"I can't afford to eat healty"

Lockstep

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1202767/I-afford-live-healthily-says-600-month-benefits-woman-lost-weight-free-gastric-band-surgery.html

She's no Leanne Salt.

'I can't afford to eat healthily' says £600-a-month benefits woman who weighs 22 stone



Laura Ripley receives £600 a month in benefits, weighs 22 stone after a gastric sleeve operation, and is deemed fit to work but has no plans to find a job

Laura Ripley receives £600 a month in benefits, weighs 22 stone after a gastric sleeve operation, and is deemed fit to work but has no plans to find a job

A 25-year-old unemployed woman who was given an £8,000 operation to help her lose 16 stone is complaining because, as well as her weight loss, her benefits have been reduced.

Laura Ripley, who has never worked, was given the operation on the NHS to help her slim down from 38 to 22 stone.

But the 25-year-old, who receives £600 a month in benefits, is unhappy because as a result of losing weight she can no longer claim disability allowance amounting to an extra £340 a month.

This, she says, means she cannot afford to eat healthily - causing her to pile the weight back on.

'I can't afford to buy WeightWatchers crisps and cereal bars any more so I eat Tesco's chocolate bars and packets of Space Invaders crisps, sometimes four of each a day', says Laura, who spends seven hours a day watching TV.

'People ask why I don't snack on an apple - they're cheap, but emotionally I don't always feel like an apple.'

The disability allowance money she used to receive was spent on gym workouts, healthy food and having her hair highlighted.

She adds: 'Without my disability allowance I'm left with just £210 incapacity benefit which I get because of my depression, and £100 income support I receive every two weeks and out of that I have to give them back £70 towards the cost of the £500-a-month flat I'm living in.'

Since the extra allowance stopped Laura has put on a stone in just three weeks and claims she is being treated unfairly.


'It's heartbreaking that after all my hard work losing this weight someone's come along and ruined it.'

Laura has been offered another operation on the NHS, which would normally cost £12,000, to remove the saggy skin left behind after the dramatic weight loss, but only if she sheds a further five stone, and until then she has no plans to find a job.
Laura Ripley

Morbidly obese: Laura, then aged 15 and weighing 25 stone, snacks on crisps and chocolate because she says she cannot afford healthy food
Closer magazine

'I'm not even applying for work at the moment because I'm only going to have to have lots of time off when I have more surgery.'

Speaking from the two-bedroom flat she shares with unemployed boyfriend Simon Hawkins, Laura describes how she was shocked into embarking on the weight loss plan after her mother Doreen died of obesity-related complications on Christmas Eve 2005.

'A doctor told me that unless I lost 20 stone I wouldn't live to see my 25th birthday. He recommended I have a gastric sleeve op.'

Prior to the surgery Laura lost eight and a half stone by cutting out junk food and drinking diet shakes and has since lost a further seven stone after her stomach was shrunk by 75 per cent.

However, without the extra benefits Laura is worried she'll put the weight back on and says she can feel her stomach stretching after binging on the unhealthy snacks.

'I sometimes feel guilty about all the taxpayers' money that's been spent on me but I only want an extra £100 a month, that's all', says Laura.

tbaymusicman

My misses was signing on for awhile there not so long ago but she was trying to shed a few kilo's at the same time seen as she had noting to do but i recall her complaining the price of healthy stuff was through the roof especially weight watchers:eek::eek:

But sorry dont really have anything to do with a 22stone woman

beans

Emotionally I don't always feel like an apple...

...so I've opted to look like one instead

Mimikyu

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WeeBushy

Emotionally she doesn't feel like an apple?

I'd say emotionally she doesn't feel like dying either. What a hilarious creature she is.

Professey Chin

Well if she cant afford the healthy stuff she should just not eat. That works too

WeeBushy

tbaymusicman wrote: »

My misses was signing on for awhile there not so long ago but she was trying to shed a few kilo's at the same time seen as she had noting to do but i recall her complaining the price of healthy stuff was through the roof especially weight watchers:eek::eek:

But sorry dont really have anything to do with a 22stone woman

I can assure your gf that vegetables, fruit, brown rice etc. are cheap.

IvyTheTerrible

Jesus.

My sister was obese and she lost the weight WITHOUT any of these WW bars. And kept the weight off too.

What a cop out. There is no way she should get anymore operations or extra money.

El Guapo!

:eek:

She should've been drowned at birth.

Lockstep

Dean09 wrote: »

:eek:

She should've been drowned at birth.

She would've just floated.

Raze_them_all

Smart Bug

Dean09 wrote: »

:eek:

She should've been drowned at birth.

