S08.E05: Gina's Story

[PrincessPurrsALot]

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Gina and wife Beth live with Gina's mom but don't have her support.  She and Gina's sister blame Beth for Gina's spiraling weight problem.  Now it will take all of Gina's will to leave home for Houston to get Dr. Now's help to save her life and her marriage. 

Gina and Beth sittin' in a tree or, more likely, Gina laying in a bed or on a recliner and Beth leaning over her, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.  Will she be successful?  Is Beth encouraging Gina's weight gain or was Gina already 500 lbs. and the family is blaming Beth for the last 100 lbs.? Let's watch and see.

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Orignal air date 2020.01.29.

[Guest]

This is a video of Gina from June. I want to know how she went from this to being an immobile blob who couldn't bring herself food or hang around her sister's wedding for longer than five minutes. 

By the way, I randomly started following her channel about a year ago (it came up in my suggestions and she SEEMED like a nice person) and her YT weight loss journey was every bit of a failure as her M600LL journey was. She deleted all of those videos and left this one up. She actually had more recent videos posted but they're all gone now, too. From what I could tell, she hadn't lost any weight on the more recent ones. 

[Minivanessa]

This episode reminded me that in taking the cases of these super morbidly obese patients, Dr. Now must have such challenging medical/ethical issues. Not that there aren't issues in any other practice, but man these patients must be so difficult. From our perspective as viewers of these edited episodes, we like or dislike the patients, but from the medical perspective, Dr. Now is offering them a program to lose weight and literally save/prolong their lives. Whether they are nice people or not. So he gives them another two months to lose 50/75 pounds even after they've foofed around for several months already, I suppose if he sees any hope that they are, however slowly/belatedly, changing their eating behaviors. And thus have a chance to be successful in a serious weight loss program after surgery. 

I suppose that's all "Captain Obvious" stuff, but as much as I disliked Gina (and loathed her mother), I found myself wondering how long she will live, and how many serious diseases she will suffer, if she doesn't turn around her eating habits and get her weight down significantly before many more years.

At the end of the episode she got another lifeline from Dr. Now, in the form of another goal to lose weight and then get the surgery. I wonder if she'll take it.

Edited January 30, 2020 by Jeeves

[littlebennysmom]

"I'm exhausted!" -- "I'm working sooo haaard!" -- "If I don't get this weight loss surgery, I don't know what I'll doooo!" -- "You mean there's actual nutrition information on food labels, dietician lady?  I had nooo idea!"

Gina had a whole lotta chances to do a whole lotta nothing.  And the once a month bathing thing will haunt me and give me the shivers for months to come.

[ams1001]

I'm still not finished with the live chat but I had to come over here to mention that I'm getting ads for slippers. 🤣🤣🤣

Edited January 30, 2020 by ams1001

[fonfereksglen]

18 minutes ago, Giant Misfit said:

This is a video of Gina from June. I want to know how she went from this to being an immobile blob who couldn't bring herself food or hang around her sister's wedding for longer than five minutes. 

By the way, I randomly started following her channel about a year ago (it came up in my suggestions and she SEEMED like a nice person) and her YT weight loss journey was every bit of a failure as her M600LL journey was. She deleted all of those videos and left this one up. She actually had more recent videos posted but they're all gone now, too. From what I could tell, she hadn't lost any weight on the more recent ones. 

Is this some type of fat porn?

Or is she a fan of WWT?

[AVM]

What  pure bullshit   ! A Fast Forward  and delete episode ....

Edited January 30, 2020 by AVM
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[calpurnia99]

She didn't seem that upset about her life. She had no motivation to change. The ones that are older, their bodies are in worse shape. She is only 28, she's ok , or better that the 40 and 50 some things we see. I could tell immediately she was a lost cause. She loved being waited on, laying there and not going to work. Really no down side for her.

Edited January 30, 2020 by calpurnia99

[CrazyInAlabama]

10 hours ago, Giant Misfit said:

This is a video of Gina from June. I want to know how she went from this to being an immobile blob who couldn't bring herself food or hang around her sister's wedding for longer than five minutes. 

Wow!  She doesn't look any different than on the show, except maybe a little smaller, and she's wearing what looks like the same clothes.  And as others said, the music is from 2019.  

Could the entire 600lb episode be a fake on her part?   And with her wife helping?        I notice she didn't seem to have the Rosacea, or other skin flushing the way she did through the entire episode either. 

So my guess is she gets flushed, when she gets called out on her lies, or when Dr. Now tells her exactly how she's lying.    

