[Republicus2001]

please no pictures

[AppyPappy]

Today, she's 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 435 pounds. "I have more mobility," she said. "I can go to Wal-Mart and buy clothes off the rack. And I can go out with pride without worrying about people saying, 'Look at that fat person.'

I didn't know 5'2 435 wasn't considered fat.

[Pete]

"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," Standard said.

I....am going....to vomit.

[shadowman99]

Loosing 800 pounds remarkable. Keep in mind that she still has a long way to go.

I just can't help but notice the timing of the story - there seems to be a growing effort to regulate the food industry, to attack it with lawsuits, and to attach sin taxes to fatty foods.

Now here come the food victims.

[billorites]

GROW MRS. GOLDFARB

lyrics by Allan Sherman
music by Louis F. Bush (parody of "Glow Worm" by Paul Lincke)

Grow, Mrs. Goldfarb, fatter, fatter
Pile the potatoes on your platter.
Listen to me 'cause I'm your hubby.
I just adore you plump and chubby.
I got a letter from the state, Dear.
You're gonna need a license plate, Dear.
My little elephant joke come true.
Chew, Mrs. Goldfarb, chew!

There is so much more of you,
More to adore of you,
'Cause you're not slender.
In your white dress, you're a doll,
Big as the Taj Mahal,
In all its splendor.
When you're in department stores,
Don't use revolving doors,
You might get stuck, Dear.
When you use the telephone,
Go in the booth alone,
And lots of luck, Dear.

You had for breakfast: two pounds bacon,
Three dozen eggs, one coffee cake, and
Then you had something really awful,
Four kippered herrings on a waffle.
Nine English muffins, one baked apple,
Boston cream pie, Philadelphia scrapple.
Seventeen bowls of Crispy Crunch.
Then you said, "What's for lunch?"

Sweetheart, you are giant size.
You are Lane Bryant size,
My darling Myrtle.
Last Thanksgiving I was thrilled.
You ate so much, you killed
Your living girdle.
Have another dozen shrimp,
My lovely little blimp.
Don't count a calorie.
I have just received a stub.
I owe the Diner's Club
A whole year's salary.

Eat, Mrs. Goldfarb, daily, nightly.
Eat, though your chair is bending slightly.
Love of my life, I'm glad I found you,
Each day I take a walk around you.
I can't forget when we got married.
Over the threshold I got carried.
No other bride would be so sweet.
Eat, Mrs. Goldfarb, eat!

__________________________

Copyright 1964 by Curtain Call Productions, Inc.

[July 4th]

Pardon me while I go throw up.

[geaux]

She'd try to ignore other kids when they'd ask, "Why is your mom so fat?"

Funny, my question would be "How did your mom get so fat?" That's something I never understood. How is it physically possible for a human to weigh 1200 lbs?

[texlok]

My first thought, upon seeing the headline, was that she got a divorce and the husband got custody of the kids.

[aomagrat]

Mmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!

[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?

[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.

[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.

[geege]

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

[Dave S]

I hate to say it but this woman's bathroom must be huge. I can just see now that her toilet would tend to disappear among the folds of fat.

Not that I really want to know but I wonder how she cleans up after a bowel movement.

[texson66]

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

"I have more mobility," she said. "I can go to Wal-Mart and buy clothes off the rack.

I'm glad she lost all this weight, but still 425 lbs! Omar the tent maker is still in business!

[uncbob]

Where do these people get the money to be able to eat the way they do to maintain their weight and who the hell is feeding them