Don't worry, she'll soon drown in a sea of her own congealed sweat.

Raze_them_all

tbaymusicman wrote: »

My misses was signing on for awhile there not so long ago but she was trying to shed a few kilo's at the same time seen as she had noting to do but i recall her complaining the price of healthy stuff was through the roof especially weight watchers:eek::eek:

But sorry dont really have anything to do with a 22stone woman

Psssst that weight watchers is a scam.

When I want to lose weight I eat every 2-3 hours...it's amazing what a controlled diet and exercise does

Gone Drinking

She's a fat lazy mess and i'll be amazed if she ever stops eating like a pig, or ever decides to work.

tman

WeeBushy wrote: »

I can assure your gf that vegetables, fruit, brown rice etc. are cheap.

Yep. Weight watchers are an absolute con for people too lazy to cook properly.

Bring on the fat tax I say! (not that it would affect the leech that this thread is about)

god her life sucks..

TPD

Dean09 wrote: »

:eek:

She should've been drowned at birth.

I dont think she was obese at birth

lala stone

beans wrote: »

...so I've opted to look like one instead

Oh Brill...

Smart Bug

I can't afford to eat healthy?

I can't afford to subsidise your squalid existence you fat piece of shite.

Running Bing

lol, 2009 and people still think weightwatchers is "healthy". Amazing.

Pace2008

tbaymusicman wrote: »

My misses was signing on for awhile there not so long ago but she was trying to shed a few kilo's at the same time seen as she had noting to do but i recall her complaining the price of healthy stuff was through the roof especially weight watchers:eek::eek:

Weightwatchers food is not healthy.

You can get genuinely healthy foods like eggs, veg and lean meats for very little money if you shop around.

bronte

Oh noes...I'm having my flat pretty much paid for but they've reduced my benefits so I can't afford highlights, and as if that wasn't bad enough I emotionally don't always feel like an apple.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

She should be slapped around the head with a bag of apples.
Lazy cow.

joseph brand

'I sometimes feel guilty about all the taxpayers' money that's been spent on me but I only want an extra £100 a month, that's all', says Laura.

For what??? Sitting on her fat ass. Her bf is a doler too. Great. These sound like a couple from the Jermey Kyle show.


"I just want more free money to eat Wotsits and chips all day, sloshed down me gullet with a fag."

She sounds about as charming as a skid-mark on a hotel pillow case.

hobochris

If she wasn't such a lazy bitch I'm sure she could find a market selling cheaper fruit and a lidl or aldi to get cheaper healthy food from.

ceannair06

Agree with everything said here.

She is a joke - but what is worse is that by going to the papers the lazy useless mare will probably get her money.

I know she's a dumb as a box of hair but here we go:

GET A JOB YOU POINTLESS WASTER

Lockstep

Raze_them_all wrote: »

http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/6/28/633502086822182742-****-the-harpoons.jpg

foxy06

Any Weight watchers meetings I went to recommend you DON"T buy all that ready made crap and instead give you deadly recipes for soups stews stirfrys ect that the whole family will eat. Weight watchers is healthy if you don't buy the weight watchers crap. Just follow the points and it's impossible not to lose weight.

Smart Bug

foxy06 wrote: »

Any Weight watchers meetings I went to recommend you DON"T buy all that ready made crap and instead give you deadly recipes for soups stews stirfrys ect that the whole family will eat. Weight watchers is healthy if you don't buy the weight watchers crap. Just follow the points and it's impossible not to lose weight.

Don't tell us that, tell her!!

ScumLord

They should just take all her benefits bar rent and call it a new crash diet.

seamus

'I sometimes feel guilty about all the taxpayers' money that's been spent on me but I only want an extra £100 a month, that's all', says Laura.

I want an extra £100 a month too. Why not give me an article about how it's terrible that I have to use my own money to get work to earn that money in the first place, you complete piece of idiot-boxing ****rag daily mail?

I'm hoping that the Daily Mail is an exercise in genetic cleansing and one day they'll reveal that they've been tracking everyone who reads it and will be summarily culling them and feeding them to the starving orphans.

Nasty_Girl

Even if cereal bars etc were healthy you can get them in Tescos for like 82c for 6!

(I eat them because I like them not coz I think they are good for me!)

That woman is just lazy and looking for someone to blame because he self esteem is so low she is now afraid to try for fear of failing.
Without the 38 stone to hide behind she now has to stand for herself.

AnonoBoy

I can see her point.

jebuz

She's the space invader

Smart Bug

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I can see her point.

