Oregon woman thankful after losing 800 pounds

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

[Hildy]

When you're immobile, weight just comes on even if you eat little. My mother cannot walk. I know exactly what she eats and when she eats it because I give it to her. I feed her healthy, small portions. No real snacks, once in a while a goody, but nothing outrageous. Since she's been this way, she's gained almost 30 pounds. It just happens.

[let freedom sing]

Stop blaming yourself... you'll get a complex or eat yourself up over the whole thing.

[SoDak]

Same here, I'm 6'6 and weigh 290. By government standards I'm obese. But, I can squat 520, bench 320 and can walk ALL day chasing the wily ring-neck.

[Dust in the Wind]

Speel Cheacker may have been broughten to us by Bill Gates but we steel hav to theenk fer arwrselves somwat. shoot, evan the best nuspapers do thees.

[Dave S]

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

I was trying to figure out how she could have one. Masturbation seems out of the question.

[baseballfanjm]

Perhaps it's 435 and dropping. They may have left that out.

[Razz Barry]

But Jeannette also has a part-time job with Domestic Violence Services and hopes to move into a new home soon.

Domestic Violence Services! I'd say she's still on the federal teat. How long would it take to pay $50 to $100 thousand, (just for the operation) in taxes, at a part-time job? She will never, unless she wins the lottery, come close to repaying what she has taken.

[Lost Highway]

You might want to be careful of whose around when you use the phrase "chasing the wily ring-neck".

[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.

[CaptRon]

I didn't know it was mobile, either.

[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!

[Hawkeye's Girl]

I agree completely. Sure, she's still technically obese at this point, but why would she stop now after she's seen how much better her life is with weighing less? I bet in a few years she'll be a regular size.

Congratulations, lady! You can't take it all off at once, so keep up the good work.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Look up some of the stories on the late Walter Hudson. He weighed something like 1400 lbs, and got a lot of publicity when guru Dick Gregory tried to help him lose weight (back in the 1980s IIRC). His entire family was involved in preparing and ferrying food to him in his bed, which he couldn't get out of (nor would he have gotten far if he had -- he couldn't fit through the bedroom door). When he died, they brought in heavy construction equipment to knock out an exterior wall of the house to get his body out. The poor guy obviously had some major head problems, but his family members must have been a good deal crazier than he was.

[tracer]

You can give her props if you wish, but she'll never get off of the runway.....

[HELLRAISER II]

I agree, at 6'2" & 290lbs I'm no light weight myself & I'm a foot taller than her & pump weights like crazy & I'm here to tell you that you can't just go to Wal Mart & fit somebody as big as she is. I do know that it is a hard thing to deal with ones weight though & we should be happy that she is at least trying to get it under control but I have to admit 5'2" at 1200lbs almost seems to be an unobtainable weight.

[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

[texas booster]

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.

How about a new ad campaign ala the Subway weight loss dude? I can see it now:

Reward yourself after losing weight. Come to Wal-Mart and buy a new outfit! Sizes up to 56XXXXXL!

This quote is priceless to anyone outside of Bentonville. Not that we would stereotype the average Wal-Mart customer.

[SoDak]

Umm...why?

[Cable225]

I'm sorry, I know it's mean, but -

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.' And I don't have to wear those tent dresses anymore!"

I'm laughing too hard to read this thread.