In recent years, with the continuous improvement of the economic level, the people's living standards have gradually improved, and the obesity rate has increased year by year, which has gradually become a major problem that threatens the health of the people.
Obesity can make people's psychology change, so that life will cause a lot of inconvenience.
Most importantly, it is easy to trigger a variety of complications, accelerating aging and death.
High blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and other problems are not exclusive to obese people.
However, relevant studies have proved that obesity greatly increases the probability of people developing these diseases.
Therefore, in the past decade or so, weight loss has become a hot keyword, and products related to weight loss have emerged in an endless stream.
But in fact, weight loss is a contest between the will and the body, and people without the will rely on drugs and products, and it is impossible to maintain a long-term healthy posture.
At this point, the United States has become a good lesson.
The U.S. economy is growing earlier than China's, so their obesity rates are also rising faster.
Coupled with food culture reasons, the obesity of ordinary people in the United States has made many Chinese who think they are obese be amazed.
One of them, anything called Angie, weighed a staggering 584 pounds.
Because her legs could no longer support her weight, she was forced to stay at home for several years.
In the past few years, she has become a bully in the family, and she often speaks harshly to her boyfriend and daughter.
From the time she woke up in the morning to the time she went to sleep at night, she kept eating in addition to arguing with her family.
Under the doctor's diagnosis, the 39-year-old Angie learned that if he did not lose weight, he would die soon.
As a last resort, she had to turn to a professional doctor, hoping to lose weight through surgery.
What everyone, including Angie herself, could not imagine was that this weight loss trip was full of all kinds of accidents and helplessness.
The trauma of her childhood made her life experience full of shadows
Angie's obesity stems from childhood trauma.
In fact, this is not an isolated case, ordinary people eat more and there is a limit, and the only thing that can break this dietary boundary is physical and psychological diseases.
Among the many obese people in the United States who are hundreds of pounds, a considerable number of people become extremely obese because of psychological trauma in childhood.
Growing up, he overeated because of trauma, which led to obesity.
Before the age of 8, Angie's body shape was actually quite normal.
However, from the beginning of memory, Angie's father and mother were in a constant family war.
Fathers, in particular, often use domestic violence against their mothers, which makes Angie lack the most basic sense of security from an early age.
One day when Angie was 8 years old, a relative came to Angie's house for a party and took advantage of Angie's parents' inattention to violate Angie, which left a huge psychological shadow on Angie.
Young Angie didn't know what was going on, just felt rather scared.
Afterwards, she found her mother and told her terrible story about what had happened to her.
However, Angie's mother did not know whether it was cowardice or coldness, did not call the police, did not make any response to Angie.
There was not even a denunciation of the relative who had violated Angie, and the matter passed quietly.
Her mother's approach made Angie feel a strong sense of distrust in her heart.
In the eyes of a powerless child, the mother is the last shield of her soul, and once this shield is pierced, the child's mind will have nothing to rely on.
Angie gave up relying on her mother, and her violent father was even more unable to trust, and her final choice of hope was food.
She began to eat more and more, and her body size became more and more than her peers should have, and by the time she was in junior high school, she had weighed more than two hundred pounds.
In addition to food, Angie also began to lose hope of getting affection from her parents, and she began to socialize with people outside the school.
At the age of 13 and not yet an adult, Angie began her first relationship with a 28-year-old adult.
A man who is about to turn 30 and a 13-year-old underage girl, such a deformed relationship violates morality and the law.
In the end, it did lead to serious consequences - after the two people were together, the man often scolded Angie, and Angie accidentally became pregnant, and was forced to undergo pregnancy termination surgery when the child was 6 months old, and the relationship ended.
It is conceivable that Angie, who has suffered psychological trauma in her childhood, ended her first relationship in such a terrible way.
This allowed her to overeat further, and her weight soared further.
At the age of 16, Angie did not learn the lessons of the past, and began a relationship with a man again, and became pregnant again.
This time, Instead of beating the child, Angie gave birth to it, her daughter Desilei.
However, the man Angie found this time still has a violent tendency.
During Angie's pregnancy, the men punched and kicked her, so the two broke up shortly after giving birth to the child.
With nowhere to go and a suitable job after the breakup, the young Angie went astray and was involved in burglary, so she was sentenced to two years in prison, but only served more than half a year before being released from prison.
Angie was in her twenties when she was released, and at an age when she was supposed to start her adult life, she fell into a quagmire of depravity and could not get out, and soon she committed theft again, and was held in prison until she was 26 years old.
While Angie was drowning in crime and overeating, her child Desilei stayed at Angie's father's house.
It is ironic that this violent man, who was once considered untrustworthy by Angie, has now become her daughter's only reliance.
