The guy is only 14 years old, and he is already forced to sit on the strictest diet.
The whole world learned about a boy named Arya Permana when he was only nine years old. The reason for this was not at all special intellectual or some other merits, but a huge excess weight. He was not yet ten years old, and the arrow on the scales went off scale for 120 kilos. By the age of 11, the boy already weighed 190 kilograms. One hundred and ninety!
Arya was born with a completely normal weight – 3700 grams. For the first five years of his life, Arya did not differ in any way from his peers, he grew up and got better like a textbook. But then he quickly began to gain weight. Over the next four years, he gained 127 kilos. At just nine years old, Arya received the title of the fattest child in the world. But the worst thing is that this terrible weight was not the limit. Arya continued to get fat.
The boy was not sick at all, he just ate a lot. Moreover, the parents were to blame for this – they not only did not try to cut the huge portions of their son, on the contrary, they imposed more – how else to show their love for the child, except how to feed them properly? At one time, Arya could eat two servings of noodles, a pound of chicken with curry and eat boiled eggs all of this. For dessert – chocolate ice cream. And so six times a day.
In the end, it dawned on the parents: it could not go on like this any longer, because the more extra pounds a boy had, the more rapidly his health was destroyed. In addition, it cost more and more to feed Arya – his parents had to borrow money from neighbors in order to buy as much food as he needed.
“Watching Arya try to get up is simply unbearable. He gets tired quickly. Will walk five meters – and already out of breath, “- said his father .
Even washing became a problem for the boy: with his short hands, he was simply unable to reach wherever he needed. On hot days, he sat in a pit of water to cool down somehow.
Arya was taken to the doctor. The doctors predictably prescribed a diet for him and asked the patient to write down what he ate and how much. The parents were asked to do the same. Should it work? Calorie counting should be one of the most effective weight loss techniques. But Arya did not lose weight. Why, it became clear when they compared the food diaries kept by the mother and the child. The mother said that he ate according to the diet plan, but the boy claimed something completely different.
“I continue to feed Arya. I cannot limit him in food, because I love him, “- admitted the mother.
The doctors had to talk seriously with their parents: “What you are doing is killing him.”
But one diet was no longer enough. The boy was sent for gastric resection surgery. So Arya received another title – the youngest patient who underwent bariatric surgery.
Surgical intervention helped: in the first month after it, the boy lost 31 kilograms. Over the next year – another 70 kilos. He already looked like a normal child, but still minus 30 kilograms remained to the goal. Then Arya would have weighed 60 kg, like an ordinary youth.
The guy, you have to give him the debt, he tried very hard. From the very beginning, he made plans for the time when he finally lost weight. It turns out that Arya always dreamed of playing with friends in the pool, playing football and riding a bike. Simple things, but an exorbitant appetite robbed him of even that.
Diet, exercise, regularity and time slowly but surely do their job. Arya walks at least three kilometers every day, plays sports games for two hours, climbs trees. He even started going to school – before he simply could not get to it. Arya would have walked to school for half a day on foot, and the family motorcycle did not take out such a load. Normal clothes appeared in the boy’s wardrobe – T-shirts, pants. Previously, he simply wrapped himself in a sarong, it was unrealistic to find something else of his size.
In total, Arya lost 108 kg in three years.
“I gradually reduced the portions of food, at least by three spoons, but every time. I stopped eating rice, noodles and other instant products, ”the boy says.
It would be possible to lose a couple of kilograms more. But it seems that this is now possible only after surgery to remove excess skin. A 14-year-old teenager has enough of it. It is unlikely, however, that the parents will have so much money to make their son plastic. Here all the hope is either on good people and charity, or on the fact that Arya will grow up and earn herself an operation on her own.