My 600 pound Life - literal and figurative cows.

[Sanshain]

3). And finally, amoral fat fetishists who couldn't give a fuck what happens to their partner because of their fetish (a little rarer on this show), but I'll never forget this one episode where the husband pulls over right after a doctors appointment and tries to tempt his wife with fast food. Then he starts telling her he doesn't find her attractive anymore because shes's gone from 600 lbs to 400lbs and keeps complaining. By the end of her story she was single.

Do you know what episode that was?

binge eating is an eating disorder. like anorexia or bulimia. they're all basically addictions in a way, there's some underlying mental health issue or major trauma that needs to be fixed before they can stop the compulsive behaviors, in this case, shoveling lard into their face holes continually

Wouldn't it make more sense for them to see a psychologist instead of a weight-loss doctor, then? I see a lot of this kind of stuff on these programs, but it seems like the standard procedure is 'show up, tell patient they have X months to live, give them diet sheet, leave for a while, come back and REEE when nothing has changed.' I know people who have eating disorders in real life, so I know first-hand that the best approach is a mixture of psychological and physiological therapy.

 

[MetalParakeet]

Go outside and walk.

Been there, done that this morning.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

I've been trying to narrow some of the saddest children on this show. James K's daughter is pretty bad because not only did she have to leave school to care for his useless ass, but she just looks so tired and worn down by her circumstances.

Ashley is married to a truck driver and so she uses her very young son to do all household chores. The boy is so young his arms are too short to reach into the washing machine. He has to get inside of it to pull the clothes out. Also he does everything with this soldier like diligence like he's completely use to doing this by himself.

Luckily she stuck to the program.

Spoiler: Full Episode

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LUpTwXOYETY

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Is it just me, or is Ashley's face swollen in the right side (our left)?

Also, my kids are lazy as hell! How does she get Patrick to do all those chores???? Lol and she talks shit about her mom abandoning her for drugs, but she is doing the same thing to her son, but with food.

At least she allows her son and husband to eat as well. When her man asked her after she got done telling him about peop,e staring "what we fixin' ta eat?" Wow. I bet her husband would be the same size if the DOT didn't insist on health screenings to get your commercial license. My Chief Bedwarmer was a truck driver for a minute, and it is SO EASY to gain weight. You always are eating out, the food at the truck stops aren't healthy (if healthy, it isn't good or plentiful), and you can't leave your load to exersize unless you are working teams. His weight is understandable.

I pity that little boy. She is doing the same to him that her mom did to her, and she doesn't even see it.

 

[Lunatic Fringe]

Is it just me, or is Ashley's face swollen in the right side (our left)?

Yeah I thought that too. Obese people find it much harder to sleep on their back. Super obese people usually have sleep apnoea too. As a result sleeping on their side is easier as can cpap machines. I'm wondering if her face is squashed as a result of sleeping on one side. Her face is pretty shocking. Her features are so distorted.

 

[Foltest]

This is so disgusting. How can you end up at this stage? Fat people like this make want to vomit.

 

[Xenomorph]

This is so disgusting. How can you end up at this stage? Fat people like this make want to vomit.

It gets even more disturbing, James when he was given cheat food sounded like a baby when he was eating it, it was all baby talk. You can hear it and see it in the way he was acting while eating his fatty foods. Him and his gf take on more of a Mother/Son relationship. It was pretty sickening.

 

[Bugaboo]

This show's great because after I watch it I won't want to eat any kind of unhealthy shit for like a week.

But yeah, when it gets to the point where fatty mcfatterson can't get through the door and their family keeps bring them big macs the family members become equally at fault. Unless it's their kids they're making get the big macs, then there's some weird emotional abuse going on where the kid knows their parent is dying from injecting bacon grease into their eyeballs but something keeps them bringing the shit so their crazy ass dad/mum won't yell at them

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

This show's great because after I watch it I won't want to eat any kind of unhealthy shit for like a week.

But yeah, when it gets to the point where fatty mcfatterson can't get through the door and their family keeps bring them big macs the family members become equally at fault. Unless it's their kids they're making get the big macs, then there's some weird emotional abuse going on where the kid knows their parent is dying from injecting bacon grease into their eyeballs but something keeps them bringing the shit so their crazy ass dad/mum won't yell at them

I completely agree
A person who, after their fat relative gets to the point where they can no longer leave the house or make it to the kitchen, continues to feed them at the same level or worse is no better then someone who commits domestic abuse (to a degree). Those Feeders have to know that their loved one is literally DYING because of their obesity and to continue to contribute to the problem is like handing a loaded gun to a suicidal person.

Look at it like this:

Donna has a husband who is a heroin addict. He is so sick and weak from his addiction he can no longer go out and score for himself. Donna decides to purchase his heroin and shoots him up herself.

