Nerfect Drifty

He's only 27. There have been people on this show who survive into their 50s. They could be squeezing another 20 years out of this. If he shapes up, they've got 2 to 4 years.

What a pathetic family and a pathetic waste of time. You could tell from the opening preview clip that this would go nowhere. Deshaun had no desire to change so he wasn't going to. It's a fundamental fact of dealing with addiction that you cannot force someone to change against his or her will. The addict has to want to change. Dr. Now hit the nail on the head at the ending when he hypothesized that, not only does Deshaun not want to get better, but his family doesn't want him to get better either because they are paid caregivers. Deshaun is a belligerent adult baby who is going to die in his plastic wrapped bed.

The cost is a concern, but that's actually secondary. I'm just afraid of the recovery. It seems like a very invasive and painful procedure.

How much weight did you lose that you required this surgery? I'm in a bariatric surgery program right now. I'm about 345 hoping to get down to at least 220, with a stretch goal of 180. I'm a 6 foot tall man, 44 years old. I'm afraid of needing excess skin removal surgery. It looks so painful and I worry about whether insurance would cover it.

It took her a while, but she seemed to pull it together enough for one good month and get the surgery. I don't like her chances of long term success though.

Could have been on disability. But also, his mother worked, so that would take care of the income.

Liked this episode. Justin really knocked it out of the park. So much better than that other Justin. It was a nice surprise to see Christina too. She was always my favorite. I follow her on Facebook. She had back-to-back-to-back pregnancies from 2020 through 2022 and seems to have regained a little weight, but not a lot more than you might expect from triple pregnancies. I hope she's able to get that back off or at least maintain a healthy weight long term. I remember Maja's first episode and thought Christian was kind of a jackass, just sitting there not saying anything when she tried to talk to him. But then I thought that maybe he was just smart enough not to engage in front of the cameras.

Come to think of it, Ashlee and Aaron are truly a match made for misery. He was suffering a lifetime of loneliness and thinking he would never find a woman. Bonus points for grieving his father. She was an unattractive harpy who saw some low hanging fruit she could control. Maybe this marriage will last a while. Aaron will be miserable, but I doubt he has the backbone to end it. Ashlee won't love him, if she ever did, but she will love having a servant she can control. When Aaron said "I'm married to the woman of my dreams", I just thought of how sad and pathetic that is, and wondered if he meant it or was trying to convince himself it was true.

Adding to the chorus that Ashlee was seriously awful. She threatened to leave him if he continued with Dr Now? Why, because the doctor offended HER? What a horrible person. And given that they met and got married in a period of fewer than 18 months, you can tell this marriage isn't going to last.

It went poorly, just as some of us thought. Gary lost almost no weight over the course of the year, and didn't make much progress with physical therapy. At least he was cooperative with physical therapy and he was a pretty nice guy. Another name for the amiable screwup file. He says that if his mother doesn't bring the food, he will order it for delivery. I wonder how well that works out. I do DoorDash part time and in about 2200 deliveries only once did I enter a customer's home. The guy was paraplegic so I was willing to go in. But I know in the Dasher community a lot of people are unwilling to enter a customer's home. Also if his mother works, how does he get the food when she's gone?

This episode just made me sad. Erica was doing so well at the end of her second episode, but then Jimmy dumped her and she took it way too hard. She is moving back and forth a lot. That seems expensive. And I can't imagine things got any better after she moved in with her sister. I hope that by now she has found happiness in life or at least the peace of the grave.

I agree. It rarely goes well when the patient is immobile. Cillas and Marla are the only ones I can think that succeeded, and Marla only succeeded after a lot of struggle and because Dr. Now was more lenient during her time.

I found this particularly interesting and very instructive into the general minds of these patients. I think that by having a smaller order she is doing better than having a huge meal, but that's not enough. If she's doing this habitually, which I am sure she is, it would lead to a slow weight loss. But she thinks that since she is merely overeating instead of being outright gluttonous, this counts as hard work and should be reflected in the scale. I'm not picking on Karen here. I think most of the patients do this, at least at first. That's why it's uncommon to see someone hit the the doctor's goal weight on the second visit. Exceptions are the ones that actually follow the program closely and meet the doctor's weight loss goals the first time, and the really massive screwups like Penny and James King who don't even try, continuing in their gluttony.

At least Karen was not a mean person. She seemed mature, although delusional with her insistence that the scales were wrong. Felt bad for her crippling agoraphobia. But she needs to fix that before she can ever hope to lose weight. Forget Houston -- she can't even go to a local surgeon.

Saw this one and the follow up last night. What really shook me about Lee's behavior was the abruptness. He just went from being an apparently decent guy to being a total asshole so quickly. And that was just while the cameras were rolling. There's got to be a lot more happening when they aren't. Lola mentioned him smashing up the kitchen with a frying pan. I'm glad that Rena ended up dumping him in part two. I'm not so glad that the show then switched to following only Lee. I don't care about that asshole. Let him regain all the weight and die.