My 600 Pound Life?
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Well, I watched last night and wow!
I guess what was shocking to me was the level of manipulation and dysfunctional family dynamics that exists in regards to getting food for them.
That doctor is one brave soul to do that kind of surgery on people that are that severely obese. It cannot be easy to do that sort of surgery and recovery monitoring.0 -
Im not much of a TV person but I have caught the show a couple of times. I cant stand watching it for more than a few minutes once they start with the reasons they are obese. The whole traumatic life experience/something happened when they were children/ etc etc. Maybe Im cold, ok no I know I am cold, but blaming it on something that happens in your life pisses me off. Bad things happen, suck it up and get on with your life. Dont waste it eating yourself to death. I did watch a documentary called Fat and Back that was quite good0
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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"
That show "My strange addiction" creeps me out. Especially the one where the woman was eating her dead husband's ashes! WHAT?????????? GROSS!0 -
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"
That show "My strange addiction" creeps me out. Especially the one where the woman was eating her dead husband's ashes! WHAT?????????? GROSS!
OMG, that show makes me want to hurl. I can't watch that train wreck.
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So, I finally saw the Penny episode yesterday. Boy, oh boy!0
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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"
That show "My strange addiction" creeps me out. Especially the one where the woman was eating her dead husband's ashes! WHAT?????????? GROSS!
I know!!! There was a woman who ate dryer sheets, a man who was having an intimate (yes - real intimate) relationship with his car, another guy who had intimate relationships with pool blow up toys, a young woman who injested fabreeze air freshener, a girl who liked to dress like a baby (she even slept in a crib, wore diapers and drank from a bottle).
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I watched a few episodes one night months ago. It made me feel sick to my stomach. Hmmmm - maybe watching would be good motivation when I find myself in the kitchen elbow-deep into something I shouldn't be eating. I do watch hoarders when I need to get busy on house cleaning but don't want to, and it motivates me. Thanks for the suggestion!0
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I prefer this show to My Fat Fabulous Life (I think I got that right). At least My 600lb Life shows a gritty reality with people fighting to change. Sometimes it's hard to watch them lie to themselves and to watch their loved ones enable and endanger them, but it's better than watching someone who seems to think it's funny to be fat. Don't get me wrong, I think Whitney's personality is ... zesty, but I think it's fake, too. I think it's a cover-up for how insecure, sad, and horrible she really feels. I don't think it's healthy to put that on T.V. and promote it as positivity.
No matter how much we think we've got it figured out, we will never truly understand the human psyche. I truly feel for those people. It's hard for me to watch sometimes, but when they triumph, that's amazing! When they look at the scale and smile, I'm right there with them. That's got to be a wonderful feeling, watching those numbers decline.0 -
I watched Penny's episode and update yesterday. The only thing holding her back is herself and her excuses. I was disgusted by her attitude and her treatment of others.0
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tracyannk28 wrote: »happyfeetrebel1 wrote: »Now I'm curious, is there somewhere I can watch this without having cable? Having been morbidly obese, seeing others' reactions to it is interesting to me...not in a freak show way, but in a 'this was my life' way...
Maybe YouTube?
Nope, they keep that locked down. Unlike a lot of other series, you can't find this one on Youtube. I've looked.
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crystalstinson7 wrote: »I prefer this show to My Fat Fabulous Life (I think I got that right). At least My 600lb Life shows a gritty reality with people fighting to change. Sometimes it's hard to watch them lie to themselves and to watch their loved ones enable and endanger them, but it's better than watching someone who seems to think it's funny to be fat. Don't get me wrong, I think Whitney's personality is ... zesty, but I think it's fake, too. I think it's a cover-up for how insecure, sad, and horrible she really feels. I don't think it's healthy to put that on T.V. and promote it as positivity.
No matter how much we think we've got it figured out, we will never truly understand the human psyche. I truly feel for those people. It's hard for me to watch sometimes, but when they triumph, that's amazing! When they look at the scale and smile, I'm right there with them. That's got to be a wonderful feeling, watching those numbers decline.
