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    S07.E18: Mercedes' Story

    in My 600-lb Life

    10 minutes ago, calpurnia99 said:

    Anyway dis is not good sitiashun I agree, she wanted the "weight loss surgery" the magic fix without having to give up food.  The way they carry on about their efforts, I think sometimes they starve themselves for 3 days before the weigh in, thus the small pound loss they may show. If she was taking in 1200 calories  a day, she would have lost more than the 80 pounds in a munt, we have seen a 769 pound person lose 100 pounds  plus on the controlled diet as well as the very few who have truly stuck to it. She should have lost 200 pounds if she were doing this diet, she would have noticed a difference at 560 pounds but...

    Well she did have over 700 pounds of food in her already!  Even at 1200 calories per MEAL (unless she eats 5 or more meals a day) she would still have lost a substantial amount of weight.  She was NOT following the diet and I wonder at the mental dysfunction that allowed her to think she had reached her goal.

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    S07.E17: Cillas' Story

    in My 600-lb Life

    8 hours ago, 7EasyPayments said:

    The concept of calories, and how to properly read a nutrition label seems beyond most of the participants capabilities.

    "Oh, I'm ordering a 16-inch 5-meat pizza with no nutrition label? Zero calories !!!! Now THAT'S ON the 1200 calories diet !!!"

    LOLOLOL 😂🍕

    That drives me mad, few participants seem to understand how to count calorie intake.  There is rarely a scene with anyone actually weighing or measuring a food when they’re preparing meals.  Having fought with my weight all my life I know perfectly well that what I can tell myself is four ounces of meat or fish can easily be six or even eight.  A single serving package is fine, but even then labels can be tricky and tell you there are two “servings” inside so it looks like the calories etc. are lower than what they actually are.  I am sure they have to attend classes with a nutritionist (or have one visit them as we’ve seen) but they either don’t understand or they just don’t want to.

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    S07.E16 Lashanta's Story

    in My 600-lb Life

    1 hour ago, Jeeves said:

    When Dr. Now told Lashanta that she could qualify for WLS if she maintained the weight loss AND started walking, I thought of Milla (hope that's the correct name). She was the one who lost weight, and I think got WLS, but was still not walking in her followup episode. 

    I wonder if Dr. Now added "getting off your butt and walking again" to his list of WLS criteria after dealing with Milla. I assume there's no physical reason that Lashanta - or Milla - could not walk again. I also assume there's going to be some very real physical, mental, and emotional work for them to do to achieve that goal. It seemed to me that Milla didn't want to walk; she had it so easy with all her kids taking care of her 24/7. 

    Lashanta IMO is so effed up that I have no clue if she will ever walk again, if she ever wants to walk again, or if she has the guts to go through the hard effort and discomfort of learning to use her legs again even if she wanted to. She's managed to somehow acquire a gold grill, and people to take care of her and bring food and makeup and wigs and clothes to her as she sits spreadeagled on her bed, and even fetch and carry her plasticware chamber pots. She may be really into that queen bee situation. I'm not even sure why she ever wanted to lose weight anyway. It would screw up her number one life relationship: with food.

    I think Milla had been bed bound for much longer than Lashanta.  I thought I heard Dr. Now saying at the beginning of Lashanta’s episode that she hadn’t lost too much muscle in her legs and it would be important to get her mobile before that happened.  But if her attitude to weight loss is any indication I can’t see her walking anytime soon.

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