This movie broke me.
Seeing Brendan's portrayal of this grotesque 600lb "man" just broke me, His continuous refusal to change his life for the better, even though he knows he's killing himself slowly, and ruining his life bit by bit, not being able to walk, needing assistance to breathe. After a point, I just paused, and cried.
I couldn't help but relate this to my father. Every time one of those moments happened, I always thought back to my father, he's nowhere near the level of 600lbs, but he's undeniably obese, and he doesn't make it better with his chainsmoking. I related to all the times characters tried to make Charlie see the light, but he just refused, even though he knew where his way of life would take him. I tried the same with my dad, but he literally said "I want to feel good, sugar makes me feel good." once when I tried talking about a diet.
I don't know what to do. This move just makes me think of what my father could end up as, and it crushes me to think that he won't be around for longer because of it. I was thinking of showing him this movie actually, but I don't know.
Any of you had troubles with obese or unhealthy loved ones? Feel free to tell your story.
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Yeah my dad was always extremely unhealthy around 350-400lbs, he actually committed and lost a lot of weight around 10 years ago but then his brother and mom both died within a year of eachother (both morbidly obese) and he kind of gave up again. He had a stroke last year that made him kinda moronic and stopped eating or really doing anything besides laying in bed staring blankly at the TV so he’s dropped to about 200lbs. I’m just trying my best to take care of him and keep him comfortable until he gracelessly expires.
It’s been good motivation though, I got fat and lazy during covid lockdowns and packed on around 60 lbs, started dieting and exercising again and I’m down 20. I don’t want to end up like him.
Him binging food near the end of the movie disturbed me more than any horror movie ever could
Legitimately the most disturbed I can remember being in a movie, because every day many millions of people around the world do this to themselves, and with all the banality of normal life. It's the most realistic horror because it's so commonplace that its horrific aspect goes unnoticed by the very people it most severely affects.
Yes, it also is relatable to me in a way drug addiction isn't. I've never been obese, but I definitely went through periods where I was stress eating. The sensation of just cramming food into your mouth even as you hate yourself for every bite, is just horrifyingly close to hime.
I'm grateful I figured it out and am at a point where I can have the occasional indulgence without pigging out.
My sister is fat. Her husband is fat. Whatever. But their kids are fat and addicted to screens. They never even had a chance and it pisses me off.
lol your dad's gonna die soon anon. Its good you love him, but he's a dumbass selfish frick for not taking care of himself. Just accept that he will die and move on. thats life.
what's the one thing right you've done with your life, IST?
i was a short boy but then i decided to be tall and now im 6'5.
it was a good choice.
Unironically join this board. Lost 70 pounds and gained back 10 after a year of bulking. Was fat to obese my entire life, and I never really gave myself the chance to really reap the benefits of being thin. After losing the weight and picking up the barbell did I finally realize that my weight was the only thing holding me back from a higher self esteem and better social acceptance. I'm no longer the fat comedic guy. People actually find my jokes charming as an addition to me, rather than an attempt to balance out my fatness. I feel way more limber and up for anything that gets thrown my way. I can actually chat up girls without being dismissed immediately. Frick all the people who propogandize being fat and celebrate laziness, while trying to reduce the efforts of others in the gym. Evil truly exists in the world.
I invested in health since I was 16 years old. I'm twice the age now.
I've done more than one thing right. The one I'm most proud of is giving up alcohol. Everything I have built for myself today is because I chose not to slowly drink myself to death and wallow in self-pity.
Finished watching it 20 minutes ago. It's certainly got lots of themes. I guess a big one would be life is complicated. If you were totally unfamiliar with hyper obese people you might assume they're all morons that would drown in a puddle but the reality is worse because they can be otherwise intelligent people like Charlie. Mental illness is a hell of a thing.
Part of me thought how if Charlie was real & I had power over him, I could imprison him in a sense & force him to fast & it would be crazy how fast his health markers would improve. But in the great algebraic equation of life, who knows what the frick demons all that food was keeping back. He might actually try to kill himself in a few days. It's actually possible that in a multiverse sense, this particular Charlie lived longer than the Charlies in other worlds who didn't abuse food because that externality just got pushed in another direction & ended with his suicide or dying through abuse of something else. That's a tough question.
My best friend in college had an obese dad. Probably between 400-500 pounds. The thing is, he had a smoking hot wife who loved him unconditionally. They treated each other like royalty. At the age of 42 he decided to change his life and lose weight. He started eating right and exercising. 6 months later he was down something like 40 or 50 pounds. Then one night he was standing in the living room and - I shit you not - he looked at his wife and said “Honey, you are the best thing that ever happened to me. You’re more beautiful today than the day I met you. I love you.” Then, at that very moment, he had a stroke and died right there in front of her clutching his throat on the way to the ground. It really fricked my friend in the head and he had to take a semester off.
I know it sounds cliche or made up but I assure you it’s true. He was a prominent member of the community and there were so many people at his funeral they had to turn people away. If only he had started to make those changes 10 years prior.