I hope someone sends this to the producers, and Dr. Now, and points out how recent it is.     

 

Edited January 30, 2020 by CrazyInAlabama

[DC Gal in VA]

Oh Gina, Gina, Gina............ whiney, bratty, demanding, attention whore Gina. You suck. The End.

As for Beth, I honestly don't get it. Why she married this leech and stays with her is a mystery to me. However, the bigger mystery is what exactly did she find appealing about this beast in the first place? I mean there is nothing attractive about Gina in any way and I am not talking about her size. Everything about her is repulsive: her personality, her creepy mom hanging around, her hygiene or lack thereof.

I really thought I was gonna hurl when Gina wondered why their sex life was non-existent after sharing that she's "forced" to bathe "about" once a month! Oh yeah, I love the smell of Gina in the morning; smells like victory misery! Eeeeewww!😷

Edited January 30, 2020 by DC Gal in VA
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[DC Gal in VA]

4 minutes ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

Wow!  She doesn't look any different than on the show, except maybe a little smaller, and she's wearing what looks like the same clothes, Iwonder if this was really old.    Unless she has had the same cheesy hair dye all of the time, then I don't know what to think.   

Could the entire 600lb episode be a fake on her part?   And with her wife helping?      Either that or she filmed a bunch of videos a few years ago, and deteriorated.   I notice she didn't seem to have the Rosacea, or other skin flushing the way she did through the entire episode either.     

 

I think her flushed skin look seems to be tied to her emotional state like when she's pissed off or overwhelmed by pretty much everything or especially when she's lying to Dr. Now as someone observed during the Live Chat. Maybe she was just relaxed and somewhat happy in the videos?

[sempervivum]

1 hour ago, ams1001 said:

'm still not finished with the live chat but I had to come over here to mention that I'm getting ads for slippers.

And mattresses.

[magemaud]

Getting ready for the road trip! There’s at least a ton of weight in that room, and sister’s fiancé isn’t even there! 

Tuckerton is the next county south of me and it’s a whole different world down there! 

Edited January 30, 2020 by magemaud

[Ivylady]

1 hour ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

Could the entire 600lb episode be a fake on her part?   And with her wife helping?      Either that or she filmed a bunch of videos a few years ago, and deteriorated.   I notice she didn't seem to have the Rosacea, or other skin flushing the way she did through the entire episode either.     

This video is recent because that song came out in 2019, so she's been doing some faking for the cameras. This makes sense, tho. It explains the sheer amount of food she was getting while supposedly dieting. Beth was at work, and Gina was out stuffing her face. 

[DropTheSoap]

I’m watching the repeat show. At the sister’s wedding. I’m hate-watching at this point. 

I’m going going to guess Ms. DoEverythingForMe ain’t losing 50# in 2 months.

So she only bathes when forced, and she and her wife live on couches in an apartment filled with overly involved family members. Gee...I wonder why there ain’t no sexytimes going on. 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

Either that or she filmed a bunch of videos a few years ago, and deteriorated.

In the beginning of the video, she says she was "immobile two years ago" and to "look at her now!" Her YT persona was absolutely nothing like the whiny, lazy loser she came across as in the show. From what I remember, she'd post videos of her "weight loss journey" and then disappear for awhile only to come back with some other video bemoaning the reason she didn't lose any weight. In fairness, I do recall a video where she claimed to have lost weight but I forget how much. She eventually flounced off for good. Whether or not that was the point where she started filming the show, I don't know.

I think those videos were auditions to get on the show. They obviously worked but she sold the show a phony bill of goods because there was absolutely ZERO enthusiasm in that episode.

Also, the sneakers she's wearing in the video were the same ones she wore on the show. They look as unused then as they did on the episode. 

Her latest videos (they were deleted in the last 24 hours) were of her doing live-stream gaming and one of her doing a video chat with only her face visible. She looked exactly the same.

[nokat]

3 hours ago, sempervivum said:

And mattresses.

Our super king will make you look skinny, and has easy to reach buttons to order your favorite pizzas, send blaming emails, or order a fairy with a stick to wipe your butt.
 

[Carolina Girl]

I’m five: minutes in to the episode and I want to punch the worthless sack of shit mother of hers in the gut.  But I’m afraid i’d never see my hand again. She acts like BETH is the problem?????

Edited January 30, 2020 by Carolina Girl
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[MelissaMinion]

The thing that stood out to me this episode is how she spoke to Dr Now. She was faking chipper, and she answered his questions by quickly rattling off what sounded like a checklist of “reasons” in a way that sounded like she had memorized them in the car on the way. She didn’t even breathe during some of them.

