My 600 pound Life - literal and figurative cows.

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Season 9, Episode 6

Well, here we are once again. Gather round, children, for tonight's tale of woe (and maybe redemption? Seasons's not shaping up with a lot of happy endings this time around.).

Tonight's contestant isssss Kenae Dolphus of Nacogdoches, TX, 41 years old, and ominously, weight unknown. I'm not doing that fucking random apostrophe on her name, because fuck that, she can earn it.

Obligatory wake up and bathroom scenes. She sits on the toilet and her niece and nephew have to help her sit down, have to wash her, and help her back up. And then it's time to waddle back HOLYSHIT THEY NEED A BIGGER BOAT FOR HER TO SIT IN to the bedroom to get dressed. Then, another heave up to waddle into the living room, where she has an entire table to herself. Breakfast? Corndogs with fucking fakeass maple syrup, giant buns, sausage biscuits that she adds jam to.

Obligatory tale of sorrow and trauma. 150 pounds by the time she was ten. 230-240 pounds by the time she was 14 because everyone tried to make her feel ok about being a fucking landwhale. I'm 350+ pounds at 17 when she graduated. She got a job at a nursing home, she ate out all the time. She has a MASSIVE second set of boobs. She started dating her boyfriend when she was enormous and they got MARRIED and apparently she figured they'd have kids, etc.,, and move on with life and I gotta tell you girl, that's just fucking delusional. And there it is: mom died. so instead of dealing with it like a fucking adult, she just stuffed shit in her mouth. She's all emotional about not being able to visit her mother's grave because she can't walk, yet here she is, chowing down on a giant plate of wings and other shit - looks like nachos. Looks like she considers that tub of sour cream all her own, because she keeps dipping her spoon in it and touching her food with it.

Wah, life has no joy, it isn't even existing, acknowledges that the family can't do a lot of things because of her, and I can hear Dr Gnome's questions already: you're 41, what the fuck?

And a sheet cake. And a small cake. She still has room for a hunk of cake that she eats with her fingers. Gross. Blah blah, I need to change what I do or I die, etc. Yep, heard this tune before, sis.

Ad break at :20 into the first hour.

And back!
Month 1

They are about to hit the road to Houston. Her husband and sis-in-law are going to help her get there. They're going to try to go to Houston and come back - day trip! Yeah, prayer will be a big fucking help.

She thinks Dr Gnome will see her and just bend over backwards to help her. Girl, that ain't the way this works. At least they have a ramp outside the front door. She got a shelf ass like Big Al! They have a big ol SUV that she uses a little kiddie stool to step into. And they're off to Houston! That's prey fast, as episodes go. She's gonna "be in the moment" and try to resist the siren call of sweet, sweet fast food. Says she's "starving" and girl I am going to flat out say you are not, in fact, starving. Ah, first "overwhelmed" sighting. Sounds like she's having a panic attack, which is not exactly unexpected, since she's about to be called on the carpet by Dr Gnome.

And here we are, wow, before the bottom of the hour. Time to exit the vehicle, which is a bit of a process. And of course: no fucking shoes. Oh wait, I just couldn't see the flip flops under the fat. So, points for shoes!

Ad break at exactly :30 into the first hour, with the three of them siting in an empty waiting room.

She's worried about what Dr Gnome says. Good.

Woo, the weigh in music is playing! My guess: 620 ellbees
Current weight: 614

"I guess that's some good news, because I've only gained a pound (from her last weigh in, whenever that was, when she was at 613)."

I'm gonna say that isn't spectacular.

Dr Gnome! "How y'all doin'?" I am doing GREAT, Dr Gnome, thanks for asking!

Dr Gnome telling Kenae she needs to lose 500 pounds to get to a normal weight, and asking her what she's willing to do to lose the weight.

The usual: I'm gonna die, blah blah, we've heard it all.