I'm watching it right now and it quite funny tbh
funny due to being so pathetic and sad just like most IST posts
>This movie broke me.
If you watch that kind of movie you are already broke beyond repair. Kys nerd, didn't read
>Pedowood propaganda movie
Thanks but I'll pass
>Pedowood
where do you think you are?
contrary to popular belief, most of us hate pedos, newbie
I don’t keep up with media much… Is this that doco about the fit jannie?
I'm 5'3, 292lbs, 41 years old and I feel my life will go this way. I haven't been outside since the lockdowns and survive on disability. I order ubereats for breakfast, lunch and at night I usually skip dinner and drink a lot of vodka. My resting heart rate just sitting her is 114 beats a minute.
Is there any way to lower heart rate whilst at this weight? I don't want to diet much because that makes me lethargic, I'm open to ideas to reduce the heart rate. Feels like I'm constantly running a marathon and I sweat a lot at rest. Breathing isn't the best either, have asthma pretty badly.
>dieting makes me lethargic
homie you weigh 300lbs how does lethargy change your behavior in a noticeable way
If I cut the calories I get headaches and hunger pains. I've cut down on my Mountain Dew intake from 2x 1.25Ls per day to 1x glass and that gives me headaches. It's like whenever I reduce sugar my body starts panicking.
I walk a bit around my apartment in the evening but only around the front because I live in a sketchy neighborhood. Aiming for 1000x steps to help manage the heart rate issue.
>This Black person was drinking 2.5 liters of Mt. Dew a day
You laugh but I know a former fatty who was 300 pounds in grade 10 and 11 who would chug back 2 litres of pepsi and mountain dew in under 5 minutes. I'm talking buying a 2 litre bottle of soda and drinking it like it was a normal sized bottle. He eventually started taking care of himself and lost a ton of weight (he's around 195-200 pounds now) but that definitely cut years off his life expectancy.
>Body consumes too much sugar but freaks out when the consumption is reduced
There's an article in /FPH/ about your blood becoming like razor crystals and your body freaking the frick out because it can no longer properly metabolize what you consume
You've got a large underlying health issue that overeating is masking. You reaaaalllyyyy need to take some action past smothering the issue with more sugary garbage
Thanks anons. I'm going to try cut sugar completely and drink more natural products like milk diet soda. If I can keep sugar low I should still lose weight. Can't give up the alcohol just yet but will try and swap over to low carb beer.
Hopefully I can lose 100lbs with these changes.
Weight loss doesn't need to be the focus, just try to get yourself into better daily habits and away from dependencies like sugar and alcohol. It'll be rough, but it'll be easier as you go and your body and brain will improve every single day as a byproduct of getting that under control.
WAGMI
good luck anon
>I'm going to try cut sugar completely
Anon, I don't mean to shit on your redemption arc, but you need to make sure that whatever you do is something you can keep doing forever. If you go too hard and cold turkey it, you'll probably burn out and rebound even worse than you are now. Which is not a good place to be, as another anon posted, you probably have diabetes turning your blood into glass soup that's tearing up blood vessels and kidneys. Learn to cook first. Even if you're cooking the same stuff you're ordering it'll be healthier. Build on the foundation gradually enough you can keep with it.
You are addicted to sugar, you are literally going through withdrawls. If you can power through it you will feel better on the other side. If you need an upper substitute an unsweetened iced tea for the caffeine boost.
Since you don't seem like someone who can change their habits cold turkey, eliminate one awful thing from your diet every month. If you can keep it up for 30 days, it is now a habit. Also, you must learn to cook. Start with breakfast. Preparing common breakfast foods is very straightforward.
yeah i had this at 450, i would just sit in my room chugging water it was so unberable but all that mattered was I was not eating junkfood and in a deficit
it went away after like 1-3 months, really not to long, but every day fricking sucked. I'm ~200 now and had to take a break cause I got an eating disorder for a minute, but I can't wait to start cutting again bros. frick being fat, I'd rather be unhealthy and lean eating whatever I want thatn fat binging
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certain foods will make you fuller for longer
Nice, anon.
>Mountain Dew intake from 2x 1.25Ls per day to 1x glass and that gives me headaches
Why don't you try changing from 2.5ls per day to 1.25 ls per day first?
Leave all the bad shit slowly so your body can get used to the changes and you won't get headaches anymore
Keep reducing the bad shit. Keep cutting it down little by little. It will take time but it will get better
You need to walk. Walk for as long as you can every day. No bullshit, no excuses, walk until you can't any longer. Also clean up your diet. Learn to cook basic dishes that involves stuff like rice or pasta + a protein. No more restaurant shit
>Lethargic
You probably sleep like shit due to apnea, never seeing the sun, lack of exercise and drinking that close to bed. Go for a fricking walk, and if you NEED to drink like that, start drinking earlier so you can metabolize it a bit more before you fall asleep.