After seeing the dancing video, I think she was never serious about changing. She was another “the surgery is a magic bullet” person.

And she must have been pretty sheltered in that home full of fat people, because she didn’t know you could order groceries delivered? Once she learned that, DING, any attempt to stick to the diet was killed. 

At least grocery delivery will ease Beth’s burden?

[KateHearts]

The format of this show is so tired.  

Start: story of morbidly obese subject, complete with video of them spread out on a tired and ratty couch; eating enough food in one sitting to feed the entire Duggar family (complete with closeups of open mouth/tongue out/giant bites); mandatory bathing scene (bonus: breaking the shower rod, needing help from loved ones, or- being FORCED to sponge bathe due to smell!- bonus)

Next: sad music, childhood story (I was 80lbs at 4 years old/200 in 6th grade/then I REALLY started to have a weight problem when I got up to 400 in high school)... reasons for said sad childhood (abusive parents, neglect); insert mandatory "the only thing that made me feel better was food."

Next: Upcoming visit to Dr. Now, including how many days and miles it is to get there; how embarrassing/painful/anxiety-producing the trip will be and, of course, the "I am going to need food to cope with my stress along the way" theme. (We got a lot of this last night: "the trip was so stressful, I really couldn't start eating well until... 3 weeks after, a little bit.")

Next: weigh-in, shock ("I had no idea I weighed THIS much...") and- a new feature- Dr. Now making smart little jokes about how the subject got to this point.  Add in a little chiding for the enabling family members, who are invariably obese themselves (although they are "skinny" in comparison and thus allowed to criticize or counsel the subject.)

Then we have what feels like hours of listening to the narration of the show's "star," including the same old phrases over and over ("I hope I get to my goal! This is my only chance to live the life I dream of! I have been really trying! I really need this surgery!") Add in a few disappointing weigh-ins ("The scale must be wrong.  I'm glad I got another chance to save my life.") How about watching family members being abused? Dogs longingly watching as the entire family sits, immobile and mute, spread out on giant couches doing nothing?

And, more often than not, a non-ending where the participant doesn't get surgery, gets surgery at the very end, or just gives up.

I want to see their efforts, watch them cook, see them throw out the junk food, have them talk more in depth with their dysfunctional family members and the counselors and dietitians -How about showing them what "fresh food" is, how to cook it and make it interesting? 

Yeah, they need to overhaul this show. Gina was exceptionally fake, boring and one we knew the ending to from 5 minutes in.

Edited January 30, 2020 by KateHearts

[DropTheSoap]

It was like Bethany Jr. Let’s tell Dr Now how hard we’re working and how compliant we’ve been regardless of that nasty scale. 

Btw, anyone else get bumped off surgery for weight gain? I can’t recall. Usually they’re compliant by then — or just enough to get the magic fix (like Bethany original model).

[ams1001]

7 hours ago, sempervivum said:

And mattresses.

In the thread for 1,000 lb Sisters (in which episode Amy has her dream wedding even though she's already married in case she doesn't survive surgery) I got an ad for wedding dresses.

[ams1001]

8 hours ago, magemaud said:

Tuckerton is the next county south of me and it’s a whole different world down there! 

I live about an hour north and it's gotten so crowded here (and I'm not even in "North" Jersey). There were tons of cornfields around my neighborhood when I was a kid and they're all McMansions now. I have a friend down in the general vicinity of Tuckerton and driving there, once I get past Great Adventure, it's just a whole different landscape. Long stretches of almost nothing but road and woods and little traffic. (Other than worrying about deer, I really enjoy the drive, at least during the day. It's a little scary at night because it's so dark and isolated.)

2 hours ago, KateHearts said:

Next: sad music, childhood story (I was 80lbs at 4 years old/200 in 6th grade/then I REALLY started to have a weight problem when I got up to 400 in high school)...

Sometimes I think they have an absolute number in their head for what constitutes a problem weight and forget that a normal weight for an adult is not the same as what you're supposed to weigh as a child. So 200 for an adult woman of average height/build is not great, but not super-obese, either. So in retrospect, if they were "only" 200 at age 11 that's not "a problem"...never mind that the a normal-weight 11-year-old girl is still under 100 (at least according to my quickie google; don't quote me...no idea what I weighed at that age but it was definitely less than 100; I was small for my age growing up and 11-12 is about when I really started to catch up to my peers).

