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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole. – Alan Lightman	added by JokerGem 9 months ago
He’s suffering and he’s got an infection. He has severe periodontal disease. He has holes in his mouth that bleed constantly. He’s lost 130 pounds. – Katherine Swidan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You can give your kids a meal that is not full of things you do n’t want to feed them – for a few pounds you can feed three strapping lads, from a kitchen perspective, it is very simple because when it leaves our factory it is already cooked. So when you or a restaurant owner gets it into the kitchen all you have to do is heat it up to be piping hot. It could n’t be more basic : a student with no cooking skills or a Michelin-starred chef do exactly the same thing to put it out on the plate. – Simon Howie Butchers	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is not meant to be a medication to take off your last five or 10 pounds to get ready for an event or something like that. It’s not for use of three or four weeks, when we think about weight management, we’re thinking about the next 25 years of someone’s life. – Disha Narang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My wheelchair weighs 400 pounds. I’m about 200 pounds. That’s 600 pounds they wanted to try to lift. – Chris Hinds	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We filled eight big black garbage bags. They were so heavy we could barely pick them up, they had to have weighed at least a hundred pounds each. – Nick Castro	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present. – Glen VanHerck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We didn’t know that our wiring harness for Mach-E was 1.6 kilometers longer than it needed to be. We didn’t know it’s 70 pounds heavier and that that’s [cost an extra] $300 a battery, we didn’t know that we underinvested in braking technology to save on the battery size. – Ford CEO Jim Farley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
She was older, in her 40s. She had surgery and lost 150 pounds. And then she put herself in front of a bus and died because she had underlying bipolar disorder she had been self-medicating with food, we as a society use a lot of food to hide trauma. What we need in this country is more psychological counseling for everybody, not just for people who undergo bariatric surgery. – Caroline Apovian	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s not true at all that gas stoves cook better, in fact, you can cook about 38.6 pounds of food per hour with your gas range, and it’s going to take time and elbow grease to clean and degrease it afterward. With induction, you can cook 70.9 pounds of food per hour – nearly double the amount of food – and your clean up is going to be a lot easier. – Chris Galarza	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s not true at all that gas stoves cook better, in fact, you can cook about 38.6 pounds of food per hour with your gas range, and it’s going to take time and elbow grease to clean and degrease it afterward. With induction, you can cook 70.9 pounds of food per hour – nearly double the amount of food – and your clean up is going to be a lot easier. – Chef Chris Galarza	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
I tried to have champagne, and it would be like pouring acid, you know, on an open wound, my indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom( s) of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in — then you know something's wrong. – Patrick Swayze	Found on CNN 1 year ago
2016 was the first year San Diego Sector Border Patrol tracked fentanyl seizures, in that year, our sector seized a total of 71 pounds. This fiscal year to date, San Diego Sector has already seized over 600 pounds, an increase of 745 percent, with two months remaining in the fiscal year. – San Diego	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The chemicals are coming from China, they're then made in Mexico, and they're made openly throughout the country, and — just to sort of put a fine point on this — last year, we seized 20 million fake pills and 15,000 pounds of fentanyl. – Anne Milgram	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Because they’re bigger. They’re bigger guys, and they’re going to need a lot of room. Because it’s not just the size of the guy, it’s the size of all your stuff too, you’re 320 pounds, and you’re a size 17 shoe, you know, all your stuff is big. It’s not just you that’s big. – Tom Brady	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
P1 was as big as they get in southern California, about 150 pounds, these dominant males are the ones that breed — they won’t tolerate other adult males in their territory. – Seth Riley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Shawn was up there playing basketball with his brother and his cousin, he is 5-foot-5, 130 pounds, and it was just the three of them on the court playing when a car-load of kids, a car-load of teenagers … pulled into the lot. At that point they opened their windows and opened fire with, what at the time seemed to be a fully automatic firearm. – Jonathan Sinn	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Exercise, and not extreme exercise, we're doing that 30-day walking challenge, that improves, I think, your mental health, combined with a low-carb diet, I've lost about 45 pounds in the last several months. I do about 100 grams of carbs a day and I walk. – Al Roker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The middle range of weight loss for people in this new study was 49 pounds -- 49 pounds is a lot, it's the range of weight loss that we typically think only possible through surgery. – Robert Gabbay	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm 6-foot-3, 220 pounds, and he makes me feel small. – Casey White	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The manufacturer in the manual says right there and then that you can not be over 287 pounds. Yet they don't provide a scale. They don't tell the ride operator you need to have a scale, if weight is in question, yet at this ride in Orlando, the FreeFall ride, they have a metal detector. So you go through a metal detector, which there's no risk of that associated with the ride, except maybe the keys could fall out and hit somebody. – Michael Haggard	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You never want to see an animal this big laying on Pompano Beach, this is 11 feet long and over 500 pounds. It's a female, so it's always sad when a female passes. – Pompano Beach	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When I released it, it really sank in, ‘You let that one go,’ the one thing I regret is not getting it weighed. But at that moment, it was literally the first 5-10 minutes of the tournament. I’m not going to stop fishing for bass. Starting out that fast, I knew I had a chance of at least 20 pounds. But then catching a striper that size, oh my god. It’s a fish of a lifetime. – Stephen Tyson Jr	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.

