S09.E12: Irene's Journey LIVE CHAT

[Floatingbison]

5 minutes ago, readheaded said:

At this point, they're just reusing the same script every week, swapping out minor details.  

There's only so many ways to be morbidly obese. 

[TazDevil]

Hi Pounders!!  Here but about 10 minutes behind.  Trying to catch up.  

She doesn't look too big, but she may be tall.  Her feet look really big.  I'm saying 622.

[ams1001]

603.7... I wasn't as far off as I expected.

[Brooklynista]

Wait. That's the same ratty wig? She doesn't even have a going out wig? Shameful shit. 

[umgoblue]

By the way @Giant Misfit, I only made it through 17 minutes of Coming2America.  What the hell...I had been waiting for sooo long. 

That drivel.

[parrotlover]

I’m late but my eating habit was salmon, baked potato and green beans...then I finished off my pack of Hot Tamales Peeps! Y’all I’m not a Peeps lover but those things are seriously addictive.

[Guest]

Yeah, that scale is lie-telling. NO WAY does she weight 603 pounds. No way.

[aliya]

1 minute ago, CringeWatcher said:

I had some reservations, but teaching 17 year olds was also rolling the dice on a daily basis, especially considering that our district does not notify us when someone with whom we’ve been in close contact tests positive. I just wanted to say I respect your decision and everyone should make his or her own decision. It’s not political; it’s a matter of choosing what’s best for one’s own health 🥂 (stepping off soap box)

That's OK. I have a spare soap box over here if you need one.  I'm retired. We're still mandatory mask everywhere until the end of May, even outside if you can't social distance. I mostly just go to the grocery, tho I have had my hair done twice.  I'm still going to church via YT.  If I had to go out in the world with the germy people, if I had to take the bus or subway, I might have different thoughts about the vaccine. I certainly understand why people get it, and many of the people I know, including my 90 yr old mother, have had at least the 1st shot. 

I found a hospital charity in the UK that asks people to donate 25 pounds, the cost of the shot (which they get for free, as we do here) to them so they can purchase PPEs for healthcare workers in Africa because they won't be getting the vaccine for awhile yet and still need protection. I thought that was a great idea and donated the same amount in USD. I have the choice not to get the shot; I can at least help people who not only don't have that choice, but are still working hard during the pandemic. 

[Suzywriter]

I wonder if she sews. She has pretty nice dresses.

[Twopper]

I guess I will predict 578.   She doesn't look all that heavy while she is seated on the couch, but that picture of her from the ground up in that flowery muumuu looking thing makes her look twice as heavy as she does when sitting on the sofa.   Honestly, I have no idea. 
 Heavier than Amy Slaton, but not as heavy as her sister Tammy.

[mmecorday]

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@mmecorday love your new avatar!

Thank you, @LizzyB! I finished binge watching the whole season this past weekend and I loved every single episode.

[OoogleEyes]

2 minutes ago, ShortyMac said:

You can already tell she's going to fail. All she knows is heavy, fried foods. She already said that anything else tastes 'plain.'

When Dr. Now is suggested by a friend/family member,  it NEVER works

[Kid]

She does not want to do it!!!

[fonfereksglen]

2 minutes ago, CringeWatcher said:

I missed it...where is this fashionista from? 

Houston.  All this year's budget went to the +++++ shows.

[Guest]

Just now, umgoblue said:

By the way @Giant Misfit, I only made it through 17 minutes of Coming2America.  What the hell...I had been waiting for sooo long. 

Oh, DAMN! I'm sorry @umgoblue ... I was so looking forward to it, too, and then that trailer crushed all my hope. 

[magemaud]

That dress looks like a test pattern 

[dreadfulLeigh]

I see she’s part of the itty, bitty ankles committee. 

[ams1001]

Oh my gawwwwd. What is this way she is talking to Dr. Now? It's hard to move arouuuunnnndd. I wanna lose weight to be a better personnnn...

[Chicklet]

I didnt see any vegetables

[Hana Chan]

"What do you eat in a typical day?"

Anything that can't run away from her!

But at least she's being honest about what she's actually eating and not trying to blame it on the grapes.

[Eldemarge]

I can already tell she is only here to bullshit herself and try to bullshit Dr. Now.  There, I've saved us all an hour.

[aliya]

1 minute ago, Suzywriter said:

I wonder if she sews. She has pretty nice dresses.

My mother was very large (I should ask how much she weighed at her biggest) and she sewed. I think it makes a difference on how you present yourself if you can make clothes that fit.

[Suzywriter]

She has a terrible scar on her forehead. Was there mention of an accident while I was out of the room? 

Look at Dr. Now's face. He is so tired of this dance. 

 

Edited March 11, 2021 by Suzywriter

[babyhouseman]

Just now, Chicklet said:

I didnt see any vegetables

Ketchup isn't a vegetable?

[ams1001]

She's telling Dr. Now all the things she should do so why hasn't she done it? If she knows what to do what does she need Dr. Now for?

(Said Dr. Now as I was typing...)

No. No juice.

[umgoblue]

1 minute ago, Giant Misfit said:

Yeah, that scale is lie-telling. NO WAY does she weight 603 pounds. No way.

@Giant Misfit  The show is called My 600 Pound Life.  They've got to play the role.  She is 550 at most (but I think she may weight less than that).  They are full of it.  They are scraping the Covid bottom, just getting folks off the street...in Houston...to keep the camera rolling!