She just says she buys all the groceries, does all the meal planning - seriously? Corn dogs and buns and biscuits for breakfast is a fucking plan? It would be for someone on occasion for someone who wasn't 600+ pounds.

Now she's saying "We could choose better options" then corrects herself to "I could choose better options" after a look from Dr Gnome. He says if she gets sick, or injured, or anything, that's probably going to end her. Now for the diet and allowable foods. This whole extended family back in this tiny ass trailer is in for a surprise, but looks like all of them could use a change except for the old mother in law that lives with them, she's fairly tiny and also in a wheelchair. She says she's willing to do whatever it takes (none of them are, really, at least not at first), and it will all come down to her valuing her life and giving up the things she wants. Which is pretty much a life lesson for anyone, in my book.

Goal: Lose 75 pound in two munt.

Ad break at :42 as they pull out to head back home.

And we're back! Month 2

She says it's been harder than she thought. No shit, you don't say. She says Dr Gnome's exercise regimen didn't account for how much pain she has in her legs (OWMYLEG) so she's been walking to the car and back - that is, down he ramp and back - and that wipes her out. I guess I'll give her a point for trying.

LOL - the change in menu was a slow transition because they still had all the old groceries to use and she couldn't expect all them to go cold turkey and they shouldn't be subjected to her diet. WHY THE FUCK NOT, LOOK AROUND YOU. The older kid or maybe that's the sis in law brings home fast food, and she gives in from time to time and we know where this is headed, scale-wise. She knows she an do better and plans to do better this month and is trying very hard and NO YOU ARE NOT. You are making excuses, which is exactly what Dr Gnome is going to say when you've lost barely any weight.

Back to Houston for a weight in. I'm gonna say maybe a 15 pound loss, because that seems to be the bare minimum even when they half-ass the diet. But she's "very proud" of her progress, y'all.

Scale says: Ad break, haha - you didn't really think they'd give it to us before another ad, right?

Random thought, carried over from a previous ep: this show isn't going to end until Dr Gnome drops dead, and maybe not even then, because we have some almost infinite lake of whales to drag out each week. What a sad goddamned commentary on this country. And "Doctor" Phil can go fuck himself.

Three minutes left in the hour, so appears we'll get some bleedover here.

Scale says: 592 - 22 pounds down. Sad scale music they use for the fatties who don't make weight.

She's anxious that Dr Gnome will be upset - yeah - but says she tried "extremely hard". NO YOU DID NOT. You fucking said so on camera. JFC. Dr Gnome says WTF are you doing. She says she has made changes to the diet and not following it word for word. yeah, that's why you're 600 fucking pounds. You need to stop rationalizing this shit and get your shelf ass on board, because I guarantee you Dr Gnome is not whipping out the laparascope unless you do. oooh, she's getting mouthy with Dr Gnome, saying if she could do this herself, she wouldn't need him. Hey, don't be a dick to Dr Gnome. She's snapping at Dr Gnome, "You were making an assumption that I wasnt following the diet" - yeah, because you weren't, bitch. You are not earning that random fucking apostrophe in your name.

Wah wah, I had to do all this with food, and I had to work to fit in exercise - WTF? You don't do anything all goddamned day, that's the LITERAL definition of having time to do the minimal exercise that Dr Gnome wants. She wants some kind of fucking validation for the 22 pounds she lost. Grow up. Blah blah god, whatever. The supposed christians on this show tend to be some of the rudest fuckers. LOL, she says she can google his diet, she doesn't need him for that. But you can fucking get a lecture from him and a kick in the ass, because that's what you need. That's what DOCTORS (and coaches) DO.

He's telling her to stick to the fucking plan. New goal: 75 pound in two munt. And see a shrink. She's got that shitty, fake, smiley thing going on and it makes me want to punch her.

Hallway chat with Dr Gnome: she's got to take this seriously, because that's the only way it works.