– Alan Lightman

added by JokerGem
9 months ago

He’s suffering and he’s got an infection. He has severe periodontal disease. He has holes in his mouth that bleed constantly. He’s lost 130 pounds.

– Katherine Swidan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can give your kids a meal that is not full of things you do n’t want to feed them – for a few pounds you can feed three strapping lads, from a kitchen perspective, it is very simple because when it leaves our factory it is already cooked. So when you or a restaurant owner gets it into the kitchen all you have to do is heat it up to be piping hot. It could n’t be more basic : a student with no cooking skills or a Michelin-starred chef do exactly the same thing to put it out on the plate.

– Simon Howie Butchers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not meant to be a medication to take off your last five or 10 pounds to get ready for an event or something like that. It’s not for use of three or four weeks, when we think about weight management, we’re thinking about the next 25 years of someone’s life.

– Disha Narang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My wheelchair weighs 400 pounds. I’m about 200 pounds. That’s 600 pounds they wanted to try to lift.

– Chris Hinds

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We filled eight big black garbage bags. They were so heavy we could barely pick them up, they had to have weighed at least a hundred pounds each.

– Nick Castro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present.

– Glen VanHerck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We didn’t know that our wiring harness for Mach-E was 1.6 kilometers longer than it needed to be. We didn’t know it’s 70 pounds heavier and that that’s [cost an extra] $300 a battery, we didn’t know that we underinvested in braking technology to save on the battery size.

– Ford CEO Jim Farley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She was older, in her 40s. She had surgery and lost 150 pounds. And then she put herself in front of a bus and died because she had underlying bipolar disorder she had been self-medicating with food, we as a society use a lot of food to hide trauma. What we need in this country is more psychological counseling for everybody, not just for people who undergo bariatric surgery.

– Caroline Apovian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not true at all that gas stoves cook better, in fact, you can cook about 38.6 pounds of food per hour with your gas range, and it’s going to take time and elbow grease to clean and degrease it afterward. With induction, you can cook 70.9 pounds of food per hour – nearly double the amount of food – and your clean up is going to be a lot easier.

– Chris Galarza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

– Chef Chris Galarza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I tried to have champagne, and it would be like pouring acid, you know, on an open wound, my indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom( s) of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in — then you know something's wrong.

– Patrick Swayze

Found on CNN
1 year ago

2016 was the first year San Diego Sector Border Patrol tracked fentanyl seizures, in that year, our sector seized a total of 71 pounds. This fiscal year to date, San Diego Sector has already seized over 600 pounds, an increase of 745 percent, with two months remaining in the fiscal year.

– San Diego

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The chemicals are coming from China, they're then made in Mexico, and they're made openly throughout the country, and — just to sort of put a fine point on this — last year, we seized 20 million fake pills and 15,000 pounds of fentanyl.

– Anne Milgram

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Because they’re bigger. They’re bigger guys, and they’re going to need a lot of room. Because it’s not just the size of the guy, it’s the size of all your stuff too, you’re 320 pounds, and you’re a size 17 shoe, you know, all your stuff is big. It’s not just you that’s big.

– Tom Brady

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

P1 was as big as they get in southern California, about 150 pounds, these dominant males are the ones that breed — they won’t tolerate other adult males in their territory.

– Seth Riley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Shawn was up there playing basketball with his brother and his cousin, he is 5-foot-5, 130 pounds, and it was just the three of them on the court playing when a car-load of kids, a car-load of teenagers … pulled into the lot. At that point they opened their windows and opened fire with, what at the time seemed to be a fully automatic firearm.

– Jonathan Sinn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Exercise, and not extreme exercise, we're doing that 30-day walking challenge, that improves, I think, your mental health, combined with a low-carb diet, I've lost about 45 pounds in the last several months. I do about 100 grams of carbs a day and I walk.

– Al Roker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The middle range of weight loss for people in this new study was 49 pounds -- 49 pounds is a lot, it's the range of weight loss that we typically think only possible through surgery.

– Robert Gabbay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm 6-foot-3, 220 pounds, and he makes me feel small.

– Casey White

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The manufacturer in the manual says right there and then that you can not be over 287 pounds. Yet they don't provide a scale. They don't tell the ride operator you need to have a scale, if weight is in question, yet at this ride in Orlando, the FreeFall ride, they have a metal detector. So you go through a metal detector, which there's no risk of that associated with the ride, except maybe the keys could fall out and hit somebody.

– Michael Haggard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You never want to see an animal this big laying on Pompano Beach, this is 11 feet long and over 500 pounds. It's a female, so it's always sad when a female passes.

– Pompano Beach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I released it, it really sank in, ‘You let that one go,’ the one thing I regret is not getting it weighed. But at that moment, it was literally the first 5-10 minutes of the tournament. I’m not going to stop fishing for bass. Starting out that fast, I knew I had a chance of at least 20 pounds. But then catching a striper that size, oh my god. It’s a fish of a lifetime.

– Stephen Tyson Jr

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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