Jun 29 2008
Free Mental Health Humor : Chato is Fat Man Unleashed
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Free Mental Health Humor : Chato is Fat Man Unleashed - Cartooning True Life! Last week while trolling Entrecard, I found a site that spoke to me, to my outer Fat Man. It’s no secret that I’m a “BIG” guy. Pushing 360 .lbs at 37 with high blood pressure and high cholesterol and a mental illness to boot is the perfect recipe for disaster. I was not always “FAT MAN”! But I have had a little extra poundage since I turned 13… I have used food for comfort and I’ve often told people, “I’m depressed because I eat and I eat because I’m depressed!”
I contacted the author of the blog, Israel Lagares, who blogs at www.FatManUnleashed.com about weight loss and networking with others to keep on tract for success. While we talked, we came up with an idea that will help me keep focused with my own weight loss. So, starting this week, I’ll be a guest blogger on his site. I’ll write about not just my progress but how dealing with mental health issues complicate it. See many medications that deal with mental disorders have a side-effect that slows down your metabolism and well, it causes you to gain weight and makes taking it off so much harder.
As one that relies on meds to keep my chemistry in check, I have to be careful of what I take out of my diet and what I put in… 3 years ago a local weight center had a 12 week contest fashioned after “The Biggest Loser”. I weighed in at 330 .lbs and at the end of the 12 weeks, I was at 299 .lbs. Not bad right? Well, I was one step away from the Looney Bin, the Funny Farm… My emotions were so messed up, I lost total control… So keeping balanced and loosing weight takes a lot more than just going on a diet.
How about you, are you dealing with the “weight issue”? What has worked for you?
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Free Mental Health Humor : Chato is Fat Man Unleashed - Cartooning True Life!
You really hit this right on the money, Chato…..I gaind a lot of weight since 1994; I trid dieting, cutting back, and that was when I weighed in at a whopping 196 (my highest) I did manage to lose the weight and wind up at 154 when I was admited to hospital (where I spent the whole summer) I had increased my physical workouts from just taking the dog for a walk to signing up with the Karate club that was in our area; ANYBODY would lose weight with all that intensive training… I trained there for 4 years and learned a ton of nifty ways to defend myself, and I made it to my black belt!!!! I was losing weight really well then, but as usual I find something good then I have a stupid episode that lands me back to hospital. That was when I was first tried out on ECT and it was a series of 6…..oooooohhhh, ohhhhhh it erased every bit of my Karate skills; esecially the katas which I always felt were so meaningful to me…..it hit my computer skills too and I had to learn all over again…….oh well, I’m obese again and I know it’s from the Clozaril…I’m so discouraged (178 lbs) and it’s just too heavy for me….besides making my body look like the Michelin man I’m losing the self confidence that I worked so hard to gain……I told my psych if this medication puts more weight on me I’m not going to take any more. I’ll throw it out! I value my body enough to not want it smothered under all those layers of fat. I’m very discouraged right now and I don’t know what to do.
LOL I love the cartoon!