That's a wrap on the first hour, :10 into the second hour, with her whining about all this shit instead of taking responsibility and saying she has faith, she has god, whatever, doesn't seem like your god is doing jack shit for you, eh?

We shall continue in the next post.
 
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Situation Type Deal Gorl said:
Obligatory tale of sorrow and trauma. 150 pounds by the time she was ten. 230-240 pounds by the time she was 14 because everyone tried to make her feel ok about being a fucking landwhale.
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I'm actually impressed that she has the self-awareness to understand that people trying to protect her feelings at the time damaged her in the long run.

Like, you don't have to be an ass about it, but acknowledging "Yes, you are overweight to a seriously unhealthy level, we need to do something about this so you don't suffer later on in life" is only going to help your kid. Pretending that a kid being 150 lbs by ten years old is perfectly okay is Not Helping.
 
QuokkaCaptain said:
I'm actually impressed that she has the self-awareness to understand that people trying to protect her feelings at the time damaged her in the long run.

Like, you don't have to be an ass about it, but acknowledging "Yes, you are overweight to a seriously unhealthy level, we need to do something about this so you don't suffer later on in life" is only going to help your kid. Pretending that a kid being 150 lbs by ten years old is perfectly okay is Not Helping.
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I can see an argument here like the one Yaba makes, that allowing your kid to blow up like this could be considered child abuse.
 
Leave it to the people on this show to take the ounce of credit I give them for self-awareness and toss it right back in my face. 😒

Dr. Now's not asking about what you did do because what you did do is not relevant- he told you to follow a specific diet, and you are not following the specific diet. You did not follow his instructions, but you still want a pat on the back for half-assing it.

If you're supposed to lose sixty and you lose fifty-two, he'll give you credit for at least getting close to the finish line. He's not going to give you credit for making it barely a third of the way there.

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I can see an argument here like the one Yaba makes, that allowing your kid to blow up like this could be considered child abuse.
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@Situation Type Deal Gorl Oh, definitely: There was this girl who died bed-bound as a result of obesity when she was about 13 (she was 680 lbs), and iirc the mother was convicted of child abuse afterwards. Naturally there are dozens of people still rushing to her defense and boo-hooing about how the mother's being unfairly blamed, but frankly you'll not find me sympathizing too much with a woman who allowed her daughter to eat herself to 680 lbs at 13 and, at the time of her death, was covered in bedsores and (edit: her) own feces. (ETA: The mother tried to claim- no joke- that at nearly 700 lbs the daughter "took care of her own hygeine").

Much as I hate Oprah, she did a bit on it in 1998 and it's one of the few concise things I can find:

 
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And we're back - in Houston, for some reason - to start therapy, and it's Dr Paradise again! Where is Dr Lola? Nothing against Dr Paradise, but Dr Lola has some terrific wigs!

Trauma time! See, this is what gets me: childhood was fine, mom died when she had already become an adult. She doesn't want to talk about losing her mother. Doc thinks her mother would be upset with her about how she's been doing these past handful of years. He wants her to write a letter to her mom, telling her how she's been doing since mom died. Doc thinks she's in denial - duh - but thinks she's on the cusp of some big realizations, so he's optimistic.

So, they're all just sitting around in the living room, playing video games. Is it time for a come to jesus moment with the fam? Maybe! Says in the VO that making exceptions in her diet for the rest of them to eat junk was putting her off her diet. Gee, lightbulb moment. She's telling them they need to turn off the fast food spigot and get the junk out of the house.

We're creeping toward the bottom half of the second hour, so I'm not entirely optimistic that WLS is a thing that is happening.

They're all supportive. We'll see how long that lasts. She has also decided to write that letter to her mom and hopes it is not OVERWHELMING (count: 2).

Ad break at :22. Time for more coffee! How many 90 days fucking things does TLC have, exactly?

We're back! But it's gonna be a race to see any WLS. If we do, it would be just the second one, and Dr Gnome didn't even do the first one.

