Posted on 07/28/2009 4:57:06 PM PDT by traumer
A 25-year-old unemployed woman who was given an £8,000 operation to help her lose 16 stone is complaining because, as well as her weight loss, her benefits have been reduced.
Laura Ripley, who has never worked, was given the operation on the NHS to help her slim down from 38 to 22 stone.
But the 25-year-old, who receives £600 a month in benefits, is unhappy because as a result of losing weight she can no longer claim disability allowance amounting to an extra £340 a month.
This, she says, means she cannot afford to eat healthily - causing her to pile the weight back on. 'I can't afford to buy WeightWatchers crisps and cereal bars any more so I eat Tesco's chocolate bars and packets of Space Invaders crisps, sometimes four of each a day', says Laura, who spends seven hours a day watching TV.
'People ask why I don't snack on an apple - they're cheap, but emotionally I don't always feel like an apple.'
The disability allowance money she used to receive was spent on gym workouts, healthy food and having her hair highlighted.
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Cry me a freakin' river. You're using taxpayer $$$ honey!
That's the problem right there.
what weight system is “stone”
What’s a stone as it applies to weight measurement?
(too lazy to look it up)
I’ve read many Brit stories, and have never seen this term used.
Coming soon to a goverment agency near you.
I have never bought the notion that healthy food is expensive.
Cheap foods: Carrots, lettuce, onions, most basic fruits and veggies in season (you have to be flexible), many canned vegetables, gallons of skim milk, large packs of high fiber cereal, eggs (you can skip the yolk if you like), big sacks of brown rice, flour for baking your own bread, various beans, big bags of oatmeal. . .
1 stone = 14 pounds
Holy cow! 22 stone=308 lbs!
:-O
Shame on her for stealing taxpayers’ money!! >:-(
38 stone=532 lbs.
Pardon an ignorant yank...But how much is a STONE??
I don’t know lady maybe if you didn’t watch tv 7 hours a day and ate less?? First they should make her come in person to collect benefits and the office should be on the TOP FLOOR of a large building.
1 stone=14 lbs.
Well I must say, eating healthy can be expensive but.....
A stone is 14 pounds. It's an ancient agricultural measure.
Well heck, neither can I, but nobody’s paying my food bill.
I watch BBCAmerica a lot, there’s several diet shows that refer to the person of the week’s weight in ‘stones’.
I think she has been eating those stones!
I agree. You can get packets of berries two for five dollars or two for three. I did it all the time when I worked at Meijer.
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