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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Her argument is completely stupid. It costs less or the same to eat healthy than it does to eat crisps and chocolate bars. Weight Watchers food is not ‘eating healthy’. That is just low calorie stuff with fat price tag. Eating healthy is eating a balanced diet- and not junk.
This woman doesn’t need any carbohydrates at all. She’s got about a two year supply of ready energy stored in her body. She needs plenty of veg (all the leafy veg she can stuff in her mouth) and a regular supply of protein. And she needs to go for a walk every day. Start with short ones and work her way up to at least 45 mins/1 hour.
And plenty of water. Water is free and it is the best thing she could possibly drink. And she definitely needs to cut out alcohol if that is in her diet.
Even cheaper is the dollar menu at McDonald’s and other fast food places. It’s just so much easier to pick up a quick burger on the way home eat it and throw the wrapper away. Quick, easy, cheap. (I’m not overweight by the way, but alot of overweight folks do this too.)
It takes more than a few days of eating healthily to make up for a lazy lifetime of chowing stupidly.
Laura Ripley, who has never worked,
This is what the welfare state reduces people to. Here is a person who is otherwise employable and productive, that the state has turned into nothing but an enormous, bloated maw demanding food and services, its mouth permanently open like a newborn animal.
Humans have large brains and opposable thumbs for a reason. they are supposed to think, they are supposed to do things, they are supposed to work. When the state ruins enormous amounts of people in this manner (the 5-10% of the European population that are permanent welfare cases), it should be considered a form of genocide.
Those things are on my menu all the time, and I'm not trying to economize. I just think that stuff is delicious.
You can get a regular burger at McDonald’s with a side salad or soup and you have a not so fattening meal. I do it all the time. I usually get some hot tea to sip while the rest of the family eat their seconds or thirds. (I have a lot of skinny & hungry teens.)
Come on over to America chubby, obammy will solve all your problems. And you won’t have to pay, the ignorant taxpayers will pick up the bill.
She shouldn’t be needing that much food if she’s had gastric bypass surgery.
Great minds! :-)
How many people in the UK are sitting on their a$$ and collecting government benefits?? It seems like I’ve seen any number of articles like this. I didn’t know being a lazy fat a$$ was a disabilty.
For that matter, how many people are sitting on their lazy fat a$$’$ and collecting government benefits in this country??
But packages of fruit snacks are 30 cents. So you can pay $2.50 for your berries, while passing over nearly 10 times as many similar tasting and filling less nutritious items.
This person is “lazy” beyond belief.
Peel a carrot (or don't just wash) dip in cream cheese or something. How hard is that.
To repeat lazy beyond belief. Needs to be a SciFi story.
How much is stone and why don’t they jsut say pounds.
“Hast thou seen the white whale?”
But you don't factor in time and shelf life. Is your time worthless to you? If you factor in your time as worth $20/hour, a prepared meal pays off fast. Furthermore, fresh fruits and vegetables go bad fast and have to be replenished by more frequent trips to the grocery store, which takes more time and gas.
And before you counter with this woman's example, of course she had plenty of time to cook, but you argued that healthy food is not more expensive. Well, guess what, it is:
The healthier market basket was always significantly more expensive than the TFP market basket (Table 3). The average cost of the TFP is $194 for 2 weeks, and the cost of the healthier basket is $230. The average increase in cost was $36 and ranged from $32 to $41 depending on store location or store type. The healthier market basket was between 17% and 19% higher than the TFP in Sacramento, and between 18% and 22% higher in Los Angeles.Source.
What a loser.
14 pounds avdp
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