She's writing to her mom and crying over it. She wants to go to her mom's grave and read it to her. Mom in law is crying and holding her hand. looks like more praying. Her shelf ass is pretty lumpy, unless that's just the adult diaper she has on. We're off to the grave! She's sitting in a wheelchair outside the chain link fence of the cemetery.

This is not a terrible letter, I'll say that. She knows mom is looking down, etc., etc.

Month 5

Back in Houston! She's nervous, of course. She knows she worked harder this time around, more praying that it pays off.

Scale says: 543 - 49 pounds down. So, better, but Dr Gnome is going to want more, I bet. More praying. Maybe if you spent more time doing and less time praying you'd get some better results. He asks her about her eating and exercise, and he says to give him another month, and come back with 30 pound down in one munt. And he wants to run some tests, of course, and particularly, and EKG.

She's ready to go charge out and prove to Dr Gnome she can do it and finally get the surgery she needs to save her life. We'll see about that, won't we.

Ad break at :36. Time is growing short.

And we're back! She's in the pool, exercising. Good deal on that. Husband is apparently a preacher man, and one of her goals is to go to church on Sundays. Uh oh, video call with Dr Gnome. That can't be good. White count is elevated, which means she may have some kind of infection. She says she has had a flare up of cellulitis. He's going to give her a scrip for antibiotics and send her to a hematologist to make sure there's nothing else. EKG was abnormal, so she's going to have to lose more weight - 100 pound in three munt to make surgery safe. He tells her to stick to the diet and exercise, and keep taking it seriously.

She's not going to take this well, I bet. She feels a bit blindsided. Why is it they're also just so shocked that the abuse of their bodies has consequences?

Ad break at :47. I'm gonna call it and say no WLS this ep. What a downer of a season this has ben thus far.

These singing HRBlok ads are just fucking cringe. This idea should have been shitcanned.

And we're back at :53. Will they give us seven uninterrupted minutes? Maybe.

Month 7
She's lost 98 pounds total, so that's cool.

Hey, she fit into the SUV and is driving herself to a bookstore. She did have a URI, along with the cellulitis and got antibiotics. Well, this is progress.

Month 9

She wants to support her preacher man, so they are off to church. Oh, Sweet Union Baptist Church. Wonder if she pass out from al the jesusing those types do. She's proud of herself for doing this today. And they're leaving. So, not Sunday? Who knows.

Month 12, she's lost a total of 133 pounds.

Still not cleared for WLS because of her heart. And we're at a basketball court. She's in the 400s, so go her, and her weight loss has slowed down, which is expected, but she's still keeping at it. She's watching the kids play basketball and she even tries a shot and almost launches herself face down on the court. No way these two kids would have been able to get her back upright.

Top of the hour - final VO about being determined, succeeding, etc. At least she's sounding a tad more humble now instrad of that combative shit she was giving Dr Gnome/

And that's a wrap on the whole show - they're headed back home.

Ah, the next show up is My Feet are Killing Me. A show about peoples' feet, which just grosses me out more than any fatty's upper arms or the shit they shovel in. OMFG what the fuck with this guy's feet? Noping out. See y'all next week.
 
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@Situation Type Deal Gorl which episode was this again? This reads like every other episode of this show
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This was for Season 9, Episode 6 (Kenae Dolphus of Nacogdoches, TX).

It really is hard to differentiate them week to week. Hell, I could copy and paste most of that each week without it making much difference. But I view it as sort of a mental focus exercise.
 
Ruin said:
Lots and lots of failure this season. Not that I care all that much because most of this seasons obeasts have been massive Assanti tier pricks.
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I didn't realise that there was a new series of this. Also I live in the UK and I'm not sure it's shown here when it airs over there. Anyone able to point me to non-fake torrents? I would have thought that the Chinese Batclap would have put the kibosh on this.

Samantha "Vanilla Hippo" Mason has apparently been claiming that she was "exploited" by the programme. I doubt this very much.

