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I liked the Minnesotans' attitude (particularly the wife's) about kitchens: who cares if it isn't expensive and new and shiny, it works, I can cook in it. Of course, they were gutting the kitchen for a complete overhaul when we checked in, but at least they weren't obnoxious about it during the house hunt.

Dr. Nassif did a fantastic job on the woman with the botched lips. I've had lip surgery (due to an accident) and I know how delicate it is and hard to get everything looking and functioning well. Kudos. The man boob guy, or rather his presentation on tv, was fascinating. He has the exact same breasts that a woman has, but if a woman had them they would be blurred out. Since they are attached to a man's chest, they are decent, but if attached to a woman's chest, indecent and cannot be seen. Totally insane.

So that family who let their 7 month old, intact, male puppy playing unsupervised in the front yard . . . did they want him to get hit by a car? The only thing more they could have done was toss him out in a highway or something.

The Chicago couple last night got a lot for their money (if the figures they gave us were accurate) -- except they way overpaid for that fugly barn wood table IMO. I thought the kitchen was boring and I hated the brass, but they were happy (the weeping was a bit much, you didn't just learn your child was cured of leukemia or something lady), so good for them. WTG, Aim High Construction. Get a nationally televised project and (1) put up flimsy tarps that end up flooding the house during a rain storm and (2) walk off the job when "something comes up." Bet you'll get a lot of business out of this show!

If that really is Dr. Now's philosophy for all his patients -- no worries, @OceanChick. He is an outlier. My bariatric post-op eating plan is definitely on the stricter side (low carb, no grains, no starchy veggies, etc.) and even I am allowed green veggies and some fruit. Truthfully I eat a lot more vegetables now than I ever did at 350+ lbs.

I'm familiar with the yogurt Laura was eating, and that was a standard 8 oz container. It's very wide but shallow. The thing is, that yogurt runs approximately 300 calories and 40 carbs per serving. No wonder she was gaining weight on it! And foods like yogurt are not going to fill you up after weight loss surgery. That's one reason Dr. Now is so insistent on a high protein diet: it's very filling, which makes it easier to eat less and lose weight. Sadly, hair loss tends to happen after weight loss surgery no matter how much protein you eat or what kind of supplements you take. No one really knows why, although telogen effluvium is one explanation. If her hair loss is related to her surgery, though, it should have started growing back about 6-9 months post op and I didn't see that. I did want to ship her a couple cans of Nanogen or Toppik -- she doesn't have to live with her scalp showing like that! Joey seemed like a controlling douchebag with the potential to turn abusive. That kind of jealous behavior, where someone doesn't like you going out without him, or doing things without his knowledge and approval, is a bad bad sign. That he came along to water aerobics to keep tabs on her was super creepy.

Someone needs to tell pampered trust-fund boy that having a dishwasher isn't very authentic and gritty.

Texas Transplants in California from last night -- I was underwhelmed with the renovation. They made odd choices with their budget: spend your last dollars on a cosmetic item like removing popcorn ceilings and skim coating them, then when you find your pipes are leaching lead into your water (that your children drink and bathe in), you have to call in your plumber stepfather and ask him to replace your pipes for free? Rude and entitled. Also, they kept saying weird things like "we have to renovate the whole roof" (when they were, obviously, replacing it, I'm not sure you even can "renovate" a roof) and "this place needs a complete rehaul" (wtf is a rehaul?). I'm trying to chalk it up to just being nervous about being on tv and stumbling over their words, rather than being a couple of illiterates or drunks. PS I noticed their family crest was boring and generic, it didn't even include their son's requested vampires. Having something a little odd and really representative of them would have been kind of cool. As it was, it looked like something that a high school art class did on spec to nail up to the extracurricular building.

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I just started watching this episode, somehow have never seen it before. I am transfixed with horror as I see Penny in her poop bed and realize that she is wearing the exact same pajamas I had before my surgery, back when I weighed 200+ lbs more than I do now. I don't think they are the same size (though they might be close) but otherwise they are the same. Ordered from one of those catalogs with immense clothing for immense people who are too big to shop in any brick and mortar store. If I needed any motivation to stay on track and be fanatical about maintaining my weight loss, that sure as hell was it. I don't ever even want to shop in the plus size section again, let alone share wardrobe choices with Poop Bed Penny. It really brings me back to what an awful place I was in (never a poop bed thank goodness).

