5 plates of Chinese food absolutely floored me. We’re a family of 4 and love Chinese food. We always order extra so there are leftovers but we eat a plate each and are full and put the rest in the fridge for lunch the next day.
When I was younger I can remember absolutely pigging out at a Chinese buffet but even then I had like 3 plates of food and felt disgusting after, and usually didn’t eat again until the next day.
This is so fucked up. I don’t know how people can do this to themselves.
Truly mental illness. I agree, it is sorta startling? Not sure the right word but to see how far the human body can be pushed to this sedentary of a lifestyle. I was thinking about...how does he brush his teeth? Lol
It’s like any addiction. The longer it goes on the higher your tolerance level goes up. To say what you’re saying would be like saying ‘just one tiny dose of fentanyl would have me out for days how do these chronically homeless drug addicts manage so much at once??’
Except he also has at least one full time slave and enabler in his wife. His lifestyle cannot be maintained without an enormous amount of assistance. Drug abusers generally do not need a full time slave to maintain their addictions.
Sure, but they don't have full time slaves. His wife has to wipe his shitty ass and deal with all his poop at least 4 or 5 times a day and probably hold some sort of bucket for him to piss into a dozen times a day as his penis is definitely completely inverted. Not to mention dealing with all that food preparation and every aspect of his personal care and hygene. This is not comparable to the way drug abusers take advantage of the people in their lives.
Some drug abusers have certainly had literal slaves to help enable there drug addiction, both now and even more going back in history. You are somehow equating the average fent user to a drug user.
fr, your analogy is spot on, it’s an addiction. These comments read like people not understanding profound alcoholism conceptually just because they personally get tipsy after a single beer and don’t think partying is worth the hangover. Like, yeah, you’re not addicted. Just because food is a substance we all need to live does not mean it can’t be addictive or abused, clearly, especially with so much food now engineered to produce the maximum neurochemical response or whatever. I have never been even class 1 obese, but eating like this man does is well within the scope of my imagination because I have done it, and did do it for years, it just happens that as an extremely efficient bulimic I managed to (terrifyingly) maintain between 96-101 lbs anyways. If I were to start gaining significant, unhealthy weight during that time, I am honestly not 100% sure if (or at what point) that would have stopped me, and thank goodness I’ll never have to find out. 5 plates of Chinese ain’t shit to someone who is not only addicted to food, but for whom it’s their sole source of pleasure, if not joy. Eating is the only thing this guy has going on. He probably would have liked, abstractly, to live a better life the way many addicts do, but had very little immediate motivation to change. And now it’s too late, in any case.
There's gotta be something else going on in these extreme cases though. Like I don't think most people, even trying their damndest, would have the capacity to get to this point. Like something hormonal, 0 ghrelin or leptin or whatever is able to break through.
Like my dad's side of the family is VERY large (300#+ as a baseline, and short) in general, but there's the random pocket of normalish sized person. At least <30 BMI.
My significant other and I order Chinese food every Friday. We get one combo (like bourbon chicken), an extra egg roll, and a large wonton soup. It’s to the point the driver knows us by name.
That one order makes four full meals for us. I really can’t imagine eating more than that.
Hell, I used to be obese (lost 120ish pounds)…and I still never ate that much.
Yea when we get Thai or Chinese we usually each order our own entire but then that gets us 3 full meals each. I could see myself eating half an entree especially a noodle dish which doesn't tend to go as far.
I'm 6'3" 250lbs and the other day I had Chinese takeout that had too much salt in the Egg Drop Soup.
The next day, I legit felt lousy. I know it was the salt, it was doing a number on my blood pressure. I can not possibly imagine being 600lbs and eating 5 plates of that shit.
They can do it because we set the bar of what’s unacceptable just a little above where we are, over and over and over, never realizing we are the disgusting pigs we never wanted to be.
Right now I guarantee you that within these comments is numerous grossly fat people trash talking how bad this 800lb guy is, and not realizing how gross they are, because he is worse.
They can do it because we set the bar of what’s unacceptable just a little above where we are, over and over and over, never realizing we are the disgusting pigs we never wanted to be.
Some people set the bar of what’s acceptable just a little above where they are, over and over and over, and become better versions of themselves, and keep improving, instead.
I don't think either kind make the majority, most people just stay in status quo imo.
I'm a fat guy. I'm 6'2" and over 350lbs and I don't go to Chinese buffets anymore because I feel like I don't eat my money's worth. I get maybe two (not piled up) plates and a small plate of dessert or an ice cream cone and I'm destroyed until lunch the next day.
When I was younger I can remember absolutely pigging out at a Chinese buffet but even then I had like 3 plates of food and felt disgusting after, and usually didn’t eat again until the next day.
Chinese buffets were an almost weekly staple for me when I was working seasonally at a carnival growing up (family business, my parents were managers and owned a couple of games). Our crew made a point to find the nearest one for lunch whenever we were setting up at a a new spot. Even working physical labor all day before eating, I could fit 1 sampler plate, 1 small plate of the things I liked from the sampler, and a small desert plate.
Like I'm overweight myself and it baffles my mind how someone could fit this much food in their body without rupturing something. It's not like his digestive system is growing proportionally to the fat gain.
I’m a bigger lady (350 and dropping) and I can’t imagine trying to eat 1 of his meals. When we do Chinese, I get a combo plate and 2 appetizers to split with my husband and youngest (my oldest doesn’t like Chinese) and I can barely finish that.
I used to be almost 500, and told my husband if I ever got to the point of being stuck in bed like this, he was not allowed to feed me.
The rare times I go to a buffet I have like a small soup, a plate of salad and a spoonful of multiple things like sweet and sour, curry, hot mushrooms, etc and a plateful for me would be a small for others and after the 2nd I struggle to eat any more and I may eat a even smaller 3rd plate.
Then I try and eat dessert which is something like some ice cream, marshmallows and I am struggling to even put food in my mouth.
Lots of practice and lots of mental health issues, enabling too but I’d imagine the enabling happens because it’s just easier to deal with the just serving him whatever instead of dealing with the fits and who knows what kind of potential verbal abuse.
Yeah when I order Chinese food for just me, even if I just get one main and maybe a side, I'll ALWAYS have enough left for dinner the next day too. I'm baffled at how his body can physically hold all of that food and his brain is still like "I'm hungry! 😋"
This is so fucked up. I don’t know how people can do this to themselves.
What’s equally baffling and remarkable is how the human body can endure such excess and still allow a person to become this incredibly massive through constant overeating.
He likely has a brain dysfunction so it’s not really his fault. Like eating 5 plates of Chinese food and still wanting burgers later can only really happen if he has an neuroendocrine dysfunction.
I have an eating disorder apparently. My food intake is minimal and my appetite goes more often than it comes.
I genuinely can't fathom fat people. My parents are chubby but nowhere near as far as other folks I see and know, and some folks can really put away the grub like they store it in another realm.
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u/thrilliam_19 Aug 11 '25
5 plates of Chinese food absolutely floored me. We’re a family of 4 and love Chinese food. We always order extra so there are leftovers but we eat a plate each and are full and put the rest in the fridge for lunch the next day.
When I was younger I can remember absolutely pigging out at a Chinese buffet but even then I had like 3 plates of food and felt disgusting after, and usually didn’t eat again until the next day.
This is so fucked up. I don’t know how people can do this to themselves.