Russian man gets 267 lbs of fat cut off by surgeons

Obesity is a serious problem in our country and across the globe (except the starving countries who seem to stay remarkably slim, somehow). One Russian man who was in the category of morbidly obese went under the knife to help get a jump on his girth, cutting off more than half of his weight in pounds.

A Russian man is half the weight he used to be after surgeons sliced 267 pounds of fat from his body.

Petr Ferivov of Voronezh, who now weighs 244 pounds, says he was so fat at 511 pounds he could no longer sleep on his back, could barely walk and had abandoned any hope of a sex life, the Austrian Times reports.

The 45-year-old “man mountain” was so overweight he underwent four hours of surgery to have much of the excess fat removed from his abdomen.

Ferivov plans on going on a strict diet to get down to his ideal weight of 182 pounds.

Good for this guy to try to do something to get his weight under control. But at the same time, deciding to go on a strict diet to lose 60 pounds after getting almost 270 lanced off of you like a boil seems kind of silly. It’s like saying you want to compete in a marathon, only to ask a fellow competitor to give you a piggyback ride until the last two miles.

Anyway, that’s a picture of a pound of human flesh and a pound of fat above. If that’s not going to get you to go Karen Carpenter your ass off in the bathroom today, I don’t know what is.

Surgeons slice 267 lbs of fat off obese man [APP]

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