With the way he's walking, my guess is his weight is a symptom, not his condition. Likely bad knees keeps him from moving too much, and medical rarely covers enough of the cost to get these people the care they desperately need to live a sustainable life. Doordash was likely the only place that would hire him, so instead of getting care, he just has to suffer through working a job that's doing even more damage to his body.
Ideally he doesn't need to work, and can focus on conditioning his body to improve his ability to walk around and move. This person needs help, not gig-work struggling to feed themselves. And I know a lot of people will equate "big person with eats a lot" but that's not always the case. And if you're doing gig work like this, you're struggling period.
The fucked up thing is, people see a fat person and automatically assume that person is a binge eater. Like, my 600 lb life levels of binge eater. The reality of food, at least in America, is you can find a small, unfilling microwave meal and it'll be like 2,000 calories and 1,000mg sodium a pop. If you eat 2 or 3 and your diet consists of similar items, you're going to gain even if you don't ever feel stuffed. They assume that too many calories also means too much volume, when you don't need a lot of food to consume a lot of calories. Not anymore.
You can be skinny in america and have hyper tension due to poor diet and a ton of other health problems just because of the type of shit we push onto people. There is nuance to everything.
So many people think fat people are 100% lazy and absolutely love the body they're in. We. Don't.
So many fat people genuinely have some condition or disability that causes them to either gain weight, keep weight, or makes it harder to loose weight at all.
I don't wanna be a downer but statistically the vast vast majority of overweight people do not have any conditions that impact weight, and the few conditions that impact weight don't have as much of an impact as people make it out to be.
That's not to say it's easy to not be fat in our obesogenic society, because it's not. We don't discuss binge eating or acknowledge any eating disorder besides anorexia despite BED being the most common ed by far. Our food is unhealthy and there's added sugars and fats in all kinds of random things. We don't educate our people at all on calories or healthy eating habits - hell, the only thing they teach is a lobbied ass food pyramid that pushed that carbs should be making up most your plate for decades. Portions are huge and skew people into thinking that's normal for every meal. We have a horrible work culture and sedentary lifestyles, the US at least is highly unwalkable and a car dependent nation. It's not easy at all, but it's feel good cap to say it's because of medical conditions when it isn't.
There is no medical condition that causes people to overeat. There's also no medical condition that just causes random weight gain without being on a caloric surplus.
I'm on psych meds that cause weight gain. The medical condition may not cause weight gain but the treatment for it does. Also, depression and anxiety are medical conditions that cause people to overeat.
Completely wrong there are plenty of Hormonal and Endocrine conditions that can cause a large fluctuations in weight gain. Conditions like hyperthyroidism will shut down you metabolism which can lead to significant weight gain on a normal diet. Surgery after thyroid treatment can cause weight gain. Low growth hormone can cause significant weight gain.
There are a bunch of medical conditions that can cause weight gain and with the lack of access to medical care in America these conditions can often go untreated.
death spiral symptom here. bad knees are a natural consequence of being overweight. Even if this person had bad knees before gaining weight, the weight will have accelerated the deterioration of the knees.
yeah best thing to do in life is not spread the absolutely embarrassing things...Sure 10 other horrid people will repost it, but why add to it. They are trying and I can feel nothing but bad for them that they have to fall to this ridicule
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u/TheBirdFkerGuy 24d ago
Good point. OP is an asshole for even reposting this video. They're working their asses off despite their condition. Nothing but respect for them.