Weight Loss

# Weight Loss

/ Enterprise
Thursday, March 29th, 1990 D15
Read This If You Are Truly Serious About Losing Weight...
High School Student Loses Almost

600 Pounds And Now Devotes His Life

To Helping Others Get Skinny!

Dear Friend,
If you have a weight problem, want you to take a good
look at the pictures on this page.
OK, did you do it? Did you take a good look at those
amazing pictures? What they show is a young man (me) whose
life was once a nightmare. Maybe you saw my story on CBS Live
or GOOD MORNING AMERICA. Or maybe you read about
me in the Detroit Free Press, The Oakland Daily Tribune or even

750 Lbs. -
I Wanted
To Die:. the National Enquirer. Believe me, if you want to lose weight, I can tell you exactly
how to do it. • Without hunger! • Without low energy! • Without pills! • Without giving up good food! And, best of all, I can show you how to do it fast (very fast)
without spending hardly any money. Listen: My name is Larry
Coker and, not long ago, my weight was 750 pounds! I felt like a
freak and I wanted to die. Three times my bed broke because I
was so fat. I was only 18 but it seemed to me my life was over. Everyday I wore the same clothes to high school. I had only one
shirt (an extra-large Mickey Mouse T-shirt that looked like a tent)
and one huge pair of sweat pants with.. A Size 74 Inch Waist! I could only sleep on my back because if I slept on my side, my
enormous weight would cut off circulation to my arm leaving it white
and painful. Each morning my family had to
help me out of bed by pulling and yanking for
and bad about them. Then I counted up the good
five minutes. Then my younger brother put my
points of each diet and used them to make my
socks and shoes on for me. I couldn't bend over
own. Except 1 added a "certain
that far. I couldn't climb stairs, could hardly fit
something."
What I added was the "missing ingredient" that
behind the steering wheel of my car and had no
all fat people are looking for. I do not take credit
girlfriend. What girl would look twice at a
for discovering this. It is just something that came
grotesque slob like me?

I was too ashamed of
to me that night, something so powerful that. myself to even have my picture taken for the
high school year book. And.. It Woke Me Right Out Of My Sleep! I have a personal name for this weight-loss
After 1 Graduated from High School. miracle. I call it "Larry's Way." It works like
Things Went From Bad to Worse! crazy. Weight Watchers offered me a big
Now I had no school to attend. I had no job
salary, a car and a new wardrobe if I would be a
and no future. I slept until noon every day just so
spokesman for them. But I won't. They may
I wouldn't have to deal with the pain of living as a
have a good program, but I believe my program
freak. I was 5 feet 7 and weirhed an estimated 750
is much better. And that's why I have teamed
pounds. The last time I found a scale that could
up with a company in Florida (Everett & Lloyd,
weigh me (a truck scale) I weighed 643 pounds and
Inc.) that is letting me tell people how to lose
weight exactly the same way I did it. You know,
to tell the truth, I believe my program is better
I Had Gained At Least
than any other weight-loss system ever devised. 100 Pounds Since! Consider this:
My life was a mess. I tried a dozen diets but
• 1 lost 575 pounds in 15 months! couldn't stick to them. The more depressed I
• I lost 37 inches from my waist! became about my weight, the more I ate and the
• 1 lost 28 inches from my hips! fatter 1 got. That made me more depressed and 1
• 1 lost 22 inches from my thighs! ate more.