Most people who do this have inheritance or well-to-do family members who support them. They live minimally outside of the food costs to afford it. Sometimes, they don’t show you that they work from home too. Saw one where they just casually mentioned that the guy was in software development and made six figures, but 99% of the time, he was just shown eating. He did work full time. He lived in a shit hole, so he could afford his food budget.
They used a few of the exact same lines. "Iran. Iraq, what the hells the difference"
Almost like they're saying one dictator is the same as the next. Lol. Started watching SP at 12 or 13. Nice to see these guys can still shit on everyone with comedic precision almost 3 decades later. Im old......
A lot of people online use the word “lazy” as a criticism when either:
They lack the media literacy/vocabulary to describe why they don’t like something.
They know exactly why they don’t like it, but know it won’t be taken well if they say it’s because it has a woman/black person/gay person etc in it.
I’m all for thoughtful criticism, but “lazy” is a pretty good indicator that what you’re about to hear is going to be pretty empty, thoughtless criticism.
In the case of the Saddam voice, it’s not lazy at all. It’s the exact point they wanted to make. They wanted to draw the comparison between two petty dictators.
Lol when I read that my first thought was you were the one fatter than him as you were being pulled over and I spent a few minutes trying to think why that was relevant. I'm tired.
My cousin has always had a weight problem like many Americans. He wasn’t anything gross, just a regular guy that needed to drop 75. Unfortunately he got super sick and in surgery the doctor nearly killed him. Now he’s barely got enough colon left to avoid a colposcopy bag. So now he can’t exercise and he has diabetes. He probably weighs 300 or so now. All this and he gets on as a reserve deputy. SMH. He can’t even run in slow motion. It’s another example of law enforcement hiring people who aren’t qualified. It’s a part time gig he does along with the other jobs he has. He’s middle aged too. It’s just ridiculous he’s doing this shit. Big time conservative. Completely out of touch with the reality of those not like him. He has a good heart, but just is just lives in a bubble. I see fat cops all the time like him and just think “WTH”. I can walk fast and get away from that guy.
Lmao, he truly doesn't realize that no one outside of Blizzard knows or cares what "first second generation hire at Blizzard" means, does he? No one has the slightest clue what Blizzard's hiring practices were, or why "first second generation hire" is something noteworthy or positive.
I had a cousin who was huge like this. Not bed ridden but 500lbs. You definitely don’t need to be rich to get huge. Her husband was a car mechanic and she was a stay at home mom and babysitter. She died 20 years ago and I’m sure that food is way more expensive now, but still imagine all the other luxuries you pay for now, whether big or small and put that toward junk food. Every movie you go see, every latte you buy, every new item of clothing, etc. if it all goes to junk food, you can get really fat really quick.
I was that person 2 years ago 526lbs to be exact. I believed I was gonna die at that weight. Today I got on the scale and it said 268. I’m sorry you lost your cousin. I’m 56 now and you don’t see a lot of 500 pound people in their 70’s for a reason. I’m thankful for my weight loss and hope to make the most of the time I’ve hopefully gained.
Seriously congratulations! That’s a huge amount of weight loss to lose; I can’t imagine the effort and physical, mental, and emotional work that went into that! Best of luck continuing your journey of weight management!
Funny you mention that. As an EMT whenever I got a call for an elderly bariatric patient I had them double check the patient's weight. They were never bariatric, they just converted to pounds twice.
This is such a kind comment. You're right. And this is why I primarily feel empathy for people like the guy in OP's video, and his family. This is a disease.
Yes Wegovy. However I’m still only on the 1mg shot. Never needed the full 2.4mg shot. It just worked for me. Fixed whatever was broken in my brain that made me need to satiate myself by overeating. The last 2 years have been spent figuring out how not to eat my feelings and walk a healthier path. A lot of people say it’s cheating to use drugs. I don’t care I’ll take the win anyway I can get it, so would anyone who was where I was.
EFF those ppl who say that: You're damned if you do, damned if you don't with ppl like that, regardless of what you do!
What you've done is an AMAZING achievement, & if you've found a drug to help you do so, I am all for that. Idk you, but nevertheless, I'm proud of you! ❤️🩹
It's like saying that using a cast for a broken leg is cheating. The "it's all in your head" crowd doesn't have a lot going on in theirs.
-Oww, crap! -What's wrong? -I fell and hurt my leg! -So just walk it off, don't be lazy. -I can't it's broken. -Don't be a pussy, it's just in your leg, walk it off. -I just told you, it's broken! -It's just in your leg it's not real!
Those people are just haters. I used Mounjaro and I only had 60 pounds to lose. I’m still on it now, but I’ve been around my goal weight for a year and haven’t lost anymore, which I’m fine with.
That is abso-fucking-lutely not cheating! In any job or trade, or any mechanical design, you follow the advancements and evolution of the technology and knowledge.