Edited January 30, 2020 by ams1001

[Hana Chan]

I had to bail halfway through last night because I had to get some sleep. I caught up on the rest this morning and can only shake my head at how utterly pathetic Gina is and that there was nothing that Dr. Now could do for her. All we heard from her were excuses. It's nothing that we haven't seen before, but it's pretty rare for us to see delusion on that level. Am I sympathetic that her father was abusive? Of course. No child deserves to be treated like that. But everything else? That's all on Gina and she takes responsibility for absolutely nothing.

The idea of being "forced" to bathe once a fucking month is disgusting and I don't blame Beth for cutting off the nookie train. Whining that anyone asks anything of her while she lays on that couch doing nothing more than counting air molecules. And once she was under Dr. Now's care, she finally ran into someone who saw right through her and made it clear that everything that happens is all on her. Dr. Now was right - the hard work has to be done by Gina no matter what is going on around her and what anyone else is doing. Everyone else is eating unhealthy food? What does that have to do with what she's putting in her mouth? There's a big event happening? What does that have to do with getting in a tiny bit of activity and eating according to the plan? All we heard from her is how hard it was and how overwhelmed she is... it was pathetic.

I'm going to use myself as an example - we had both bathrooms and my bedroom renovated over the past few weeks and I had a long stretch where I ended up sleeping on a very uncomfortable couch. I'd come home from work and have to clean because we were chocking on dust. We ended up eating dinner out a lot because it was impossible to cook at home, and all this was going on during my two week surgery prep. That didn't stop me from sticking to my plan and doing what I needed to do. And this was after spending nine months of weigh ins, doctor appointments and every kind of medical test you can imagine. It was all on me to do what I was supposed to and I'm now cruising to my surgery on Monday.

I just have no patience for people who are their own worst enemies. There was no help that Dr. Now could really give her because Gina refused to do the work that she needed to. It's unfortunate that a 28 year old woman is looking to be dead by 40, but it's up to her to make the changes that need to be made.

[AZChristian]

14 minutes ago, Hana Chan said:

I'm going to use myself as an example - we had both bathrooms and my bedroom renovated over the past few weeks and I had a long stretch where I ended up sleeping on a very uncomfortable couch. I'd come home from work and have to clean because we were chocking on dust. We ended up eating dinner out a lot because it was impossible to cook at home, and all this was going on during my two week surgery prep. That didn't stop me from sticking to my plan and doing what I needed to do. And this was after spending nine months of weigh ins, doctor appointments and every kind of medical test you can imagine. It was all on me to do what I was supposed to and I'm now cruising to my surgery on Monday.

Sincerely . . . best wishes for success as you go through the surgery and your new life afterwards.  I'm betting on you to succeed!!!!

[CrazyInAlabama]

9 hours ago, Ivylady said:

This video is recent because that song came out in 2019, so she's been doing some faking for the cameras. This makes sense, tho. It explains the sheer amount of food she was getting while supposedly dieting. Beth was at work, and Gina was out stuffing her face. 

So she's nothing but a liar, and I bet her entire backstory about the bathing, and everything else was a lie, just like her immobility was.     I'm wondering if she thinks she'll be the next Twitney, the big girl star?    We've been had.    

She never intended to lose weight, and if the producers continue with her, then I'll be very upset.  

 I think everything we were told by her family, and Gina and Beth was a lie that they made up.   I'm also questioning her entire back story too.          

After thinking about it this morning, then my suspicion is that was a two hour long audition, and she thought she would get her own follow up series.    I bet the dancing videos would have been the "I'm doing so well, and I'm a star" when she claimed to be doing better.       

I feel very used.      I bet the entire family was in on it, and I am not believing anything that I saw, or was shown.   The Dr. Now parts were legit, but nothing by Beth or Gina is believable to me now.  

Edited January 30, 2020 by CrazyInAlabama

[Hana Chan]

I think I zeroed in on the thing that pissed me off the most. When Gina took on the insurmountable burden of doing some grocery shopping and found that to be too much for her. That riding around on a cart and putting a few things in the basket was just such an ordeal that she couldn't finish that one task so that her wife didn't have to do it. Her voice over was really irritating, going on about how hard this was and that she had to pace herself so that she wouldn't burn out straight away. How fucking hard is it to ride on a cart? 

It's rather telling that the show ended without any word if Gina managed to finally get her surgery. I'm guessing that the answer is a big fat NO. 

[mellowjoi]

I'm over their sad stories that resulted in them being overweight.  She says she was abused but by her dad but it seems like the worst of the abuse was her mom and dad allowing her to grow to 500 pounds by the age of 19.  Someone was over feeding her since she was a child.  I can't imagine being disabled at age 19 due to just being FAT.  That is the stupidest reason to qualify for disability when you have so much life ahead of you.  

