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While I thought it was a brilliant choice to use that song for that scene, I told my husband that it ruined the song for me. Every time I hear it, I will now forever associate it with 1/6.

Right?!? For a second there I thought I'd been pronouncing it wrong all along (not that it comes up a lot in conversation, but in my head when I'm reading) and then I was like "Come on, it's MTG, why are you second-guessing yourself?"

I grew up in western MA, but I've lived in the midwest for 30 years. Whenever anyone hears that I'm from MA, they're all surprised because "You don't have an accent!".

So much to address in this episode! First, the zero calorie bbq sauce - Walden Farms makes a whole line of zero cal sauces, condiments, dressings & syrups. They are disgusting. I like Guy's or G. Hughes sugar free bbq sauce (10 cals per serving) & Joseph's sugar free maple syrup. They are really tasty. Her ER visit. Based on her nonsensical ramblings in the car on the way to the hospital, I was thinking her O2 levels were too low, or she had taken too many pain pills. I know that when my father-in-law had low O2 levels, he would start to talk crazy (more so than his normal dementia-induced crazy ramblings). In hind sight, I think it was her addiction to pain pills. Although it was believable to met that she might need the ER, given what looked to be an ulcer I noticed on one leg, and the possible celllulitis on the other. I pointed those out to my husband at the beginning of the episode, and I'm surprised Dr. Now didn't address them at her only appt. Also with regard to the ER visit, how dare she use the ER services for a non-emergency! That's one of the reasons our healthcare costs are so high. Thankfully I have very good insurance, albeit with high premium costs. But it costs me $750 to set foot in the ER - so unless I'm having chest pains or there's a bone poking out from my skin, or I'm bleeding uncontrollably I'll be making an appt. with my doctor, or visiting a walk-in clinic. I SO wanted a final weigh in from her, even if it was from a local doctor, or her ER visit. It was clear that she'd lost weight, but I'd like to know how much. At least she took Lacey to the ice cream shop for a single serving, rather than buying a tub of ice cream like other poundicipants have done. It teaches Lacey that you can be healthy by having a once in a while treat, without going totally overboard on an otherwise unhealthy item. Someone upthread mentioned a tax on "unhealthy" foods. Hell no. We don't need anymore of a nanny state than we already have. And who's to decide the value of a healthy food? My family and I are LC/keto - we have improved our health and reversed medical conditions and lost weight by eating cheeseburgers without the buns, cheesy eggs, bacon, sausage and full fat products like cream and butter. Why should we be punished, when those foods have been beneficial to us? These are some more recent photos of Angela (Dec/Jan). She appears to be doing keto now - I only hope she doesn't bastardize the diet to do it "her way" and then complain that keto doesn't work if she gains or doesn't lose enough. https://realityblurb.com/2019/04/10/photos-see-my-600-lb-life-star-angela-gutierrez-weight-loss-photos-update/

I've read a few articles about it. Some claim she lost 200 lbs after undergoing weight loss surgery, and others say she recently lost 200 lbs (making no mention of the surgery). My recollection of the show is that she only lost weight during forced hospitalizations, but was unable to maintain the losses after discharge. I thought she was one of those know it all patients that fired Dr Now so she could do it her way <eye roll>. I highly doubt she managed to get 200 lbs off on her own. More spin by delusional family members.

She was probably a former heroin addict (as opposed to current addict) because her caretakers drew a line in the sand and wouldn't go so far as to buy the drugs for her. Feeding her thousands of extra, unnecessary calories a day was something they had no problem with, but providing her with heroin was a hard no. The People article I read said that her daughter claims her death was caused by illnesses she had, and was unrelated to her weight. Ya, right. The level of delusion in these families is mind-boggling. https://people.com/health/my-600-lb-life-lisa-flemming-dead/

Aw, hell no!! http://people.com/health/my-600-lb-life-crowdsourcing-money-weight-loss-surgery-after-quitting-show

My husband is 3 years older than Janine, and he has had weight problems his entire life. His doctor prescribed amphetamine pills when he was 7. My eyes about popped out of my head when he told me that early in our dating years - I thought for sure he was mistaken, but his family confirms it. Apparently it was common practice in the late 60s.

