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I will confess that a large portrait of moi hangs over the stair landing in my foyer so if any visitors lift their eyes or go upstairs, they will see it. It's almost 20 years old... It looks like Vianne maybe is finding some motivation, pity it happened five seconds before the end of the show. Have a good night, everyone. DO we have another episode next week?

Exactly. You can easily spend a whole day on sourcing and preparing food and not eat much. Go drive around finding cheapest quality fish and produce, learn to fillet the fish, practice your knife skills chopping up veggies, cook from scratch. Spend time searching for recipes and meticulously meal plan and measure out portions and count calories. That way you can easily spend 8 hours thinking about or working on food and end up eating less and a whole lot healthier.

The harmless kind of food porn!

I thought she is twice his weight, but she is actually MORE than twice. He is 228, and she is 494.

Yay, the ridiculous hair and beard are gone. He looks so much better now!

Of course she does. Bread can't walk away or talk back.

It's nice that Allen has a specific dream - to be a DJ - and actively practices the skills he needs for it. SO many people are just empty words, and their entire interest is food - he actually has life and interests outside of eating, which probably helps a lot. If you literally stare at a wall and think about food, it's probably impossible to not overeat. If you find distractions - a book, a hobby, hell, even a dumb TV show to discuss with others - anything that would let you think about something other than food for a while - it will help enormously. Vianne doesn't seem like she has any interests at all other than her husband and food. Not even the dogs.

She is actively sabotaging him. He is still trying to help her.

Wow, he really lost a ton of weight. Good for him.

I have a 2010 Honda Accord. The battery died on me (in the fourth underground level of the parking garage at Stamford train station during Friday afternoon rush hour traffic... sigh. It took forever to get someone to help. Other than that, it's just regular maintenance and zero trouble. I am going to get to 95,000 miles soon. What I don't get is why Vianney says she feels lonely. The two of them are always together, aren't they? OR is it because he is doing so much better than her, so she feels left behind and would rather whine about it than increase her effort?

She looks and sounds completely checked out.

You are right about processed... I made mac and cheese from scratch once... very different taste. And the mess wasn't worth it. I buy a Bob Evans two-pack every couple months.

I couldn't quite make out what they were saying - they are hoping that they can go shopping for food after Vionne loses enough weight to get surgery??? Isn't that the most perverse motivation to lose weight? And do they think that surgery is a magic 'eat whatever you want, however much you want for the rest of your life' free pass? So many on this show share in that delusion...

Hold on, is that mac and cheese I see??? Not on the diet!

I agree. Most of them have painful joints due to all the extra weight, water should make exercise easier. Speaking of pool, I started taking swimming lessons in December to help overcome some of my handicaps. It helped, I can swim on my back now, after being scared of turning over for 40 years. :) I am still a poor swimmer but I am better and just need to practice more, and at least I know what the proper form/movements should be even if I am not as coordinated yet as I would like.

How did they get the pool so empty? Did they film during the hours they are normally closed?

Hi All! Just joining now, was busy with work. I actually remember this ridiculous looking couple - or, rather, I remember having watched their episode, not anything about them. Hope this one is not a snoozefest like the episodes have been lately. Eating habit tonight will be baked tilapia. And probably a baked potato. Lunch was Trader Joe's Japanese fried rice with shrimp I just added for extra protein. This is the second week of the Lent and I am kind of semi-permanently semi-hungry and almost can empathize with the poundticipants. Moreso because I am also in need of losing some 20 pounds. I also tried Trader Joe's kung pao brussels sprouts this week and I did not like them, despite generally liking kung pao chicken and kung pao shrimp and loving brussels sprouts (which I don't overcook, unlike them).

So it is a repeat of Lashanta, she of the annoying voice. I officially have no excuse to postpone reviewing this document and also submitting my expense report. Sigh. Eating habit tonight was half a small mushroom pizza (I buy Dr. Oetker) and some dried mangos and a tangerine. The Lent has started so I am meat-free until April 20th and I had no time to cook tonight.. For lunch, I had leftover haddock and rice and an apple.

I am going to stick around to see what we actually get... even though I should actually be finishing some of the things I didn't get done during the regular business hours today.

It's hard to say whether this lack of interest in anything else it's the cause or the consequence of their obesity, but it's definitely a vicious cycle... they feel too embarrassed and/or physically unable to participate in other activities or be among other people, so they eat to drown out the stress, and that makes them even less able to get away from food. And lack of interest in any intellectual pursuits is, sadly, extremely common and not just among addicts.

He is probably afraid of having more pain, and he really thinks he can sustain weight loss on his own. If he was truly capable of this much self-control, he would never have gotten to 740 lb. He sounds kind of depressed, honestly.

He is certainly not walking very well.. he sounds like he is so afraid of not going too hard, he is not working hard enough. Physical therapy after a surgery is a fine balance of 'painful because it works' but not 'painful because it's harmful' but if you don't push yourself through some pain, you don't recover function properly.

This looks like a piece of an elephant skin or something... and wow, 66 pounds. Crazy that he had that growing on him.

I might be the only person who doesn't like leftover pizza. For some reason I find it icky, whether reheated or cold. I try to get really small ones I can just eat in one sitting because I hate wasting food. if I can't, I will eat the leftovers, but I would prefer not to have them.

Her face looks much smaller, and she actually put sheets on the mattress!!! How long has it been since we have seen proper bedding on this show? Though a lof of these really overweight people who don't bathe properly and properly sweat profusely at night - sheets would need constant changing and it's just hard when you have 600+lb weighing down on them.