Cellar Scribblings

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In an effort to try and show Larry how much he eats in a day, his niece fills the table with all the food he eats during the course of a normal day.

Each day, Larry consumes 14,390 calories.  However, instead of shock, Larry sits at the table, and begins to eat.

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Next we meet Jackie Khan.




Like Larry, Jackie admits to being addicted to food.  She gets little to know exercise, and realizes if she doesn't stop eating as she does, she'll be at Larry's weight soon.  She's currently 369 pounds.

[CellarDweller]

Following Larry's niece's lead, the show puts all the food that Jackie eats in a normal day onto a table to show her just what she's consuming in a typical day for her.





Jackie's daily caloric intake is 15,880 calories.  To burn off all the calories she eats in a day, Jackie would have to walk briskly nonstop for two days.

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The third person we meet is Paul Mason.






Paul is currently bed ridden, and weighs 672 pounds.

[CellarDweller]

Paul is addicted to food, and his daily caloric intake is 36,902 per day.  There is no physical way for Paul to burn off the calories that he takes in every day.  It's impossible.

There are no pics of how much food he eats in a day, because there wasn't a table big enough in Paul's house to hold all the food.

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The last person we meet is Lisa Sellers.





Lisa admits to being addicted to food, it was a behavior that started as a child.  She remembers her mother loving chocolate, and keeping a stash in the house, hidden from her father, who didn't want sweets in the house.  Lisa knew where the stash was, and would sneak chocolates when she could.  Lisa currently weighs 630 pounds.

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Lisa currently eats 9,277 calories a day, with no exercise.  While that number is lower than the other people on the program, it's still almost 5 times what an average woman should take in per day.

By comparison, an athelete competing in the Olympics in rowing, will take in AND burn 6,000 calories.

Here is her usual daily intake of food.











The scary part for me is that the lightest woman was 369 pounds.  When I was at my heaviest, I was only 74 pounds away from her weight.

[Kelda]

thats a lot of calories. An eye popping amount!

You;ll reach your goal! I know it!

[Meryl]

Wow, I didn't think those morbidly obese people took in that much fodder per day.  Makes you wonder who in their family is supporting that behavior.  They're literally killing their loved one. 

Good luck, Chuck!  I'll be heading back to Weight Watchers tomorrow, too, and I need all the inspiration I can get. 

[dejavu]

I think you did the exactly the right thing. First by thinking of your hostess, secondly once you had worked out who he was by not biting his head off and thirdly staying to when you intended to.
 
I am not sure I could have been so composed.

If by chance you do meet him again, I 'd be cordial and say hello then turn to someone you do like and talk and laugh with them. That jerk is inconsequential.

(((Chuck)))

Just one more person chiming in here to agree with all that has been said.  I know it's late, but I just got back and am catching up on this blog.

Above all, Chuck, you honored your friend (the hostess) by behaving with civility and being respectful (outwardly, anyway, whatever you were thinking on the inside) toward someone she thought enough of that she had invited him to the party.  You handled the situation with grace, I'd say.  For some reason I'm thinking of someone who has become a great leader:  president-elect Obama.  He heard some pretty bad things said about him by hateful people this year, yet he always came across as cool and collected, and didn't lash out in return.  It's to be admired that you could do that, too.

If I were in your position, I would not have made a scene either, but I might be tempted to have a word privately with the hostess the next time I saw her and say "Oh, by the way, remember that man at the Halloween party?  We used to work together and......."  But that would depend on your relationship with her; how easily can you confide in her?  I still wouldn't want to hurt her feelings, so if there was any doubt about how she would react, the best thing would probably be to let the matter drop and just keep your distance from him if you encounter him at another function.