That just turns your stomach reading it! It seems unimaginable that any caring mother would try and destroy their sons lives by effectively force-feeding them, but she's clearly got mental health issues and can't seem to acknowledge that. I suspect one of the reasons she wants them to become imprisoned by all that excess fat, is so that they won't have the opportunity to leave her. Another reason why she started shovelling fattening food down their throats could be that when she had her gastric bypass, and could no longer eat the food herself, she got a strange kind of satisfaction by watching her sons eat it for her. And that's not in a twisted, nasted way - it's a kind of thinking that anorexics often get when they're starving themselves - they'll bake, say, the most beautiful but fattening cakes imaginable (putting immense effort to every detail) and then they'll sit down watching everyone devouring it while suffering hunger pains, and getting a strange kind of pleasure just
watching other people eat it.
Ultimately, it's all about control. This woman wants to control because she HAS no control - so she's controlling other people - her sons. She's getting pleasure out of watching them eat the things she can no longer shovel in her mouth, and she has the added bonus of knowing she's imprisoning them so she won't be alone. It's an incredibly cruel thing to do, but to do it to your own children is simply wicked. She's stealing their lives - and one day she'll lose them if she doesn't get treatment. The sons have told her how unhappy being so morbidly obese is making them, but she's doing nothing whatsoever to help them - she's helping them dig their own graves. She should be put in a secure unit and given psychiatric treatment.
I find it very strange, too, that she's plateaud at 17 stone (and she's only 5"2"!) so she's still obese! How's that, I wonder? I thought gastric bypasses were fool-proof. I know some people can eat so much that their gastric bands eventually snap (
) but you can't do much about a gastric bypass. She must be liquidising VERY fattening food and drinking it if she's stopped losing weight. Maybe she pours a jug of thick double cream milk shakes down her throat every half hour? She must be getting excess calories into that body of hers!
As for how they can aford to eat so much - I don't know what it's like in America now - but when I went out there years ago the food was incredibly cheap. Aamazingly cheap in fact. And the portions were ENORMOUS!
I remember the steaks were the size of a dinner plate - and very cheap, too. And they had loads of fast-food restaurants serving massive breakfasts with this gooey white sauce stuff (I can't remember what it was, actually - but it looked very fattening) and then I once ordered a starter of Nacho style crips with a cheese and chopped pepper sauce - thinking it would be served in a ramekin type dish - and it came up in a dish the size of a small platter bowl! There was ebough cheese and sour cream to feed 5 people - easily. And that was just a starter.
So if the food is still so cheap out there it's probably not costing them that much to eat all that junk. Mind you, this endemic is spreading (no pun intended) and Great Britain's becoming a nation of giant fatties - especially in the deprived areas for some reason. Maybe it's a chicken and egg situation?
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