Posted on 03/04/2022 11:05:03 AM PST by nickcarraway
A 392-pound mother who drank nearly a gallon of soda every day has lost more than half her body weight — but now she has excess skin that “flaps around.”
Chessie Passmore, 36, said her comfort eating following the birth of her children contributed to a “weight rollercoaster” of failed fad diets.
“My biggest downfall was fizzy pop, pasta and bread. I’d drink 12 cans per day,” she told Jam Press. “I had knee issues and I could barely walk around.”
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Open up a luggage business.
Donate the excess skin to a burn clinic.
Get rich hiding drugs under skin flaps by working as a mule for Mexican drug cartels.
If you haven’t eaten lunch yet, maybe don’t look at her
Phloppy Phat Exhibit till later in the day.
Good trade off. Excess skin replaces excess weight. The excess weight will kill you. The excess skin won’t.
Identify as a shar pei.
Couple thoughts: the high school yearbook faculty advisor who let her picture be published under the headline “Who has the biggest appetite?” Should have been fired. Second, I feel for her. But as always I’m mystified that people who are unattractive think it helps, in this case, to dye the hair flaming red. I wish her well.
I’ll take the excess skin over diabetes and everything else you can suffer from drinking soda.
“.....12 cans per day....”
Holy crap. Like wtf!?
Actually excess skin is very uncomfortable and because you have a good chance of getting a skin infection yes it can kill you.
In the old days, when we still had circus side shows, I bet she could have raised some money pretty quick and used it to end her career in the circus side show.
Poor thing. I’m down 75 pounds with about 30 to go, and I’ll never lost my excess skin. Don’t want surgery, so I’ll just have to put up with it.
On the plus side, I feel a heck of a lot better.
Ingrate can’t be thankful for the money donated?
Maybe it won’t cover all her surgeries, but it’s a start.
Do something instead of just whining. Get one done then save for the next. It doesn’t need to be and probably shouldn’t be done all at once anyways.
So get surgery
Skin will shrink to a point, so not getting the surgery immediately is OK.
But I can see the need to get it removed eventually.
I lost a lot of weight when I had to cut wheat out of my diet, and still have some excess skin but it’s not as bad as it was initially. All it really does in my case is prevent me from wearing shorts but then again, age does that too.
Double whammy..
“...12 cans per day”
That’s nothing. A couple days ago we had the JetBlue pilot who could down 10 Tall Boys at one sitting...AND go fly the jet.
Go to Tarps ‘R Us, and get one, lady.
At the Dollar General, they have to keep the end caps stocked with cold sodas. Apparently, people in Appalachia have to get a cold bottle of “drank” every time they go to the store. None of that Diet Schtick either. Mostly it is Mountain Dew. The buggies at the Walmarts are always stacked with “dranks”. I overheard this in line at the Dollar General
“Lulu, you want a cold drank?”
“Nah”
“You don’t???!!!”
“Girl you know I am kidding. Get me one of them Mountain Dews and make sure it is cold”
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