I have a friend who, at one point in her life, weighed 400 lbs. She lost a little bit of weight but not much, 50 lbs. maybe. She's a nurse. She's on her feet all day, working in ICU, and she's going back to school, too. She was a traveling nurse for several years, kept a hectic schedule and was going to school then, too. Also, I taught exercise and aerobics classes to morbidly obese women for years and they all held jobs and worked hard in my classes. Having a job and exercising when obese can be done and is being done every day. I'm withholding judgment because I don't know the full story of this family but my opinion is that they use their weight as an excuse not to work.