Benefits: Too Fat To Work

[The Don]

Watching it now, what a despicable show. Wonder if there was a buzzword requirement for the amount of times the narrator had to mention 'taxpayers money' and 'benefits'.

[Richie]

omg the fat boy listing all the foods eww his legs ****

It's an eating disorder, would you get a grip.

i don't really understand the whole "we had no money so we had to eat quick and easy food"
i was brought up by a single mother on minimum wage and i have been underweight my whole life..... we didn't get fizzy drinks and chocolate/crisps but i did and still do eat pizza/burgers/chips etc.... i just didn't eat 3000 calories worth of it
i think there's a huge lack of knowledge about portion sizes.

im pretty sure its a female @lemons;
unless im behind u, thertes a man on now

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"we treat ourselves when we lose weight" -gets a kebab- alright then.

Education is key, I agree. However I think if 'healthier' options were cheaper, it wouldn't leave people deprived of hunger/energy. Fair enough it worked for your family that's great, if you ate junk food and still had full energy and weren't feeling hungry, that's you, it is different for each person. If healthier options were available, less people would be processed food just out of lack of funds, people still would get fat don't get me wrong but those who can cutt out junk food but can't afford 'proper meals' would benefit. Creating a dish like spag bol is going to be far more filling than chicken nuggets and chips, not to mention the health benefits but spag bol is far more expensive than purchasing nuggets and chips. Yes you can portion control but these sort of processed foods are only a short term fix for hunger and energy.

""we treat ourselves when we lose weight" -gets a kebab- alright then."

Sounds bizarre, I know, but that's unfortunately how the mind works for someone who has this eating disorder, 'I'm after losing weight, I deserve a reward'. It's the same with most things, most things people do is for a reward. I wish everyone could think of their reward as the few pounds they shifted but that isn't the case. The only difference is, each reward is to their own.

I just don't think its right to judge the thoughts of someone with an eating disorder of this kind, everything that goes on in every individuals head is different. I would never look at an anorexic person and judge their thoughts, I simply can't, I don't know how their mind works. Even if i had the disorder our mindsets could be in two completely different places.


I can see why people are angry, large people sitting on their backsides claiming tax payers money whilst they have to work but you have to think of the bigger picture (no pun intended). Sure, a lot might be lazy ********s that don't want to work but then others could be trying to make changes and get educated. You simply can't paint everyone with the same brush.

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'congrats on getting a tv show about you mate' - @mrwoooooooo;

cheers bro!! still don't get why people feel the need to be ***** on this.

[Empired]

The idea about rewarding yourself for losing some weight is hardly uncommon. It happens to most people trying to quit smoking. They don't smoke for a week and then 'reward' that with a cigarette. It seems backwards thinking to someone without the addiction, but perfect sense to someone trapped in that addiction.

And cheaper, healthier food IS available but you need cooking skills and an understand of where you can go to find fresh, cheap produce. I live in Cambridge so we have a famous market that has a fruit & veg store that's fresher AND cheaper than places like tesco and asda. Obviously not everyone is going to have a market on hand but you can normally find fresh(ish) cheap produce in most supermarkets. The problem is you have to find a recipe, prepare the food and cook it which a lot of people can't be bothered to do.

What we really need to be educating people is how to cook healthy food that's cheaper than a kebab. We need more schemes like Jamie Oliver's "Feed your Family for a Fiver" a few years ago.

[buttons]

i'm reading about hunger and eating disorders atm. some people store more fat each meal so they need to eat more to feel like they have enough energy. more calories = more weight gain. as their stomach increases, they need more food to fill it and to reach a satiety point, meaning they will literally feel they're starving if they don't eat enough food to fill the stomach.

for me, it's difficult as well. yeah i know, skinny girl crying about her weight! i've been trying to put on weight for so long but because my stomach is small, i assume from eating so little throughout my life, i find it difficult. even to the point of throwing up. somedays i would eat grapes in the morning then nothing else until 3pm cause my brain doesn't tell me when i'm hungry and is satisfied with even small stuff.

i never have energy and i never did btw to your point about that. i just ate my meals and only snacked on fruit. it was just what i knew and never questioned it. even now that i'm trying to reach recommended calories, i still feel guilty when i'm eating something at home that someone else could have ate.

if i eat junk food though, mostly chocolate and crisps etc, i will crave junk food for the rest of the day. it's really addictive. this is why i think it's important to find alternatives. empired is right. not only do we have a lack of knowledge on portion sizes (both large people and thin people like me), we have a lack of knowledge on WHAT to eat and HOW to cook it. there is definitely healthy options out there, and it's often cheaper than the junk food. i follow this facebook page called "how to feed your family for less than £20 a week" which is really helpful if you need ideas.

people buy into the junk food industry and advertising, you see £1 menu for mcdonalds and you think wow that's so cheap... but could you really afford that every day? it's gonna be £3 overall for one meal if you get a burger, fries, and drink with it or whatever (idk prices anymore), which for one meal is A LOT. there's really a lack of knowledge on both sides. it's really weird cause i've always assumed i'm just naturally skinny but seeing people a normal weight i'm like wow. cause my mum was brought up poor as well so didn't know portion sizes too, yet most of the world is a normal size or becoming increasingly obese, whilst i thought everything i ate was normal lol. i'm worried in future that i don't feed my kids enough but i just really don't know what a balanced diet is.