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I've noticed that in many of the scenes of people eating high fat foods after their surgery we see them take a few bites. We don't see them finish the meal. I do think that much of that is staged for reality TV as are some of the before surgery eating binges. I particularly find suspicious Chay eating while they movers were carrying furniture, Nissa and her husband (cannot remember his name even though he was the focus of the episode) at a restaurant with a table full of fried food and Zsalynn tonguing a cream-filled doughnut then settling onto the couch with a box filled with a dozen doughnuts.

Liposuction is typically used to remove pockets of fat in areas that weigh at most a few pounds. The incisions are external, which leaves some risk of infection, but keeping the area clean makes that risk quite low. The incisions are very small, and only small areas are treated at a time to limit bleeding. As Scrowl said, fat is living tissue. It has a blood supply which has to be controlled. During a tummy tuck or face lift there may also be liposuction, but again, using purely external incisions. In these surgeries, the internal organs are not cut. When doing gastric bypass, the gastrointestinal tract is opened up. The GI tract is filled with bacteria that can lead to infection if they get into outside tissues and into the bloodstream. While there are similar skin openings to do the minimally-invasive technique that Dr. Now uses, the internal work is controlled in its scope. It would add a great deal of risk to additionally disturb the fat pockets and open additional blood vessels to do liposuction at the same time as bypass.

Is there an airplane version of Jesus, Take the Wheel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU

Bratinella, that ottoman will never be the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5wG71gxrvE

Chris D'Elia does the thing I most hate from contestants - tell the joke, laugh at his own joke, look to the audience to try to get them to affirm his laughter. It slows the show to a crawl and is really annoying. He's not as funny as he thinks he is.

In the first hospital scene, I felt like Aubry was dong her best Linda Blair in The Exorcist impersonation. I'll let myself out . . . .

Louie hosts an open mike.

She has twenty year old special underwear for St. Tropez.

I’ll give the editors credit for the juxtaposition of Dorinda and Sonja’s comments regarding Luann’s house. Dorinda was perfectly graceful in the way she complimented the house. Sonja’s seething jealousy has her immediately making negative comments. What a beautiful place right on the water. I want to befriend Luann just to try for an invite. The shrieking, so much shrieking. Okay, Ramona’s phrase “keeping company with men” could be seen as a euphemism for prostitution or being a kept woman. (Of course, that would have made more sense about 70-80 years ago.) However, clearly that’s not what she meant. Didn’t someone else propose the phrase to her? And of course Bethenny, in not being able to simply say “I think that phrase doesn’t mean what you think it means” has to use her attack style of speaking, so Ramona goes quickly into crazy pants land. Oh ladies, never learn to communicate. Your lives would become much too easy.

My favorite shot in the episode was Kristin eating while the women were screechily analyzing the brunch kerfuffle. Between Bethenny and Ramona the shrieking was out of control. Neither of them has the ability to shut up and listen.

I've been to a few sex dungeons that were very fisticated. I'll let myself out . . . slam.

Listening to Mia I believe I heard Monday, Tuesday and melodic zombie noises. Beyond that, I've got nothing.

Very much so. Chay spoon fed us some of the more common platitudes. He typically seemed very pleasant, accepting and like he would try hard. His anger showed when he was pushed by his cousin/trainer. I think he gave a very reasoned portrayal of himself to meet the requirements of the show.

Generally there are two types of people we see on this show. We have the famewhores who have turned their weight issues into their job of sorts. These are the people who have been on more than one show, have worked in porn, have articles in which they've bragged about their sex lives or in other ways worked to become famous for their size. The other group are people who are poor and desperate. This show is their chance to qualify for a surgery they very well may not be able to afford, whether for limited health insurance or the inability to move the Houston to be near Dr. Now. While the show never states specifically how people are compensated, it seems pretty clear that they are helped to some extent, possibly apartments and rental cars. Wealthy people, unless they have a great desire for fame and have not learned the difference between good attention and bad attention, are not going to participate in this show. If we look at the entire series, that vast majority of people have worked. Some lost their jobs at some point, often seemingly related to their increased weight. Amber, Chuck and Chay immediately come to mind. Some did specialty porn but it was not disclosed on the show. Others seemed to have family support, for example, Olivia. Marla seems to have severe psychological issues. She has created a hell that she and her daughter are trapped in. I feel very sorry for her daughters. She is a horrible burden to bear. She did say early in the show that she was concerned her legs could not support her weight. That fear could have fueled some of her behavior. Of course, the less she tried, the harder it became. She also seemed stoned out of her mind in the hospital scene with Dr. Now. She could barely keep her eyes open. On a weird note, I went to urgent care today with an ear infection. I was chatting with the nurse. They had me sitting up on the bed with my legs stretched out in front of me and kept rolling me from one side of the room to the other (the better scope was on one side; ear irrigation system was on the other). I told them I felt like I was on My 600 lb. Life. The nurse had recently seen the show and got the reference, Unfortunately I forgot to tell her it was my Cleopatra moment.

I'm not so sure about "Love the chicken". Next thing you know you're having sex with chickens to encourage Officer Barbrady to learn to read. And the squawking, so much squawking.

I would hope that in these cases people would pull the person aside and let them know they left the house without their pants on. I cannot say I haven't seen people walking around in just their underwear. I live in one of the more interesting neighborhoods in San Francisco. But if someone is going about their normal day-to-day business with their business on display, I would be concerned for them. Early onset Alzheimer's? So tired they somehow didn't notice they weren't wearing pants? Got confused about the term going commando? Lost a really bad bet? Perhaps a moderate to severe case of something as yet to be named?