It's too late for this season but I want to see some people who are angry at their abusers and want to get fit to go back and kick their asses.  And only after the ass kicking can they tell us why.  

[KateHearts]

20 minutes ago, Hana Chan said:

I think I zeroed in on the thing that pissed me off the most. When Gina took on the insurmountable burden of doing some grocery shopping and found that to be too much for her. That riding around on a cart and putting a few things in the basket was just such an ordeal that she couldn't finish that one task so that her wife didn't have to do it. Her voice over was really irritating, going on about how hard this was and that she had to pace herself so that she wouldn't burn out straight away. How fucking hard is it to ride on a cart? 

It's rather telling that the show ended without any word if Gina managed to finally get her surgery. I'm guessing that the answer is a big fat NO. 

Not to mention that she trashed an entire reading glasses display and just left it.  

After that she "Had to get out of there..." she loved using stress or whatever nebulous problem that living as a human being brings on to get out of everything.  We never really knew why she just couldn't stay in the reception hall to give her speech, or why she simply could not handle cleaning herself or walking to the car (after which she was "already wiped out.")

[Caoimhe]

I would love to have seen Gina’s meals while she was “working really hard”.

What Gina (and many other poundticipants) need is a very strict rehab for overeating.  They would be banned from any outside food sources and required to attend classes to learn what comprises an appropriate meal for a 1200 calorie (per day, not meal) diet.  Heck they should even have to learn to cook.  Not to mention exercise.  Along with all that, daily group therapy to discuss how to stop using food every time they feel anxious / sad / bored / stressed / every emotion under the sun.  I know it would be very expensive but might improve the success rate.  Who knows, they might even learn the motivation to keep it up when they get back home.

[ams1001]

20 minutes ago, KateHearts said:

Not to mention that she trashed an entire reading glasses display and just left it.  

At first I was thinking "did she even tell anyone about that?" but she did apologize to an employee when she checked out, so I guess she did (or at least someone in the camera crew or one of the other customers who saw it did). I mean, if that happened to anyone and there wasn't an employee nearby, they'd have to leave the area to go find someone. A lot of people would probably panic and back out of the aisle. I wouldn't have tried to pick up the display by myself; those types of displays are often taller than me and I don't know how heavy they are (I would certainly have helped to pick up the glasses from the floor, though, but regardless of how she got that way, she wasn't physically capable of cleaning up the mess). Not that I'm too inclined to be charitable toward her, but I can understand her reaction to that one.

[Carolina Girl]

That scene in the beginning where Beth, who had worked all day, was ordered to pick up food for the human mountain range (and apparently also the boyfriend that showed up conveniently at dinner time) and wanted to just come home and cook really pissed me off.  Snotted at by Gina when she asked if the lazy mound of fat could call ahead.  NO YOU CALL!  Because apparently dialing the number would take too much out of that sow.

And then her mother saying "you shouldn't be treated that way."  What the ever loving FUCK??  I turned it off at that point.  I knew it was going to be one of those "I'm doing everything (chomp) I (chomp) can! (chomp).  

I hope Beth finds someone who appreciates her and divorces that worthless sack of shit.  Anyone have a Twitter address for her?  

[Hana Chan]

5 minutes ago, ThereButFor said:

I would love to have seen Gina’s meals while she was “working really hard”.

What Gina (and many other poundticipants) need is a very strict rehab for overeating.  They would be banned from any outside food sources and required to attend classes to learn what comprises an appropriate meal for a 1200 calorie (per day, not meal) diet.  Heck they should even have to learn to cook.  Not to mention exercise.  Along with all that, daily group therapy to discuss how to stop using food every time they feel anxious / sad / bored / stressed / every emotion under the sun.  I know it would be very expensive but might improve the success rate.  Who knows, they might even learn the motivation to keep it up when they get back home.

Unfortunately it didn't seem that Gina had any significant health issues that would warrant her being hospitalized for a month or so and would have allowed Dr. Now to put her on the kind of controlled diet that she really needed. There just is no way that she wouldn't have lost weight if she'd really followed Dr. Now's plan. We know that she didn't despite all of her protestations and without her being forced to comply in some way, there was really nothing more that Dr. Now could do for her.

It certainly wasn't helpful for Gina that everyone in her family, including her wife, are obese because no one in that house was eating in a healthy manner. But in the end, it's still on her to have the will to do what is right for her. No one was forcing food down her throat and she has full agency to make her own choices. She was the one eating two huge subs and a tub full of fries and she's the one who kept finding excuses to not do what she needed to do.

