Food is an addiction. It stimulates the dopamine( feel good receptors) in our brains. It’s like a best friend.. it’s reliable, always there for you and will never leave you.

As people become super obese there’s co-dependency issues. The caregiver enables The obese person as that makes them feel important. Once the obese person loses weight and becomes self sufficient, these relationships usually do not last. They’re incredibly unhealthy.

I watch that show as well. As a matter of fact it's on TV as I write this. I have a hard time understanding it too, but most of it is psychological problems . Many of the women on the show been sexually molested as children. Many of the other suffer severe depression and are self-medicating through food.

I watch that show on occasion and I find myself getting frustrated with the people on it. So many excuses, whiners, family enablers, psychological disorders, etc.

I can understand why they get up to 600+lbs with all that going on. A few of the episodes I couldn’t watch because I had no sympathy at all for the people. Some I felt sorry for.

inactivity contributes. at a certain point you don't need to eat much to maintain or gain weight.There are too many psychological reasons to name that contribute to getting to that size