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Associated Press
LANCASTER, Calif. - Joychan Roberson, who dedicated herself to helping
others overcome morbid obesity after she lost 600 pounds, has died at age
50.
Roberson, of Lancaster in Los Angeles County, died Dec. 11 after suffering
from uterine cancer. A funeral was held Monday, the Los Angeles Times
reported.
Roberson once weighed 900 pounds and had to be hospitalized because her
lungs could no longer supply oxygen to her body.
"I'd eat because I was depressed and was depressed because I was fat," she
once said. "I earned every pound I carried. Most people have a time
separation between meals, but I ate all day long."
After being taken to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in a U-Haul
truck, she was placed in a special oversized bed. Roberson told friends she
realized she needed to lose weight after hearing doctors indicate there was
little they could do to help her.
She began exercising by pulling herself up by a bar hanging over her
hospital bed. After returning home, she paced around her mother's porch and
took strolls through a local park.
In 18 months, she trimmed down to 720 pounds.
She later joined a gym and began working with a professional trainer,
dropping 200 pounds in a year through a regimen of walking, swimming and
other exercises.
"She called me Dr. Death and Dr. Pain," said her trainer, Cecil Pullum.
"But as much as she complained and whined, she was there every day, ready
to sweat."
After slimming down, she and her trainer held workshops and seminars to
help others struggling with morbid obesity. She started an organization,
Life's Forgotten Angels, and appeared on Oprah Winfrey's talk show.
"If I can do it, so can others," Roberson said. "I can give them hope and
encouragement, but the bottom line is that it's their choice whether to
fight and live."
Associated Press
LANCASTER, Calif. - Joychan Roberson, who dedicated herself to helping
others overcome morbid obesity after she lost 600 pounds, has died at age
50.
Roberson, of Lancaster in Los Angeles County, died Dec. 11 after suffering
from uterine cancer. A funeral was held Monday, the Los Angeles Times
reported.
Roberson once weighed 900 pounds and had to be hospitalized because her
lungs could no longer supply oxygen to her body.
"I'd eat because I was depressed and was depressed because I was fat," she
once said. "I earned every pound I carried. Most people have a time
separation between meals, but I ate all day long."
After being taken to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in a U-Haul
truck, she was placed in a special oversized bed. Roberson told friends she
realized she needed to lose weight after hearing doctors indicate there was
little they could do to help her.
She began exercising by pulling herself up by a bar hanging over her
hospital bed. After returning home, she paced around her mother's porch and
took strolls through a local park.
In 18 months, she trimmed down to 720 pounds.
She later joined a gym and began working with a professional trainer,
dropping 200 pounds in a year through a regimen of walking, swimming and
other exercises.
"She called me Dr. Death and Dr. Pain," said her trainer, Cecil Pullum.
"But as much as she complained and whined, she was there every day, ready
to sweat."
After slimming down, she and her trainer held workshops and seminars to
help others struggling with morbid obesity. She started an organization,
Life's Forgotten Angels, and appeared on Oprah Winfrey's talk show.
"If I can do it, so can others," Roberson said. "I can give them hope and
encouragement, but the bottom line is that it's their choice whether to
fight and live."