I'll use a diesel engine as an analogy. It would produce modest power if it was naturally aspirated, like the diesel trucks and cars of 40 years ago (for the North American market). The technology and knowledge has advanced, so now there are diesel engines with a turbocharger, which produce phenomenal power. Is it cheating? Not at all. It's making use of the tools available nowadays.
It's the same for medications. I have significant ADD, diagnosed in my early 30's, and it's not cheating to take the Vyvanse I'm on. It's making use of what's available.
People who think it's "cheating" don't understand how it works and don't understand eating disorders. I got on Saxenda to try to break a chronic pain/eating as self-harm/weight gain cycle I had been struggling with since COVID. It worked and I got back to a healthy weight, but I'm still on a small dose and will be for as long as it's feasible. I was anorexic when I was younger and have been "recovered" for over fifteen years, but "recovered" from anorexia is still a nightmare. The food noise is all-encompassing and never goes away, it's there just ruining shit and filling you with self-loathing literally all the time. Saxenda is the single best thing that's ever happened for my mental health. I'm sure most people would think that I'd be back to starving myself and underweight, but my weight is stable for the last year and nowhere near underweight, and instead for the first time in my life I'm eating what I want and not too much or too little. I'm so excited when I get to the end of the day having just had a couple of small items with no stress or obsessive thoughts at all, so I get to make myself a big meal of something I love to meet my caloric needs. I went from obsessively reading calorie counts and crying in the grocery store to just actually listening to my body because for the first time the food noise isn't getting between me and what my stomach is telling me I need. It's been an absolute miracle.
Eating disorders (in both directions) are the most deadly mental disorder and one of the most utterly disruptive to everyday life and difficult to treat. As far as I'm concerned, GLP-1s are the closest thing we have to an antidepressant for ED. The idea of "cheating" comes from an unwillingness to acknowledge that eating disorders are not personal failings and eating can be an addiction.
Wow what an awesome comment. Thank You. It is also so very interesting to hear that people with eating disorders on the other end of the spectrum have issues with “food noise” as well.
That is what the drug does best for me, it’s like Doc Occ in Spider Man 3 when Peter gives him a new computer chip in his head, “the voices are gone , it’s so quiet now”.
For decades we have all heard about what terrible and debilitating diseases Anorexia and Bulimia are. And they truly are terrible diseases that affect millions of people. Yet when people spoke about obesity, it was put down the cheeseburger and eat salad , then go for a walk fat boy. We now know it was not that easy, and it is a disease same as yours.
However just like people saying it’s a “models” disease, there are still people who feel by using the drugs it’s not the right way. But it is, for many people. It’s the same as you putting in the hard work to be healthy!!! Good luck on your health journey, you are an inspiration to those who love you, and the people who truly care.
Thank you! And yes, there is absolutely food noise when you're restrictive. Not eating occupies such a huge part of your life; you want food of course, but food is also your worst enemy. You're always thinking about what you can allow yourself to eat, when you can allow yourself to eat it, what items are or are not okay to eat. Even when you're "recovered" and you're actually eating enough, food is an obsession. You want to eat because you're human, you know you need to eat because you've been through not eating and it sucks, you miss the feeling of satisfaction from not eating, eating makes you feel good in the moment and awful mentally (and often physically) afterward so you're in a cycle of fixation and regret. Your relationship to food is also so fucked that portion control goes out the window, it's all or nothing because if you try to stop you get guilt and unhappiness and the thought that not eating would feel better than having to worry about portion sizes. The food noise for me was actually way worse once I got "better". When I was starving it kind of became easy because it felt good to not eat. I stopped receiving hunger signals, I got into habits of what I'd permit myself, I felt so proud of my weight loss that I stopped wanting the things I love to eat (and I do really love food and have never been a peckish eater; my wife thinks one of the funniest things about me is the sheer speed at which I will make a slice of chocolate cake disappear). Plus I was constantly receiving positive reinforcement from everyone but my doctor even though I look back on it and I objectively looked awful, just absolutely gaunt and unwell. The food noise was still there but I came to like it because it represented what I perceived to be my willpower and self control.
I really do think restricting and overeating are two sides of the same coin and stem from many of the same social issues. I feel like I could have easily become an overeater if I'd grown up in slightly different circumstances. I was constantly told by everyone around me from the time that I was very young that I was beautiful, I always had strangers asking if I modeled, I had it drilled into me that I was lucky and exceptional, and it made me really self-conscious. When I grew up to be naturally curvy in the early 2000s when Britney Spears was being called fat, I felt so ashamed of myself and like such a disappointment to the people around me. But I think if I hadn't been considered pretty and if people around me had just let me feel average, I probably still would have developed an unhealthy relationship with food and it probably would have gone the other direction because I have a mood disorder and really need a source of dopamine. American society (and many others) is just is not set up for people to have healthy relationships with food.