Genuine question - when you are as infinifat as these people how do you know that your anus is over the toilet?
 
Ginger Piglet said:
I didn't realise that there was a new series of this. Also I live in the UK and I'm not sure it's shown here when it airs over there. Anyone able to point me to non-fake torrents? I would have thought that the Chinese Batclap would have put the kibosh on this.

Samantha "Vanilla Hippo" Mason has apparently been claiming that she was "exploited" by the programme. I doubt this very much.

Genuine question - when you are as infinifat as these people how do you know that your anus is over the toilet?
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One this season made them diaper her so she didnt have to use the commode. But considering how little most seem to care about hygeine I'm not sure I want to think of their ability to aim.
 
Ruin said:
A troon 600 pounder? Dis gonna be gud.
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Someone post a link on here when it's out that I can see in the UK; we don't get it "on the day" here and I suspect that an infinifat troon is surely someone we should have a thread on.
 
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A troon 600 pounder? Dis gonna be gud.
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No, this time she’s definitely female BUT she claims she has some disease that causes her to grow a beard. Her haircut and the obesity don’t really help the situation either. She claims she shaves everyday but that’s a lie.

Funny enough there was another transgender patient who SUED the production company because they made her shave her beard https://www.the-sun.com/entertainme...-destinee-lashaee-lawsuit-forced-shave-beard/
 
Well, NOW I'm ready to watch and make stupid comments on the internet. I'm sure the "bearded woman in the circus sideshow" joke won't come up. At. All. Uh-huh.

Here we are again, folks, for another carnival ride of horror.
Season 9, Episode 7
Name: Krystal
Age: 34
Location: Frankfort, OH
Weight: Unknown

Trailer, check, wheelchair ramp, check, burly looking face, check. PCOS maybe?

Requisite waking up, getting out of bed scene. Her husband's name is Freelin? OK. Krystal got herself some manicure nails, y'all.

High blood pressure, diabetic, usual swelling of legs and feet, and she mumbled something about her stomach I couldn't be assed to listen to because she's just fat. But she's quite mobile, I have to say. She walked into the bathroom on her own. JFC, the bathroom scenes kill me. She showers once every three or four DAYS. So you sit around in your stank, with who the fuck knows what yeasty bullshit is growing.

Her gunt, when not lassoed into place by whatever industrial shorts she's wearing, hangs between her legs. Freelin says he feels like he's her caretaker and not her husband. Well, yeah.

Beard is from PCOS, as I guessed, and she's shaving that shit off. She has tan lines.

Obligatory trauma storytime!

Lemme guess: molested. Yup. Says it lasted from when she was 5 to when she was 13. Mom's new husband beat all the kids and his brother molested them. Sounds like a time when a shotgun party was needed.

Says she weight 150 to 200 pounds at 7, over 250 at 10 years old. Got boolyed at school, put on a bunch of other weight. When she was 13, she told her mom about the pedo, and then the abuse stopped. 420 pounds when she graduated high school. Says she was afraid of dating men, found a girlfriend at 18 who had kids, so she had to start working, and got to 500 pounds. Social-type work for awhile until she couldn't do that, then worked for a cab company. Broke up with her gf of 12 years and apparently realized then she wasn't gay, and went off to live with her sister, a druggie. She got custody of her sister's son. Says she and Freelin didn't like one another at first - hated one another, and then fell in love? OK, Jan.

This narrative is unfolding under a gigantic amount of Chinese takeout, by the way. By now, Freelin has stopped eating by now. She says he works 50-70 hours a week to take care of them all, because of course she can't work. She claims that she hates how she eats is being passed to Josh. Well, you could change that.

Now they're making spaghetti and it isn't just a bowl, it's a fucking tub of food. Well hell, who the fuck is this? It's Gramps, living with them, too. She's eating an absolute MOUNTAIN of spaghetti like it's a professional eating competition. And don't forget the shaker cheese and garlic bread!

