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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1982-08-04, Page 10as U' -THE HURON EXPOSITOR AUGUST 4, 1902 — A9 Tw4knweeks- ludwAtler, ma'- --7 pounds, shim BY SUSAN TA'lHRTE ore than fifr% Living mv, Fat, The excess off it bedevils a lot of us. And our solutions range from unhealthy t crash diets to temporary starvation ,to A poem Bob Hulley wrote to For the wife to salt away sensible small portions -eating and exercise. Few of us, however, are brave enough to his wife Marg when she was In When there is no one there to take the route Marg Hulley, a 49 -year-old fa� Winthrop woman, took in her efforts to lose s, weight. share the luck, She spent two and half months in hospital. Toronto General Hospital, far away from family and friends, taking part in There are only bilis to pay. a research program on obesity. And Marg, d I am just a married man The single guys kick up their who's always led a fairly active life as the mother of four children, a house cleaner, and heels, in recent years, a part-time health care aide To make this living worth a And chase the girls with wine at Huronview, completed the program and lost 47 pounds. To create many kinds of deals sity research project had a surprise To make living more than life. Twooff the four people in the program had ,entre, when they were in hospital. shine. to drop out when the rigorous exercises I am only half a man every two weeks endangered their health. With no wife by my side They brag about their single "You're disgustingly health," one of the"_ To wash my clothes and feed me state doctors in charge cold Marg. And there's jam They have no cares to drag some irony in that. In the past, Mrs. Hulley And buy bread, and sox and Or clothes to buy for a wistful' was told she didn't qualify for full time work Tide. mate, at Hur¢¢nnview because she's considered a their youth begins to sag. Poorhealth risk. Eight months after her You'll know this man is only half TorontoHospital stay she has consistently from total strangers. Fellow patients threw a surprise birthday party for her in kept off 40 of the 47 pd'unds she lost. But let me say they can have it Noycmber. What Marg calls "the biggest experience all Then there was a weigh-in, "the ' make you laugh ° This old boy needs a wife off my life" began when a ffriend of her sister As he wonders on his way. To make this body stand real tall throuvhont the oroeram, even when she was fasting, Marg had tests, bicycling hard Helen's heard about the obesity research while herblood pressure etc, was taken. "It What fun Is sharing half the Has the hardest thing I ever did in my life, program, financed by an $18,000 per person I didn't say I love you dear pumping that bicycle...You had to breath When you're sleeping all alone You can decide that for yourself government grant, on her car radio. Helen,' What fun is eating noon hour But I'll sure be glad when you and then do the same, with it off your nose. bread? ,a'lia's Marg's eldest sister (they are the Just when you thought you were going to die. they said'enough for this time'. It as At the table in `your home. I And take me off the shelf. the happiest thought of the day." daughters of Otto Walker of Cromarty) went Another exercise involved the muscle~. What fun is bringing home a into the program first, lost 72 pounds and Bob .= completed it. As her sister Marg says "she looks -great and there's no way she's going back up." Marg went through a strict medical to get accepted for weight loss research and once Participants in Toronto General's I admitted, she spent a week on a regular diet 49th birthday party for Marg Hulk while undergoing a battery of tests. Her medical history was taken, including information about children, parents, bro- going to feed them.... My mom was like thers and sisters. She was asked about her that. We were raised that way." attitudes to food, and psychiatric counsell- When the Walker family has a get -to ing was available. gether, the big topic has always been "what Others on the program had weekly we're going to cat." Although, now that meetings with a psychiatrist but Marg did Marg and her sister Helen have lost so not "because 1 said 1 cat the wrong kinds of much weight, that's changing., things, that's all." Now she sort of regrets "Now we bring a watermelon", instead that she wasn't in on those sessions: "I of a variety of cakes and pies, Marg says. could have learned a lot." with a smile. Marg Huuey was never small. As a Marg can eat .3,500 calories a day and student in Grade 8 she weighed 164 pounds. maintain her weight loss. She left Toronto Now, after 26 years he's lighter, than when General after her 10 week stint with a 1500 she was married, caloric dict on which she could