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800-pound man kicked out of hospital for ordering pizza
wfsb.com ^ | october 7, 2015

Posted on 10/08/2015 5:00:01 AM PDT by lowbridge

A man who tips the scale at close to 800 pounds says he has nowhere to go after being kicked out of a hospital weight loss program for ordering pizza.

Now he rides in the back of an SUV while his father drives the roads of Rhode Island, looking for someone who can help.

Steven Assanti, 33, said his eating addiction has led him to this place, living in the back of his dad's SUV with nowhere else to go.

For the past 80 days, Assanti was getting the help he needed in a Rhode Island hospital where he lost 20 pounds. But ordering pizza violated the care plan, and the hospital told him he had to leave.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: keepowt; obesity; pizza
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To: T-Bone Texan

a men bro. hardly ever saw a fat person back then.food was scarce in the 40s and 50s.


61 posted on 10/08/2015 9:20:31 AM PDT by old gringo
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To: varyouga
I was once morbidly obese and could not stop even when losing everyone close to me and facing death.

Me too - And I am still fighting weight. For me it was pain. I got well over 450lbs on a plate of food per day. It hurt too bad to move, so I didn't move. I spent 7 years in bed, in a wheelchair, or on a couch in my bedroom, with very few exceptions. And even without the junk food fetish you describe, once one is fat enough to make moving difficult, it becomes incredibly difficult to lose weight. It isn't so much the calories, but rather the sedentary condition, and the lifestyle that engenders.

Today I’m a healthy weight and can run marathons but it took a heart attack and months of someone watching me 24/7 until the insane cravings finally stopped. Once my brain chemistry was restored, I felt like an entirely different person.

When the pain left me (God is good!, A miracle story for another day) I began to walk it off... It was, by far, the most difficult thing I have ever done. Congratulations on your success, from one who knows exactly how understated your comment is. It is nothing short of conquering. And that in a thankless environment where successes are tiny and so incremental that no one else can even see them, and where defeat lurks at every turn...

Kudos to you! I may never run a marathon again, but that you did (and do) is an inspiration.

62 posted on 10/08/2015 10:04:48 AM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: lowbridge

Wait.. what kind of pizza.. and from Domino’s, or who? /s


63 posted on 10/08/2015 2:45:56 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Bob

Yes. He is an entirely new man.


64 posted on 10/08/2015 9:25:08 PM PDT by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: Moonman62

No, he should not be left for dead. The hospital should have given him a warning and made sure no other enabling occurs again.

Yes, we all have weaknesses, it is man’s nature. Mine is sweets. But I ration them so I don’t have to deal with the undesired effects of being 400 lbs.


65 posted on 10/08/2015 9:29:59 PM PDT by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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