Body scans of women at 250 and 120 pounds

vanillarain · 2012-10-22T16:33:33+00:00

This CT scout image has always had more of an effect on me: http://i.imgur.com/u05LW.jpg

skyhy109 · 2012-10-22T15:22:33+00:00

I see your body scans and raise you actual slices of people: http://imgur.com/iJ0tV

Edit: The source is Bodyworlds, google it! It's actually pretty snazzy if you're into anatomy.

Qqrl · 2012-10-22T15:13:21+00:00

To the people noting the differences in the bony anatomy: The discrepancies are mainly due to the level that this particular slice shows. You'll note that the humeri on both patients are only half there, you can only see one bone of the forearm, part of the skinny girl's femur isn't visible, and neither patient has a visible fibula. If the whole set of images were available to scan through, you'd likely see a normal skeleton.

Istrata · 2012-10-22T13:19:40+00:00

The black area in the intestines, which is the same in the lungs and bladder, is just air. Empty space.

quesadiyeah · 2012-10-22T16:37:18+00:00

brb going to the gym

HannahP945 · 2012-10-22T16:19:59+00:00

I wanna stop being fat now :(

ArkadiusMaximus · 2012-10-22T12:46:07+00:00

What are the two spots on the brain on the bigger woman?

dr_spacelad · 2012-10-22T14:54:04+00:00

Jesus the human heart is huge, it's weirding me out man

Porrick · 2012-10-22T15:48:31+00:00

I wasn't aware MRI did colour scans - either this is a new Gunther von Hagens project, or someone had to colourize the image.

Pelican_Fly · 2012-10-22T15:19:02+00:00

The real question here, I think, is which one's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.

Ebonyks · 2012-10-22T12:57:07+00:00

Look closely at the lower legs and ankles of the woman at the left, she appears to have a significant orthopedic disorder.

scroogish · 2012-10-22T16:59:24+00:00

'Big boned' has been mentioned 13 times and 'dat gap' 5 times so far on this thread. Does no one read comments first anymore? Fucking karma scramble. Come on.

nemoomen · 2012-10-22T15:45:15+00:00

I was hoping it would be a scan of the same woman, after she lost a bunch of weight.

godrim · 2012-10-22T15:10:17+00:00

I'm pretty sure all the yellow is fat, so is that also fat around the heart on the obese woman?

anotherpinner · 2012-10-22T15:40:42+00:00

Which one is 250 and which one is 120? They are not labeled.

HighOnPie · 2012-10-22T15:42:55+00:00

One of the biggest motivators for weight loss I've seen.

SD_Guy · 2012-10-22T15:00:44+00:00

TIL: Fat people are ugly on the inside too!

busykat · 2012-10-22T16:55:11+00:00

Interesting that everyone immediately notices the discrepancy in the legs and the pockets of gas (not poop!), but did anyone else notice that the 120-lb woman desperately needs a chiropractor? Her neck is curved, but not how it ought to be!

jondraws · 2012-10-22T15:05:48+00:00

anyway to tell how tall they are? Is it the same person? Are they the same height?

woodenkidneys · 2012-10-22T16:56:13+00:00

I'm sitting here eating a sandwich laden with cheese and mayonnaise. Suddenly, I'm not so hungry anymore.

Round_the_twist · 2012-10-22T12:44:22+00:00

Whats all the black stuff in the intestines and stuff? Its not shit is it

e30fern · 2012-10-22T17:05:00+00:00

10/10 would fap to again.

rendashalystar · 2012-10-22T14:51:23+00:00

Dat. Gap.

