Comments on: #421 - Lighter

By: Shawna

Shawna — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:02:27 +0000

I read something about a girl who was bulimerexic (yes, both bulimia and anorexia),and what she did to fake out her doctors for her weekly weigh in. First of all, she drank tons and tons and tons of water and held it.

She lived in Minnesota, so of course she wore a lot of clothing layers. And then she’d start loading up. Multiple heavy sweaters, cans of cokes in the baggy jeans, small books in the kangaroo pouch of sweatshirts, probably some rocks, too. She’d wait until she got weighed in, waited a few minutes so they wouldn’t figure her out, and asked to go to the bathroom to pee off all that water.

What was worse was the fact that her doctors had specific instructions from a treatment center she’d been to a year ago NOT to weight her in street clothes, only in a hospital gown, and to check her urine weekly to see if she was water-loading before appointments. Finally, at some point, they got around to checking her urine, and it was so diluted, it almost didn’t qualify as urine.

Of course, later on when she went to college, still anorexic, her parents told her to make sure to see a doctor. She saw one once. She correctly assumed that he,like most doctors who didn’t know much about eating disorders, wouldn’t give her any hassle. She did outright tell him she was in “recovery” from anorexia, and he apparently took her at her word, even though her blood pressure was nonexistent, and when he weighed her, she was about 82 lbs. She still, to this day, can’t figure out how he fell for that.

She didn’t start actually recovering until her weight went below 50 lbs. She was I think 20 when that happened. She’s alive, barely, with serious heart problems, a perforated esophagus (from the puking), damaged bowels (from laxative abuse), is completely sterile, and has serious mental issues, too.

By: Radical Edward

Radical Edward — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:48:19 +0000

Biff? Eating helium-infused grapes won’t make you lighter…but you’ll be dizzy as hell if you burp.

All I can think of is the line from the MythBusters’ “Lead Balloon” experiment…

ADAM: Oh boy, I’m getting dizzy.

I see that Biff has a thing with fruit and unconventional uses.

By: Chase

Chase — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:21:16 +0000

Helium grapes? Meh. Helium apples are better. They’re bigger, taste better, and are just cooler. Too bad there’s more helium so you tend to be a bit puffier and lighter though =P

By: Adam M

Adam M — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:23:42 +0000

I once weighed myself before and after an all-you-can-eat dinner, and compared my weight gain with my two brothers. I consumed the most food (not including that which didn’t stay down) at 4.2kg gain.

By: Reg

Reg — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:30:59 +0000

I don’t think it would do much to ask where he got those grapes… Maybe my previous year of studying biology and now learning chemistry will enable me to solve this!

By: Harley

Harley — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:43:00 +0000

I weigh myself in the morning, just before going to the bathroom, and just after. I tend to lose 3-4 lbs easily.

By: Silfedac

Silfedac — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:38:43 +0000

Peanut butter is good cause its got a lot of protein.

My dad is actually currently trying to gain weight. He recently broke his arm, and now he’s under the norm. He’s eating a lot more than he normally would, and it’s helping.

By: Yuki

Yuki — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:16:17 +0000

I’ve found that I tend to fluctuate about 5-10 pounds between weighing myself in the morning, all empty and stuff, and then before I sleep.

And then, when my mom had to get a colon check, she lost about 15 pounds.

I want helium grapes…Hey, do they grow them in carbon dioxide, too? We’d have some great sparkling grape juice…

By: R.A.

R.A. — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:31:54 +0000

Peanut butter is good for bulking up, I’ve heard. Somebody at my high school a few years ago was eating jars of the stuff at a time to get higher in his weight class for wrestling, since he was a bit on the lean side and didn’t want to be at a disadvantage. He literally came into bio with a jar of peanut butter and a spoon. It was disgusting and fascinating at the same time.

So eat a jar the day before you go to the doctor’s to help mess with it. XP

By: J.R.

J.R. — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:13:41 +0000

I, for one, had over 9 lbs. of coffee, soymilk, tea, and soda at one lunch (in addition to a coupla pounds of food), on top of 140 lbs. So you could easily get 10-15 lbs. above normal in a jiffy. Along with the 5 lb. loss from normal mentioned earlier, you’re looking at 20 lb. fluctuation over the course of a few hours, for an average guy.