Father Pleads For Weight Loss Help For 450-Pound Son
Filed under: Health — jimmy @ 11:38 pm
A father is protective of his son even in adulthood
Most people who write to me have questions they want answered for themselves or an immediate family member or friend about low-carb living. I’m always happy to acknowledged and respond to someone when they write to me because it is the least I can do for your taking time out of your schedule to contact me. Yes, I really do read and answer all of my e-mails and happily so. If it weren’t for you, then I wouldn’t have a reason to blog. I appreciate you guys!
However, I got a request this month from a well-meaning person who asks me to contact someone close to them about their weight problem. This seemed like an odd thing to me because here I am a complete stranger and these people want me to contact someone in their life to tell ‘em they need to lose weight. As Dr. Phil would say, “how’s that working for you?” It would pretty much defeat the purpose of trying to help someone who isn’t ready to help themselves.
But this desperate father asked me to write to his son who is morbidly obese despite doing everything he could think of with his diet. The son is now contemplating having gastric bypass surgery and this dear and loving father asked me one question: “Will you e-mail my son about his morbid obesity?” Man oh man oh man. I feel where the guy’s coming from, but it just seems so bizarre to write to someone out of the blue.
Here’s the impassioned plea from the father:
Hi Jimmy,
I’m so impressed with your blog. I sent it to my son. My son is 35 and weighs around 450 pounds and has been unable to lose any weight after a few years of trying every diet known to man I think. He is now considering surgery which I think of as an absolute LAST OPTION.
Anyhow, I’m here asking for a favor. Would you e-mail him? I think some contact with you might spur him forward. He is already having cholesterol issues.
His name is XXXXX and he lives in XXXXXX. His email address is: XXXXX@XXXXX.com. It would be marvelous and so very helpful if you made contact with him.
Thanks so much!
Click here to find out why I responded back to the father respectfully explaining why I would NOT be e-mailing his son along with his response to this.
