My 600 Pound Life?

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  • davidsanchezamezcua
    davidsanchezamezcua Posts: 24 Member
    No fast food for me for 6 weeks straight. No carbonated drinks for 6 weeks. No bread for six weeks and being mexican only 4 tortillas in 6 weeks. It's tradition. Haha. Lost 39 lbs in 6 weeks. :)
  • teagirlmedium
    teagirlmedium Posts: 679 Member
    sanchezamezcua wrote: »
    No fast food for me for 6 weeks straight. No carbonated drinks for 6 weeks. No bread for six weeks and being mexican only 4 tortillas in 6 weeks. It's tradition. Haha. Lost 39 lbs in 6 weeks. :)

    Congratulations on losing 39 pounds in only 6 weeks.
  • dbanks80
    dbanks80 Posts: 3,685 Member
    I get frustrated with Pauline's story. She say she wants to lose weight but she makes so many excuses and she doesn't want to do anything. She plays the victim and all her crying is irritating. She doesn't take accountability for anything.
  • NataBost
    NataBost Posts: 418 Member
    This thread is quite long, so I haven't read every reply. At any rate, I wish a lot of these shows would focus on therapy as well. Sometimes on this particular show, the surgeon and/or his office will recommend a therapist, but usually not until AFTER the client expresses depression. In a lot of these cases (granted, not all) there seems to be a running factor of some sort of abuse, loss or abandonment which has been self medicated with food.
  • ginny92802
    ginny92802 Posts: 66 Member
    About who pays for what - I happened to notice one of the producers of the show had the same last name as Dr. Nowzardian in the credits. I don't know if it's his son or what.

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2890940/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
  • courtneyallisonatx
    courtneyallisonatx Posts: 133 Member
    I am absolutely obsessed with my 600lb life. I watch it every Wednesday without fail.
    It motivates me, being half the size of these women and already feeling so worn down and in the way, I can not imagine how they feel.
    But I also know it makes me never want to get to that size. The show is what started my weight loss journey.
  • bigmantis
    bigmantis Posts: 10 Member
    This show reminds why I'm trying to lose weight......I'm not getting that big..
  • tat2cookie
    tat2cookie Posts: 1,899 Member
    Did any one watch Marla's story yet? I thought she was going to be another Penny for sure!
  • Italian_Buju
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
    Yeah, Marla was being really difficult.....I was not sure why she even bothered going there in the first place....

    I have to admit, I was shocked, I mean mouth open shocked to see her leg so flexible at the beginning when her daughter was cleaning her!!

    On an offish topic note, was she cooking in bed?
  • StarlightAria
    StarlightAria Posts: 81 Member
    Watching it right now
  • Robertus
    Robertus Posts: 558 Member
    Italian_Buju wrote: »
    On an offish topic note, was she cooking in bed?
    I haven't been paying that close attention, but I saw a similar show several years ago where a 600+ lbs guy used to cook in bed. It seemed like a wonderful idea at the time.

  • pollypocket1021
    pollypocket1021 Posts: 533 Member
    Italian_Buju wrote: »
    Yeah, Marla was being really difficult.....I was not sure why she even bothered going there in the first place....

    I have to admit, I was shocked, I mean mouth open shocked to see her leg so flexible at the beginning when her daughter was cleaning her!!

    On an offish topic note, was she cooking in bed?

    Yes! She was frying chicken in bed! OMG!
  • Ameengyrl
    Ameengyrl Posts: 127 Member
    Yeah her flexibility blew me way...

    Not the season finale I was expecting but definitely the most shock value
  • tat2cookie
    tat2cookie Posts: 1,899 Member
    Italian_Buju wrote: »
    Yeah, Marla was being really difficult.....I was not sure why she even bothered going there in the first place....

    I have to admit, I was shocked, I mean mouth open shocked to see her leg so flexible at the beginning when her daughter was cleaning her!!

    On an offish topic note, was she cooking in bed?

