- Joined
- Apr 20, 2018
I mean... She's already housebound for the most part and has barely been able to walk at all for over a year at this point. That's about as close as a person can get.Today I realized just how massive big AL is. We get water delivered to our house in 5 gallon bottles. Each one of these bottles weighs about 41 lbs when full. I can carry 2 at a time a short distance and will get winded doing this more than 2 twice in a row. At my current weight of 175 lbs, I'd have to carry a total of 10 of these 5 gallon bottles full of water to equal the 600 lbs that ALR carries on her own body. It's a wonder her legs don't completely buckle and break under her own weight.
It's probably important to remember, for future "I carried X equivalent" comparisons, that mobile fat people also have quite a bit of muscle mass to keep them going. They usually lose a fair amount of it if they successfully lose weight, too.