Ad break at :16. That went quickly.

Krystal doesn't look as large as some of the others we've seen this season so far. In fact, she looks positively svelte, relatively speaking. Im a little surprised at TLC not wheeling her out first.

And we're back! LOL, I thought it was a laudry scene, but it's actually packing to head to Houston. And they're driving. Not straight through, so it will take days and yadda yadda, legs swelling, etc. She's ordering Freelin in the room to get some things from the closet. The closet is RIGHT THERE. You could get off your goddamned ass and get it. Her mother wants to come and see her off. Wow, old Stacey, the mom, looks fucking rough, too. Krystal needs another shave.

Her mother says she's worried about her going all that way. Haha, she hugs her mom and they have to do that awkward two fatties hugging move. Blah blah, life changing, I WANNA LIVE, etc.

Hoo boy, she's going to try to drive part of the trip. Today's leg of the trip is five hours. Whoa, we skipped to the next day. Freelin is now driving, and they're close to stopping for the nigh. Hitting up a rive through! She thinks they've stopped five times to get food because she's sore, etc.? JFC, chew some gum or something. She carries the important stuff into the hotel: the food. Freelin and the kid carry the rest. She seems to be sitting just fine in order to eat dinner. "No matter how hard itis for me, I have to push through it." Yeah, we get it, VO. Enough already. She goes off and rolls herself into bed. Wow, that was an unfortunate shot of her face - she looked like any number of dudes on the show, with their shitty facial hair.

Ad break at :30. Maybe we'll have a better ep tonight, since they're already almost in Houston, and we could use a good one, TLC, you Debbie Downers.

And we're back, in Houston! She's driving the last part to the office. LOL she's using driving to distract her from eating, because she's worried if she eats a lot it will add to the scale. You know, I'm gonna have to say that the shit you eat for three days on the road is likely not going to add a significant amount of weight.

New nurse?

Weight: I'm guessing just over 600.
Scale says: 618

She says she's embarrassed, etc. - the usual stuff they all say after getting the number in their faces.

Dr Gnome - how y'all doing?
He asks what she wants to get out of all of this. WTF is she babbling about? She says it's time for her to ocus on herself instead of taking care of everybody else. Focus on her little family and herself and not everyone else.

She tells Dr Ghome she gets up at 11/11:30, drinks a few cans of soda - diet soda, then eats shit for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and is usually in bed by 7:30 PM. She says she's been going to a shrink and has made progress on something or other. Dr Gnome points out none of this shit is normal. He wants her to see a shrink here. Here's the diet, the exercises, etc.

Goal: 40 pound by next munt to get her motivated to change. It's up to her to do this work. All the paperwork, he tells her to read every night.

Hallway chat with Dr Gnome: of course he sees through the crap about her family being enablers, while being the one who orders all the food. He isn't impressed with whatever shrink she claims to be seeing, wants her to see Dr Paradise (video). He is concerned about her motivation and discipline.

Dr Gnome wants them to move to Houston, of course. See y'all later!

I think she thinks that Dr Gnome would just be an insta-approve if she meets the first munt goal. She's nervous about the goal AND the travel. She says Dr Gnome was a lot nicer than she thought he would be. Yeah, he probably took a look at the initial screening notes for the show and realized going at you hard, as he does with most others, would be an issue.

Ad break at :48 into the first hour. That fucking Sister Wives show is still on? Goddamn.

Stanley Tucci, Searching for Italy - hell yeah, I'm gonna watch that! "Doctor" Phil, though, can still suckit.

We're back for the last of the first hour. Skinless chicken breasts, salad.

She says to Freelin and the kid, " I need to talk to you guys about moving to Houston."

Freelin, like an idiot, says "What do you mean move to Houston?" You were in the fucking room when Dr Gnome said it, dumbass. She has a skull with a pink bow tattooed on her right upper arm, just under the joint.

