hope the girl gets better. Her mother should go to a similar kind of camp then when the daughter gets home they can eat healthy together. |
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