Did you notice that when Tiffany was rage driving around the parking lot she said "MY refund money is all gone"? No, bitch, that was Billy's money that you all squandered. Tiffany is a flat-out bitch, addiction or not. She is flipping crazy, and needs help with anger issues in addition to addiction issues. She is so verbally and physically abusive. Allen seems like a sweet guy. I really feel compassion for him.

Yup. I said the exact same thing to my husband. We have 4 cats and 5 litter boxes (3 of them are the auto cleaning type). I'm considerably overweight, and the amount of bending over necessary to scoop the boxes and empty the receptacle boxes leaves me out of breath. No way she was doing that. And her freezer was chock full of frozen food (much of it junk, I'm sure), so she's either using a delivery service or she has someone doing her grocery shopping. When she was in the Houston hospital for the infection, she mentioned that they'd given her a medical assistant to get the cat boarded and pick up her clothes. She had to have had someone like that in Seattle - I imagine that she's had medical issues requiring hospitalization there, too, and given that she has no family or friends, social services were likely involved at some point to make sure she's okay at home. I would have paid a pet sitter to come to the house rather than boarding the cat - poor thing is probably stressed enough from the move to Houston and the sudden disappearance of her owner. She didn't need the additional stress of being boarded. Two of my cats like to drink out of the toilet bowl and their claws have scraped a lot of the paint from the toilet seat in our main floor powder room, so there are large areas of black exposed on the seat. I immediately recognized the black areas on her toilet as wear marks rather than shit stains. I'm so used to the toilet seat here that I don't even notice it anymore. Now that I've really examined it, I realize it's time to replace the seat.

Lol. My mother-in-law immigrated to the U.S. from Italy just after WWII ended and always spoke English with a strong accent. Her youngest grandchild is named Caitlin, and until the day my mil died, she called Caitlin Kathleen. But adding in the extra Italian syllable, so it came out Kath-a-leen (with the emphasis on the last syllable).

A recurring thought that I had during this show is that Daddy isn't going to be around forever. Those 2 wastes of space are then going to be 100% dependent on we, the taxpayers. Ugh.

I think you've got that backwards . . . He takes a massive dump and THEN they roll him over to clean him. At the beginning of the show I was skeeved out when he called Lisa into the room to tell her he'd just gone to the bathroom. I was shocked that 1) he asked for help AFTER the fact; and 2) the smell didn't give it away before he mentioned it. They probably have something along the lines of a diaper pail (at least I HOPE they do!!). My 93 yo father-in-law lives with us and last year he developed urinary and fecal incontinence so he has to wear Depends. We bought a diaper genie to deal with the inevitable stench. Works great. Now if only we could get him to change the depends and bathe more frequently. He's obstinate and surly on the best of days, and downright mean and nasty as his dementia becomes worse - getting him to bathe and maintain any type of proper hygiene is a daily struggle that is really taxing and stressful on my husband and me.

Boom! We are a low carb household and our local Chinese place has a delicious dish called spicy shrimp and scallops. They are lightly dredged thru flour (we tell them to skip that step) and then they're flash cooked in the wok with spicy oil, garlic, red pepper flakes and asparagus. Perfect for us. They also offer a dish that are filet mignon medallions cooked with mushrooms and a brown gravy (we just scrape off most of the gravy). They are known for their egg rolls, so I order several and we unroll them and eat the filling. If we do takeout, I'll make fried cauliflower rice to serve alongside; if we dine in we tell them no rice. Some of the soups are also low carb friendly. It's never going to be perfect, but there are workarounds. There is a popular reddit thread about low carb acceptable Chinese food dishes, and one of the commenters is a guy whose parents own a Chinese restaurant. He says it's impossible to go 100% low carb compliant because all meats are marinated in a solution containing sugar before cooking. But it's better than chowing down on rice and sauces full of starch and sugar. It's just as annoying as the fact that IHOP adds pancake batter to their scrambled eggs to make them fluffy.

I had it in my ear lobe, of all places. No open sores that I was aware of, and I'd had pierced ears as a kid but the holes had long closed up by that time. It was an angry red color and was so swollen that the lobe was stuck out at a 90 degree angle to my head. My god it was so painful I left work to go to the urgent care center for some relief. I was put on a megadose of a strong oral antibiotic and was warned that I needed to follow up with my GP for monitoring, in case I needed stronger iv a antibiotics. It never leaked fluid, and it didn't spread to any other body parts - the oral meds worked fine.