[Kid]

Sometimes she over does it????

[Guest]

I can't stop laughing at that wig. It doesn't even seem real -- like it's photoshopped onto her head.

[mmecorday]

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I didnt see any vegetables

You didn't see her deep throating those Burger King fries?

[ams1001]

"I bring her good stuff." Isn't she the one who brought her the chicken?

[CringeWatcher]

1 minute ago, aliya said:

I found a hospital charity in the UK that asks people to donate 25 pounds, the cost of the shot (which they get for free, as we do here) to them so they can purchase PPEs for healthcare workers in Africa because they won't be getting the vaccine for awhile yet and still need protection. I thought that was a great idea and donated the same amount in USD. I have the choice not to get the shot

(1) what a worthy cause! 
(2) health care workers in Africa can’t get vaccines yet? That’s utterly heartbreaking. 

[Caoimhe]

Just now, aliya said:

My mother was very large (I should ask how much she weighed at her biggest) and she sewed. I think it makes a difference on how you present yourself if you can make clothes that fit.

I had an aunt who was very large and my mother and another sister both sewed for her.  I remember them deconstructing dresses that fit her to use in cutting new ones. 

[Hana Chan]

1 minute ago, babyhouseman said:

Ketchup isn't a vegetable?

I think that the only vegetables this heifer eats are the toppings on her three Whoppers.

[Pepper Mostly]

5 minutes ago, Suzywriter said:

Reading your comments, I am deeply grateful that I stepped out to get water and the sock that I'm knitting during the hamburger scene. It sounds like it was awful. 

Truly you have been spared. Though surely there will be new horrors to come. 

4 minutes ago, crazycatlady58 said:

Does she not have underwear on? The blurred out her crouch, she has her legs spread and when the person ( her niece?) leaves then she covers herself? The poor camera crew. You could not pay me enough. 

I bet they're just pixellating to amp up the "ew" factor. I remember when Ron Jeremy was on "The Surreal Life" and in one scene he opened his robe; the whole area from waist to knee was pixillated! He said in an interview later that the editing team did that to be bratty. And horrify the viewers. Mr. Jeremy had a reputation for being generously endowed, but even he couldn't cop to THAT.

[LizzyB]

2 minutes ago, mmecorday said:

Thank you, @LizzyB! I finished binge watching the whole season this past weekend and I loved every single episode.

That show has my heart. 🥰

[babyhouseman]

1 minute ago, Suzywriter said:

She has a terrible scar on her forehead. Was there mention of an accident while I was out of the room? 

 

She ate too fast and stuck a fork in her forehead. 

[Concerned]

Does Dr Now look younger than in other episodes?

[OoogleEyes]

4 minutes ago, Pepper Mostly said:

 OK but boy howdy do they feel uncomfortable now. I was telling my boss about it at one of our Zoom meetings and she said her husband called regular pants that aren't sweats "hard pants" and I have adopted that descriptor for my own. Once I retire I will never again wear hard pants. 

I've found some stretchy jeans through Lands End that are quite comfortable and look good.  They're not my beloved sweats, but aren't as bad as regular jeans.

[DropTheSoap]

She encouraged me to go make a mocha with some whipped cream. (Low carb...def. not low fat.)

She's going to be a fail.

[Granny58]

I think I might have a better chance of success if I was told to eat twice a day and split the 1200 calories that way.   Larger meals, and if the right foods are chosen it might be more than enough.   Just a thought. 

[Chicklet]

Note Lolita is concerned.

 

[Kid]

Wait til she sees that diet!!!🤣🤣🤣

[ams1001]

She got this far into the appointment before thinking to mention she blacks out on a regular basis just from coughing?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, umgoblue said:

They are scraping the Covid bottom, just getting folks off the street...in Houston...to keep the camera rolling!

It's like they're not even trying anymore. 

Her park walk at the end is going to take 20 minutes.

[LizzyB]

Her best friend's name is Lolita!  And her other friend is Cameo!  I love it.  What are the chances that you would meet and befriend a Lolita AND a Cameo?

[CrazyInAlabama]

12 minutes ago, CringeWatcher said:

I missed it...where is this fashionista from? 

Houston, TX!    Is that a first?   They'll had other that don't live that far away, but she's actually in Houston.       

Month 1-603 (I bet 575 at the most). 

Does she have contact with any but the son she's leaching off of?    Weren't there three young ones taken away by CPS?  I'm not sure if there's another older kid, younger than a son.      Did she get them back?  And if she did, she would have to have a place to house them, not her oldest son's couch.  

Please let them have video of her falling out, I bet that would be better than Megan's 'heart attack'. 

Edited March 11, 2021 by CrazyInAlabama

[ams1001]

I feel like the ones who start out with the "Yes sir thank you" and No sir thank you" always end up going off on him halfway through the journey.

[DropTheSoap]

1 minute ago, LizzyB said:

Her best friend's name is Lolita!  And her other friend is Cameo!  I love it.  What are the chances that you would meet and befriend a Lolita AND a Cameo?

I think it depends on how many of your friends are drag queens.

[hookedontv]

Hi Pounders! Just getting done with everything today so I’ll start watching live now and catch up on the first half hour some other time. 
 

Work and life have been kicking my ass lately so I am looking forward to reading the first class snark about this crazy show. Hope everyone is good and healthy! 

[Guest]

How the hell do they know that Irene isn't spraying COVID ALL OVER THE FUCKING ROOM!?