[Guest]

I'm still having an issue trying to square the Gina who was praying to god to help her make it the 20 steps out to the car with the Gina who's shown dancing like a champ in that video. 

And I will never get over the scene of her ditching her sister's wedding so she could sit in her van and literally phone in a toast. 

[libgirl2]

2 minutes ago, Hana Chan said:

It certainly wasn't helpful for Gina that everyone in her family, including her wife, are obese because no one in that house was eating in a healthy manner. But in the end, it's still on her to have the will to do what is right for her. No one was forcing food down her throat and she has full agency to make her own choices. She was the one eating two huge subs and a tub full of fries and she's the one who kept finding excuses to not do what she needed to do.

No it wasn't. If only the family members would make a commitment to eating healthier it is easier for the person to stick with it. It seems they gorge around the person who then feels deprived. 

[Carolina Girl]

1 minute ago, libgirl2 said:

No it wasn't. If only the family members would make a commitment to eating healthier it is easier for the person to stick with it. It seems they gorge around the person who then feels deprived. 

And I believe Beth would have been more than happy to do the cooking to make sure they ALL stayed on the diet and got healthy.  

[calpurnia99]

1 hour ago, Hana Chan said:

I had to bail halfway through last night because I had to get some sleep. I caught up on the rest this morning and can only shake my head at how utterly pathetic Gina is and that there was nothing that Dr. Now could do for her. All we heard from her were excuses. It's nothing that we haven't seen before, but it's pretty rare for us to see delusion on that level. Am I sympathetic that her father was abusive? Of course. No child deserves to be treated like that. But everything else? That's all on Gina and she takes responsibility for absolutely nothing.

The idea of being "forced" to bathe once a fucking month is disgusting and I don't blame Beth for cutting off the nookie train. Whining that anyone asks anything of her while she lays on that couch doing nothing more than counting air molecules. And once she was under Dr. Now's care, she finally ran into someone who saw right through her and made it clear that everything that happens is all on her. Dr. Now was right - the hard work has to be done by Gina no matter what is going on around her and what anyone else is doing. Everyone else is eating unhealthy food? What does that have to do with what she's putting in her mouth? There's a big event happening? What does that have to do with getting in a tiny bit of activity and eating according to the plan? All we heard from her is how hard it was and how overwhelmed she is... it was pathetic.

I'm going to use myself as an example - we had both bathrooms and my bedroom renovated over the past few weeks and I had a long stretch where I ended up sleeping on a very uncomfortable couch. I'd come home from work and have to clean because we were chocking on dust. We ended up eating dinner out a lot because it was impossible to cook at home, and all this was going on during my two week surgery prep. That didn't stop me from sticking to my plan and doing what I needed to do. And this was after spending nine months of weigh ins, doctor appointments and every kind of medical test you can imagine. It was all on me to do what I was supposed to and I'm now cruising to my surgery on Monday.

I just have no patience for people who are their own worst enemies. There was no help that Dr. Now could really give her because Gina refused to do the work that she needed to. It's unfortunate that a 28 year old woman is looking to be dead by 40, but it's up to her to make the changes that need to be made.

That fucking dust is the worst, it gets everywhere even if they say they are closing off rooms etc. I'm allergic to it as well. If anyone had an excuse to stray a bit it was you. Oh I'm so busy and I had so much stress - what???

I never had the feeling that she had hit rock bottom. She could walk, she wasn't really in THAT much pain. She never gave an actual reason why she needed to do this. The "saving my life" is years off. She will die at 48 not at 29. She doesn't have horrid lymphodemas. She seemed downright proud of being declared disabled at 18 and becoming a breadwinner (bread eater). There was just not enough motivation for her to change. I know Dr. Now has used the phrase: you want to keep doing what you have always done. And that was so true. But what really bugged is she had this lying phony voice full of platitudes that she would spurt out at Dr. Now. It was not the real her AT ALL. He saw right through it of course. The Scale doesn't lie. It was hilarious the way she would read the script: I've done EVERYTHING possible and I've worked SO hard. When her goal of 50 pounds in 2 munt, if she had done the actual diet she would have lost 70 pound in 2 munt and Dr. Now knows this. That is why 23 pounds is cheating, lots of cheating. Losing 5 pounds is your morning shit/being good fr 3 days before your appointment hoping to "trick" the scale. 