Go outside once in a while, it's shocking how much it helps.
>lethargic
what do you need energy for anyway, piece of shit welfare NEET? stop eating NOW, do a 72h fast and then do rolling 48h fasts with snake juice until you are no longer a useless piece of shit
if this movie broke you then its over for you
wait til you see this thing called "life"
No. I have no sympathy for obese people who do this shit to themselves. I get it for many of these people they are addicted, but they are weak and allow themselves to get to that point.
>Any of you had troubles with obese or unhealthy loved ones? Feel free to tell your story.
Ah christ, Anon, why did I have to click your thread?
>Be me, younger brother to my older brother
>Age gap is about a year and a half
>We both were born into a typical middle class family
>Life was seemingly good, until one day, our mother vanished from our lives without a word
>It seemed like years passed since she left, but it was only a couple months
>Gotta love a child’s perspective on the world
>We never knew that something bad happened between the two of them, forcing our mother to leave
>All we know is that we’re living with our father, and our father’s having a bad time
>We don’t really have meals, just whatever we can throw in the microwave
>We don’t live in a clean house, trash is strewn about the place
>So on, and so forth, you know how it goes…
>Live like this for years, and both my brother and I get bigger and bigger
>Decide at the old age of 10 that enough’s enough and leave to go live with my mother
>My brother stays with my father
>While I slim down to become a malnourished stick, he gets larger
>Eventually, something happens and my brother starts living with my mother and I
>Thing is, both my brother and I had our demons to deal with due to the neglect we were subject to by our parents
>He was diagnosed with major depressive disorder early in life, was put on meds for a problem that didn’t exist because the issue was the environment we were in
>Several years pass, bro decides to do something nice
>He decides to do my laundry for me
>Realize he’s putting the colors in with the whites instead of separating them
>Get into an argument with him about how they need to be separated so that the whites get bleached
>Bro exclaims that he tried doing something nice, and that he’s done
>Calls up our father and moves back in with him
>Don’t know how long it was, maybe it was several years that passed after that
>All I know is that when I was around 17, and he was 19, I saw him again
>He ballooned from what was probably 300 lbs from before, to what seemed like a whopping 400 lbs
>At the time, I was shocked instead of mortified
>Apparently he dropped out of high school since he thought he had to take care of our father
>The reason why I saw him again was because he was looking for help in preparing to get his GED so he could go to college
>After that, I never saw him again since I moved with my mother and step-father across the country
>About a year passes before him and I start talking on a roughly monthly basis
>He tells me he knows we never had the best relationship as kids
>He breaks down crying, apologizing for how he was a bad brother in our youth
>He tells me that he hopes that we can still have a relationship in our adulthood
>Tell him I’d be happy with that
>Remember what I said about our demons?
>While I still had my demons at the time, I was working through them, and I was in the late stages of recovery
>His demons, though, they still haunted him
>Unfortunately, while he realized he had problems, and that one of those problems was his weight, he was unable to take responsibility for his predicament
>He blamed our parents for how they had broken him
>But he never understood that regardless of what happened in the past, his current life was his responsibility
>He said he was gonna try to lose the weight, go to the gym and everything
>Encourage him to change his diet, to go to the gym, cheering him on and telling him that he can do it
>But nothing stuck
>Eventually, he tells me that he might have cancer
>There’s a tumor lodged in his spine, he’s in pain and he’s scared
>Tells me that he’s going in for a biopsy in a couple of months to see if the tumor is actually cancerous
>Wish him well and hope that he’s okay, telling him that he’ll pull through
>A couple months pass, get a call from my bro, can’t remember if I missed or ignored it
>Shrug and move on with my life
>Couple weeks later, my mother comes into my room, tears on her face
>Tells me that my brother’s dead, died of a pulmonary embolism after a successful procedure two weeks ago
>He just recently turned 21, too
>Immediately go into autopilot and start to comfort her as she sobs into my chest
>Days pass and I don’t feel anything from his death
>No sadness, no anger
>Suddenly remember that he left a voicemail
>Open my voicemail and listen to his message
>It was him telling me that he was gonna go under the knife soon, and for me to wish him good luck
>Still feel nothing
>Only start to realize the gravity of what happened half a year later
Honestly don’t know what to say. It’s been around three years. I’m 22 now, I’ve outlived my brother. I can’t remember a single good memory of him, but regardless, the entire situation is deeply saddening. If he wasn’t the weight that he was, he would’ve lived because the chances of developing a pulmonary embolism are significantly higher when someone’s morbidly obese. All around, it was a bad situation, and it’s terrible since he genuinely could’ve had a much different life. We could’ve had much different lives. I started lifting about a month and a half ago, and in a way, I'm lifting for him now.
This movie broke me but not because I can relate to the morbid obesity (I'm actually emaciated). What I can relate to is the social isolation and the feeling of worthlessness and humiliation it causes, as that is what has ruined my entire life.