    Yes she was, fried chicken strips from the looks of it.
    To me she wanted to free surgery and then just wanted to be left alone. I'm glad that they daughter called the Dr and asked him to come talk to her. That had to be hard.
  • klkateri
    klkateri Posts: 432 Member
    Mixed thoughts. I have a rather BIG friend (450+ pounds) and her sister died last year from a heart attack at 30 brought on from being well over 600 pounds and the show makes me sad because I know what's it's like to lose someone that large (She had to be cremated at a zoo because the local funeral home didn't have an oven large enough for her) but on the flipside it reminds me that I was headed down that path too and that I have to work at this everyday.... for the rest of my life.

    However, I sometimes get so mad at these people because they have so much help but they just whine and complain instead of understanding that they are killing themselves. But many times the family are just enablers and I want to shake them too and make them understand that this is an addiction!!

  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
    Italian_Buju wrote: »
    Yeah, Marla was being really difficult.....I was not sure why she even bothered going there in the first place....

    I have to admit, I was shocked, I mean mouth open shocked to see her leg so flexible at the beginning when her daughter was cleaning her!!

    I was shocked too, she looked like she could be capable of doing the splits.

    Dr. N seems to be losing patience with his patients... if the last 2 episodes are any indication. His toying with the guy last week when he said he'd be willing to do anything including cut out potatoes and snacking, and Dr. N was like, "Okay, why don't you do that then?" And the guy was like "Uh, what?" And then later telling him that there is no excuse good enough to be the way he is (apparently not even the recent death of a mother-figure was enough to soften Dr. N's heart to his patient's struggle.
    Then this week with Marla he's instructing the daughter to treat Marla like a kid, telling her to not get her food and drink and if she wants it she can get up and get it so she can move. It's like Dr. N has been reading tweets #my600lblife and the very often uber tough-love advice for family members.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    I've been watching "Doctor Fat' recently and think the doctor is awesome in how he treats his patience with such dignity and compassion
    Anyone could be a Tiffany or a Penny in the right circumstances.
    They live with enablers and sometimes bully them to get more food.

    I like watching the "Dr. Fat" but they don't show much after the surgery...
    I'd like to see blips of the show down the road when it really counts,
    how is the person really doing after surgery, long term.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    tracyannk28 wrote: »
    TLC has kind of turned into a freak show over the past decade. It used to be The Learning Channel and showed documentry type things similar to Discovery Channel. Now it's all reality shows and things like "My Strange Addiction"


    Yea, I've noticed that, such a change it's made over the years.
    Definitely liked the channel much more before it went this route.
    Used to love the documentaries etc.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    tracyannk28 wrote: »
    softblondechick wrote: »
    I force myself to watch each show, there for the Grace of God. ...they could easily be me. Except for the fact that no one supports me. Work or be homeless! Something to be thankful for, I guess. I can see how severe clinical depression, treated with psychopharmacology that makes people ravenous hungry, I think they should re name Paxil to "Pack It On". But, some doctors don't know enough about psychopharmacology and randomly prescribe meds without proper monitoring. It happened to me. I was depressed, a doctor prescribed me a med, that made me hungry.

    Anyway, side issue. This is important that these people are getting treatment. And Penny, bless her heart...where did she find a man who puts up with her!?

    Ugh...I haven't had a boyfriend in years and Penny is awful and found a man who puts up with her. SO not fair!

    There was this other guy who's wife was murdered and he later remarried and they had an adopted son. I'm trying to figure out what kind of adoption agency was OK with giving a child to a man who couldn't take care of himself?????

    But how healthy was the boyfriend emotionally, mentally etc.
    His stability to be an enabler full time says a lot about him
    seeing himself as only that.. someone to care for another.
    Not in a good way, or a kind way but seemingly in an unhealthy way.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    SuggaD wrote: »
    SnuggleSmacks wrote: »
    Nope. To me, shows like this smack of schadenfreude porn. I can't get entertainment out of the misfortunes of others. Plus, reality TV is the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of television.


    I completely agree with this.

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