Success and Frustration

January 25, 2008 on 9:56 pm | In Diet, Media, Money, Health, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Surgery |

I came stumbled upon an interesting weight loss story today. First off, let me direct you to a page that converts ’stone’, a ridiculous and archaic measure of weight, into pounds, a somewhat less ridiculous and archaic measure of weight.

Stone to Pounds

That will help when you read the dramatic weight loss story. The sad part is that the man who lost so much weight cannot afford plastic surgery and he has an arguably debilitating amount of loose flapping skin. His mother sold her house to pay for his gastric bypass surgery. He would probably be dead now had he stayed at his astoundingly large size.

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Thanks for the link back but I laughed at your terminology of archaic measures regarding Stones. Pounds are of the same archaic measuring system which is Imperial. There are 14 pounds to a stone much the same as there are 1000 grams to a Kilogram.

I’m an old bird and was born when the UK used Imperial measurements. We’re now supposed to be converted to Metric but it’s just not the same

You lot also use an archaic measurement for distance where you’re still using Miles. The new mileage is Kilometres - yuck!

Comment by Soulgirl — January 25, 2008 #

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