Sam has a wife who is an adrenaline junkie. She broke her legs during a stunt and can't walk. But she really wants to surf at high tide at a certain beach. So he takes her, sets her up and paddles her out, and due to broken legs can't swim and drowns.

This is kind of an extreme case, but it is along the same lines. Can't they be charged with reckless endangerment? Assault with salt? Has ANYONE been charged or arrested in this kind of a situation?

 

[cuddle striker]

What did you think of James' legs? (If you watched the vid or snippits)
The orange thing is just a handcloth and his other leg looked worse.

it's shearing from friction, so the skin gets roughed up. like an Indian rope burn on a massive scale. THEN, because he's damp and clammy, a fungal infection (all that redness around the area) he's also got a staph infection, which is what the lumps and "drainage" are partly from.

add in edema from lying down at all times with so much fat on the body and that's why his legs are more swollen than his arms. water flows downhill. when they strap him into the table to move him, they put his legs together and I do not doubt at all that that was incredibly painful.

he's too huge and sick to take diuretics safely I think, so that pooled liquid in his legs will just get worse.

it also looks like there is a superficial yeast infection going on, on the surface of all of that, I think they're probably using chlorhexidine wipes on him to try to control that. that's probably systemic, it'll be in every skin fold on his body.


fascinating stuff

 

[cuddle striker]

In my opinion the enabler usually fall into three flavors on this show,

1). Person who keeps the fat husband/wife huge and bed bound by giving them anything they want so they can't leave. It makes them feel needed and gives their life purpose to have someone dependent on them.

2). Person mentally held hostage by the whale who screams and cries and threatens suicide if they leave. Any attempt to improve their situation will be met with screaming, crying until they cave. A lot of child enablers fall in this category because they feel they have to obey their parents. I'm always left with the sense we never see the worst of what they do to their loved ones on camera.

3). And finally, amoral fat fetishists who couldn't give a fuck what happens to their partner because of their fetish (a little rarer on this show), but I'll never forget this one episode where the husband pulls over right after a doctors appointment and tries to tempt his wife with fast food. Then he starts telling her he doesn't find her attractive anymore because shes's gone from 600 lbs to 400lbs and keeps complaining. By the end of her story she was single.

sorry to double post but there was ONE episode that wasn't like this. it was the white trucker dude with the black wife and step kids. they were so sad and angry when he was fat and he lost all the weight and did the whole thing and they were all happy again and the end was him apologizing to her and her forgiving him and them going on cute walks and taking the kids bowling and the kids were stoked.

I've watched all of these, I'm totally addicted to the weird wound stuff and I really prefer the episodes where the person can not really walk, if they're immobile I'm more interested to see what they do and I love it when the doctor gives them hell


and just like anorexics and bulimics they could die before psychology starts working so they've got to both at the same time. change the eating habits AND be in serious therapy. these people are verging on death, so the weight has to get addressed first right along with their mental health.
like, refeeding an anorexic doesn't cure them, it just keeps them alive a little longer. refeeding on a medical schedule AND having them in real one on one therapy, that's what works to treat these things.

 

[Slowboat to China]

Do you know what episode that was?

I think that was Zsalynn's episode. She's been discussed in the FA thread; IIRC, she married a guy who liked really, really big women, and when her weight got to the point where she couldn't care for their daughter any more, he mocked her for trying to slim down. And yes, he did wave fast food in front of her face. But her followup episode showed that she made it through, dumped him, and now she and her daughter are doing well.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

it's shearing from friction, so the skin gets roughed up. like an Indian rope burn on a massive scale. THEN, because he's damp and clammy, a fungal infection (all that redness around the area) he's also got a staph infection, which is what the lumps and "drainage" are partly from.

add in edema from lying down at all times with so much fat on the body and that's why his legs are more swollen than his arms. water flows downhill. when they strap him into the table to move him, they put his legs together and I do not doubt at all that that was incredibly painful.

he's too huge and sick to take diuretics safely I think, so that pooled liquid in his legs will just get worse.

it also looks like there is a superficial yeast infection going on, on the surface of all of that, I think they're probably using chlorhexidine wipes on him to try to control that. that's probably systemic, it'll be in every skin fold on his body.


fascinating stuff

Oh dear lawd. That is so nasty. Can you IMAGINE the smell? Like rotting flesh and BO, mixed with urine and shit. I bet that whole damn house smells the same, and that poor daughter must reek of it too. Dayum.

 

[wifflypuff]

I think that was Zsalynn's episode. She's been discussed in the FA thread; IIRC, she married a guy who liked really, really big women, and when her weight got to the point where she couldn't care for their daughter any more, he mocked her for trying to slim down. And yes, he did wave fast food in front of her face. But her followup episode showed that she made it through, dumped him, and now she and her daughter are doing well.

