I think the most loathsome is either Steven Assanti or James “muh leygs” King. James managed to gain 120lbs in a month and 60lbs in a week. Steven wasted everyone’s time for years, threw his own urine at doctors, used taxpayer money to score opioids and STILL managed to get surgery somehow.
You missed my 'favorite' Steven moment, when he pissed off that nice house-visit nurse until she quit and he called the police on her when she tried to take back the TV her company lent him.
I had the chance to watch James K's follow-up episode, which I didn't know existed until recently, and I think his wife is a monster as well. After awhile she didn't even bother putting on an act of shame when Dr. Now called her out for sneaking food to James K. Dr. Now suspected that in the end, she was using James K for his SSI benefits. It should be noted that she was one of the few people on the show that Dr. Now instantly seemed to hate, dunking on her almost immediately after she arrived at the hospital.
Not that James K is a saint either, because he sure as hell isn't.
Using him for his SSI benefits... Spending all day waiting on an 800 lb baby who must take monster sized dumps that you get to clean up and whose legs are covered in festering blisters, pus and mushrooms, in a filthy trailer? Payoff seems (cough) inadequate. That makes giving handies all day seem like a great job. At least you can take the night off and don't have to sleep on the floor.
Using him for his SSI benefits... Spending all day waiting on an 800 lb baby who must take monster sized dumps that you get to clean up and whose legs are covered in festering blisters, pus and mushrooms, in a filthy trailer? Payoff seems (cough) inadequate. That makes giving handies all day seem like a great job. At least you can take the night off and don't have to sleep on the floor.
there was something mentally fucked up with her, for sure. She lied a lot more shamelessly than most people, and lied constantly, and didn't let the threat of being investigated by the state bother her much at all. Screams cluster B to me. She might have enjoyed his suffering for all we know.
I think the most loathsome is either Steven Assanti or James “muh leygs” King. James managed to gain 120lbs in a month and 60lbs in a week. Steven wasted everyone’s time for years, threw his own urine at doctors, used taxpayer money to score opioids and STILL managed to get surgery somehow.
James King. By far. Pulling your daughter out of school that close to graduating with good grades so she could wipe that fat useless fuck, tssk tssk. Assanti had no kids to abuse, even though he abused others enough. Even though there is no excuse, people in these lines of work know they will get some obnoxious as fuck patients. Pilots might crash even though they do all to avoid it, cops might get shot even though they do all to avoid it, nurses may dodge urine once or twice in their career even though they would like not to. It might be situtations you see seldomly, but you know they might happen.
there was something mentally fucked up with her, for sure. She lied a lot more shamelessly than most people, and lied constantly, and didn't let the threat of being investigated by the state bother her much at all. Screams cluster B to me. She might have enjoyed his suffering for all we know.
You missed my 'favorite' Steven moment, when he pissed off that nice house-visit nurse until she quit and he called the police on her when she tried to take back the TV her company lent him.
I had the chance to watch James K's follow-up episode, which I didn't know existed until recently, and I think his wife is a monster as well. After awhile she didn't even bother putting on an act of shame when Dr. Now called her out for sneaking food to James K. Dr. Now suspected that in the end, she was using James K for his SSI benefits. It should be noted that she was one of the few people on the show that Dr. Now instantly seemed to hate, dunking on her almost immediately after she arrived at the hospital.
Not that James K is a saint either, because he sure as hell isn't.
I think both of them are borderline exceptional. I'm willing to cut Lisa a little more slack because to me she doesn't seem like a bad person, just someone who has no backbone whatsoever. Like most spouses on this show, she has no self-esteem and was abused by her prior partners. James is definitely emotionally abusive, and have little doubt that he wasn't physically abusive when he was mobile.
By the time of the follow-up episode, I think she just snapped and decided to just let James eat himself to death.
I remember seeing on another site someone doing the math to see how many calories you'd have to consume for that to be possible. Here's their work.
It really is a medical marvel that some of these people are still alive.
I'm trying to work out how he managed to gain 135 pounds in, what was it, 2 months? Being that big gives him a higher base metabolism than a fit person or even a more moderately obese person. It's like a skilled marathon runner who loses the race even after getting a 2 mile head start. I mean, he has to eat a ton of food just to remain that fat, and a tremendous amount to gain so much so fast. I went a little off the rails in November and December of last year. Ate REALLY poorly. But I still only gained about 20 pounds (from 285 to 305).
