My 600 Pound Life?
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Not sure why but I found Charity's episode to be the most shocking. Ever notice how at first she didn't even wear bottoms, just a top. Oh, and of course, the bathroom situation...0
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I'm not sure what bottoms would even have fit her with her entire lower body so horribly deformed from the lymphedema masses. I can't even imagine living like that.
It's a little ironic that so many people overeat because it feels like fat is going to keep them from being vulnerable, only to have their defense mechanism render them unable to cover their bodies or perform the most fundamental living tasks for themselves. Unless you're comatose, you can't get much more vulnerable than having to have someone else dress you, wash you, and get you onto and off the toilet.
What struck me was the way her eyes just glazed over when she was eating. She said she ate because it was something she had control over, but it looked like she completely checked out mentally while her body continued putting food in its mouth. I got no sense that she was even present. It was a little creepy.0 -
It was creepy and so sad to see her daughter going down the same path as her mother.0
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I found Charity's story the hardest episode to watch with the sores and lymphedema. After a few mins I had to shut it off. Maybe I will try and continue to see it tonight. I don't understand why is it necessary to show the viewers all the open sores and how they bath, I think if they are going for the omg factor they got it with this episode. Also when I saw her daughter eating the pizza along with her mom I thought she's probably going to end up where her mother is if she doesn't change her eating habits, shes already overweight too. It's so sad how these habits are passed along to the children, most of the time, unintentionally.0
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This show motivates me very much. I could easily be there but by the grace of God, I am not . PTL! I am not able to STOP watching this show. I do have 120 lbs to lose but I am on my way, and so thankful for My fitness pal tools!0
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ncboiler89 wrote: »tat2cookie wrote: »That boyfriend of hers is being selfish!
600lb chick has a BF?
787 lbs
A finance
Who may or may not be kind of a kid...
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I agree, this one made me wince and groan for that poor woman's body. I have NEVER seen anyone get that shape before and can't imagine how it can happen. Does the fat just have nowhere else to go so it sets up camp in odd places and just keeps adding more?I found Charity's story the hardest episode to watch with the sores and lymphedema. After a few mins I had to shut it off. Maybe I will try and continue to see it tonight. I don't understand why is it necessary to show the viewers all the open sores and how they bath, I think if they are going for the omg factor they got it with this episode. Also when I saw her daughter eating the pizza along with her mom I thought she's probably going to end up where her mother is if she doesn't change her eating habits, shes already overweight too. It's so sad how these habits are passed along to the children, most of the time, unintentionally.
I always fast forward through the parts when they see a therapist - to me that's just TOO intrusive.
What makes me really sad when I watch this show is wondering how many more people there are like this, who don't get the surgery or any other medical help, and just ... die.
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Charity's body terrified me. When she was walking around and her extra top butt was flapping, I kept thinking it was super fragile and it looked like it might rip off. Plus she's surrounded by enablers, her daughter is a few short years off from being where Charity is now.
Such a disturbing and sad episode.0 -
I agree, this one made me wince and groan for that poor woman's body. I have NEVER seen anyone get that shape before and can't imagine how it can happen. Does the fat just have nowhere else to go so it sets up camp in odd places and just keeps adding more?I found Charity's story the hardest episode to watch with the sores and lymphedema. After a few mins I had to shut it off. Maybe I will try and continue to see it tonight. I don't understand why is it necessary to show the viewers all the open sores and how they bath, I think if they are going for the omg factor they got it with this episode. Also when I saw her daughter eating the pizza along with her mom I thought she's probably going to end up where her mother is if she doesn't change her eating habits, shes already overweight too. It's so sad how these habits are passed along to the children, most of the time, unintentionally.
I always fast forward through the parts when they see a therapist - to me that's just TOO intrusive.
What makes me really sad when I watch this show is wondering how many more people there are like this, who don't get the surgery or any other medical help, and just ... die.
You'd watch her poop in the middle of the living room but not chat with a therapist? I always wonder what so many people have asked in this thread - why isn't the therapist visit standard? Unless Dr. Now really wants them to get to the point where it's clear that they absolutely need the help!0 -
Actually, I fast forwarded through that part too. I really only watch the parts post-surgery. I love to see them emerging. This series, without doubt, it more sensationalist than previously. It's like every last shred of dignity needs to be ripped from them before TLC will pay for their surgery. To be honest I'm not sure how much longer I'll keep watching, but it draws me back.
