My 600 pound Mom

I don't post much but I come on here every day!  Anyone else watching the 600 pound mom on TLC?  Breaks my heart! Poor Dominique!  Makes me want to cry!!! And her children who take care of her... Man, I can't stand it! That could have been me!  So sad.

She's lucky she wasn't my mom, I would put her on an 800 calorie diet and water, until she lost weight to have surgery. I have no sympathy for people who are trying to kill themselves with food and I wouldn't help them die.  I had to turn it off.

It is sad.  Have you watched the 2nd show continuation of Dominique? Now that was sad.  :(

Most people dont get to that size without family our friends "help".  I think the family are 3eeeworse for enabling the overeating.   My mother had diabetes and my sister was buying her ceee3ee3eandies ddedded3deand cakes.  We had fights every time I've seen that.  I coulkd no****ch that.  My mother died a few years later.    I believe my sister contributed to my mother dead. But since they were both adults - there was nothing I could do.   My sister excuses : "I bought that for her because she liked it." 

Some of the posts here are pretty harsh.  

When I see 600 pound people, my heart hurts for them.  There's an illness there -- one that infects an entire family. I haven't see this show, but I would guess that children raised by someone with this illness would likely learn what they have lived.  Children of alcoholics often become alcoholics or enablers.  Children of morbidly obese families often become obese and/or enablers.  

I try not to pass judgment on other people, in the same way I hope people will show compassion towards me.  

I hope this woman and her family is getting the help they need.  

My response to your sister would be, "If Mom was a heroin addict would you bring her heroin cuz she 'liked it'"?  I'd like to think NOT... but then the sickness of co-dependence usually has little, to no boundaries.