Season 12: Live Chat

[Hellga]

I just wanted to comment that compared to some poundticipants we've seen lately she looks positively svelte, and then we saw her naked from the back - and I take that back! 

Some serious lymphedema on her legs!   And for someone who is that young - did I see it right that she is just 26?  it's impressive that it grew to that size in such a relatively short time.  At least she is still able to go up and down the stairs.  

[Pepper Mostly]

Hola, Fat Chatters! How's everyone's eating habit? 

I had salad, of course. With chicken and avocado. I cooked like a fiend on Monday and Tuesday, and did housework and fiddled around with my houseplants today. I am exhausted. Almost as exhausted as a 600 pounder who has to get to the kitchen. 

[lemoncake]

My eating habit was an omelet because Mr Lemon and Baby Lemon wanted to hit a food truck and sometimes food truck food and I dont get along 

[Red Bridey]

Hello, my lovies! My eating habit was square (!)spaghetti and tomato sauce. Now munching on Oreos. How many biscuits will she eat?

[aliya]

Whoops, I was over on another day. These boards are getting hard to figure out.

My eating habit was ramen (I only use 1/2 the noodles and make my own flavoring/broth), with chicken, broccoli, onions, peppers followed with a couple of Clio mini yogurt bar chasers.

Whew -  I thought she was making all that food for herself.

[Minivanessa]

Poor Shakyia - she has asthma. OTOH she's mobile. I suppose that's because she's only 26. Fingers crossed that she can turn things around before she's much older.

[Hellga]

She said there are three adults and three kids in the house - hopefully that means that NOT all those biscuits will end inside Shakiya!  

She was just a cute little girl!

[ams1001]

Corn dogs, biscuits, sausage, and bacon for breakfast. I don't eat that much bacon in a year.

[Elizzikra]

1 minute ago, ams1001 said:

And we're starting right out with the toilet and the shower.

And a big ole boob hanging out...

[lemoncake]

Paper plates, check ✔

[Auntie Anxiety]

Three corn dogs! A thousand sausages! And a biscuit (or three) to wash it down. Yep, that’s a healthy meal.

[Pepper Mostly]

3 minutes ago, Hellga said:

Hello, my pounder friends!

Yesterday, I wasted 3.5 hours of my life on a very boring musical (Company, plus they had 'technical difficulties' so we had an unplanned 35-minute break) so I hope tonight's show will be better.  Correction:  I know this show will be better because of your guys' company.

Eating habit tonight is yesterday's leftover pizza (pan pizza with wild musrooms, mashed potato and scallions!  Sounds odd but it was really tasty!) and maybe some guacamole and chips. 

I have tickets for Company for Saturday! It wasn't good? 

[LizzyB]

Wow, the voiceover content is already world-class Poundicipant stuff. "Food is my top priority." "Some days I wonder why I go on, and then I remember there's food" (said while resting on the top stair). Phew!

[lemoncake]

Corn dogs for breakfast

[Minivanessa]

The house looks nice. 

[Elizzikra]

1 minute ago, Pepper Mostly said:

Hola, Fat Chatters! How's everyone's eating habit? 

I had salad, of course. With chicken and avocado. I cooked like a fiend on Monday and Tuesday, and did housework and fiddled around with my houseplants today. I am exhausted. Almost as exhausted as a 600 pounder who has to get to the kitchen. 

Now you know I'm gonna ask... what did you cook for mom this week and when should I expect delivery to my home?

[Hellga]

Her sister is very slim even after having three kids.  

[Auntie Anxiety]

Heavier than the norm. Eloquent euphemism.

[aliya]

Just now, Auntie Anxiety said:

Heavier than the norm. Eloquent euphemism.

I caught that, too.

[Pepper Mostly]

3 minutes ago, Elizzikra said:

Hola Pounders! I'm tuning in to see everyone's eating habit and to salivate over this week's menu for @Pepper Mostly's mom!

Aw, aren't you nice! This week I made: braised chicken with mushrooms (Anne Burrell's recipe) and curried beef with potatoes and peas. I baked naans to have with the curry, and made Israeli couscous with parmesan and peas for an all purpose side, since I made so many potatoes last week. For a sweet I made an apple walnut bundt cake. Then my brother took us (me, my son, and houseguest) to dinner. A splendid time was had by all. 

[mmecorday]

Hello! My eating habit for lunch was a salad with fresh greens, strawberries, roasted pecans and chicken. Then for dinner I had a chicken quesadilla. 

[Hellga]

8 minutes ago, Pepper Mostly said:

I have tickets for Company for Saturday! It wasn't good? 

I didn't enjoy it personally (unlike Message in a Bottle that I absolutely LOVED two weeks ago) - there were only a handful of jokes I found funny, and none of the songs were memorable music-wise or lyric-wise.  But some people in the audience did laugh a lot more than I did, so I hope you guys have a good time!  

Edited April 11 by Hellga

[Chicklet]

80 pounds in one semester? Yikes

[LizzyB]

4 minutes ago, Pepper Mostly said:

Hola, Fat Chatters! How's everyone's eating habit? 