But that family, jesus that wedding scene with the 3 of them walking in. The mother thought that Gina was sooooo great and didn't think she herself needed to lose weight. Between the 5 of them there was so much delusion going on and an "unhealthy dymanic" X 5! Dr Now had no idea what kinds of Bull Shit was going on in that house. Of course she hid all her cheating from the camera crew. She was very aware of the cameras. waste of space. I hope she grows a lymphedema, gets infections in her fat folds, gets immobile and has heart issues. Maybe then she will try.

[libgirl2]

9 minutes ago, Carolina Girl said:

And I believe Beth would have been more than happy to do the cooking to make sure they ALL stayed on the diet and got healthy.  

And that is sad. You have someone who wants to try. 

6 minutes ago, calpurnia99 said:

But that family, jesus that wedding scene with the 3 of them walking in. The mother thought that Gina was sooooo great and didn't think she herself needed to lose weight. Between the 5 of them there was so much delusion going on and an "unhealthy dymanic" X 5! Dr Now had no idea what kinds of Bull Shit was going on in that house. Of course she hid all her cheating from the camera crew. She was very aware of the cameras. waste of space. I hope she grows a lymphedema, gets infections in her fat folds, gets immobile and has heart issues. Maybe then she will try.

She is  young still, her chances of a lymphedema are great as she gets older and less mobile. 

[Guest]

The other thing that killed me was Lola telling Beth and Gina that their "homework" was to buy a bed and sleep in it together. Well, Lola, maybe Beth would like to get as far away from her as possible since once-a-month-bather Gina probably smells like mobile garbage barge?

I didn't see that the bathroom in their apartment was any more spacious than the one at Gina's sister's house -- and given that she bemoaned her once a month on-the-bucket-on-the-toilet barely-touching-her-skin-with-a-bath-puff-on-a-stick routine, I don't think that changed much after she moved. 

[essexjan]

Is this the fattest family we've ever seen? I skimmed this episode today whilst, ahem, "working from home" so when it got to the wedding I'd not seen the groom before (I don't know if he appeared earlier) but I knew he was either going to be another 500+-pounder or would be 5ft4in tall and 85lbs. No in between, just one of those two options. 

Poor Beth, working all day, doing all the housework and cooking for the elephant walrus wife and her family.

And, jeez, I can't (and to be clear, do not want to) imagine the smell coming from a woman who eats nothing but massive amounts of junk food every day and, I assume, is still menstruating if she only bathes  washes herself with a rag on a stick once a month because she's forced to!! Ye Gods! Then she complains that Beth refuses to have sex with her!

I bet that new mattress was stanky within a few weeks.

And well done, Dr Now, for cancelling on her. There's no way she's ever going to be in a position to get WLS. I hope Beth manages to find some friends in Houston and is able to have a life of her own.

At least the dog this week looked able to take care of himself rather than the usual teacup pups we see in the Pounders' homes, who always seem to be in imminent danger of getting squashed by a stray lymphodema.

[DropTheSoap]

30 minutes ago, Carolina Girl said:

That scene in the beginning where Beth, who had worked all day, was ordered to pick up food for the human mountain range (and apparently also the boyfriend that showed up conveniently at dinner time) and wanted to just come home and cook really pissed me off.  Snotted at by Gina when she asked if the lazy mound of fat could call ahead.  NO YOU CALL!  Because apparently dialing the number would take too much out of that sow.

And then her mother saying "you shouldn't be treated that way."  What the ever loving FUCK??  I turned it off at that point.  I knew it was going to be one of those "I'm doing everything (chomp) I (chomp) can! (chomp).  

I hope Beth finds someone who appreciates her and divorces that worthless sack of shit.  Anyone have a Twitter address for her?  

Mom and her “how dare she offer to cook real food when the diner’s on speed dial. You make her bring us all dinner.” Really, the bitch didn’t fall far from the tree. 

Run, Beth. There’s no need to be trapped with that psycho. You can do better, even if single. (But divorce in NJ; Texas is a community property state.)

[DropTheSoap]

39 minutes ago, Giant Misfit said:

I'm still having an issue trying to square the Gina who was praying to god to help her make it the 20 steps out to the car with the Gina who's shown dancing like a champ in that video. 

And I will never get over the scene of her ditching her sister's wedding so she could sit in her van and literally phone in a toast. 

What better way to attentionwhore?

[Colleenna]

12 hours ago, fonfereksglen said:

Is this some type of fat porn?

Or is she a fan of WWT?

Apparently  she's a  graduate of the Whitney school of  personal  hygiene.  Wonder if  she pees in hot tubs too?😉

[Tabbygirl521]

12 hours ago, Giant Misfit said:

This is a video of Gina from June. I want to know how she went from this to being an immobile blob who couldn't bring herself food or hang around her sister's wedding for longer than five minutes. 