Happy people have different happiness, and unhappy people have the same misfortune, perhaps referring to Angie, who hates her father for not giving her a childhood, and why shouldn't she herself?
After being released from prison again, Angie became addicted to drugs and weighed more than 300 pounds, and she was addicted to the drugs of food and could not extricate herself, and she could not care about her daughter Desilei, and wantonly squandered her youth.
In the blink of an eye, 13 years have passed.
During this time, Angie's weight continued to soar, until the household scale could no longer weigh her weight, and she no longer cared how heavy she weighed.
The good news is that Angie's daughter Desilei grew up to find a true love and gave birth to a lovely daughter with her husband.
The family moved to Angie's house to live with Angie, taking care of her with limited mobility.
At the same time, Angie also met Justin online, which is later her boyfriend.
After a year of acquaintance, he also moved into Angie's house.
If Angie could cherish the family, she might not experience the hellish tribulations of the future.
But there are no ifs in this world.
In order to lose weight, she actually forced her pregnant daughter to divorce
Since Angie's weight is already incalculable, she has given up the restrictions on her body, and the arrival of her daughter and new boyfriend has given her no worries, and she has begun to eat recklessly, eating fast food or canned food from the morning, eating at least five meals a day.
Or from another point of view, Angie's diet has become irregular, and she must eat her favorite food when she wants to eat.
It can be said that from opening her eyes to closing her eyes, the whole day is her eating time.
However, Angie's body could no longer support her to solve all the problems of life on her own, and there was so much flesh on her body that it was difficult for her own arms to cover most of the skin on her body and could not bathe independently.
The excessive fat in her legs overwhelmed Angie's knees and she couldn't even get out of bed.
But Angie didn't care about that, because her daughter Desilei lived with her.
Desiré had become Angie's nanny, and her mother had to work with her almost every day.
For example, getting Angie into a wheelchair, pushing her to the bathroom to wash, cooking for her to eat, etc., the cleaning of the usual room is naturally also responsible for Desilei.
In fact, it stands to reason that Angie's husband Justin should be the one who does all this.
Because Desilei has not only given birth to a child, but recently she has also become pregnant in her belly and has a baby.
In this case, it is really difficult for a pregnant woman to help a mother of nearly 600 pounds.
But Angie herself didn't like to let her husband help her.
Not because she hated her husband, but because Angie felt inferior to her body.
She believes that her husband should see herself as a woman, not an object that needs to be served.
If you let your husband take care of your daily life, you will feel dedified.
So at the strong request of Angie himself, his daughter Desilei had to drag the pregnant body to do heavy work.
Husband Justin, however, is only responsible for serving bowls and delivering water every day, and then he is happy to be idle.
From this family arrangement, we can see Angie's strong leadership position in the family and the atmosphere within the family that is difficult to understand.
Sometimes, Angie also expresses her apologies to her daughter, feeling that she has dragged her down.
If it weren't for her body being so bulky, the daughter would have lived the life she wanted instead of being trapped at home serving her mother.
However, in the eyes of her daughter Desilei, this apology is only a scene.
Once Angie's temper came up, no matter whether her daughter did it right or wrong, she would be scolded with a split head and cover her face.
This life has been lived for many years, and if it continues, it is difficult to ensure that Désiré's psychological state will not be in trouble.
Fortunately, a test and advice from a doctor has changed the family model dramatically.
With a bad attitude, she quarreled with her family in order to lose weight
During a routine physical exam, the doctor told Angie the shocking news that her physical condition was in a sharp decline, and if she did not lose weight soon, her life was likely to come to an end.
This made Angie panic, in the past she did not care about the indicators on the physical examination sheet, but the doctor told her in person that if she did not lose weight, she would die, which caused her great shock.
So she immediately contacted a professional doctor who specialized in bariatric surgery, hoping to lose weight.
During an appointment with the doctor, Angie learned that if she wanted to lose weight under the doctor's arrangement, she would need to move to Houston for a long time.
Angie herself can't go to Houston alone, so if she wants to lose weight, she needs to move in with her whole family.
For this move proposal, Angie and her daughter agreed, but Angie's son-in-law and boyfriend Justin did not agree.
Justin's attitude is still slightly calm, but the son-in-law is already very dissatisfied with Angie's long-standing strong attitude.
This time, just because he wanted to lose weight, he had to move the whole family to Houston, which made the son-in-law feel unacceptable.
Angie turned a deaf ear to her son-in-law's objections.
She didn't care if her son-in-law lived with her or not, she just needed her daughter to take care of herself.
So after the argument, Angie actually told Desilei that she wanted her daughter to divorce and follow her to Houston.