I suspect My Fat Fabulous Life is going to curve into the beloved American 'sin and repent' track sooner rather than later. I enjoy the show, and I am rooting for her to get fit and not get diabetes, but I feel it's a little manipulative.0 -
I don't quite understand it...they make some of them lose weight for surgery...they do it...soooo tell them "another stone or 2"...and keep doing it. If they can lose some, they clearly have the skills to lose the rest.
And those that are bed ridden... DO. NOT. FEED. THE. ELEPHANT.
What are they gonna do?? Shout cuz you gave em salad not KFC? Go out! Might motivate em to do something about it if they're being refused the naughty snacks/giant 18 supersized McDs meals etc! The feeders are as bad!!0 -
crystalstinson7 wrote: »No matter how much we think we've got it figured out, we will never truly understand the human psyche. I truly feel for those people. It's hard for me to watch sometimes, but when they triumph, that's amazing! When they look at the scale and smile, I'm right there with them. That's got to be a wonderful feeling, watching those numbers decline.
That's how I feel. I've loved watching the updates when the determined people have just kept plugging away, with their lives getting better, pound by pound. I'm not ashamed to admit I cried with Olivia when she tried on her first pair of jeans in many years and they fit.
The ones in denial (e.g. Penny, Pauline), well, I just feel sad for them and the people around them.
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Penny's story and Pauline's story both infuriated me. I feel so bad for both of their children.
I read somewhere that Pauline has spent a good portion of her life making money off of her weight doing fetish work and other stuff. This could be a huge reason for her refusal to cooperate (though I'm not justifying it) since even though it is killing her, it has been her livelihood in the past. Still ridiculous to me and her excuses make me want to puke.0 -
I watched all of the the shows yesterday, they motivate me not to become complacent. While watching I became angry at the enablers who keep getting the food are doing the chores for them and then a fear set over me...... I do that. I will call my older son or my husband to get the babies bottle or change him, or to bring me something from the kitchen, etc..... I am making them my enablers and I am avoiding physical activity. Without realizing it I was potentially setting myself up for a horrible future. Yeah, I'm no were near the size of these people but I'm sure at some point in their lives they were simply overweight and not super morbidly obese and over time, with the help of their enablers and poor diet, the weight crept on and lead to their current state. I'm thankful to this show for making me aware of a fault within myself.0
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My Strange Addiction and Hoarders are simply too disgusting for me to watch. Anyone who could live in a home infested with vermin, is beyond me.
I do think that the psychological part of severe obesity needs to be incorporated into a treatment plan for recovery from food addiction, and definitely a component of family therapy needs to be included. Surgery is not an answer. It is a short term fix. I think a full scale psych evaluation should be included in the assessment prior to surgery.0 -
softblondechick wrote: »My Strange Addiction and Hoarders are simply too disgusting for me to watch. Anyone who could live in a home infested with vermin, is beyond me.
I do think that the psychological part of severe obesity needs to be incorporated into a treatment plan for recovery from food addiction, and definitely a component of family therapy needs to be included. Surgery is not an answer. It is a short term fix. I think a full scale psych evaluation should be included in the assessment prior to surgery.
I agree. My mom worked with a woman who had had four gastric bypass surgeries. FOUR. She undid every single one of them by overeating. The day before her last surgery, she went to BK and ate two Whoppers with cheese and a large fry.
This woman was a nurse at the same hospital where my mom worked as a nurse. Also, I went to school with her children. They were always poor and didn't have proper clothes or other things the other kids had. Presumably because their selfish mother used all of their money to have those wasteful surgeries.
It was very sad.0 -
I saw a show the other night, it might have been a repeat but it's called "My Weight is Killing Me", basically the same as My 600 lb life. Anyway there was a young woman named Tiffany who was totally alone and so so obese and they had to turn her down because she wouldn't have had anyone to help her after surgery. It was one of the saddest things I've seen and I'm still thinking about her.
Aww, that's terrible! Couldn't she has gotten a home health aide or something for a while? I don't know, I know they don't have those services anywhere.
Sad!
