Oregon woman thankful after losing 800 pounds

TRI CITY HERALD ^ | 4/15/02 | Karen Zacharias

[let freedom sing]

The ACLU and the PC Police heard that. lol

[aomagrat]

Mmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!

[Dan from Michigan]

How is it physically possible for a human to weigh 1200 lbs

I have no idea, especially since she's 5'2. That's over six times what I weigh(190), and I'm eight inches taller than her.

I give her credit for losing the weight she has lost, but she has a long way to go too.

[meadsjn]

Today, she's 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 435 pounds.

And rated one of Portland's slimmest women.

[SoDak]

You got that right. She's got to be lying when she says what she eats. It takes a heckuva lot of calories coming in to weigh that much and maintain it.

[goodnesswins]

Yep - RE: timing of this story.....today on our local radio station the host will interview some woman who is suing a fast food company (junk food, I think) for $50 million clams because it ruined her diet......

[Octar]

"I had to lift it to clean under it. And I would have to lay on the bed and have my daughter dry me off. But the skin was breaking down anyway. It had cracks that were open and bleeding. And the smell was atrocious,"

Do you think this might have had a negative affect on her sex life?

[giotto]

And now, to divert attention from this revolting article:

For all intense purposes

This is the second time in half an hour that I have seen someone use this misspelling of "for all intents and purposes."

[Judith Anne]

Someone had to be buying food for this woman, and serving it to her. How could she afford that much food on disability?

[Judith Anne]

I noticed that too, but I'm so used to stuff like that, I usually ignore it.

[stillonaroll]

She's got a ways to go, but give the gal her props. No matter how she got to such a state, losing 800 pounds is quite an accomplishment.

[DonQ]

Well, admittedly she is still obese, but the difference between what she was and what she is now is truly remarkable. Considering the muscles she must have developed simply to sit up at her old weight, now that she is a third of her former maximum weight, she probably feels very energetic now. Yes, her weight can still kill her, but she probably added at least 10 years to her life by losing 800 pounds.

[SoDak]

Bad food is cheap. This is a sad story.

[Dan from Michigan]

BTW - Govt money should not have been used here.

It's self control. I'm lucky to some degree since I have a damn good metabolism, but I'm also active. I can walk the Mackinac Bridge without breaking a sweat. I can still keep pace with the football players I coach. That's despite the fact that I'm probably in the worst shape I'm in now in about 8 years.

That's not the meat factory's fault. Not Guinness's fault. Not Mountain Dew's fault, and not the computer's fault. It's my fault for not having the same self control I had before, and it's my fault that I can't run a 5:50 mile anymore, and my fault that I lost my near washboard I had at 17.

That can change with simple hard work.

[M0sby]

WOW! What a GREAT accomplishment.
Very happy that this woman is off to such a fantastic start!
Look at that, she is working now too... seems to me she is a good example for someone using some Federal Money to become less (or not at all)dependant on Federal money! Isn't that part of what conservatives want?.. for people to get OFF Federal Money? (I know, I know, she shouldn't have had it to begin with ) She is a story of success.
I guess I would expect people to be cruel to a person who is that obese. It just is strange to me that some people are still cruel after hearing of a such monumental accomplishment! (and yes I know she is still obese)
Reminds me of grade school.
Any other cynical comments, poems or stories to be added to this thread? We don't yet have any fat jokes or photos.. must be a slow day.
(Flame away)...

[Hildy]

This is so, so sad. Please, no jokes.

[Dan from Michigan]

TAX THE FATTIES !!!

Hell no.

At 18 I was 185 pounds and 5'10. I was considered 'fat' by the doctor charts(20 pounds overweight by most standards)

I still ran a 5:50 mile, ran a 2.7 20, a 4.85 40, benched 260, power cleaned 190, and despite a bad back, squated 370.

Not bad for a fatso.

[geege]

Oh brother...and I battle the love of food/wine and beer everyday to stay in a size 7/8.....