How to be obese saved my life: Amy’s 355lb body pursued it when the terrorists flew the office in the air … Then an agreement with God created an incredible transformation

In April 1995, hundreds of survivors were withdrawn from the rubble of the federal government building bombed in Oklahoma City-but only one of them can thank the obesity for keeping them alive.

Thirty years ago, Amy Downs was a 28 -year -old credit officer who described him as an unhappy university abandonment, relieving his way to 355lbs.

Speaking on the Daily Mail for the 30th anniversary of the US worst host terrorism act, Downs reveals how being overweight saved him and how the tragedy puts him in a better way.

He gradually turned his life for the last thirty years, adopted a more positive attitude, competed in a triathlon and led to becoming the CEO of the Credit Association.

58. Downs a trim, divorced and married again while celebrating his birthday motivational speaker Living in a stunning house with cathedral ceilings in Medicine Park is an hour of driving from the explosion zone.

The Army veteran, who killed 168 people, including 19 children, warns ‘hate’ and ‘evil’ adopted by Timothy Mcveight, and shows how the survivors can take the pieces after a tragedy.

“I had to deal with too much trauma because 18 of my colleagues were killed in the day,” Downs says.

‘Okay, I want to do this. I want to live my life with intention and purpose. ” But once I did it, I got that momentum and continued. ‘

At that time, the abandonment of 28 -year -old university relieved the way to be 355lbs

On the morning of April 19, 1995, it was a bit cold, but it looked like other days, Downs, Credit Union ‘family’ and federal employees, Oklahoma City Alfred P. Murrah building in the city center.

However, at 9.02, ‘Everything has changed’ he says.

Mcveight is full of a deadly, explosive agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel and other chemicals. The anti -government conspiracy theorist burned two insurances and ran.

A few seconds later, the region seemed like a war zone. One third of the building was reduced to rubble, many floors were flattened like pancakes.

Duzines were burned and more than 300 buildings were damaged or destroyed.

Downs’ office was on the third floor; The table was 20FT from the windows. He remembers that he has returned, three floors, upside down in his chair, dust and rubble in the darkness of the air breathing.

‘My weight may have saved my life,’ he says.

“ 355lbs weighing, so my chair stuck to me and this helped to protect me. And when the third and fourth floors of the building exploded, the large, heavy concrete pieces were behind me and created a small cocoon that protected me. ‘

Downs gave another break that scary day. His leg was cut into the bone, but the rubble was so tightly packaged around the limb that he stopped bleeding and caused him a surgical amputation.

‘My story has a happy ending and everyone has not done’ he says.

A National Geographic Documentary Oklahoma City Bombing: One day in the United States, Downs tells the story of other survivors and rescue teams that draw people from rubble for the next three days.

This follows Manhunt, Mcveight’s arrest and ultimate conviction on federal accusations and execution. His fixed partner Terry Nichols was sentenced to more than one life imprisonment for his role in bombing.

At that time, President Bill Clinton and other authorities, who wondered about which foreign group had sewed the bomb, and who later wondered that he was an American-and former service member.

Downs shows that he said he would cook chocolate cookies if they save him to the six hours he spends and savior he spends, ‘waiting, waiting, waiting to die’.

One third of the Alfred P. Murrah building was lowered to the rubble, many floors were flattened like pancakes

Downs’ Credit Association took place on the third floor of the building in Oklahoma City city center

Medical workers are said to have another bomb device and escape from the building

Downs calls Timothy Mcveight’s Bombarding plane ‘a narcissist, a cold -blooded monster’. It was executed in 2001 by fatal injection

He was one of the last surviving people. As he was taken from the debris on a stretcher, Downs looked up and said that he would prove his value to God and would ‘never be accepted again’.

After eight days of hospital recovered, he soon returned to work and rebuilt his credit union as a way to focus on something other than the trauma of losing a large number of dear colleagues.

He gave birth to a son, returned to the university for a degree and MBA, and in 2008 he had a stomach surgery to solve the chronic weight problem that threatened it to put it in an early grave.

He escaped, swim and rode to maintain the weight, finally became a buff Ironman triathleti. 2020 Book, Hope is a verbHis own style describes the ‘impossible transformation journey’.

Downs ended an unhappy marriage, married again, and rebuilt his relationship with God.

Ultimately, he became the CEO of the Loyalty Credit Association; And he resigned this month to become a full -time motivational speaker.

“Over time, one after another, small, consistent steps that lead to an incredible transformation, or he says.

As Downs progressed in the last 30 years, there is also Oklahoma City, where he lived until last year.

The bombed federal building was later built and a park and monument was built on the site.

Oklahoma City National Monument and Museum has a grass for each victim, 168 stone and glass chairs placed in a grass rows.

In 2001, Mcveight was executed by the deadly injection. Nichols, 69, serves life in a Supermax prison in Colorado without the possibility of conditional evacuation.

A child and woman injured in a truck bomb explosion in the Federal building of Alfred P. Murrah in Oklahoma City

Duzines were burned and more than 300 buildings were damaged or destroyed

Firefighter Chris Fields has one of the 19 babies who died of injuries in the explosion. The federal building had one day care center on the first floor

A National Geographic Documentary tells the story of exits, other survivors and rescue teams that draw people from rubble

Both men were former US military soldiers and associated with the far -right and militant patriotism movement that rejected the legitimacy of the federal government and law enforcement officers.

Mcveight’s hatred, 76 people died in a Christian sect near Waco, Texas, and Idaho died in Ruby Ridge, a 14 -year -old child, his mother and a federal agent.

In 1997, Downs attended the hearing of Mcveight’s Denver, Colorado. He calls him a ‘narcissist’, who succumbed to extremism and hatred and comes as a ‘great relief’.

An II. The daughter of World War II veteran, still one of our people, an American, did it, ‘he says, but’ a ‘cold -blooded monster’ does not understand how it motivates what it has.

Orum I choose to focus on how we overcome the evil that causes it, or he says.