I think his mother did call him by a different name which threw me for a bit. I liked that he was just presented how he was without any big focus on gender issues. It's not the focus of the show. He seemed to decide not to change his manner of dress, etc, for the show which I appreciated. I am all for gender fluidity being accepted as the norm rather than the enforcement of rigid gender roles. At the same time, I think he also chose to not make it a point (or TLC chose not to) which is a plus. While Chay definitely has serious things to work on regards to his eating, I am glad they did not try to make it all about his gender expression. He seems like a nice enough person in a strange situation in which he was taught some really bad eating habits.

A friend's son auditioned for the Nationwide dead kid ad. He is still upset he didn't get it; he contends he would have done a much better job. I pointed out he might be better off not being the face people will associate with dead children or a commercial that was almost universally loathed.

I take it you haven't watched Girls. Hannah ends up at the ER with a Q-tip stuck in her ear. Oh wait, you meant it real life. Yeah, you'd have to be too stupid to live if you couldn't master a Q-tip. Now where's my special spaghetti strainer? Did I leave it by the microwave boiled egg maker?

Thank you! I had to watch part of it again to try to figure it out. I guess the one brother got his big speech but I don't remember much at all about the other brother. I too was trying to figure out how both brothers died if leg shot top cop was still alive and breathing. Thinking back to prior really stupid story lines, Mere's streak is fully broken now. Is she going to decide that having Derek back and being happy makes her a crappy surgeon and decide to blow up her life? I am now at a point where anything that Amelia does bugs me. I just hate seeing her face. It is not fair or reasonable, but I just can't stand when she is on screen. And now she's in flove with Owen. Greeeeeaaaaaat. I can muster absolutely no amount of caring for them as a couple. Please make it stop, show. Make it stop.

Dear Taco Bell, Perhaps you aren't aware of the infomercial standard in which the truly incompetent and clueless are shown in black and white. You know these people. They cannot crack an egg or strain spaghetti or hit a nail with a hammer. They are people in need of products and services to simplify those things that do not confound regular humans. And yet you've chosen to show in black and white the people who prefer your breakfast monstrosity. So I can only assume that these poor souls are incapable of handling a normal breakfast. Cereal ends up in their laps. Scrambled eggs fly off their forks, potentially harming others. They repeatedly poke themselves in the eye with bacon. So they need the Taco Bell breakfast. Somehow the food-like product is so firmly rooted in its biscuit taco case that it cannot be dropped or haphazardly flung. They are saved from their own ineptitude by your breakfast foodstuffs. Thank you for protecting them from their own inabilities. Fortunately I am capable of eating a regular breakfast without incident. I will be avoiding your new breakfast like the plague upon humanity and the colon that I believe it to be.

This was the post that convinced me I needed to finish reading this at home. We need Teddy to show up in every random place where he could potentially be shot, hit by a bus, fall off a cliff, really any place he can be put out of his and our misery. If ever someone deserved to see his ex-girlfriend in an incredibly compromising position, it's mopey Gunnar. Gunnar now has two settings - happy and mopey. Enough already. Choose you, Gunnar, choose you! At this rate, Juliette is going to give birth to a toddler. No wonder Avery was reticent to leave, she's three months past due.

So many of the scenes on this episode seemed staged to me. There was platitude on top of platitude for most of the talking heads. There was no real sense of tension when Chay spoke to his mother. He told us it would be difficult but it came off like no big deal. It almost felt like he was looking for common reasons people will give for their food issues, like he was parroting what he has heard rather than really digging into his own feelings. (Then again I could have just been really tired and not too clued in or I was thrown by his softer way of speaking). I think he tried exercising earlier than most of the people we see on this show because his cousin encouraged it; he looked to be very into working out. There was something both sad and funny about his much smaller cousin doing his side-to-side kick steps while trying to encourage Chad to walk faster. It was like seeing a tiny dog and a Mastiff. I would not be surprised if Chay is gay and chose not to make it an issue on the show. He was willing to show himself showering and washing himself with a long-handled brush (cruelly I kept thinking of the Simpsons episode in which Bart fantasizes about becoming morbidly obese and proudly declares "I wash myself with a rag on a stick!"). He was also willing to be shown being weighed and eating large quantities of food. He gave the show what it wanted but he didn't give it anything extra. Horribly they filmed at his grandmother's funeral. He was able to speak without becoming overwhelmed. He seems like a person who keeps his emotions in check much of the time. I also think he may watch enough reality TV to be on to the tricks and just didn't feed them anything too juicy. The death of his grandmother was a boost for the show (sorry, thinking about it in terms of TV and not the tragic loss of someone he was very close to). Otherwise his big drama was will he or won't he go to a therapist - he will, the show wants him to, but he didn't exactly have a breakdown or a major epiphany, he guided the conversation quite effectively. The other drama was will he eat out and not have cake. Whew! He was able to resist getting a slice of cake with a film crew and his family watching. That whole scene seemed so staged that it was ridiculous.

The sad truth is that just because a woman is sexy and interested in sex, it doesn't necessarily mean that she is interested in sex with you. Maybe you should look for pairs of empty bathtubs in odd locations. Settle into one and see if anyone jumps into the other. Take your Cialis first. I believe that's the cost of admission to the tub.

Middle-aged women can be very sexy. They can also chose to be coy and playful. They can fuck like bunnies, be seductive and adventurous. But even as a woman who is attracted to both men and women, the way these women are supposedly speaking to women does not make me want to talk to my man about Viagra. Or what janie jones said: If the ads were supposed to be aimed at men, they could be as flirtatious as they like. Be the fantasy woman. Flirt, seduce and make the not very veiled promise that if you take the penis pills women as sexy as these will want take you to a tropical paradise to fuck your brains out. Then get on your motorcycle and play dad rock at the bar with your cronies (oops, wrong ad).