My 600 lb. Life

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  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    imogene912 wrote: »
    I am watching it now - Sean's story. Wow.


    Sean's mom is one of the people who blew my mind the most. That woman is helping her child die.
  • strelitzia4
    strelitzia4 Posts: 11 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    imogene912 wrote: »
    I am watching it now - Sean's story. Wow.


    Sean's mom is one of the people who blew my mind the most. That woman is helping her child die.

    Agreed. Normally I like watching the show, but Sean's episode was just really sad.
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    I have mixed feelings about the show. On the one hand, I find the psychology fascinating. I also find it incredibly sad that all of the people on the show have suffered some type of unbearable abuse, neglect or trauma in their lives that was the major reason for them overeating to that extent. It's easy for us armchair critics to sit back and wonder how anyone could let themselves go like that, without truly understanding the horrors these people have endured.

    The show does make me somewhat uncomfortable. I think the producers do a relatively good job of telling the story without sensationalizing, but these people's pain and shame are hard to witness.
  • badnoodle
    badnoodle Posts: 216 Member
    My partner finds these kinds of shows to be modern day circus freakshows - the people being featured need help, but to get help they need money, so they show their various grotesqueries to the world. Most of the time, I'm more in the "some people just want to be on TV" camp, but I think he has a point the shows that deal with people with really overwhelming mental and physical issues (interventions, hoarding, extraordinary obesity). There is literally no way for that group of people to get the help they need without turning a national spotlight on their own weaknesses.
  • deaddolly
    deaddolly Posts: 107 Member
    I watch it on occasion. It makes me sad, so I don't watch often. These comments about people wanting to be obese are just as disgusting. Food is social. You can stop smoking; you can get off of drugs -- you can't stop eating. Junk food is cheap and within easy reach. Drive thru's are everywhere and convenient. People in the States go to restaurants and want their money's worth. It's a cultural thing. Some have mental issues and use food as a substitute for something, others have other health problems. I can honestly say, I've met as many lazy fat people as I have lazy skinny people. To lump everyone into one category is insane. Yes, there needs to be more education on nutrition. Our educational system needs many things -- look at the lunch programs they have! Demand for fast food and large portions wouldn't exist without people wanting it. Food can be comfort.
    Food came be home. It can be your friend or your enemy. Don't bash people for what they eat; look beyond that.
  • arose1122
    arose1122 Posts: 167 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    imogene912 wrote: »
    I am watching it now - Sean's story. Wow.


    Sean's mom is one of the people who blew my mind the most. That woman is helping her child die.

    Oh my goodness yes. When Dr. Now asked her how many calories he consumed in a day she said "last time I tracked it we were doing about 2500 a day". No... no mom. That's more like his breakfast. The pizza meal he ate on the show was a least 2300.
  • peachyfuzzle
    peachyfuzzle Posts: 1,122 Member
    arose1122 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    imogene912 wrote: »
    I am watching it now - Sean's story. Wow.


    Sean's mom is one of the people who blew my mind the most. That woman is helping her child die.

    Oh my goodness yes. When Dr. Now asked her how many calories he consumed in a day she said "last time I tracked it we were doing about 2500 a day". No... no mom. That's more like his breakfast. The pizza meal he ate on the show was a least 2300.

    Way more than that, even. He ate his whole entire pizza with however much soda, that's 2300 on it's own, probably more in the realm of 3000 though. After that, he ate 3/4ths of his mom's pizza. I think that one was around a 5000cal hit to the ol' food diary.
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    Did anyone watch today's episode on Lupe? Wow.
  • amb3rj0y
    amb3rj0y Posts: 47 Member
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »
    Did anyone watch today's episode on Lupe? Wow.

    Yea, her husband is an *kitten*. I hope that if she drops the weight, she drops him too :neutral:
  • 100df
    100df Posts: 668 Member
    Seeing what it took to get Lupe to Houston broke my heart. Completely inhumane. I am not being critical of her family because I do not know what they could have done to make it better. Maybe an ambulance? I really thought she was going to die before they got there.

    The choices people make are interesting. They are going through something awful and her husband decides it is a good time to bring another woman into the situation. Lupe can't really give him the boot because she needs him to take care of her. Nightmare!

    Are these people on welfare? It's rare that we see someone going to work. If I were in the bed, there's no one to feed me. They are all at work or school. That's the part I don't understand. Lupe's husband seemed capable of holding a job.
  • Zombella
    Zombella Posts: 491 Member
    I really like the show. Sometimes it makes me really sad. There was one episode awhile ago that really shocked me because I sawe a lot of myself in the woman shown.
  • RainDrops930
    RainDrops930 Posts: 46 Member
    Love that show! I've never been morbidly obese, but I have been overweight, and I constantly struggle with food addiction. It makes me happy to see people taking control of their lives and really trying to change.

    I particularly like Melissa and Zsalynn, they were very inspirational. I agree that Penny's story made me sad and a bit angry. Even her son was not enough to motivate her. I think a mental health professional is definitely what she needs, because her lack of motivation is really a front for something much deeper. However, *most* people on that show end up losing weight, and that is great to see.
  • AmazonMayan
    AmazonMayan Posts: 1,168 Member
    I saw Lupe's show last night. I really don't like her husband. He didn't seem to care he was caught or be embarrassed about it.

    In the beginning she said he couldn't work because he was her caregiver, but what about while she was spending so much time in the hospital? They came across quite poor and maybe him working temporarily messes up their welfare. I don't know. I would never want to see her lose help before she can help herself.

    I had mixed feelings about last night. I just hope she is still making progress
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    I'm going to repeat what I said in this thread back in February:
    In my opinion, it's a modern-day freakshow. I don't mean that to be unkind to the people involved in it, but that's the purpose of the people who make and produce these kinds of reality TV.

    In today's freakshows you're not supposed to gape like yokels at the people on exhibit. That's so early 20th century. Instead you're supposed to be moved to pity, or outrage, or whatever emotion the producers wish to foster.

    In my opinion, of course.
  • strelitzia4
    strelitzia4 Posts: 11 Member
    100df wrote: »
    Are these people on welfare? It's rare that we see someone going to work. If I were in the bed, there's no one to feed me. They are all at work or school. That's the part I don't understand. Lupe's husband seemed capable of holding a job.

    Most of them are disabled and get SSI. I believe obesity counts as a disability when the person is unable to handle everyday tasks like taking care of themselves.
    The show stated that the husband didn't work hecause he was a full-time caregiver.

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