Oregon woman thankful after losing 800 pounds

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

[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.

[stanz]

I'm 5'2" and I feel OBESE at 120. (gained about 7 lbs over the last two years.)

[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.

[let freedom sing]

Don't forget about the fat drugs for fat kids campaign, and Gap for Fat, too-- or whatever they're called.

[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.

[Gophack]

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

Considering that's a third of what she used to weigh, I think that's great.

I don't think that any of us can understand what that woman went through. I constantly complain that I can't get off the "baby fat" I accumulated through three pregnancies, but thinking about it, I'm only 20 pounds more than I was when I got married, and I wasn't overweight then -- and had three babies since!

I think we shouldn't be making jokes about this poor woman and her family. I think this is a lesson to parents: when kids start gaining excess weight, it's time to do something -- not just healthy snacks and exercize, but maybe find out WHY your child is getting obese.

[general_re]

I vaguely remember a Sam Kinison bit along those lines - yeah, it's great that she lost all that weight, and God bless, too. But...she still weighs 400 freaking pounds, for crying out loud.

[AppyPappy]

I didn't say it wasn't great. But 5'2 435 isn't a safe weight.

[Callahan]

I always wondered how do people who are too fat to move continue to gain weight when they can't make it to the refrigerator. You would think they would reach equilibrium at some point?

[July 4th]

Pardon me while I go throw up.

[corlorde]

Maybe we should have a "fat tax".......:-)

[Gophack]

No, you're absolutely right. She has a long way to go. And I didn't mean to imply that you were being mean or anything. I know you weren't. I just really feel sorry for this woman, but I also think that she's come a long way.

It makes me thankful that I only have to complain about going from a size 10 to a size 12 after three kids!

[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.

[let freedom sing]

You always wondered.... how do people who are too fat to move continue to gain weight when they can't make it to the refrigerator.

Co-dependence-- find someone who'll help you.

[Slyfox]

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

That is considered LESS fat than 1,200 lbs.