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I was getting a different vibe from Terry's voice.

The new title of this show should be "A doctor tells fat people to lose weight."

Michael can keep losing weight on his own, but it will likely be a little less each month than the month before. If he sticks with martial arts, that will help. His wife's picture is in the dictionary next to 'cloying'. Sweet lady, but something's weird there. I wonder if this is one they had in the can from previous seasons and had deemed it too boring to air.

If Paula's Facebook page is any indication, she's living her best life 7 years out from surgery. https://www.facebook.com/pjami47

"I don't have the time to do the program because I have to take care of my daughter" -- well of course this is BS, we all know it is, but let's think about her daughter. Someday she's going to see this and understand it. Her mother may be alive, or may be bedbound, or may be dead. Think of all the years and thousands of dollars of therapy it's going to take to strip away that guilt. Even if she knows it's BS the way we do, mothers can do a helluva number on daughters with crap like that. I did spend the first 10 minutes thinking I was going to root for this lady. Oh well.

Apparently she saw this show as a back door audition for American Idol. 2 hours of watching her back talk to the good doctor is Not Good Television.

Self-indulgent tripe.

I read it as fear. Or maybe that was me projecting my fear onto whichever poor unfortunate soul was trapped in a room with her.

Remember when this show had people on it who wanted help? Remember Melissa? How she lost so much weight but then backslid into the 200's and got sad and mopey and didn't wear lipstick or fold laundry and was raked over the coals for it? Awww. What days those were. Everybody responsible for producing this show needs to have a heart-to-heart zoom meeting and figure out what the hell their collective problem is. Not the least of whom is the sound editors who backdropped her abusive, threatening (seriously threatening), f-bomb laden rant in the waiting room/car with the the sad, soft, tinkly piano music of regret. As if it was a deeply emotional scene, instead of a borderline criminal act. I can't believe Dr. Now went back into a room with her. I was scared for him. I hope there were security guards standing beside the camera crew. She lives 90 minutes from me, and I am terrified. This isn't the show I signed up to watch.

Maybe he did and it was even more boring than what made the final cut.

Also, from the beginning, when Megan and mom are shopping in the grocery store at the beginning, Megan's mom says something like, "Megan has a sweet tooth. I try to get her to eat healthier snacks, like chips, but she does have a sweet tooth."

Mom is liable to catch some flies the way she sits with her mouth gaping open, especially when gazing up at Dr. Now. Maybe she is awestruck. What a couple of blaaaaaaah people.

But seriously, thanks for the tidbit, it might be more interesting than anything we've seen so far this season. The bar is low. 😁

I thought Dottie got quite a sympathetic edit, unlike some of the other miscreants. Sad to see she's jumping on the lawsuit bandwagon.

Has there ever been a more righteously indignant family member than the fiancee? How dare he ask about her weight -- she's the thin one! "I'm doing my own plan -- but it's not high protein low carbohydrate." I'm guessing her own plan was eating whatever she wanted but ripping Tommy a new one over a small pizza. She was bigger at the end than at the beginning. We all know how it works out when people do it their own way.