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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I have an great idea for her. Start training for a job. That will take her mind off the food, get her moving, stop the TV set watching, and help her continue to eat healthy.
I wasn't being serious of course. But someone who isn't too picky about their health will see a package of gummy fruit snacks as a rough equivalent to a box of fresh raspberries. The main issue though is that fresh berries go bad (practically) in hours, so unless you are buying it to eat it that afternoon, it's probably better to go with dried fruit or nuts for a snack.
Actually it's 490 with 234 calories from fat and zero vitamins. That's horrible as far as nutrients are concerned. At least a $1 Whopper Jr. has some lettuce and a slice of tomato ringing in at 370 calories with 189 calories from fat and a small amount of vitamins A and C.
He will tax everything that could possibly make you fat.
He will tax fat people.
Since a lot of fat people are poor they won't pay that tax.
Guess who will pay their tax.
I want the freedom to die from too many twinkies if I so choose!!
I don't want the government to mandate our food choices.
“what weight system is stone”
for her, probably a grave marker!
save a whale, harpoon it!
Oh I definately ate them soon after, I just mean that she could have bought food in bulk quatities, cooked it up, and then spent the month nibbling away at it in controlled portions.
That’s my plan when I’m on my own. Buy bulk, cook the perishables, and feast like a king.
I like Whoppers better anyway!
LOL!
That’s a boulder.
;-)
Sounds like my cousin. Seems there is somebody like this in everybody's family.
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