Lemme try to do the math with some rough estimates of base metabolism...
The estimated metabolism for a man who is 750 pounds, 5' 11" tall (I took a wild guess at the height) and 45 years old (another guess.... I think they mentioned something happening when he was 42 and that it was only a few years prior). It estimate 5342 calories base metabolism. To gain 1 pound, you need to eat 3500 calories in excess of what you burn.
James gets a metabolic balance, over 60 days, of 320,520 calories (5342 x 60). This consumption would leave him roughly equal in weight, and was probably about what he was eating after Dr. Now gave him his last chance.
135 pound gain requires an excess of 472,500 calories. Which means over 2 months, James consumed about 793,000 calories total. Spread out over 60 days, you're averaging about 13,217 calories per day.
That's a lot of food! To put this in a little perspective:
An entire extra large cheese pizza from Papa John's is 2,360 calories.
An entire 16 piece bucket of extra crispy chicken from KFC is 3,900 calories. A large mac and cheese is 560 calories, coleslaw is 630, and mashed potatoes with gravy is 560.
A McDonald's Grand Mac, with Large Fries and Large Coke is 1,670 calories
You could eat ALL the food I mentioned above and still only be at 9,680 calories.
I think both of them are borderline exceptional. I'm willing to cut Lisa a little more slack because to me she doesn't seem like a bad person, just someone who has no backbone whatsoever. Like most spouses on this show, she has no self-esteem and was abused by her prior partners. James is definitely emotionally abusive, and have little doubt that he wasn't physically abusive when he was mobile.
By the time of the follow-up episode, I think she just snapped and decided to just let James eat himself to death.
I remember seeing on another site someone doing the math to see how many calories you'd have to consume for that to be possible. Here's their work.
It really is a medical marvel that some of these people are still alive.
I'm trying to work out how he managed to gain 135 pounds in, what was it, 2 months? Being that big gives him a higher base metabolism than a fit person or even a more moderately obese person. It's like a skilled marathon runner who loses the race even after getting a 2 mile head start. I mean, he has to eat a ton of food just to remain that fat, and a tremendous amount to gain so much so fast. I went a little off the rails in November and December of last year. Ate REALLY poorly. But I still only gained about 20 pounds (from 285 to 305).
Lemme try to do the math with some rough estimates of base metabolism...
The estimated metabolism for a man who is 750 pounds, 5' 11" tall (I took a wild guess at the height) and 45 years old (another guess.... I think they mentioned something happening when he was 42 and that it was only a few years prior). It estimate 5342 calories base metabolism. To gain 1 pound, you need to eat 3500 calories in excess of what you burn.
James gets a metabolic balance, over 60 days, of 320,520 calories (5342 x 60). This consumption would leave him roughly equal in weight, and was probably about what he was eating after Dr. Now gave him his last chance.
135 pound gain requires an excess of 472,500 calories. Which means over 2 months, James consumed about 793,000 calories total. Spread out over 60 days, you're averaging about 13,217 calories per day.
That's a lot of food! To put this in a little perspective:
An entire extra large cheese pizza from Papa John's is 2,360 calories.
An entire 16 piece bucket of extra crispy chicken from KFC is 3,900 calories. A large mac and cheese is 560 calories, coleslaw is 630, and mashed potatoes with gravy is 560.
A McDonald's Grand Mac, with Large Fries and Large Coke is 1,670 calories
You could eat ALL the food I mentioned above and still only be at 9,680 calories.
During the followup episode Lisa was smiling as Dr Now told her he was going to die. She did not just snap, she was a pure sadist about it. She kept bringing him food even in the hospital. That is a methodical and thought out thing. She did not comply when at home with his wishes, or simply did not stop him when he wanted mass amounts of gravy, she sneaked it in past the hospital staff to let him die.
I know calling it murder is perhaps a bit far because he started this road himself, but I was seriously asking in how much more she is actually responsible for his inevitable death than any other oblivious caretaker. James is too dumb to live and is a big fat crybaby that will lash out, probably physically, if he does not get his food. Probably why she does it. Still though. Could just leave his dumb ass.
