She eats like a bird

[lumberjim]

(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?

[Pie]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

you'd be on the loo all day long too

Good lord, the Brits have finally gotten to you.

[lumberjim]

posh!

[TheMercenary]

She looks like a bird as well.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

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.

[lumberjim]

gigantic dumps at regular intervals

GOOD BAND NAME

[monster]

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.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by monster

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

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

[lookout123]

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.

[Undertoad]

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

[Clodfobble]

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.

[ZenGum]

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

[monster]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

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

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

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

[xoxoxoBruce]

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

[monster]

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