My Baggy Body. Ch4.

Did anyone watch this programme last night?

It was about people who had lost a lot of weight and were left with large amounts of excess skin. Some were lucky and got an operation on the NHS to remove the skin but some did not fit the criteria.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-baggy-body/episode-guide

I really admired Gregg who was refused the operation but far from being deterred he tried every which way to raise the £8,000 he needed to go privately. He even did the Tough Mudder and people sponsored him to raise the funds for his operation. Eventually his parents stepped in and made up the total he needed.
http://toughmudder.co.uk/about/
It changed his life so much, a young man who is now looking forward to the kind of life that other people take for granted.

It really surprised me that people who had really gone out to lose a load of weight through their own endeavours and yet the NHS would not help them. If they had not lost the weight then they would have cost the NHS a fortune in the following years.

I wondered if they were left with all this excess skin because they had lost the weight too quickly?

Yes, the woman with the "large testicle" shaped excess skin really needed the operation. She called it Fred. I couldn't imagine what it must have been like to try to move around with Fred. When she had it cut away it weighed, 30lbs!!

Didn't you think the Tough Mudder challenge was a measure of determination, such a hard challenge. I think even super fit people would see it as an immense challenge.

This shows a picture of one of the participants, Sarah, who uses a body suit to hide the excess skin she is left with after losing 9 stone.
She is now stuck at 12 stone and needs to get to 10 before she can be considered for an operation.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/healt...tric-band-left-with-huge-folds-of-excess-skin