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This week on Special Assignment SABC 3 at 21h30 on August 2, 2005

"Heavy Weight" - Viewers Comments

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I think it is marvellous that the program tonight was based on South African people and not an examination of weight problems in a foreign country. I battle with my weight and your presenter/investigator really touched a cord with me. I can relate to everything she covered. It just does boil down to control and at the end of the day no one else puts the food in your mouth.

Very good programme. Good variety coverage. Hard to be overweight.

thank you very much on the program about OBESITY, very interesting, please have more !

Good tip- whatever yr size - wear clothes slightly smaller that u r! Every bite is a signal. No caftans. Aversion therapy as taught by ancient martyrs...

No one of us can judge. We live in a world were we have to be Perfect. Im not obese but I also dont judge people that is obese. After all we all are just human.

I disagree with weigh loss programmes that expose people 2 harmful chemicals thru tablets. I lost 8kgs in 3 months with 45 min indoor cycling everyday

some people do put on weight overnight. I was either slightly underweight or at my ideal weight for most of my life. I have never had an eating disorder. However, five years ago, when my lifestyle changed (food and exercise), I put on 30 kg in less than 6 months. It CAN happen that quickly. As I have not returned to my previous eating and exercise habits, I have not lost that weight, but I did lose 10 kg in two months earlier this year. I think that an important factor is also stress and "phases" in life. Two years ago I went on a diet and the gym almost daily, and did not lose a single kilo, yet the 10 kg was NOT accompanied by exercise or a major diet.

i am a girl aged 15 but i weigh almost 90 kg and everyone keeps taunting me about it i tried to lose it but every time i try i find out that i have gained. i no longer go out that much i hate going out cause people look at me i want so bad to lose it would you please give me ideas that maybe i can be a happy person once again.

I have just watched your programme on obesity in South Africa. For many years I had ignored by ballooning weight, subscribing it to being big boned. It took a long time for me to be able to take that long hard look at myself and the size I had become. I am clinically obese and although I have yet to suffer the medical issues discussed on your show, I continue to grow. I have learnt that you canıt change what you canıt accept and by that I mean hating yourself for being overweight and fighting this addiction constantly will keep you constantly fighting. For 4 years now I have been working hard at finding the source of my need to overeat, I believe that you donıt get to being 150kg+ and not have any issues. I wanted to resolve them and in doing so eradicate my need to eat, making any diet or ³lifestyle² change easy. I had always thought that by treating myself with chocolates and snacks I was giving myself the kinds of things I had always wanted as a child, I was eating to become happy.

Becoming obese is more than just eating too much and exercising too little, its about a need you canıt get fulfilled, a desire that is never quenched, hurt that never heals. Until you learn to give these things to yourself you can never ever successfully loose weight.

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