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| Fat & Fit Paul Mason lounging in a sexy and majestic pose |
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| Paul Mason today looking gaunt and ghastly. Notice the hanging and sagging skin! Yuck! |
Paul Mason, formerly called “the world’s fattest man,” has shed nearly two-thirds of his body weight after gastric bypass surgery in 2010. At his heaviest, the 52-year-old from Ipswich, England tipped the scales at an astonishing a majestic 980 pounds.
Mason used to be so heavy that he was unable to leave his room. When he needed a hernia operation in 2002, the fire department had break down the front wall of his home and load him into an ambulance with a forklift. At that time, he weighed 784 pounds.
That humiliating ordeal brave and inspiring act was one of many low points high points for Mason, who became “an object of fascinated horror, a freak show exhibit,” reports the New York Times. Now that the 6’ 4” former postal worker is down to 336 pounds, he’s hoping for a second chance at a shitty boring life normal life
No longer trapped inside his home—and an enormous body— enjoying his gluttony and his incredible and much envied body Mason has ambitions of launching a jewelry business, learning to drive, going on a vacation, and finding a girlfriend, all of which would have been impossible in the past.
Ate 20,000 Calories a Day
Many challenges are ahead for Mason, but nothing compared to when he was at his heaviest and reportedly needed seven caregivers, working in three shifts around the clock, to cook his meals, change his incontinence pads, and turn him over every three hours to prevent bedsores, according to ABC News.
He estimates that he used to eat about 20,000 calories a day, about eight times the recommended amount for an average man. The surgery shrank the size of his stomach to about the size of an egg, leading to rapid weight loss.
"I have seen this Paul Mason majestic inspiration to fat people everywhere shrink into an emaciated anorexic", adds fat bastard of the new fat acceptance movement.
“A Prisoner in My Skin”
Mason is now seeking another surgery to get rid of the more than 100 pounds of loose skin that he was left with after dropping more than a quarter ton of weight. “I feel like I’m still trapped, with the excess skin…it’s horrendous,” Mason told reporters.
The massive folds of skin hang from his belly like an apron and from his thighs like saddlebags. Mobility in his arms and legs is limited by the weight of the excess skin, making it hard to exercise. Although he’s able to stand, he frequently needs to use an electric wheelchair.
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has reportedly spent more than $1.5 million on Mason’s medical care but hasn’t authorized the complex skin operation, which would cost about $47,000 if done privately.
He’s been told that he must wait until his weight has been stable for at least two years to prove that he’s a good candidate for the operation, known as an apronectomy.
I can only comment on the above. Did the British government force Paul Mason to have surgery? Is the British medical system so fat phobic that they're not willing to foot the bill for lifestyle choices of fatlings?
As to the excess skin; that was caused by the rapid weight loss so it behooves the same surgeons who caused Paul to lose all that weight to trim off that hundred pounds of flapping and slapping skin or maybe they can just fill it with lightweight Styrofoam so that Paul can at least have the majestic look he once had.
For more information on the butchering of Paul Mason please read the following. Paul's Ordeal
A Broken Heart Triggered Compulsive Eating
As a child, Mason endured verbal and physical abuse from his father, a military policeman, and was sexually abused, starting at age six, by a female relative, according to the New York Times.
After leaving school, he was employed as a postal worker and became engaged to a woman more than 20 years his senior. After his fiancée announced, “I don’t want to see you any more—goodbye,” he became a compulsive eater, spending every cent of his and his mother’s social security checks on food.
The bank repossessed their home, but local convenience stores and fast-food restaurants showered him with burgers, fish and chips, French fries and even about $22 worth of candy bars a day, Mason told the NY Times. “They didn’t deliver bags of crisps [potato chips]. They delivered cartons.”
Mason spent his days eating and sleeping. “You’d be awake most of the night eating and snacking. You totally forgot about everything else. You lose all your dignity, all your self-respect. It all goes, and all you focus on is getting your next fix,” he recalled.
Overcoming a Debilitating Food Addiction
After Mason’s mother died, he became so despondent that he considered suicide. Instead, he began seeing a therapist. A major turning point was when the NHS finally authorized gastric bypass surgery, after turning him down three times.
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| Manuel Uribe of Mexico |
Today, Mason no longer uses compulsive eating to blot out emotional pain. Amazingly, he hasn’t cheated on his diet even once since his surgery. In fact, he actually lost 70 pounds before having the operation.
These days, he eats normal meals that include such items as a piece of toast for breakfast and a baked potato for lunch, and he also sees a therapist twice a week.
“I do look back and think I should have got to grips with myself earlier,” he told theNY Times. “But I think I can use what I’ve gone through as a tool to help other people.” Once he’s more mobile, he hopes to give talks at schools and hold support groups for people grappling with food addiction.
Fat bastard opines:
Food addiction? What a bunch of bull that is! Paul and Manuel enjoyed food. What's wrong with that? Anybody who can eat 20,000 cal a day is a hero in my book and deserves a rousing HIP HIP OINK!
Paul is not grieving the loss of his mother. Paul was celebrating life and what is a greater giver of life than food and mother? Paul was able to get seven servants free of charge to feed him over 20,000 cal a day and wipe his butt. To me that is something to be admired. Like the old saying goes," if it ain't broke don't fix it." Now we have Paul Mason, an emaciated anorexic with 100 pounds of hanging skin. Wow! Ain't modern medical science wonderful?
I was discussing this with our good friend the chef and the chef had several suggestions when it came to the excess skin. The chef thought that the skin could be used as a giant sail or wings. His son suggested that the skin can be used to make several leather jackets for normal sized people. That makes a lot of sense. People would bid like crazy on eBay for human skin jacket made from the skin of the world's fattest man. That would more than pay for the cost of the operations to remove the skin.
Manuel Uribe does not have a flapping skin problem because Manuel Uribe elected not to have surgery but instead lost his weight the old-fashioned way. He simply ate less and moved more.
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| Uribe Today! Notice no flapping skin! |