I agree with the others before me who thought the green in the Austin kitchen was too much. I am a big fan of color in kitchens but that was kind of overwhelming. I think it was partially because the whole room was painted lemon yellow -- I felt like I had wandered into a primary grade classroom by mistake. I will say on a completely trivial and shallow note, I want to know where Erin does her clothes shopping. She had a lot of really gorgeous pieces.

I'm suspicious by nature, I guess -- it wouldn't surprise me at all if that "Obsession" character left her dog in the car and then lied about being confused about how he could have gotten heat stroke. She seemed a little out of it. At the very least the staff should have given her an explicit talking-to about needing to keep her dog in the house (not the sun porch) or outside with ample access to shade, turf, and water. Or maybe they did and we just didn't see it.

I was disappointed in this week's Slate TV Club Insiders podcast. Such a rich episode and they didn't mention it at all, it was just very technical details about English-to-Russian translation.

I wanted to take Olivia shopping for a good bra.

Chicago woman and her habit of clenching her fists by her face and squealing YAAAAYYYY (sometimes while running in place) drove me nuts. Lady, are you three years old? You are not as cute as you think you are.

Sunbun, I remember that family from the first time around. There was a lot of discussion about their finances, then too! Mostly I think people were wondering how they could afford the house (and the children) because his "congregation" that they showed appeared to be about twelve people sitting on folding chairs in some dimly-lit small rental space. How on earth does that even pay one person's full time salary?

Austin TX idiots: our children are spending too much time on their phones and devices! me: take the damn phones away them: we must move to a $450,000 house! There is no other way to solve this problem! Overall I thought their reno was pretty boring. Standard HGTV stuff. But their house was definitely 100x better than when they started. I would have waited on the children's bathroom and/or the fireplace and changed the front door and porch. I think most children don't really care about their bathroom having subway tile and quartz countertops in order to be "comfortable."

Alex was cute but I'd still rather have Adrian Leeds back.

I also think we see impoverished people on this show because that's who has to stoop to being on this show to get surgery. I got my surgery because I have excellent insurance (read: I have a good, stable, well-paying job with benefits). Even if my surgery hadn't been included in my insurance -- many "good" plans do exclude it -- I could have afforded $7K or so to go to Mexico and get weight loss surgery there out of pocket. I'm pretty sure people don't choose to be on national tv showing their children clean their vulva with a sweat rag or pooping themselves in a wheelchair unless there is absolutely no other way to get surgery, i.e., they are very, very, poor.

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I hate to be the person rooting for a marriage to fail, and they may love each other in some sick way, but I really think they would both be better off apart. Gilbert could get a real job and chase as many women as he wants without having to clean up pee pads and give himself hernias trying to push an oversize wheelchair over a threshold. Lupe would have to give up on the idea that if she just stays helpless and bedridden, Gilbert will have to stick around, and she might finally have to get her damn self out of bed and start walking. Someone needs to put Gilbert's ass on a Greyhound back to San Bernardino (first stop once home: divorce lawyer) and move Lupe into a good physical rehab center so she can really make some progress.

Baltimore couple: "we're foodies!" Me: *delete*

FYI, for those of us who DVR this show: next week's show is My 600 LB Life: Where Are They Now? and you may need to set your DVR specifically for it it. My DVR wasn't going to record it for me under the main show title.

I liked the green cabinets in the kitchen. Everything else, not so much, especially the damn shiplap. I fast forward through all of Chip's idiotic highjinks and the part where they stand in front of the house forever with Chip & Joanna teasing them about being ready to see their new house. Still waiting to see a gay couple on this show. I have a feeling I shouldn't hold my breath.

Glad I watched this on my dvr so I could fast forward through the insufferable musical parts. Ugh, why so self-important, show? I can't stick around if this show just continues to be a vehicle to promote incest . . . ugh, no thank you. One of my sisters was adopted into my family when we were both in high school and the thought of some sort of romantic or sexual interaction with her is beyond horrifying (even if we get past the whole part where she's straight). This storyline has been squicking me out so much and I just can't take much more of it.