{"id":1988,"date":"2007-12-04T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/04\/nancy-makin-the-internet-saved-my-life\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T21:40:27","slug":"nancy-makin-the-internet-saved-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/04\/nancy-makin-the-internet-saved-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Makin: The Internet saved my life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forgive me for straying into what be Oprah\/daytime talk-show territory, but I did think it was interesting that Nancy Makin — who recently appeared on both the Oprah show and on Diane Sawyer’s show<\/a> talking about her miraculous loss of more than 570 pounds over three years — effectively gave credit to the Internet for saving her life. <\/p>\n

There are more details here<\/a>, but the essence of the story is that Nancy weighed more than 700 pounds, and hadn’t left her house for about 12 years, when a relative gave her a computer and an Internet account. According to Ms. Malkin, she never actually went on a diet or got stomach-stapling or any of those drastic procedures — instead, she started joining discussion groups<\/a> on the Internet, and as she started spending more time there, she spent less time eating.<\/p>\n

Three years later, she weighs about 170 pounds and says that it was the non-judgmental nature of the groups she found on the Internet — the fact that they didn’t know or care that she was grossly overweight — that helped draw her out of her shell and gave her the strength to stop eating. Nice to see the odd good-news story about the Web now and then.<\/p>\n

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Forgive me for straying into what be Oprah\/daytime talk-show territory, but I did think it was interesting that Nancy Makin — who recently appeared on both the Oprah show and on Diane Sawyer’s show talking about her miraculous loss of more than 570 pounds over three years — effectively gave credit to the Internet for … <\/p>\n

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