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Just heard your question on the radio 'what's daily life like at almost 400lbs?' My day is probably like anybody else's, thanks for asking. Everybody has stuff they have to deal with, what I deal with is just visually apparent to all of you. What I would like to say is that at almost 400lbs (390 to be exact) I did my first sprint distance triathlon 2 years ago. I also did my second at about that weight, and my third at 370 a year later. I'll swim across the Columbia next month for, I think, the 4th time. If you think you know everything you need to know about fat people and their lives based on what we look like, you don't. And, by the way, I am fat, I am not sick and I spent 3 weeks in Thailand this year so I guess the world is accessible to me. You do what you want to do with your life, whether that is sit on your ass feeling sorry for yourself at 125lbs or 400lbs, or go out and do your best with what you've got.

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