I had salad, of course. With chicken and avocado. I cooked like a fiend on Monday and Tuesday, and did housework and fiddled around with my houseplants today. I am exhausted. Almost as exhausted as a 600 pounder who has to get to the kitchen. 

"Fat Chatters"! 😂

[Elizzikra]

Just now, Pepper Mostly said:

Aw, aren't you nice! This week I made: braised chicken with mushrooms (Anne Burrell's recipe) and curried beef with potatoes and peas. I baked naans to have with the curry, and made Israeli couscous with parmesan and peas for an all purpose side, since I made so many potatoes last week. For a sweet I made an apple walnut bundt cake. Then my brother took us (me, my son, and houseguest) to dinner. A splendid time was had by all. 

Niiiiiiiccceeee...

[lemoncake]

Nothing good happens at a gas station 

[LizzyB]

OMG the description of the effects of the SA? Dear God.

[Auntie Anxiety]

Shakiyia has had a tough life and she’s only in her twenties. Maybe Dr. Now can show her the way.

[lemoncake]

She needs counseling, big time

[Auntie Anxiety]

Suddenly her leg blew up. I don’t think that’s how it happens.

[Elizzikra]

Just now, lemoncake said:

She needs counseling, big time

Definitely. She has had trauma on top of trauma on top of trauma.

[OoogleEyes]

Oh yay! Let's do the grocery store!!

[Pepper Mostly]

4 minutes ago, Jeeves said:

The house looks nice. 

I was just about to remark on that! An actual house with furniture! It's neat and tidy! No cobweb tapestries or sheetless beds? Is this even My 600 Pound Life? 

Oh, wait, they're off to the grocery store. Welcome back, old friend. 

[mmecorday]

The name of the supermarket is Garbage Foods? Sounds about right. 

[Hellga]

Just how many poundticipants have been able to fit into the back seat of a regular sedan?  She can't be much over 500lb.

[ams1001]

Just now, Auntie Anxiety said:

Suddenly her leg blew up. I don’t think that’s how it happens.

It was medium sized, and then, poof!

[Auntie Anxiety]

They’ve already hit the mark on so many of the usual tropes! I hope that means that she has success on her “journey.”

[lemoncake]

I'm already mad at her family for not intervening and supporting her in her negative behaviors

[Pepper Mostly]

4 minutes ago, Hellga said:

I didn't enjoy it personally (unlike Message in a Bottle that I absolutely two weeks ago) - there were only a handful of jokes I found funny, and none of the songs were memorable music-wise or lyric-wise.  But some people in the audience did laugh a lot more than I did, so I hope you guys have a good time!  

Oh, I've seen Company before--twice. I love Steven Sondheim. Its very much a period piece at this point-very 70s. 

[Chicklet]

Nothing in that basket is healthy, good lord.

[Auntie Anxiety]

Those cookies look good but they aren’t. Trust me on that.

[Hellga]

1 minute ago, mmecorday said:

The name of the supermarket is Garbage Foods? Sounds about right. 

Grocery stores don't fatten people nearly as much as their grubby hands do.

Packaged foods industry should share in the blame, and even meat and vegetables aren't as innocent as they were 100 years ago, but even her sister is still a living proof that it's not where you shop, or what you eat, it's how much...

[LizzyB]

Okay, we just got the exterior shot--this is a VERY nice house!  Porch rockers! Where the heck are we?

[CrazyInAlabama]

They're showing Shakyia's Supersized episode tomorrow night from 7 to 9 p.m. Central (they've been cutting some from the original episode to put in bonus scenes, so I enjoy watching both). 

Shakyia Jackson, Charlotte NC, Age 26.   Charlotte is almost 16 hours to Houston.   She's really mobile.   Asthma and her breathing scares me for her.   She lives with stepdad, her mom, their three kids.   She does her own cooking.  She was always overweight even as a toddler.  She was in foster care in second grade, for a few weeks until dad took custody.  Father was awful, and back to foster care.  Then, back to mom's.   

200 lbs by age 11. Bullied in school.     Mother isn't small, but not this big.   Sexually active at 13, comfort easting because of the rejection and bullying.  Clost to 400 lbs by high school grauation.  College gain was a lot. 

She has bad lymphedema on her leg.   My heart is breaking for her.  Bullied, abandoned multiple times by parents, health problems.  That lymphedema looks so painful.  She seems self-aware of her problems, I hope she's another Rose or Delana, or Krystal and a success.  

 

[Auntie Anxiety]

No yippy dogs? 

[lemoncake]

1 minute ago, Auntie Anxiety said:

Those cookies look good but they aren’t. Trust me on that.

I actually find those frosted cookies too sweet, bordering on inedible 

[LizzyB]

"Them titties weigh 150 pounds apiece" I'm dead.

[lemoncake]

How old is she?

[Auntie Anxiety]

MILF Manor got renewed? What the fuck?

[Pepper Mostly]

1 minute ago, Auntie Anxiety said:

No yippy dogs? 

Its going to take an age for anyone to get Bingo at this rate.