So apparently, they're all in on moving to Houston, because she needs the surgery. What a weird little scene. And a bit anticlimactic without any fireworks.

Time to see Dr Paradise - hi, Doc! She's not sure if another shrink will be helpful, because she's been going to therapy for years. You know, if you've been going for years, and nothing's changed, you probably need a new shrink. Dr Paradise points out she's not very emotional when talking about this - the flat affect we've seen over and over on this show. He wants her to bulk up the journaling to let all that shit out. She thinks that was a good session and had some good ideas.

Her PCOS is not translating itself to her head. But her arms are hairy, too. It's always amazing how the human body expresses itself from that to fat distribution, and everything in between.

And that's a wrap on the first hour! Dare we hope that this will be relatively straightforward, something we could use this season? Only one way to find out: onward we go.
 
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Hang onto your seats, people, we're going in!

We're back in Houston. Dr Gnome was worried about Krystal's depression. He's consulting with Dr Paradise about what he thinks about Krystal's mindset, the fact she's sleeping up to 17 hours a day, etc. Dr Paradise is concerned about her depression and her pathological overeating, and says that while they need to break that cycle of sleeping like a goddamned bear, he doesn't think that she will be unable to follow the diet, and says they need to monitor her closely, preferably in Houston. Dr Gnome says part of the deal is that he's going to make sure she continues to see Dr Paradise. So I guess we have the mental stuff signed off on, yay! Dr Gnome says it's all on Krystal to keep things squared away.

Month 2

We're on the road to a local clinic, versus driving all the way to Houston. She thinks she's lost some weight. So we have a scale check and the scale says......HAHA, fool, you know we get an

Ad break at :09 into the second hour. I have to say, sometimes the VOs are really fucking annoying in their earnest sameness episode to episode. I'm sure most of these people are not writing this shit, so I guess my annoyance should be directed to the writers for the show and not the fatties themselves.

Hey, nice one, Geico. Why do you build me up...buttercup, baby...just to let me down...and mess me around....

Scale says: 591 - 27 pounds down. That's progress, but you're right, that's not going to be enough. Of course, she says she doesn't understand, etc. You're eating too much. That's it, full stop.

Confessional with Dr Gnome. He says that means she's still eating 4-5K calories a day. She doesn't know, but we do. She says maybe her portion sizes are too large. Dr Gnome asks if she can do that, and she says she can. New goal: 80 pound in two munt. And you still need to move down to Houston. Hit your goal! Hey, he's letting you off easy compared to some other people on this show.

Month 3

She says she's focusing even more on what she's eating and has - hallelujah - started to weigh her food. She thinks after a couple of weeks of eating less, she feels like she gets full faster. Yah, that's what happens when you work your appetite and mindset into a corner. She tells Freelin she doesn't expect them to eat like she does, which I think is a first for this show: she recognizes that the other people in the house have not bought into this.

Sounds like she's going to be heading to Houston on her own, and the boys will stay in OH, because that's where their life is. She's sniffling, Freelin says things will be fine while she's focusing on the bad things and he says something that more people should be asking themselves and others: what if everything works out? Good call, Freelin!

Month 4

The whole family is back in Houston. Time for a weighin! Scale says...yeah, you know it's time for an

Ad break at :22 into the second hour.

And we're back, with time in this episode running short. Come on, TLC.
Scale says: 526 - 64 pounds down. Hey, that's better! I bet Dr Gnome will be happy enough to put yo on the list if you keep losing and move to Houston. let's see.

Hi, Dr Gnome, how y'all doin?

He asks about the trip, and she says it was a little easier now that she's lost 90-ish pounds. He says he's approving her for WLS, hooray! You need to move to Houston. She says her mother is paying for her to move to Houston and stay for the surgery and recovery, wow. A little guilt going on, eh? Sh says she's moving down with the kid, and Freelin will stay in OH. Freelin says he's excited and proud of her. Could you be a little more monotone with that? The kid doesn't look enthused.

