Morbid Obesity: Britain's Fattest Woman Died

A woman, who was known as Britain's fattest woman, died from her morbid obesity at the age of 44.  She weighed 560 pounds!

Her husband has been mourning since her death and now he is warning people of the dangers of obesity.

Britain's fattest woman who weighed 40st dies of a heart attack aged 44 after being unable to walk out of the house for six years - Daily Mail

How in the world did she eat 6,000 calories a day in her bed?

That's right.

She had a refrigerator next to her bed.

Just look at the photograph of her laughing, eating a couple of pizzas and drinking sodas.  Even though she's smiling in the photo, she couldn't have felt good about her condition.  Even worse, the only thing she could clearly wear were stretchy sweatpants which only encouraged her to overeat.

She was given the chance at having weight loss surgery, but she couldn't lose weight to show the doctors that she was ready to lose weight.  The whole saga is just sad and now she's dead.

Here's the biggest problem.

No one close to her would tell her the truth.

Yes, her husband loved her.  But even he admits that he didn't talk about her weight or encourage her weight loss because he feared it would upset her.  There was a choice to be made.  Upset her with a dose of honesty or let her eat herself to death with a huge dose of food?  Was he worried she would end their relationship if he was honest?  If you save someone's life, doesn't honesty trump death?

Honesty does save lives.  I've dated men who had type 2 diabetes and yet they still ate poorly and were obese.  I spoke up about food choices and warned them about the toe, foot and leg amputations I've seen people go through with diabetes.  It's not pretty.  Was my message well received?  No, it was not.  Those relationships ended.  But recently I saw a picture of one of those men online and it seems as though he's lost about 20 pounds.  I say, good for him!  Something got through to him that made him change his choices.

It's not easy to change old habits, but if you want to live longer badly enough, those old habits must be exchanged for new, healthy habits.  Three cheers for healthy habits!