I Eat 33,000 Calories Every Day

I recently saw on the Discovery Channel a show called, "I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day." It profiled four morbidly obese people, and I must say, Shame, shame, shame, shame on the idiots who keep feeding these bedridden people their mountainous portions of food.

Larry is so obese he can't walk and must rely on supplemental oxygen. Family members prepare and bring him all his food. You won't believe their reason: Because if they don't make his food, he will order it and have it delivered, and the delivered food is worse than the food the family prepares.

Yet the camera zoomed in on just what they typically prepare for Larry: fried foods, meats sizzling in a broth of butter, you know, the kind of food that screams high-fat oils, lard and tons of sugar and calories. What's wrong with this family?

Has it not occurred to them to take Larry's phone away so he can't order delivery? Hello? This isn't rocket science. TAKE AWAY HIS PHONE. He is too heavy to go looking for it. Feed him only 3,000 calories a day. The weight will melt off. Then he'll be light enough to look for his phone and start ordering deliveries. He'll regain the weight. But this is better than his current situation, in which he is continually at over 700 pounds.

A phone can be programmed to reach only designated numbers. If the family wants Larry to have a phone in case there's an emergency, they can have it programmed to dial into only 911. However, Larry does not live by himself, so an emergency phone on his bed stand isn't even necessary.

Then there was Lisa. The commentator said she "forces" her grown son to get food for her. The son said he "sometimes feels partially" to blame, but he gets the food so that his mother is "happy." He said, "That's what makes her happy." This was after Lisa admitted that following a food orgy, she feels awful. What kind of son is this? Does he really think she's happy, as she endures utter exhaustion just walking 25 steps to the kitchen? Being barely able to walk for 10 seconds is happiness? Will HE be "happy" when his enabling kills her?

I hope this son never has kids, because if his teenager wants cocaine, he'll get it for him because it makes the kid "happy."

Another man, also bedridden, is cared for by non-relatives-some kind of social service agency, and they showed a "social worker" bringing him a chicken/vegetable salad. But get this: On the food tray was an entire jar of mayonnaise! Hello? This man reportedly eats 36,000 calories a day. You don't think he's going to devour the entire jar of mayonnaise? Why not just put a few tablespoons of it on the salad, and leave the jar behind?

The food habits of these four people were reported to be up to $500 a DAY. Where are they getting this kind of money? It can only be coming from family members. Shame on them. I hope they are reading this and realize just how spineless and stupid they are, for allowing themselves to be slaves to people who are fast-approaching the end of their lives, due to morbid obesity that the family members are helping maintain.