continue to "I don't eat more than normal". Marg lose weight. "That's a lot if I followed it." says, but her diet has always included a lot she says. of baking. Naturally she's found it tough to It certainly is, compared to the 400 keep her weight under control since coming calories a day liquid dict she ate for the home because she says the family (husband second and third of her weeks in hospital. Bob and two children Debbie and Dave who Or the four week total fast that followed. For still live at home) wants dessert. the first three weeks she could go out in the "When 1 have company." this friendly, city but for the duration of the fast Marg hospitable woman says. "I don't think wasn't even allowed out of the 12 hcd ward. about cleaning my house but about what I'm While others in the ward had meal trays, FLORIST Hildebrand Flowers 15 Main St. J Seaforth office 527-0555 Res. 527.1784 f Complete Fiord Service with a persond torch. IMPROVEMENTS MadEAN HOME IMPROVEMENTS Phone 527.0032 Free Estimates For Siding - Aluminum and Vinyl, Aluminum Windows, Doors, Awnings Partings — Flanagan - Carpentry m Aluminum Siding • Home Renovations . Additions • Framing • Roofing Peter Finnigan 527.1349 - YOU DON'T NEED WORDS ...JUST CARE! It's not work to walk. So why not walk to "rk? PriHPldPe7lT/t?fi. —APPLIANCES— Appliance and Refrigeration REPAIR SERVICE Jim Broadfoot 482-7032 RACTING W. Jo Feeney ONTO STD. CUSTOM BUILDERS Renovations, Additions, new homes, Replacement windows Phone 345-2405 Dublin like touching an electric fence for a minute,. but the longest minute of your life." It was the inability to continue these exercises that caused the two drop outs, one a 27 -Year-old girl. . Any side effects? To make up for potassium loss Mrs. (Hulley had to take up to. four pills a day and some of her hair fell out. She had a vitamin pill every day too. After four weeks' fast Marg was put on a two week long re-ffeedi'ng program. Food didn't taste as good as she had expected. "I'd been dying for a cup of coffee. My first meal was a coffee and an egg .... it tasted terrible." Understandably, her stomach refused food for two days. Everything, had to be mashed for easy digestion. She was feeling weak and upset when her family came down to visit "and just took over. It's surprising what family and friends mean to you", a when you're isolated and undergoing a tough experience. With her family's help Marg gradually started eating again. She has interesting stories of fellow patients who had more drastic weight loss treatments. One man who weighed 475 pounds had reduced to 349. His, stomach, .once the size off a football, was stapled to the size of an egg. He'll eat small scoops of mashed food for the rest of his life, "It's that or death," Marg explains. - Marg'9 roommate, the other patient who stayed on the program, "took a year out of her life" to lose weight. She lost 35 pounds and het dress size went from 241/ to 18. Other patients on the ward had rare diseases; one teenager had a kidney transplant. It made her realize, Marg says, that's she's "so lucky to be living, have a job and a family etc." Business Directory —CARPENTRY -- J&J Carpentry ®Concrete Forming and Finishing -Framing Drywall Roofing Cabinet Making John Ryan 527-1520 MUFFLERS--." 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She still goes to Toronto for regular checkups and her doctor doesn't want to hear any excuses about gaining weight: "l have got to keep it off', she says with simple determination. If Marg Hulley keeps that weight off and loses still more it will be because of that determination, and the, help of a family "behind me 100 per cent." "The kids give me a hard time if they catch me eating a cookie, And I listen to them... Sympathy and a piece of pie is no good." Marg Hulley, left, with 'her room mate after 10 weeks In hospital and weight losses of 47 and 35 pounds respectively. Milia rat dbtbw it He am. f'P3,iz11!CE for tiff 'SEWING SEWING MACHINE SUPERMARKET Ovw 100 mw_hlnas on display servico to all mekme Solna -white, Elva. 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I am just a married man The single guys kick up their Who has to have a wife heels, To make this living worth a And chase the girls with wine damn To create many kinds of deals sity research project had a surprise To make living more than life. And make their bright eyes ,entre, when they were in hospital. shine. I am only half a man Marg drank a cup of'hot water. With no wife by my side They brag about their single How did she pass the time? Typically To wash my clothes and feed me state cheerful. Marg says she wrote a lot of jam They have no cares to drag letters, talked to other patients... many of And buy bread, and sox and Or clothes to buy for a wistful' whom were going