It is not just Lisa and James, Schenee's husband also snuck in food for his pet pig. Same question. When actively undermining medical treatment (supervised diet) what happens when these people die in those beds? If I did that by feeding mass amounts of grapefruit juice to a suicidal psycho because I know that makes the meds not work, or by screwing with the oxygen supply of an elderly lady, they would come after me. I hope.
The actual comments on that video, a knowledged millionaire with intelligments that went to college collecting disability checks while in the hospital for obesity related conditions doing food challenges after she got booted from My 600lb Life for being too umb to follow simple diet instructions. If her channel grows and she is on the same journey as Foodie Booty and Big AL she may need her own thread. If she lives long enough that is.
The woman on last night’s show, despite being approved for surgery and getting down into the 400s, died of a heart attack because her body had already taken too much damage.
OK, I'm only at the cab ride to hospital fiasco part. BUT...
1. That poor fucking cabbie. Imagine starting your regular ass shift and having it end like that. As far as I could tell it was a normal maxicab, not a medical transport.
2. That EMS team though... fucking heroes. Can't imagine how hard/awkward it would have been to get a 720lb woman wedged between car seats out of that situation.
The episode started out a little eye-rolly but then it leveled out to something good then it got really sad. What made it sting the most was that she was just on the phone with college admissions the prior scene when she had the heart attack.
Are they doing "where are they now" episodes now? I saw the episode after Kelly was chronicling Milla and Charity's third years and I hadn't seen those yet (I saw the second year journeys).
The episode started out a little eye-rolly but then it leveled out to something good then it got really sad. What made it sting the most was that she was just on the phone with college admissions the prior scene when she had the heart attack.
Are they doing "where are they now" episodes now? I saw the episode after Kelly was chronicling Milla and Charity's third years and I hadn't seen those yet (I saw the second year journeys).
If I remember correctly, he said this to Steven Assanti but it's pretty good advice in general.
Speaking of weird things, we've seen people eat a lot of questionable shit on this show, but Kelly pulling old pizza out of a dirty drawer in her bedroom was a first.
This week's episode was really sad, she finally started getting her life on track and made so much progress, but the damage had already been done. This is the episode that should scare the everloving fuck out of Amberlynn and spur her to start taking her health seriously, but with her winning combination of denial and sassy arrogance I'm not holding my breath.
Even TamTam, who is currently posting animal-filter Snapchats from the hospital with captions like "I caught the gout LOL" and casually mentioning she's been put in some kind of rehab and on a 1800-cal cardiac diet, doesn't seem to really comprehend that she's not going to be around much longer.
It was a sad outcome for Kelly, but it was a sobering look at how much irreversible damage can be done by slowly eating your way into immobility.
Also, I legitimately cannot understand how "Owww Mah Laayyygs" James K. is still alive. He must have made some kind of unholy pact with the God of Eggrolls.
Also, I legitimately cannot understand how "Owww Mah Laayyygs" James K. is still alive. He must have made some kind of unholy pact with the God of Eggrolls.
I legit wonder why they did not cut the laygs of already. They looked like something a fisherman accidently gets in his net back when he was on the show and tissue was already dying on it. They will go all Booger1488 on him and he will have to lose them at some point, unless he loses weight and we all know how that will pan out.
I legit wonder why they did not cut the laygs of already. They looked like something a fisherman accidently gets in his net back when he was on the show and tissue was already dying on it. They will go all Booger1488 on him and he will have to lose them at some point, unless he loses weight and we all know how that will pan out.
From what I understand the only reason his legs aren't amputated yet is because he's too big for surgery. The anesthesiologist really has their work cut for them working on these patients, and James is even bigger than the people Dr Now works on. He's fucked if his legs worsen (which they certainly will).
Also, I legitimately cannot understand how "Owww Mah Laayyygs" James K. is still alive. He must have made some kind of unholy pact with the God of Eggrolls.
It's baffling me, too. He just refuses to die. He's like Assanti only he doesn't have the excuse of his bitterness and hatefulness keeping him alive. The man's a medical miracle.
From what I understand the only reason his legs aren't amputated yet is because he's too big for surgery. The anesthesiologist really has their work cut for them working on these patients, and James is even bigger than the people Dr Now works on. He's fucked if his legs worsen (which they certainly will).
Are they really that bad? Not saying they aren't-they're horrific, but is there really no chance of saving them? Let's say that hypothetically James changes his ways, and gets down to a healthy, or at least respectable weight. Would there be any chance of his legs ever getting better?