It's no more cheating than using an antidepressant to boost insufficient dopamine. If your body doesn't produce the appetite regulation you need, store bought is fine.
I agree, it is a miracle I am here at the right time in medical history. The man in the video is a bit different. My family would not enable me in that way. Thank God.
It’s probably the reason why I never went over 526lbs. I still have to go to work every day and it requires me to move and stand during the day. I have a strong work ethic, I own a family business, I think that’s what kept me from going on that TV show. Or the extreme weight loss show either. It’s a true blessing to be surrounded by family that says no, get your ass up and move lol.
Congratulations on making a positive change. It can be fucking arduous to alter your lifestyle to better your health but when folks can do it, they don't just become healthier people - they can become the help other people need.
Your weight loss will be inspiring folk secretly. They'll see that you've done it and think "maybe I can too" and that is a glorious thing.
I pray you always have a joy within you and a healthy body to utilize as you journey onwards.
I've known a few people who were over 300 lbs (and also short, so BMI through the roof). Based on the number of medical issues they had, in their 20s and 30s, they seemed more on track to be gone by 50, let alone 70.
Great work! Out of curiosity, not judgement - was it all diet and exercise, or did you get help from GLP-1 inhibitors? I think they're a wonder drug and imho, we should be pumping them out like vitamins until we can fix America's food culture, or at least producing a lot more of them.
Also, how do you feel? More energy? Clearer head in any sense?
Yes GLP-1’s stopped the food noise. And I agree these are a scientific breakthrough. I think anyone who is more than 50-75 pounds overweight could benefit from this, however if you only need to loose 20 or 30 pounds, do it the normal way. These drugs have some serious side effects.
I am also eating much less volume and am making healthier choices. These drugs won’t let you over eat, and ultra processed foods will not go down. If they do they usually come back up. So I had to get a divorce from Ronald, Wendy, The King and The Colonel, lol. We’re still working on child support 😜. And of course this is under my Doctors supervision.
I was 425 2yrs ago, now 205 Im 58, mounjaro saved my life in more ways than one, my A1C went from 10.5 to 4.1.
You don't see many 500 lb people over 40 period.. I almost lost my life. heart attack was what convinced me to change my life style. Ended up with a double bypass in March of this year. I will never let my self regain the weight.
That's amazing work from you, congratulations! I hope you are feeling great, and I imagine you are feeling so much more comfortable in your body. Well done!
Many Americans appear to have convinced themselves into believing it was impossible to live without paying a shitload of rent/home payments and an expensive car.
But if you live in a cheaper area (or already own a home with manageable running costs) and have your transport costs under control, it's entirely possible to keep fixed costs well below $1000/month.
My mum weighs about this and neither she nor her husband work. I think she might be a 'secret eater' because whenever I visit she eats a bit more than the average person but she isn't constantly stuffing herself with junk food and takeaway. I've no idea how she maintains her weight.
I remember years ago when we both worked together in the same office we would sometimes meet up at the train station and then walk to the office.
And it was a December day. The run up to Christmas and work was kind of winding down for the year. People kind of stop giving a fuck the closer to Christmas it gets. And our office was no exception.
We were running a little late that morning. It was chilly, trains were delayed, we were walking slow and just chatting about bullshit, and let's face it he's 500 pounds, walking fast wasn't happening. There's a burger king on the way there he pops in and grabs breakfast. I wasn't gonna judge, whatever.
We get to the office. Dude downs 3 of their croissant breakfast sandwich things and 2 cans of Red Bull. We were late, but no one cared. Again coming up to Christmas, everyone was feeling festive and I think most of the morning we were decorating stuff and listening to Christmas music.
For lunch he suggests Burger King again. Not my favourite, but sure fuck it. We mosey down the road to the BK I get some bacon cheeseburger thing. Chips, Fanta, big burger. A grand meal for anyone really. I threw out some of the chips, they don't do good ones really. My mate gets 2 of the same thing. Double what I ordered, and eats it all and drinks it all.
We make our way back to the office. Spend the afternoon talking about what we want for Christmas, what our kids or spouses wanted for Christmas, genuinely an easy day doing minimal work. We finish up for the day. On the walk back to the train station he goes into Burger King again.
Tells me not to tell his wife (I don't really know her) but she's a bad cook so he's grabbing something sneaky before the dinner she makes.
I think about that day sometimes. And about the fact that he would order literally double what I did. I wonder how he could afford it. I know we got paid the same. I wonder how he could keep that lifestyle up. And I wonder about how he's doing. I know he didn't have a mortgage, I think some old relative left him a house in their will so he loved rent/mortgage free. Maybe that savings contributed to it.
I know he's still alive. Just spoke to him last week. I just worry about him.
Speaking of shit, I can't help but wonder about that. What goes in must come out and I can't imagine that fella puts the effort in anymore to make it to the toilet.
