She eats like a bird

(CBS) For many people, the idea of eating whatever you want without gaining weight sounds like a dream. But it's a life long battle for Lizzie Velasquez, a skeletally thin 21-year-old from Austin, Texas who is unable to put on weight even though she consumes 5,000 to 8,000 calories a day, according to the English paper the Telegraph.

She eats every 15-20 minutes, downing everything from chocolate, pizza, doughnuts, and ice cream, according to the Telegraph. But the 5 foot 2-inch Texan still wears size triple zero clothes - and gets "pretty upset when people accuse me of being anorexic."
Doctors think Velasquez has neonatal progeroid syndrome, a rare condition that causes fat loss in the face and body and accelerated aging, according to the Telegraph. People with the disorder tend to have triangular faces with a beak-shaped nose, prominent veins and sparse scalp hair, according to the website of University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

I just want to know one thing...... if you ingest and burn that many calories in a day....do you excrete a commensurate amount, or......what? I mean, you'd be on the loo all day long too, wouldn't you?

lumberjim;667238 wrote:

you'd be on the loo all day long too

Good lord, the Brits have finally gotten to you.

posh!

She looks like a bird as well.

lumberjim wrote:

I just want to know one thing...... if you ingest and burn that many calories in a day....do you excrete a commensurate amount, or......what? I mean, you'd be on the loo all day long too, wouldn't you?

I suspect she's not actually burning those calories, but passing them right through, unabsorbed. So, yes, I bet she's excreting a commensurate amount, but I imagine it's still just gigantic dumps at regular intervals, not normal-sized ones every 15-20 minutes.

gigantic dumps at regular intervals

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I think you're wasted at a car dealership, Jim. You should be a chat show host -you ask all the right questions.

I dunno about normal poop though -where's the roughage in that high cal diet? You'd think she'd be bunged up until next week.

monster;668058 wrote:

I think you're wasted at a car dealership, Jim.

I try to wait until I get home to get wasted!

I saw her on some cable show awhile back. If I remember correctly she has a higher than normal metabolism and an inability to absorb the food. She didn't talk about her pooping habits though. It was painful to watch her walk across campus because I just kept waiting for her to fall over and break into pieces.

But us fat people are completely responsible for our condition, right?

Well you have to admit, there are a lot more people walking around who have recovered from their fatness than there are people who have recovered from her condition.


But to be honest, I do actually think there's a possibility that binging on sugars and carbs as the article seems to imply she's doing may actually be contributing to the condition.

She's a bit stringy. Maybe of you got a couple of dozen, you could make a pie.

Undertoad;668073 wrote:

But us fat people are completely responsible for our condition, right?

Clodfobble;668098 wrote:

Well you have to admit, there are a lot more people walking around who have recovered from their fatness than there are people who have recovered from her condition..

It's a rare condition. Let's assume a similar condition exists for super-absorption. So, Yup, most fat people are still at fault. me included. Unless you're working out three hours a day and eating only 1000 calories and still not losing weight, no, you don't get a pass.

/harsh

It's interesting, she has boobs which are all fat, and she has belly fat, just all the appendages are thin.

That is weird, but characterizes the syndrome they're currently diagnosing her with. Poor woman.

Yeah, my heart goes out to her. She must have a rough time of it. :(

Wow, that whole fat-but-no-muscle thing is very strange looking. There used to be a girl who lived somewhere near me on campus who had very similar facial features, but she was blond. I wonder if there are really two people in my city with this condition, or if she used to dye her hair.

xoxoxoBruce;668163 wrote:

It's interesting, she has boobs which are all fat, and she has belly fat, just all the appendages are thin.

Maybe she bought the boobs.