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Youtubers Unite To Give 600-pound Man Help And Weight Loss Advice
Last edited Sun Mar 11, 2012, 06:55 PM - Edit history (1)
You're about to turn 23 years old. You've recently become an uncle for a second time, and though you're a diabetic, you think about being father a yourself one day.
And you weigh at least 600 pounds (272 kilograms).
That is the situation that one "Raging" Robert Gibbs of Livermore, California (USA) finds himself in. He also struggles with asthma, sleep apena, body sores, and standing up for more than a few minutes. Housebound for four years, the Internet is Gibbs' only link to the rest of the world. And the day before his twenty-third birthday, he put it to use: he videotaped himself and put it on YouTube...
And you weigh at least 600 pounds (272 kilograms).
That is the situation that one "Raging" Robert Gibbs of Livermore, California (USA) finds himself in. He also struggles with asthma, sleep apena, body sores, and standing up for more than a few minutes. Housebound for four years, the Internet is Gibbs' only link to the rest of the world. And the day before his twenty-third birthday, he put it to use: he videotaped himself and put it on YouTube...
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As of March 6, 2012, the video has received more than a million views, and Gibbs has indeed been contacted by the Doctor Phil and Biggest Loser television shows. (On a local TV station news report, you see Gibbs actually crack a smile.) But this is being written in honor of the vast majority of those who wrote the 18,000 comments and uploaded the dozens of video responses...
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