I agree, this one made me wince and groan for that poor woman's body. I have NEVER seen anyone get that shape before and can't imagine how it can happen. Does the fat just have nowhere else to go so it sets up camp in odd places and just keeps adding more?I found Charity's story the hardest episode to watch with the sores and lymphedema. After a few mins I had to shut it off. Maybe I will try and continue to see it tonight. I don't understand why is it necessary to show the viewers all the open sores and how they bath, I think if they are going for the omg factor they got it with this episode. Also when I saw her daughter eating the pizza along with her mom I thought she's probably going to end up where her mother is if she doesn't change her eating habits, shes already overweight too. It's so sad how these habits are passed along to the children, most of the time, unintentionally.
I always fast forward through the parts when they see a therapist - to me that's just TOO intrusive.
What makes me really sad when I watch this show is wondering how many more people there are like this, who don't get the surgery or any other medical help, and just ... die.
You'd watch her poop in the middle of the living room but not chat with a therapist? I always wonder what so many people have asked in this thread - why isn't the therapist visit standard? Unless Dr. Now really wants them to get to the point where it's clear that they absolutely need the help!
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I agree, this one made me wince and groan for that poor woman's body. I have NEVER seen anyone get that shape before and can't imagine how it can happen. Does the fat just have nowhere else to go so it sets up camp in odd places and just keeps adding more?I found Charity's story the hardest episode to watch with the sores and lymphedema. After a few mins I had to shut it off. Maybe I will try and continue to see it tonight. I don't understand why is it necessary to show the viewers all the open sores and how they bath, I think if they are going for the omg factor they got it with this episode. Also when I saw her daughter eating the pizza along with her mom I thought she's probably going to end up where her mother is if she doesn't change her eating habits, shes already overweight too. It's so sad how these habits are passed along to the children, most of the time, unintentionally.
I always fast forward through the parts when they see a therapist - to me that's just TOO intrusive.
What makes me really sad when I watch this show is wondering how many more people there are like this, who don't get the surgery or any other medical help, and just ... die.
A few years ago I was at my sister's apartment and we were watching a show called "Half Ton Mum" about this woman named Renee Williams. It was really sad because she got the surgery, and then passed away 12 days later. Her starting weight was about 880lbs. It was really depressing.0 -
levitateme wrote: »Charity's body terrified me. When she was walking around and her extra top butt was flapping, I kept thinking it was super fragile and it looked like it might rip off. Plus she's surrounded by enablers, her daughter is a few short years off from being where Charity is now.
Such a disturbing and sad episode.
At first I thought she had bound her flesh somehow, or it had grown around something she wore. I feel like there's story there we didn't see.
I do wish they would cut the shock-porn at the beginning a little short.
I watched the ep yesterday and last night I dreamed that I pooped in the middle of a room full of people and then pretended to pass out on it to cover it up.0 -
my jaw dropped when I saw Charity... I just don't understand it... how do you get THAT far?! and her daughter saying she didn't realize her mom was that bad til a couple months ago?! bathing her and watching her s**t in the living room wasn't an indicator?! that show just scares me. I am no where close to being in that situation, so maybe I just don't understand it?! Sometimes I feel uncomfortable in certain clothes or situations being, maybe 10-15lbs heavier than I want?! I can't imagine needing someone to wipe me a** for me! no way!0
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I missed the charity episode, but I will say this show is like watching a car accident. Its intriguing in a bizarre and macabe way. I usually have compassion for most of the people on the show.
However, there was an episode with a woman named Penny that made me want to find her and kick her in the face. You could tell by the end that her husband was just willing her to drop dead every time he looked at her.0 -
I miss The Learning Channel - TLC has become a modern-day circus sideshow. It's ridiculous.0
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I agree, this one made me wince and groan for that poor woman's body. I have NEVER seen anyone get that shape before and can't imagine how it can happen. Does the fat just have nowhere else to go so it sets up camp in odd places and just keeps adding more?I found Charity's story the hardest episode to watch with the sores and lymphedema. After a few mins I had to shut it off. Maybe I will try and continue to see it tonight. I don't understand why is it necessary to show the viewers all the open sores and how they bath, I think if they are going for the omg factor they got it with this episode. Also when I saw her daughter eating the pizza along with her mom I thought she's probably going to end up where her mother is if she doesn't change her eating habits, shes already overweight too. It's so sad how these habits are passed along to the children, most of the time, unintentionally.