More VO about getting healthy and getting a life, etc. You need to stay on top

Month 11

WTF? Oh, COVID, of course. She hasn't been back to Houston or moved because of that. Says she was ready to move to Houston, says it's been a struggle o keep on top of the weightloss, and has been talking to her shrink and Dr Paradise. She's nervous about the scale. They're flying instead of the hellish 18 hour drive. Says she hasn't been on a plane for 20 years. You know, you could have gone to the clinic for a weighin or bought a damn scale. Does TLC tell them "no unauthorized weighins" or something?

She's trying to stay positive while vomiting out all this negative stuff. Come on, girl, we're rooting for you here. JFC, TLC, enough with the filler VOs saying the same thing over and over and over and over.

Ad break at :36 into the second hour. That leaves us with probably three more for the rest of the episode.

Are you serious? A Tom & Jerry movie? What the hell is wrong with you, Hollywood? Get some new material, FFS. Oh, but MSHPL is on D+ - every episode.

The drive to the airport is a couple of hours, she's nervous, etc. Mask up! All this negativity makes me think she has gained weight. Once again says she hasn't been on a plane in 20 years. She got on the back of one of those courtesy carts, says she feels like a freak show. Well.......

Yay, we're at the gate to get on the fucking plane. I really think TLC is milking this cow for all its worth to fill out the episode. And now we're on the plane. Amazingly, she can sit without too much overflow into the next seat. Those seats actually look comfy, something I never thought I'd say about an airplane. Hooray, we're in Houston and off the plane.

She's talking about people staring, etc. Hey, fuck them. That's what I say. We're back at Dr Gnome's place! Scale says.....

Nope, nope, nope.

Ad break at: :46 into the second hour

What is that tune playing in the background of the Glade ad? It sounds like something my brain thinks I should know.

And we're back!

Scale says: (woo, little hoppy music here, good news?): 579 - a gain of 53 pounds??!?? Goddammit, TLC, fuck off with that music getting hour hopes up.

Dr Gnome points out it looks like she's still using food to cope. She asks if she still qualifies for WLS. He says, you've shown you can do this, so move down here and lose the weight again, and he'll approve her again for WLS. She adds another little factoid: moms is coming down when she has her surgery and for recovery. Tells her to let them know when she's moved down.

Hallway talk with Dr Gnome: understandable that she's struggling, but she needs to learn other coping mechanism, and he's confident she can lose the weight again. We'll see how she does in a few munt, and he thinks they could have her at her goal weight within a year.

Month 12

Current weight: 556

Still in OH. Will be able to move to Houston within the month. She's already lost over 20 pounds again, so that's good. But we're out of time on this episode, and once again, nobody has reached surgery with Dr Gnome. She and the kid have been going to parks and trails to spend time together and get exercise. She's talking about leaving the family for an extended period of time like now the kid is staying in OH. So I guess it will be just her, on her own, to lose weight and keep it off until WLS, except when her mom comes down right at the surgery/recovery time.

She's out in the wild, walking by herself. We get a little of that envisioning what and where you want to be. And that's it, we wrap up this episode.

Episode rating: MOERATE SUCCESS
She lost the weight once, qualified for WLS, and then COVID came along and fucked things up, but she's heading to Houston and hopefully on the followup ep, she'll look very differently than this ep.

That's it! See you next week!
 
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nets_awesome said:
Funny enough there was another transgender patient who SUED the production company because they made her shave her beard https://www.the-sun.com/entertainme...-destinee-lashaee-lawsuit-forced-shave-beard/
Click to expand...

I wonder what the outcome that was. I'm too lazy to look it up and while I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure I have much sympathy. You know how "reality" tv works, you're living as a woman, so wtf is the issue? But I'm guessing the insurance company probably settled it for a lot less than a million bucks.
 
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