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Hi. I have a friend from High School who was always a big guy, like probably 280-300 pounds in highschool. Its now been years since we graduated and his weight has only gone up. He has to be pushing 400-450 pounds at this point.
My question to you guys, is how would you approach suggesting losing weight to him. Should we be up front and intervention-eque, or be more subtle about it.
Obviously this dude will die relatively soon if nothing changes, and he isn't helping himself, so it almost feels wrong just watching this happen. This the type of dude that celebrates McDonalds starting to sell breakfast all day. And its clear his parents don't care.
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Do you really think being subtle will work with someone who didn't notice they had to change their whole wardrobe and use two chairs for meals?
Take him to a doctor and ask doc to really scare him.
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seriously though OP, how far are you willing to go to help him? would you move in with him or let him move in with you?
the biggest problem with people dieting is self control, and the easiest way to solve it is to essentially be their keeper, live with them and make sure they stay on a healthy diet, and once they get the hang of that, then they can be left alone.
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i dont know men, maybe try to convince him
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A big guy you say?
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I hit 290 lbs in senior year, last January actually.
Currently I am ~210 lbs.
An intervention would have done nothing for me. I would have made the promise to lose weight and never followed through. Instead, it requires HIM WANTING TO LOSE WEIGHT.
In my case, I was doing a little bit of gym and some loose dieting. These days, I don't do gym, and my dieting is still loose, but I am losing weight every two weeks or so.
A few points:
1. Learn the daily caloric intake. If he consuming 3000 calories (probably more in his case) per day, just drop the number by a little bit at first. Eat 2500 instead for a week. After that, 2000 calories and probably don't go lower than that for his sanity sake. It is better to go slow and steady than to drop a fuckton of calories from your diet and then fail later.
2. Prevent boredom. I used to eat when I was bored, and even now, when I am bored I eat. Keep busy, whether through work, physical activity, et cetera.
3. When I said loose dieting, I meant I kept a number in mind for calories and tried not to go over. I aimed to keep my caloric intake at 2000 per day. It's okay to go a few hundred over OCCASIONALLY, but keep cheat-days to a minimum.
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Nothing short of surgery can help people who are that big
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How can we get him started, I liked anon's idea:>>18125730
of getting a doctor to scare him. You don't think that type of intervention would help him?=
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It's hard to say. He's a human and all humans react to things differently.
I was told by my doctor I'd die, et cetera and it did not faze me nor stop my behavior.
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So what got you started? How tall are you btw, because depending on your height, 280 is not even comparable to the level this guy is at.
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What got me started was a mixture of a few things:
1. It was a challenge to myself. I believe highly in my own willpower and was determined to lose weight because I wanted to prove I could.
2. I wanted to get stronger, which would mean going to the gym.
3. I wasn't in control of what was purchased for food, which meant when less food was bought, I consumed less food. Simply not having food in the house is an easy way to cut calories.
I am 5'9, and I carried my weight well. Looking at me when I was near 300 lbs, I didn't look it. You are right to be concerned about that because if this guy is almost double my weight, than my advice should be taken with a grain of salt. He's on an entire different echelon than I was, so I don't know how much of my experience carries over.
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>getting told you'd die
>doesn't faze you
Holy shit. If my doctor told me I had a 5 percent chance of dying from some genetic condition 5 years from now I'd be scared shitless.
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You think a literal addict would give a shit? That's like telling a meth head that he'll die. He doesn't give a fuck
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