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I watch it occasionally for motivation and to scare the crap out of myself. I know not everyone feels bad for them...they did it to themselves, blah, blah, blah but I know from personal experience that weight can be a really slippery slope. In 2 years I quit smoking, was laid off from my job, depressed, out of work for 7 months, and gained like 60 lbs. That is after already having gained too much weight in the 6-8 years before. I hate where I am at right now and I am so mad at myself. For these 600lb + people it is really hard to pick yourself up and dust yourself off when you can hardly move or breath or take care of yourself. It's hard enough for me to do it now and I am no where close to them.
Just maybe have a little sympathy for other human beings that are suffering. Whether or not you agree with what led to that suffering.0 -
bunnywestley81 wrote: »I don't quite understand it...they make some of them lose weight for surgery...they do it...soooo tell them "another stone or 2"...and keep doing it. If they can lose some, they clearly have the skills to lose the rest.
And those that are bed ridden... DO. NOT. FEED. THE. ELEPHANT.
What are they gonna do?? Shout cuz you gave em salad not KFC? Go out! Might motivate em to do something about it if they're being refused the naughty snacks/giant 18 supersized McDs meals etc! The feeders are as bad!!
You didn't have to call them "elephants". Very rude and unnecessary.0 -
crystalstinson7 wrote: »No matter how much we think we've got it figured out, we will never truly understand the human psyche. I truly feel for those people. It's hard for me to watch sometimes, but when they triumph, that's amazing! When they look at the scale and smile, I'm right there with them. That's got to be a wonderful feeling, watching those numbers decline.
That's how I feel. I've loved watching the updates when the determined people have just kept plugging away, with their lives getting better, pound by pound. I'm not ashamed to admit I cried with Olivia when she tried on her first pair of jeans in many years and they fit.
The ones in denial (e.g. Penny, Pauline), well, I just feel sad for them and the people around them.
I absolutely love Zsalynn's story...she has such a powerful outlook on her life, and I'm so glad she cut out the negativity in her life and has formed a better relationship with her daughter.
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Awe it's gone 0
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Hard to watch. It certainly has a motivation factor, but it is difficult to see people who are clearly in addiction with families who are codependent.0
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There should be a link to watch directly on youtube.tat2cookie wrote: »Awe it's gone
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tat2cookie wrote: »Awe it's gone
Pauline's video reaction? No it's still there, they just won't let it play embedded from MFP so you have to click the link
Oh nooz they won't give her the additional 18 lb loss! A 500 lb woman who's had gastric bypass quibbling over 18 lbs. talk to me when they won't credit you for 180! Talking about she wanted her son to get paid to be her caretaker so long as he's doing it, anyway. WHAT! He's a young man. Her only freakin goal should be letting him go find what to do with his life and her to become independent of him. She said physical therapy was only mentioned once or some such. Why even wait for their phone call. If I need a diagnosis or otherwise something to do with my health and I haven't heard from the people supposed to call me, I'd be tracking *them* down! I could only watch four minutes of this drivel. Don't know how TLC twisted the show to make things juicier but the proof is in her own current weight and in her words and the way she still chooses to live her life
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I watched Pauline's episode last night. I feel like Dr Now basically screwed her son over - he should have let her be to die sooner and set the poor kid free. He hardly speaks, poor kid.0
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I see these people as psychologically, "Big Babies", stuck in a perpetual desire to have immediate gratification in terms of food, and to stay home, in bed, and be tended. They need someone to do everything for them, bathe, wipe their butt, they don't work, leave the house..only one worked, she was a dispatcher from home. The others just sat. And ate.
There is a complete lack of motivation to do anything, unless it is food driven. And I have noticed many of these super size people are delayed in social skills.0 -
softblondechick wrote: »I see these people as psychologically, "Big Babies", stuck in a perpetual desire to have immediate gratification in terms of food, and to stay home, in bed, and be tended. They need someone to do everything for them, bathe, wipe their butt, they don't work, leave the house..only one worked, she was a dispatcher from home. The others just sat. And ate.
There is a complete lack of motivation to do anything, unless it is food driven. And I have noticed many of these super size people are delayed in social skills.
I agree that most of them are 'stunted' and because of their enablers are basically acting like and being treated as small children.
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I am half way through the Betty Jo episode, and I have to just say it amazes me how many of these people walk around bare foot outside
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