I always fast forward through the parts when they see a therapist - to me that's just TOO intrusive.
What makes me really sad when I watch this show is wondering how many more people there are like this, who don't get the surgery or any other medical help, and just ... die.
You'd watch her poop in the middle of the living room but not chat with a therapist? I always wonder what so many people have asked in this thread - why isn't the therapist visit standard? Unless Dr. Now really wants them to get to the point where it's clear that they absolutely need the help!
I don't watch them poop, personally. It's just a bridge too far for me - they can't see me looking at them from my living room, but I know I'm looking at them, and that's just way too intrusive, from my view. I watch the show regularly, but generally I tune in 10-15 minutes after the start, as all the most embarrassing (for them) stuff like that - toileting, showering/being washed - seems to happen near the beginning.
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Yeah, I tend to tune in after that first commercial break for that very reason.0
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enterdanger wrote: »I missed the charity episode, but I will say this show is like watching a car accident. Its intriguing in a bizarre and macabe way. I usually have compassion for most of the people on the show.
However, there was an episode with a woman named Penny that made me want to find her and kick her in the face. You could tell by the end that her husband was just willing her to drop dead every time he looked at her.
Penny has that effect on people.
We're probably horrible people for saying this, but when the family went trick-or-treating my husband and I simultaneously said almost the exact thing seeing Penny's husband dressed up as a prisoner: "I thought for Halloween, you're supposed to go as something you aren't in actual life."
But in reality, he's getting something out of it too. I'm no psychiatrist and God knows any actual shrink would have a field day with my own life, but Penny's family seems to be this whole codependent sort of thing. The husband seemed put-upon...but almost in a martyrish way: "She needs me, it's good that I'm needed, and look at how much I do with never a complaint." Again, I can't accurately judge that as I certainly don't have the credentials, but I very definitely got that feeling, for some reason.
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enterdanger wrote: »I missed the charity episode, but I will say this show is like watching a car accident. Its intriguing in a bizarre and macabe way. I usually have compassion for most of the people on the show.
However, there was an episode with a woman named Penny that made me want to find her and kick her in the face. You could tell by the end that her husband was just willing her to drop dead every time he looked at her.
Penny has that effect on people.
We're probably horrible people for saying this, but when the family went trick-or-treating my husband and I simultaneously said almost the exact thing seeing Penny's husband dressed up as a prisoner: "I thought for Halloween, you're supposed to go as something you aren't in actual life."
But in reality, he's getting something out of it too. I'm no psychiatrist and God knows any actual shrink would have a field day with my own life, but Penny's family seems to be this whole codependent sort of thing. The husband seemed put-upon...but almost in a martyrish way: "She needs me, it's good that I'm needed, and look at how much I do with never a complaint." Again, I can't accurately judge that as I certainly don't have the credentials, but I very definitely got that feeling, for some reason.
Very observant. I had not thought of that parallel.
I LOATHED Penny. She was ruining her husband's and child's lives with her narcissism and selfishness.
And did you remember from the first episode featuring Penny, her husband and one or more family members invested their entire life savings on her surgery and the associated expenses? Complete and total waste of money. That woman is nothing but an emotional and financial black hole, and I don't think she'd be much different if she were thinner. That woman probably has a personality disorder.0 -
I LOATHED Penny. She was ruining her husband's and child's lives with her narcissism and selfishness.
And did you remember from the first episode featuring Penny, her husband and one or more family members invested their entire life savings on her surgery and the associated expenses? Complete and total waste of money. That woman is nothing but an emotional and financial black hole, and I don't think she'd be much different if she were thinner. That woman probably has a personality disorder.
Well, I feel bad for the kid, but the husband, absolutely not. He is an enabler. He doesn't care about Penny, per se. He cares, first and foremost, about his need to be needed. He has very low self-esteem and very little self-respect. He enables Penny because then she, at this point, physically can't leave him. He is as abusive to her as she is to him.0 -
Thank goodness I don't get this television station.0
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Interesting. I never thought of enablers as being abusers.CrabNebula wrote: »I LOATHED Penny. She was ruining her husband's and child's lives with her narcissism and selfishness.
And did you remember from the first episode featuring Penny, her husband and one or more family members invested their entire life savings on her surgery and the associated expenses? Complete and total waste of money. That woman is nothing but an emotional and financial black hole, and I don't think she'd be much different if she were thinner. That woman probably has a personality disorder.
