{"id":3313,"date":"2010-03-24T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:50:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:50:50","slug":"speechless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/speechless\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Speechless&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2010\/03\/15\/nj-woman-attempting-to-become-worlds-fattest-lady\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NJ\u00a0Woman Attempting to Become World&#8217;s Fattest Lady<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dream big!<\/p>\n<p>A New Jersey woman, who now tips the scales at 604 pounds, said it\u2019d be a &#8220;fantasy&#8221; to gobble her way to fame and someday weigh 1,000 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have a 3-year-old daughter and you\u2019re trying to run a household, things like this tend to be a fantasy,&#8221; Simpson told The Post today.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old Old Bridge resident insists she has no realistic hopes of ever making 1,000 pounds, but will try her best to consume, wolf, munch and devour her way to hog heaven.<\/p>\n<p>In her &#8220;fantasy,&#8221; Simpson would zoom up to 1,000 in two years with a steady diet of 12,000 calories per day. An average woman should consume no more than 2,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My favorite food is sushi, but unlike others I can sit and eat 70 big pieces of sushi in one go,&#8221; she told London\u2019s Daily Mail. &#8220;I do love cakes and sweet things, doughnuts are my favorite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To help pick up the tab on her $750-a-week eating habit, Simpson puts herself on the Internet where people can pay to watch her eat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love eating and people love watching me eat,&#8221; she told the British newspaper. &#8220;It makes people happy, and I\u2019m not harming anyone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1257850\/Super-sized-mother-determined-worlds-fattest-woman-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she can&#8217;t walk more than 20 feet before needing to sit down<\/a>, and uses a motorized scooter to get around, but insists she&#8217;s &#8220;healthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The real tragedy has nothing to do with aesthetics: she&#8217;s a prisoner in her own body, and evidently\u00a0prefers it that way.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0people encouraging her in this are just as much to blame: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.details.com\/story\/these-couples-get-off-on-feeding-each-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feederism<\/a> is pathological at best, and abusive at worst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJ\u00a0Woman Attempting to Become World&#8217;s Fattest Lady Dream big! A New Jersey woman, who now tips the scales at 604 pounds, said it\u2019d be a &#8220;fantasy&#8221; to gobble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,24,28],"tags":[1126,1863,1236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10301,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/10301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}