Charity Pierce has garnered both praise and criticism for the decisions that she has made throughout her life, but no one can accuse her of not totally committing to them. Currently completely housebound, Charity weighs an absolutely enormous amount of 56.4 stone. That’s just slightly less than a car. She finds it very difficult to stand up, and it is almost impossible for her to walk. You could be forgiven for being amazed that one person could get to that weight, but the trouble is that Charity’s diet is just terrible: she regularly consumes more than ten thousand calories every day, which is enough for a family of four.
Sadly, however, Charity was not always this size. She was certainly a curvaceous teenager when she was younger, but nothing like the weight that she is now. So what has brought on this huge amount of weight? Obviously the food is not helping, but why did she not start exercising when she realised that her weight gain was getting a little out of control? That answer lies in her medical records. As she started to put the pounds on, Charity developed a lymphedema in her leg. This is a swelling in one part of it: an incredibly painful thing to happen, but also a very unsightly one. Charity says that she was so embarrassed by the lymphedema, and so uncomfortable, that she did not want to exercise and began to refuse to leave the house because she was convinced that people would be staring at her.
She is now thirty eight years old, and has finally realised that she wants so much more from her life than just lying in bed, unable to move, and stuffing her face full of food that she doesn’t need. After discussing her case with her medical advisors, it was decided that Charity would need to lose twenty stone, or around 40% of her body weight before she was ‘light’ enough to safely have a gastric bypass operation. This operation would help her to lose more weight by physically restricting just how much her stomach would be able to hold, and many people around the world have found it very potent and useful in losing even more weight. Charity therefore has the carrot of this operation lying ahead of her, but there is more. Charity also has another reason why she is committed to losing the weight.
Charity is getting married to Tony Sauer, who is twenty one years old. They first met when she was twenty five and he was eight, and because of the age gap they did not really take any notice of each other. After all, Charity was dating Tony’s older brother Jimmy who was much older, and within months they conceived. Although the relationship broke down after Charity gave birth to their daughter eighteen years ago, she still kept a vague contact with the family. Three years ago, the two families met again, and Charity met Tony as an adult. They realised that they wanted to be together, and according to Charity they were having sex four times a day. Now, however, it has become almost impossible to be intimate because of her weight. Charity and Tony are instead concentrating on planning their wedding. Charity wants to be able to walk up the aisle (in cowboy boots, as per their theme), and so she has reduced her diet to around 1200 calories a day. No one is sure how long it will take her to lose the weight, but when she does she will lose her title of the fattest woman alive
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