Well, I feel bad for the kid, but the husband, absolutely not. He is an enabler. He doesn't care about Penny, per se. He cares, first and foremost, about his need to be needed. He has very low self-esteem and very little self-respect. He enables Penny because then she, at this point, physically can't leave him. He is as abusive to her as she is to him.
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Thank goodness I don't get this television station.
Uh huh.
So, Charity's episode was interesting. Apparently her fiance is her daughter's half-brother. Like he's a kid of her ex-husband's, who is her daughter's father. Gross. And he's barely old enough to drink. Blech.
Could you imagine if she and whats-his-face had a child? What would that kid be in relation to Charity's daughter? Like her cousin/sibling? *raises eyebrow* blech.
Glad she seemed to be going down the road of success, regardless, though, I honestly expected she was gonna be a goner, like a Pauline or Penny.
And I know a lot of people are all excited over these people going to therapy and whatnot, but my God, there must be a lot of editing, but I am still waiting for these therapists to not come off as completely useless and a complete waste of time and money. I still crack up over one of the therapists who got so dolled up for this show like she was going to be in a music video or something. What a joke.
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Something else I was thinking about, that kind of bothers me, is that a lot of these people are hermits. It makes me wonder how prevalent this super extreme obesity problem is, really. Since these people on the show are the people who had the courage to come forward and expose themselves. It's difficult to imagine how many there are whom lack the courage, and are still suffering silently, with their shades drawn... with no job, no friends, no one knows they even exist except their enablers and perhaps the government who may or may not be cutting them a check every month.
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I know at least 10-15 of hand who could fall into the super mordity obese category. Not all of them are homebodies but most of them are. Some for the fact it's hard for them to get up and around and others cause they are too ashamed. It's really hard to see these people. Most of them I have known a long time and are really good people. But then I know a few drug addicts and alcoholics who are really good people too. Addiction is addiction.
I think as far as the show goes, I'm sure most of them applied online and are getting assistance for the surgery in exchange for filming it, which I think would explain why we keep seeing a lot of low income people. It has nothing to do with only poor people are fat, but that is all we see because that who is applying on the show. Despriate times call for desperate measures I guess.0 -
enterdanger wrote: »I missed the charity episode, but I will say this show is like watching a car accident. Its intriguing in a bizarre and macabe way. I usually have compassion for most of the people on the show.
However, there was an episode with a woman named Penny that made me want to find her and kick her in the face. You could tell by the end that her husband was just willing her to drop dead every time he looked at her.
But in reality, he's getting something out of it too. I'm no psychiatrist and God knows any actual shrink would have a field day with my own life, but Penny's family seems to be this whole codependent sort of thing. The husband seemed put-upon...but almost in a martyrish way: "She needs me, it's good that I'm needed, and look at how much I do with never a complaint." Again, I can't accurately judge that as I certainly don't have the credentials, but I very definitely got that feeling, for some reason.
I was talking to a friend about this show, and he was doing the "fat people just need to put the fork down routine" and I said when you can't get out of bed and you're still gaining weight, there's more going on. No one gets to be 600 pounds in a vacuum. All of these people have some psychological and relationship issues that need to be addressed in order for real changes to occur in their lives.0 -
Lourdesong wrote: »
Holy *kitten*, you guys called it. How did you find out?Could you imagine if she and whats-his-face had a child? What would that kid be in relation to Charity's daughter? Like her cousin/sibling? *raises eyebrow* blech.
The ex-husband would say, my son just had my grand son with my ex-wife. He liked his step mother so much he married her? I wonder how his father feels about his boy staying back and wiping this woman's bum. Hopefully not anymore with the weight loss?????
What's an acceptable level of makeup for a professional or any woman?
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Lourdesong wrote: »
Holy *kitten*, you guys called it. How did you find out?Could you imagine if she and whats-his-face had a child? What would that kid be in relation to Charity's daughter? Like her cousin/sibling? *raises eyebrow* blech.
The ex-husband would say, my son just had my grand son with my ex-wife. He liked his step mother so much he married her? I wonder how his father feels about his boy staying back and wiping this woman's bum. Hopefully not anymore with the weight loss?????
What's an acceptable level of makeup for a professional or any woman?
I looked it up (she's from my hometown so I was quite curious) and her fiance is her ex-husband's brother. They met when he was 8 and she was 25. Sounds like she at least waited for him to be 18 before they got together. So an uncle-stepdad rather than a father-cousin, I think. Either way, it makes my brain hurt to make all the family connections.0
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