It's been glossed over in a lot of the episodes but quite a few of the women featured mention having met their men on BBW sites. The slowly dawning realization that they're nothing more than fetishes to these dudes as they lose the weight is heartbreaking.

 

[RI 360]

It's been glossed over in a lot of the episodes but quite a few of the women featured mention having met their men on BBW sites. The slowly dawning realization that they're nothing more than fetishes to these dudes as they lose the weight is heartbreaking.

I find it disturbing more than anything.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

Somebody the other day on the TLC site noticed that Penny (the biggest lolcow on the show) had markings where a pain reliever patch was:
http://disq.us/p/1gr1r7j

look during this episode when doctor now checks her stomach and lifts the tent she has on and you will see a fentanyl patch, a good sized one, and markings from old ones that were ripped off. [...]
i once was given a fentanyl patch by the doctor for severe pain from high blood sugar, just one patch, and it was no bigger than an inch by an inch. It was a very low dose and made me feel very "high". Penny's patch was at least 4 inches by 6 inches, a HUGE "cancer" dose. This is inappropriate, and i believe it clouds her thinking, preventing her from trying. There is no reason whatsoever for her to be on these patches, they are only for the worst cancer pain there is. Someone should investigate the doctor who is prescribing these for her

​

If this viewer saw the right thing, then these pain patches might be exaggerating Penny's craziness even more.

 

[Sanshain]

Somebody the other day on the TLC site noticed that Penny (the biggest lolcow on the show) had markings where a pain reliever patch was:
http://disq.us/p/1gr1r7j

look during this episode when doctor now checks her stomach and lifts the tent she has on and you will see a fentanyl patch, a good sized one, and markings from old ones that were ripped off. [...]
i once was given a fentanyl patch by the doctor for severe pain from high blood sugar, just one patch, and it was no bigger than an inch by an inch. It was a very low dose and made me feel very "high". Penny's patch was at least 4 inches by 6 inches, a HUGE "cancer" dose. This is inappropriate, and i believe it clouds her thinking, preventing her from trying. There is no reason whatsoever for her to be on these patches, they are only for the worst cancer pain there is. Someone should investigate the doctor who is prescribing these for her

​

If this viewer saw the right thing, then these pain patches might be exaggerating Penny's craziness even more.

Having had a relative who was on a very high dosage of opiates (arguably far, far too high a dosage for their condition, but that's complicated), I can agree with this. If she's on a dose as large as this, I don't doubt that depression, melancholy and general lethargy are going to be an issue. Of course, it's even worse in a morbidly obese person who already doesn't engage in much physical activity anyway.

 

[Xenomorph]

I have an idea, a bit controversial but I think it would stop the enablers at least. I think if someone is assuming one of these planets care, they should be billed for every hospital visit pertaining to their care. This for sure would stop them from giving fatty a cheeseburger if they know it could get them closer to a 20k bill from the local ER.

 

[purrings]

Wouldn't it make more sense for them to see a psychologist instead of a weight-loss doctor, then? I see a lot of this kind of stuff on these programs, but it seems like the standard procedure is 'show up, tell patient they have X months to live, give them diet sheet, leave for a while, come back and REEE when nothing has changed.' I know people who have eating disorders in real life, so I know first-hand that the best approach is a mixture of psychological and physiological therapy.

Dr. No is basically the only Doctor in the world willing to perform gastric bypass on people this big so I think the idea of the show is they hand them a golden ticket and see if they can pull themselves out of bed to retrieve it. If they get the bypass and go back to eating the old way it will kill them. So it makes sense to me to try to test their determination on their own.

But I see your point, it's little frustrating that in many episodes no one ever speaks to a therapist (at least on camera). Almost every patient on this show has some serious mental issues that they solve with food, and many of them have an enabler that will get in their way. Some families allude to the idea that they have hired a therapist to help the patient and other times they are recorded working with them.

 

[HickoryDickory]

It served James right that they only managed 300$-odd. Getting through that episode was difficult with his whiny baby voice... Lisa should've just given up in the end and focused on her daughter herself. She was run ragged and let herself get bossed around by a sponge. (Him insisting that she had to sleep with him, but on the floor was gross)

The lies of only keeping to 800 calories was idiotic, too. Fat slob was blubbering over fried rice.

 

[Xenomorph]

It served James right that they only managed 300$-odd. Getting through that episode was difficult with his whiny baby voice... Lisa should've just given up in the end and focused on her daughter herself. She was run ragged and let herself get bossed around by a sponge. (Him insisting that she had to sleep with him, but on the floor was gross)

The lies of only keeping to 800 calories was idiotic, too. Fat slob was blubbering over fried rice.

"BUT ITS FRIED!"

that logic.