Really? Do you wash yourself with a rag on a stick as well?

cosmic

I get all my fruit and veg down on Moore Street (Dublin) every Saturday and do a little top up once during the week if things go off or if we run out. It's all dirt cheap so me and my OH buy loads and loads and still spend less than €25. There's so much fruit and veg in the house then we're never hungry enough to want to go and buy chocolate or crisps.

What a useless excuse...

Zonda999

WeeBushy wrote: »

I'd say emotionally she doesn't feel like dying either. What a hilarious creature she is.

Brilliant!:D

Smart Bug wrote: »

I can't afford to subsidise your squalid existence you fat piece of shite.

You're not! 60 million brits are!

and2

Speaking from the two-bedroom flat she shares with unemployed boyfriend Simon Hawkins, Laura describes how she was shocked into embarking on the weight loss plan after her mother Doreen died of obesity-related complications on Christmas Eve 2005.

She has a boyfriend?!!!! :eek:

Wertz

foxy06 wrote: »

Any Weight watchers meetings I went to recommend you DON"T buy all that ready made crap and instead give you deadly recipes for soups stews stirfrys ect that the whole family will eat. Weight watchers is healthy if you don't buy the weight watchers crap. Just follow the points and it's impossible not to lose weight.

She doesn't sound like someone who'd know how, or be bothered, to cook.

No, it's much easier to just roll down the supermarket aisle launching the cheapest nastiest processed junk into the trolley, especially when the price at the till isn't even coming out of your own pocket. Besides if she payus the premium for healthy food, where will she get money to go out on the piss come the weekend?

ScumLord

and2 wrote: »

Speaking from the two-bedroom flat she shares with unemployed boyfriend Simon Hawkins, Laura describes how she was shocked into embarking on the weight loss plan after her mother Doreen died of obesity-related complications on Christmas Eve 2005.

She has a boyfriend?!!!! :eek:

His nickname is moon.

I love that emotional excuse. I've seen it used a million times on boards too.
"Oh weight is an emotional issue"
Boohoo. Go cry 'til you're thin.

People are just weak willed these days. And this whole lovey-dovey "I can't help it" attitude is pathetic.

djk1000

Buy Teso Chicken €4
tesco Value stir fry veg €2
tin of chikpeas €1
two potatoes €1
Leeks €2

Day one, one chicken breast and stir fry veg, bit of soy sauce, meal for two done in 5 minutes.

Day two, Rest of chcken meat in a big pot with chickpeas, a bit of the left over stirfry veg, half of a potato chopped up, stock cube. Nice spanish chicken stew for 3 people.

Roat chicken carcus, boil into a stock, use stock with potatoes and leeeks. Eat with a bit of bread. Enough for 3-4 people.

3 healthy fast meals for several people, €10

Cuddlesworth

Instead of spending 10,000 on surgery why didn't they spend a couple of hundred on cooking lessons and proper nutrition.

I hate reading this stuff, especially when I still have to get up five days a week.

Dr_H_Lecter

remote small scottish island. tent*. daily delivery of rations.

*(5 man)

place fatty on island. return in 1 year.

AnonoBoy

Smart Bug wrote: »

Really? Do you wash yourself with a rag on a stick as well?

Sorry that was a typo - I meant to say:

I can see her from space.

LimeFruitGum

Gawd Almighty, I've just read the article and I would love to give her a slap.

But she'd probably sell an article about being bullieeeeed for bein' fat, innit.

It is down to laziness and of course, fear of failure. She already got a free op out of the system and expects to keep her weight down with no effort on her side? grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

LimeFruitGum

and2 wrote: »

Speaking from the two-bedroom flat she shares with unemployed boyfriend Simon Hawkins, Laura describes how she was shocked into embarking on the weight loss plan after her mother Doreen died of obesity-related complications on Christmas Eve 2005.

She has a boyfriend?!!!! :eek:

Where am I going wrong?! *stuffs face with Ben & Jerrys*

Dr_H_Lecter

Her boyfriend is not unemployed. Hes a sales rep for space invader crisps.

Drives a jag.

Smart Bug

Dr_H_Lecter wrote: »

Her boyfriend is not unemployed. Hes a sales rep for space invader crisps.

Drives a jag. rides a blimp

fyp

Raze_them_all

LimeFruitGum wrote: »

Where am I going wrong?! *stuffs face with Ben & Jerrys*

The mans a chubby chaser...they can't run fast or for long and are easier to catch

chopperbyrne

The best part is when she says "after all the hard work I put in losing the weight".

She got surgery paid for by the NHS!!!

Instead of wasting money on crap like that, she should only be given a tiny benefit payment and have her food bought for her. Then she'd have to eat healthy.

keen

Fcuk weight watchers, fresh food is cheaper then fast food by far.