I just watched an episode of House and he diagnosed a girl with Cushing’s – an illness that can cause obesity.
How is that possible? I was under the impression that our bodies use energy we get from food, and if it doesn’t get the food it’ll burn fat resulting in us getting slimmer – how can a disease change that?
How does it not go against some laws of thermodynamics? Maybe I’m just being silly.
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Oh hey, I’ve actually had Cushings from steroid use due to Crohn’s disease.
I cannot possibly convey to you how strong the appetite increase is. I ballooned up to I think 210 at my heaviest, and it was torture. There are a ton of other terrible side effects as well, but the appetite increase is most noticeable.
Like, I need you to understand, I would eat a meal and be so full I was in pain and yet the only thing my brain can think about is my next meal. I would be in a perpetual state of counting down the minutes until I got JUST unfull enough to eat more. It is utterly overwhelming, and sometimes left me in almost tears of frustration.
It certainly made me empathize with obese people more and made me kinda hate people that attack them or insist that it’s just entirely their own fault like douchebags who do not even possess an ounce of empathy or capability to put themselves in the shoes of others. You literally have no idea what other people are dealing with. It’s trivial for me to maintain weight normally no matter what I eat, it takes almost no effort. When that wasn’t true anymore, things change fucking fast. Those jackasses are trying to accuse people of not possessing willpower when for them it’s literally easy mode and they refuse to see it.
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