chikenrider · 2012-10-22T17:02:14+00:00

This is pretty crazy. I am a guy, but I went on a fairly radical diet with Kaiser (totally monitored, they gave me all the food supplements I was to eat, I had to take biweekly blood tests, weekly doctor visits/ nutritional education class, the whole 9 yards) because in June I weighed 346 lb. Now I weigh 236 lb, and I am still very much overweight, I think still technically in the obese catagory, but very much better off (and looking to drop down to 200 at least still). I used to wear size 48 waist pants and XXL shirts, and I really filled them up. Now I fit very comfortably into size 38 waist pants and XL shirts. We did body evaluations last weeks (they take size measurements at the beginning of the class. For men, distance around your nipple line, distance around your belly button line, distance around your right thigh, distance around your right calf, and distance from your arm pit to the tip of your middle finger) and my chest and belly measurements decreased by 30 cm, my thigh decreased 20 cm, my claf decreased by 4 cm, and my arm actually increased by 4 cm (my arm didn't get longer, my arm just became less enveloped in my torso). It's a pretty crazy thing though because of the 108 lb I have lost the doctor said about 65-70 was fat and the rest was what they call lean body mass. She said normally losing over 40 lb of lean body mass is very bad because usually that is muscle, but the normal losses for the program are about 52 lb on average so my 108 is very much a special case. She did say I burned a little muscle, but most of the lean body mass I lost was like infrastructure that your body builds when you get that enormous (extra water storage, extra blood vessels, extra crap to do stuff with all the fat) and she said those were good losses. I went from 25% body fat to 14%, 9% is considered healthy. I can tell you the difference is absolutely staggering. This picture does a lot of justice to what that kind of obesity really is. You become something that is less recognizably human. Fortunately it can be dealt with. It doesn't take a lot of effort, but it does take a stiff upper lip and a lot of time. My insane 108 lb in 4 months is not really a realistic goal or rate of weight loss; I was losing something like an average of 8 lb a week through this problem, healthy weight loss is like 2-3 per week. I should have lost this weight at that rate for about 3 years, but my primary care physician said I could be prediabetic in 6 months (this was in May, I had just turned 23) and I really didn't have the 3 years to play chicken with getting a chronic disease like that, especially since I would be doing it on my own and he frankly didn't trust my resolve to stick to a diet and exercise plan for 3 years, so he recommended this special program for me. So I short cut about 2-3 years of good dieting with this to get where I am, and now the real test starts where I see if I can continue losing or if I can even just tread water. I will say I am pretty optimistic because now I can do stuff like run and hike, things I always liked doing in high school, but things I have found that I could no longer do after college. It's good to be like a human being again.

supermari0 · 2012-10-22T16:50:15+00:00

The most revealing centerfold I have seen in a while.

brightondiffusion · 2012-10-22T17:24:33+00:00

These are artificially colored coronal T1 MRI images.

Everything that is made of fat looks bright on T1 - bone marrow, subcutaneous fat, fat in the brain, mesenteric fat.

Parts of the patient that show up black are water, air and cortical bone like the lungs, GI tract and bones.

The major differences between these people appears to be the amount of subcutaneous and mesenteric fat.

Whoever colored it in didn't make the pelvis bone look like the rest of the bones on the patient on the left of the image.

There's a slightly different slice selection between the two.

leahfoo · 2012-10-22T16:45:17+00:00

I've gone from 170+ lbs to about 145lbs within the past few years. I've dropped about 15 in the past 6 months alone. I feel so much better now than I did heavier and looking at this(though I was nowhere close to 250) makes me feel so much better.

Gaddy · 2012-10-22T16:39:59+00:00

Looks like they both have to pee.

yep45 · 2012-10-22T16:40:00+00:00

that ain't healthy

paddypower256 · 2012-10-22T17:06:32+00:00

That can't be right their bones are the same size!

OneWhoHenpecksGiants · 2012-10-23T01:35:35+00:00

Reddit. Where making fun of fat people gets you internet karma. Keepin it classy bitches.

marganod · 2012-10-22T15:29:19+00:00

Nothing sensible to add, buuuuuut...

Is the one on the left scratching her arse?

waronxmas · 2012-10-22T15:39:14+00:00

They both look like bacon. Yum.

DerpMatt · 2012-10-22T14:50:51+00:00

THe fat lady looks like her shins are going to snap at any second

ScottStorch · 2012-10-22T15:05:24+00:00

The woman on the right has scoliosis. Checkmate healthy folks

Curvatureland · 2012-10-22T14:01:13+00:00

proof that there is no such thing as big boned. The bones are the same size.

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