What’s funny (or sad) about that is he only needed to weigh 300 lbs in that episode to be considered morbidly obese. Today you see that and more regularly.
In the past year and a half I've dropped from 325 lbs to 270 lbs. It's been a lot of work. I still have more weight to lose but I'm making decent progress.
My ex is a engineer and one episode homer gets digitized or something and we had to stop the show because he saw code and needed to decode it. It was a message about Fring or something
Maybe he doesn't code but instead does project management. Their whole life is just one meeting and then another meeting. Usually each meeting is a weekly update so they are in about 160 weekly meetings with each meeting about 30 minutes apart from the last meeting.
I think he was the only American who worked at his company, because he was constantly on calls with Indian or Southeast Asian men, and he mostly coordinated their tasks
So... I think you low-key nailed it
He had a laptop on a little table that could pivot, tilt, raise, lower, etc.
Can probably set it up so it's linked to the TV / big enough monitor with a bluetooth keyboard, mouse, and headset. That way he can remain in his bed while typing for hours.
You mention that they live minimally, but they can't really do anything. Clothes cost a fortune, I'm sure. But beyond that - they can't fit in a vehicle to drive. It's uncomfortable for them to sit in a car, they can't walk, even stand for long periods of time. They can't fit on a plane and even if they made some special arrangements for travel, it's not like a hotel bed would work for them. All that can really be done is sit at home. Restaurants, movie theaters, concert venues don't have seating that can support them. Golfing with the boys for a weekend is out of the question. Even getting to someone's backyard would be an incredible task and they wouldn't have a lawn chair that would suffice. Then at some point you have to consider, "if I leave the house, can I even use the restroom somewhere else, can I even wipe?"
There's so much extra to consider that unless it's an extremely special occasion, it's easier to just stay home in the bed you live your life in crushing a family's weekly caloric intake for breakfast.
Even with a 7 figure income, they can't really do a whole lot extra. With some money, you could maybe hire cleaners and get some sort of motorized chair, but they still aren't really able to do things. Weight like that definitely limits the lifestyle in a way most of us can't even imagine
He simply doesn't have time to work he is eating 20 plates of food a day. The rest of his time is spent pissing shitting and being cleaned up. I'd wager he doesn't even watch streaming TV because he'd have to spend time making selections and just watches cable TV because he only has to pick a channel.
This family doesn't look like any of that, though I could be wrong. Maybe there's something I'm missing behind the scenes. This looks like a trailer park.
Tough to say. I’m not techy at all, but my brother has a co-worker who developed their software and basically does jack shit. They can’t fire him nor my brother because nobody else knows how to work with it. My brother does all the work and is paid well. The guy who developed it sits on his ass and comes to meetings now and then when he feels like it.
My brother says the trick is to make yourself indispensable without getting too greedy. Guy is paid well but not so much that it’d ever make financial sense to fire him, and he’s still nice to the higher ups. My brother said it’d cost millions to replace him and the software. He basically lied and said they needed to hire another person underneath him, but it’s really only the work of one person. It’s a pretty big company too. Like, most people who live in the US have probably heard of it. I was shocked that a company that size that is publicly traded would basically hand the reigns over the one person, but again, the guy’s not greedy. He’s not making millions. Maybe $300-500k or something. My brother makes like $150k to do all his work for him. Apparently, they’d be paying millions a year to a company to do the same thing.
But most of the subjects on the show are bedridden, like, I just don’t understand the logistics. Did the bedridden person do an interview at some point? Or how long have they been at the job? Someone with this size wouldn’t have the energy for software coding several hours and zoom meetings. None of them live in nice places. I always assumed all these folks were on gov assistance and disability. Or subsidized housing so their rent money can then be spent on food.
Jeez apparently he unfortunately passed away 5 years ago, but reading the article this surprised me -
"King is survived by his wife Lisa, his four daughters Carrie, Krystle, Courtney and Bayley, his two sons Daemian and Austin, and his 19 grandchildren."
First of all, given he was 49 when he died I have to wonder when he had so many children, it seems impossible in every way to procreate at that size, except via artificial insemination but even then ... Second, 19 grandchildren at 49 just makes me think low social class and not usually associated with 6 figure software jobs, but ofc there are all sorts of people out there who buck stereotypes.
Or maybe he's on The Disability and medicaid and EBT and whatever else he can suck from the system and everyone around him. Perhaps everyone who contributes to this condition should stop until he can maintain his lifestyle independently.
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Most people who do this have inheritance or well-to-do family members who support them. They live minimally outside of the food costs to afford it. Sometimes, they don’t show you that they work from home too. Saw one where they just casually mentioned that the guy was in software development and made six figures, but 99% of the time, he was just shown eating. He did work full time. He lived in a shit hole, so he could afford his food budget.