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Sylvia's intervention episode aired in 2006, so probably 10 years or more.
My family still refers to the mini bottles of Smirnoff's as "little red tops."
I also refer to those bottles as little red tops. Sylvia certainly made a big impression on some of us. I'm a bit older, so the middle aged+ subjects of this show have always resonated with me. Things can go bad very quickly.
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Amber seemed the exception here. Her family seemed established. They were also very normal and she didn't seem to have anything traumatic happen to "trigger" her weight gain. I liked her family.
Tara, living with her nicely dressed mom and step-dad and her two children, in a home where they ate at a dining room table with a tablecloth was an obvious exception. Tara was also nicely dressed.
Melissa and scumball Chris were not in poverty. At times, both were working.
Zsalynn wasn't living in poverty. Just living in a miserable relationship. She was working during her followup, and had lived a decent financial life via the internet from what I've read here prior to her surgery.
Quite obviously, Nikki was living in an affluent home, including attending college and holding an artsy (though probably low paying) job.
Several other of the male subjects from year 1 on had decent jobs before their weight issues caused them to either cut back or not be able to work at all.
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Watched this episode last week, and sort of tuned in to the pop-up video version a few times. A question - did one of the pop-ups say that Lupe would sometimes eat $30 of fast food a meal? Or a day? I'm horrified, but not surprised, by either answer.
This story was too much.
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Interesting to see two of the 7-year originals featured together. I believe I heard Dr. Now say that Ashley was one of the first 600+ patients to receive gastric bypass, and the medical community was still unsure if surgery was effective for patients with that level of morbid obesity. Which could explain this recent follow up, since neither Ashley nor Melissa had been to the clinic in a bit.
At the end of Ashley's original story, following the death of her beloved father, she had moved back in with her horrible mother, and I wondered how successful that would be. (If you didn't see the original, try to find it. That women could never say anything nice about Ashley.) Poor young woman. She seems not to have taken full advantage of her weight loss opportunity when she was so much younger, and now, she's still stuck in neutral.
The dynamics of Melissa's life have always been a bit of a mess. That husband. However, Chris is one of the few partners that has always supported his wife, and now family, financially. But what a stressful situation in her home life! Hopefully, becoming involved in the weight loss program again, will get her, and her children, back to eating better.
It's easy to criticize the snapshots we see of these people. Sure, they can make better choices. But I views programs like this, especially Intervention, as cautionary tales. There is something we can all learn from others.
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Hey, Hey, Hey ................... is Bill Cosby using his Fat Albert voice. Which makes the code words even worse.
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S02.E08: Israel Meets Spurgeon
in Counting On
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Seriously, calling all Fine Arts Majors from the 50s, 60s and 70s...............................
Shouldn't this episode have been named ------
Madonna con Bambino meets San Giovanni Battista.
I only see the Duggars in unwanted commercials, but the constant posing of the vapid mother of the chosen spawn of the next generation in her lap is so obvious it brings me back to my art history days -- and of course -- several fun trips to Italy to view way too many religious paintings!