through very rough Tide. mate, experiences..:, and enjoyed reading over their youth begins to sag. 300 cards and letters she received, manyAs You'll know this man is only half from total strangers. Fellow patients threw a surprise birthday party for her in When his good wife Is away But let me say they can have it Noycmber. With two Coloured sox would all Then there was a weigh-in, "the ' make you laugh ° This old boy needs a wife highlight of the day" at 8 a.m. Twice a week As he wonders on his way. To make this body stand real tall throuvhont the oroeram, even when she was fasting, Marg had tests, bicycling hard And make living more than life. while herblood pressure etc, was taken. "It What fun Is sharing half the Has the hardest thing I ever did in my life, bed? I didn't say I love you dear pumping that bicycle...You had to breath When you're sleeping all alone You can decide that for yourself into a bag with a clothes pin over your nose What fun is eating noon hour But I'll sure be glad when you and then do the same, with it off your nose. bread? g et back here. Just when you thought you were going to die. they said'enough for this time'. It as At the table in `your home. I And take me off the shelf. the happiest thought of the day." Another exercise involved the muscle~. What fun is bringing home a first voluntary "and then involuntary, justbuck Bob Business Directory —CARPENTRY -- J&J Carpentry ®Concrete Forming and Finishing -Framing Drywall Roofing Cabinet Making John Ryan 527-1520 MUFFLERS--." MUfflefWgdd Mufflers guaranteed as 61ng as you ,,t n theca r �N1 \10RTH \101nRS I TD. 52'.1010 —1 V & STEREG— AW10111" Complete Line ZENITH I SALES TELEVISION 6t AND SERVICE STEREO Seaforth 17 Sparling St . 527.1150 INSURANCE SEAEORTH INSURANCE 39 -Main St. S. Seaforth .Home Business Farm Auto Life Sickness & Accident Investments 527-1610 DECORATING Expert inienor R Exterior Decorato,s t,1 Wallcovel Enos Kem Pa�'s �L Window Shades I 'HILDEBRAND PAINT AND PAPER( PHONE 527-1660 5 Main St Seatoot- 1 rests touch the lives of all Canadians,... FORESTS HAVE MANY USES Its i i. F( — y { ,Give.. v4 � Help your Heart Fund Help your Heart PIANO--� PIANO TUNING a 4eb id,.g o Keys 4ero,e•ed 4 t)e—oC Cha s BRUCE PU(SIFER 348-9223 M,tchell --FUNERAL HOME Barbara A. Watts Funeral Director 47 High Street Seaforth Phone 527-0655 CHIROPRACTOR SEAFORTH CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Thomas J. Devereaux 25 Goderich St. W Seaforth, Ontario Phone Bus. 527-1242 Res. 527-1942 Mor, - Fri 8,1200 1600 Tves Tours 8.12 00 1 30 8 30 W ed 8 1 Sat 9.1 i --SHARPENING All hpes of teat, hrikec and scissors sharpened Sperlalving in (. rhid( sa,, s and 1""), STA!' SHARP SALES AND SFR%ICI Gqrdon Blanchard RR4, Wilton S21.1ROh She even was able, eventually, to explain to the patients she spent so many weeks with, where Seaforth is. "1 was so happy when Eisler and Baier,won (a world.figure skating championship) and it was in the Toronto papers. (,said 'that's my town.' " Back into her home routine and not gaining any weight even if she's no longer losing, Marg is enthusiastic about the difference shedding 40 pounds has made. "1'm enjoying my garden this year. Last year it was a pain." But it's discouraging when someone who sees her regularly asks if she's gained all the weight back already. She still goes to Toronto for regular checkups and her doctor doesn't want to hear any excuses about gaining weight: "l have got to keep it off', she says with simple determination. If Marg Hulley keeps that weight off and loses still more it will be because of that determination, and the, help of a family "behind me 100 per cent." "The kids give me a hard time if they catch me eating a cookie, And I listen to them... Sympathy and a piece of pie is no good." Marg Hulley, left, with 'her room mate after 10 weeks In hospital and weight losses of 47 and 35 pounds respectively. Milia rat dbtbw it He am. f'P3,iz11!CE for tiff 'SEWING SEWING MACHINE SUPERMARKET Ovw 100 mw_hlnas on display servico to all mekme Solna -white, Elva. Husgvarm lots of usad moohi— Iron 139.95 SEW AND SA\ E CENTRELTD 149 Downle st i2 doon e6uth of Hudson'I Stratford. 271.9(60 OPTICIAN David Longstaff ft Ltd Optician r0 Main ♦I 1, \c afn il, (tP10MI-IRIN1\ \NU OPHTHALMOLOGISTS Prewripclons FI1W Prompt Fs SUMMER HOURS Mon., Tues., Thurs.. Fri., 10:00 a.m. - 5,30 p.m. CI,OSED WEDNFSDAYS &S.ATURDAYS COMPLETE OPTICAL SERVICE 527.1303 —FARM SUPPLIES', Feed Seed Ferrrliter Farm Suppbes Petroleum Supp Nes Healing 0115 Seaforth Co-op 527-0770 ,—DECORATING — Grave§ Wallpaper & Paint lcaluring SL,1 rr t� I'\I♦ IN ( anadian Fi Imported Nall (m cring. USE EXPOSITOR WANT -ADS Phone 527-0240 FUNERAL HOME �Flrtney Ribey I FUnerUl Hume 'CEMETERY MONUMENTS Sm� r�r ,Ind Cnuih^nus �rr�;,cr e m