By the way, I randomly started following her channel about a year ago (it came up in my suggestions and she SEEMED like a nice person) and her YT weight loss journey was every bit of a failure as her M600LL journey was. She deleted all of those videos and left this one up. She actually had more recent videos posted but they're all gone now, too. From what I could tell, she hadn't lost any weight on the more recent ones. 

Sheesh. Gina was so frustrating. 

I’d like to know if Beth ever bailed, after seeing that Gina COULD stick to a diet (sorta) and did manage to regain some mobility. I mean, she was moving pretty well there when she went bombing into a couple of the doctor appts. Seems like that ability fluctuated depending on how much she didn’t want to do something but maybe that was editing. 

The supermarket demolition derby was...unusual. 

[Colleenna]

1 hour ago, ThereButFor said:

I would love to have seen Gina’s meals while she was “working really hard”.

What Gina (and many other poundticipants) need is a very strict rehab for overeating.  They would be banned from any outside food sources and required to attend classes to learn what comprises an appropriate meal for a 1200 calorie (per day, not meal) diet.  Heck they should even have to learn to cook.  Not to mention exercise.  Along with all that, daily group therapy to discuss how to stop using food every time they feel anxious / sad / bored / stressed / every emotion under the sun.  I know it would be very expensive but might improve the success rate.  Who knows, they might even learn the motivation to keep it up when they get back home.

You just described the  formula of the  OLD "Biggest Loser." (Haven't seen the  reboot yet. )

[Minivanessa]

34 minutes ago, Giant Misfit said:

I didn't see that the bathroom in their apartment was any more spacious than the one at Gina's sister's house -- and given that she bemoaned her once a month on-the-bucket-on-the-toilet barely-touching-her-skin-with-a-bath-puff-on-a-stick routine, I don't think that changed much after she moved. 

I think the difference is that the apartment bathroom had a tub or shower, and the bathroom where she lived in NJ was a half-bath with no tub or shower. So theoretically it would be much easier for Gina to shower/bathe in the Houston apartment.

However, by the time they moved into the Houston place, Gina was probably set in her horrible ways about not wanting to bathe or shower until forced to do so. Ugh.

[sainte-chapelle]

I find it suspicious that Gina and Beth married so quickly. Gina was on the hunt for a caregiver with low self esteem and found one. I suspect she only revealed her true nature once they were married.

[Tabbygirl521]

4 hours ago, DropTheSoap said:

It was like Bethany Jr. Let’s tell Dr Now how hard we’re working and how compliant we’ve been regardless of that nasty scale. 

Btw, anyone else get bumped off surgery for weight gain? I can’t recall. Usually they’re compliant by then — or just enough to get the magic fix (like Bethany original model).

I’m trying to figure out why they had her admitted to the hospital and IVed up and everything BEFORE he weighed her? A waste of time and resources. Some poor orderly has to sanitize that cubicle now. 

I just remembered Gina said they hadn’t had sex since BEFORE they got married. WHY, BETH?? Are you paying a penance for some horrible past misdeeds or something? RUN!

ETA: Did they ever give Beth’s age? I thought she looked a good bit older than Gina, which I mention only because it implies more life experience. I wonder what her world has been like that she would hook up with this horrible crew. 

And as someone else mentioned, it seems like Gina might be the one with agoraphobia. Her sis appears to be less housebound while Gina freaks out whenever she goes out the door. 

As noted, Beth was pretty big, but when she was seated next to Gina at the Dr Now’s, the size disparity was shocking. Gina is IMMENSE. 
 

That video upthread - was that in the Houston apartment? I wonder if she WAS up and moving during the time she actually lost some weight? At that time she seemed pretty mobile, based on her whipping through Dr Now’s waiting room. 

Edited January 30, 2020 by Tabbygirl521

[Burning Rubber]

This obesity is 100% GENETIC.

Having said that, 13 minutes in and I already loathe Gina for the way she treats her wife, and forcing her to pick up food from a restaurant. She's even too lazy to call in herself and demands that Beth do it... not only for her but for all the hungry elephants on the house... despite Beth's willingness to come home and slave at the stove to cook for them. 

And Gina's mom has the audacity to trash talk Beth behind her back and complain that Beth isn't treating Gina well???

Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh

Edited January 30, 2020 by Burning Rubber
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[Burning Rubber]

How dare  Beth complain that One-Bath-A-Month-Gina stink?