You know, at that time, Desilei's relationship with her husband was very stable, she already had a cute child, and a new life was being born in her belly.
There was no contradiction between them, the only contradiction was between the mother-in-law Angie.
Angie's offer to divorce Desilei brought great pressure to Desilei.
She wants her mother to be able to lose weight successfully, but she doesn't want to give up her own happiness.
In the end, both sides took a step back and formulated a compromise plan:
First let Justin take Angie and Desilei to Houston to see the doctor, and make sure that the doctor's treatment plan will definitely make Angie lose weight, and then move to Houston.
In this way, Desilei temporarily avoided the awkward situation of choosing between mother and husband and child.
From Ohio to Houston, it takes more than twenty hours by car.
Since Angie's health did not allow for long-term travel, the twenty-hour drive was divided into three days, with nearly seven hours of rides per day.
This journey has placed a great burden on Angie's body.
In the car, Angie's body often ached, which made her feel very dissatisfied.
And all this dissatisfaction was vented by her to Justin, who was driving.
The two men quarreled all the way, and finally arrived at the doctor's clinic in Houston three days later and met the doctor himself.
And the real tug-of-war has only officially begun now.
Full of lies, want to lose weight but have no perseverance
At the doctor's clinic, Angie weighed on a scale tailored for the big-weight crowd and found that she had reached a staggering 584 pounds.
To this end, she complained that her husband ate too much for herself on weekdays.
When he met with the doctor and sat down to talk in detail, Angie began to act a stunned act of lying.
She told the doctor that her knee was injured and could not lose weight, otherwise she would not have been fat to this point, and she even ate only one meal a day, still could not reduce, so she hoped to turn to medical means and let the doctor use surgery to help her lose weight.
Angie tells the side effects of this powerless obesity word for word, and if it is a doctor who does not know the truth, it is easy to be deceived by her painful narration.
But this time, the doctor she faced was a professional weight loss doctor who specialized in high-weight patients, and before the face-to-face consultation, the doctor had learned about angie's obesity from various channels such as Anji's family and friends.
The doctor coldly watched Angie's performance and poked through her lies one by one:
"As far as I know, you don't eat a meal a day, you consume at least 7,000 calories a day, I know that you have a problem with your knee, but when your knee is no problem, you don't have a weight loss action."
7000 kcal is an amazing calorie number, and in general, 7700 kcal can be converted into a kilogram of fat.
If you don't take into account Angie's daily calorie consumption, the effect of the food she eats in a day can be seen as a kilogram of fat on her body every morning when she wakes up.
How can you not be fat with such a diet?
After the lie was exposed, Angie did not feel the slightest guilt, as if everything was just a joke, and continued to beg the doctor to operate on him.
Looking at this helpless woman, the doctor made a decision, he let Angie go home first to lose weight on her own, and if she could lose 45 pounds in a month's time, she could help Angie arrange bariatric surgery.
Losing 45 pounds of weight seems like an impossible task for the average person.
But Angie weighs as much as 584 pounds, and the standards set by doctors can be easily completed.
As long as the daily calorie intake is maintained at 1200 calories, Angie can lose 45 pounds almost without exercise by relying on her daily basal metabolism.
However, after returning home in Ohio from Houston, Angie only controlled her diet for a short time, and her weight loss plan was disrupted by real-life problems.
Justin, who didn't want to move to Houston with Angie, got into a fight with Angie shortly after returning to Ohio and chose to leave the house.
Without Justin, Angie would not be able to travel to Houston with her daughter alone.
This made her overeat again, so the agreement to lose 45 pounds a month was not completed on time.
A month later, Angie had a video call with the doctor, and because Justin was gone, Angie couldn't go to Houston again.
The doctor listened to Angie's complaints, and he understood Angie's difficulties, but in his opinion, all this was Angie's excuse, which was very common among his patients
High-weight patients often lack self-control, even if they know that they must lose weight, but once they encounter difficulties in life, they often see difficulties as life-saving straws, give up restricting diets, and use this as an excuse to explain to doctors.
In the end, the difficulties Angie faces are not at all the decisive reason why she cannot complete the weight loss task, the real reason is still the lack of self-control.
More importantly, the doctor noticed that Angie in the video call showed signs of drug addiction — excitement, impetuousness, and incoherence.
Yes, in fact, Justin is an addict, and during the time he returned home from Houston, Angie was induced by Justin to start taking drugs again, and Justin left the house, partly because he had a disagreement with Angie on the issue of drug use.
After learning all this, the disappointed doctor set a new standard for Angie - losing 90 pounds in two months and having to go to a drug rehabilitation center.
