My 600 lbs Life- Is their anything more rage inducing?

My 700 pound life is a real mother fricker.

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while chugging coca colas like water from an oasis in the sahara desert.

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Just got me thinking... how do you weigh someone that fat?

We have an industrial scale calibration and installation division at my work that they have had to bring people to from the doctors offices to get an accurate weight. We have actually engineered it so that the ones that cant walk can be wheeled directly onto it.

I ask myself that about 20 times every single episode.

My favorite are the ones with chubby chaser husbands who are secretly trying to fatten them up while they are trying to loose weight

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I was scrolling through the program guide and didn't see anything on but this caught my eye... had never seen it before and it was the most rage inducing show ive ever seen... Did TLC create a script and list of excuses for why they are so fat to make the audience hate them? This woman would talk about how hard she was trying to lose weight while chugging coca colas like water from an oasis in the sahara desert. When it got to the point where she met with a doctor and he told her she had 2 months to lose 40 lbs (which is actually easy as hell at 600+ lbs), she could only lose 6. It infuriates me that medical resources go to worthless people like this

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I've seen almost episode. And although it might feel satisfying to vent like this, I don't see how anyone can do anything but feel extremely sorry for these people. Many (if not most) of them had severe trauma in their childhoods - such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, death of a parent, etc. It's very clear that they are mentally ill in many cases. And the ones who didn't have trauma usually had lousy role models - they are just replicating behavior that was in their homes their entire lives.

In some episodes, their "supporter" is revealed to be a toxic influence and is jettisoned.

I really like Dr. N (who is also the exec produce), as he usually gives it to them very straight (and presumably does the surgery for free.)

It's an addiction. Like being an alcoholic or a drug addict or a smoker.

To them it's not as simple as "just stop eating so much". It's like telling a heroin addict "If you don't want to be an addict, just don't do drugs".

Plenty.

The most legit show on right now is "how it's made".