re: Watched a few episodes of My 600lb Life

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If you pay attention to the show you see about 90% of the women were sexually abused as a child. I think the men on the show are the lazy asses.

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A lot of times, the men suffered horrific traffic accidents, etc that left them immobile for 6-12 months; what I think often goes unsaid is that a number of them become painkiller addicts. Not to a "sucking dick to snort some Oxy" level but just enough to tip the scales to "I'm not going to leave the house for a month".

The women are nearly all victims of abuse with zero self-respect.

I would say the vast majority of male and female participants and their caretakers have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the surgery works. They are in such deep denial that they literally don't understand that their lifestyle is unhealthy, they don't get that eating 10k calories a day is why they became so heavy. So they get the surgery thinking it's a silver bullet to hard reset their body and allow them to continue making horrible choices but now with no consequences.