This must be accomplished before the doctor is willing to operate on her.
After hanging up the phone, Angie performed all sorts of verbal abuses against the doctor.
She felt that the doctor was targeting herself, if she could lose weight by her own perseverance, why did she need a doctor to do surgery?
In fact, the doctor is indeed well-intentioned, and he has seen too many cases of people who have undergone surgery and regained their original weight because of overeating.
If Angie can't complete his task and rely on his own perseverance to control his diet, then even if he has surgery, Angie will regain weight in the short term.
In the days after the video call, Justin unexpectedly returned to Angie.
This reassures Angie, but at the same time, Angie is angry at the doctor's request to increase.
Angie decided to move to Houston immediately and forced doctors to operate on her.
The plan was agreed to by Justin, but the daughter and son-in-law refused, believing it too unrealistic, and the daughter Desilei learned that Justin had re-infected Angie with drugs, and she was already at odds with Justin.
In the end, Angie had to move to Houston with Justin.
After nearly losing everything, she was finally on the right track
Angie and Justin came to Houston, rented a house, and finally met the doctor for a second time.
Then during this meeting, Angie began a tit-for-tat conversation with the doctor.
Angie thinks that the doctor does not talk about credit, at first said that a month to lose 45 pounds can be operated on, and then continue to increase the size to lose 90 pounds in two months, but also asked her to go to the drug rehabilitation center, no credit at all.
In response to Angie's allegations, the doctor reasoned the facts, saying that Angie did not achieve any of these goals in the first place.
Secondly, every time the weight is added, it is because Angie did not complete the task or had a new bad habit.
These goals are all critical to surgery, and surgery is not possible without completion.
The result of this conversation still ended with Angie "having to go to a drug rehabilitation center" and "losing 90 pounds in two months".
Back at the house in Houston, Angie began to lose weight seriously for the first time, but didn't give up on her drug use.
During this time, Justin once again got what he wanted from Angie - he was with Angie, originally to sell drugs, and after returning to Angie to sell drugs, he left Angie alone and left, which made Angie very sad.
Drug use, excessive dieting and weight loss, coupled with the psychological damage caused by Justin's departure, caused Angie's body to produce inexplicable pain.
With no relatives around, Angie had to seek help from a doctor.
The kind doctor helped Angie to be hospitalized for an examination.
The results of the examination proved that there was nothing wrong with Angie's body, and Angie was very grateful to the doctor.
But when she tried to get the doctor to promise to help her immediate bariatric surgery, she was refused by the doctor.
However, perhaps because of the pressure of living alone and Justin's departure, Angie is angry at her body, and after the treatment, she almost lost everything and really began to lose weight strictly according to the doctor's schedule, and also tried to go to the drug rehabilitation center.
A few months later, Angie finally achieved the doctor's weight loss goal as she wished, and with the certificate issued by the drug rehabilitation center, she expressed her strong will to change her life to the doctor.
Seeing all this, the doctor was very relieved, and he finally agreed to help Angie perform bariatric surgery.
The surgery helped Angie lose some of her fat.
The most important thing was to help Angie shrink her stomach, and after the operation, Angie weighed only 376 pounds.
Although it is still far heavier than ordinary people, it has lost more than 200 pounds compared to the 584 pounds in her heaviest period.
It is equivalent to losing the weight of two ordinary women.
The reason why Angie can do all this is inextricably linked to the doctor's tolerance and the help of her new boyfriend, Dave.
Unfortunately, boyfriend Dave eventually broke up with Angie.
After an expired lease for her home in Houston, Angie returned to Ohio to live with her brother.
Her weight is also constantly decreasing.
A few months later, Angie weighed herself at a nearby clinic, and by this time she weighed only 281 pounds, and would soon be close to the weight of a normal person.
After losing weight successfully, Angie not only went out on her own, no longer needed to use a wheelchair and crutches, but also gradually began to go to places where she was once afraid to go, such as barbershops.
Once she couldn't sit in the chair of the barbershop, now she can talk and laugh with the barber and watch herself slowly become beautiful in the mirror.
His daughter, Desilei, who fell out with him before going to Houston, is now reconciled with justin because Justin has left and her mother has quit her addiction.
Judging from the recent photos posted by Angie on social platforms, she is no different from ordinary people and has lived a happy life.
Worryingly, though, Angie's daughter, Desilei, seems to have gained a full circle of weight in just a few years.
Once only slightly fat, she now looks much fatter than her mother, Angie.
Maybe one day in the future, Desilei will also experience everything her mother has experienced.
However, I believe that in the case of her mother's previous experience, Desilei can realize her physical problems faster and lose weight in an easier and better way.
But that's another story.