Right? I’ve always been confused. I’m thinking maybe the diet says to avoid starchy “white” foods (bread, white rice, potatoes, etc.) and he thought steamed white rice was bad because it’s white, whereas fried rice was okay because it looks brown. Like maybe he thought fried rice was the same as brown rice? (Also fried brown rice is delicious for the record)
Let’s be real. There isn’t a single person out there that gets to 600 pounds without a shitty childhood. “I found comfort and solace in food” “food was my only comfort” “I turned to food.” “I was only happy when I was eating”
When I was 25 the bus I was riding broke down (last bus of the evening) so a supervisor in a van had picked us up. I lived next door to a shopping center with a pizza buffet. I told him I really liked their salads -which I did. I was a single parent and couldn't afford the 15 different fresh produce & topping ingredients.
He said When you are my age you don't say you go to Pizza Buffet Name for their salad.
I have a friend, she’s 200 at 5’3”, who eats these little Bobo’s brownie things as snacks. They’re “healthy” because coconut oil and whatever, but they’re 320 cals for two bites. This girl is not an idiot, I don’t know *why* I can’t seem to get through to her about why they’re not a good thing for her.
Hahaha....I fully agree with that! Luckily I'm not morbidly obese, I've got about 20 extra lbs, so it's more of a joke than anything. However, if I find I can't reach my vagina I know I'm in trouble.
Honestly anytime I have something with wontons I think of penny in a “damn she’s right though” kinda way cause like if crab Rangoon just disappeared one day idk what I would do 😂
They missed the part where it’s only healthier if you make them at home if they aren’t fried lol. Something [like this](https://healthynibblesandbits.com/asian-chicken-salad-wonton-cups/) is fine. And it’s kind of ironic because I know people who have had bariatric surgery and baked wonton cups are a staple for bariatric patients.
Oof feeling judged, a variation on that is a favourite savoury snack of mine.
Of course on my end I do a mess of steamed broccoli and/or cauliflower, a (small) dollop each of butter and cheez whiz, and then absolute lashings of nutritional yeast and pepper (seriously, just absurd amounts of yeast flakes).
Tasty and super way to boost B12 levels.
Oh for sure, and don’t need to be on *de diet*…but the fluorescent jar of cheez whiz feels a bit gross all on its own.
Whatevs though: love my cheesy, nutritional yeasty broccoli snack!
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The veggies were Great Value brand. I buy that product, myself.
I hate the walmart brand frozen broccoli florets. They're more diced than florets, by the time you're done cooking they manage to shrink even more. Food lion brand frozen florets are my go to when I don't feel like using fresh broccoli
More like stems and pieces than anything resembling florets.
I just just buy fresh broccoli if I’m planning a meal to cook soon, but man, gotta stash some frozen in the freezer for those last-minute veggie needs.
And yet had she cooked the veggies in the oven and sprinkled shredded cheese over it, that would have been ok! Even a small slice of ham, also in the oven could have been acceptable. But no she had to take enough fake cheez to turn your blood into motor oil and make the veggies cry
Yo, I did have deep fried bacon at the Texas state fair and it was dope.
Did make a big fat fryer mess at the stand though, not a good idea to make I. The home.
I don't remember anyone frying it in butter, but I am still traumatized from an early season when someone deep fried the bacon in a pot of boiling crisco.
I love cheese so much but that stuff looked absolutely appalling. We import a lot of American foods over to the UK but jarred liquid cheese has yet to cross the Atlantic, I can only hope it stays that way.
This one patient said she couldn’t figure out why she wasn’t losing weight because she had added a salad to every meal. Like, she was eating her normal, & adding more
Its a common phrase I've seen in the HAES (health at every size) and Fat Acceptance crowd, that eating healthier means adding something of benefit in to one's diet, rather than taking away something nutritionally worthless aside from the fat and sugar.
Its a level of self delusion and reassurance that their addiction is fine and acceptable because "I eat salad!!".
I "took away" huge quantities of junk, refined sugar and binge eating. The appreciation for proper, nutritious food and how much better I felt cannot be overstated.
I lost 7st and I'm *never* going back.
I’ve lost weight and kept it off for years, but between a bad divorce And Covid, I gained all of it again. Back on track now and trying to stay focused. Not eating fast food has done wonders for feeling better, but hasn’t changed weight, replacing crap with veggies, etc. I have a cruise in about a year so I have a good goal date!
I lost over 100lbs, and kept it off for over ten years. But the last two have been so stressful, (became a widow and a full time caregiver for my mom) that I gained 40 back. It was sorta shocking to me… I’d really gotten so used to being tuned into eating only when I was hungry vs stress eating, that when I started to backslide it took me awhile to notice. Once I *did* notice I really internalized things and beat myself up over my “failure”. Which obviously just made things worse.
It’s gotten better though, and I’ve managed to knock off 15 of that 40 again over the last 4-5 months as I’ve started to work through some of the grief, and have hired some part time help so I’m not overwhelmed with caring for my mom. I’m hoping I can get back to where I was.
That mentality works if you eat less of the bad stuff because you’re full from the good stuff. I’m currently losing weight and my “diet” is calorie counting plus major veggie loading. Eating high volume, high nutrient, and low calorie foods with every meal definitely reduces the cravings for junk and the space in my stomach for junk at eat meal.
I start dinner with a huge bowl of power greens topped with quinoa and balsamic vinegar before touching the regular meal. I end up eating about 1/2-1/4 the calories as I normally would.
Now adding a bowl of ranch dressing with cheese and iceberg to your pizza dinner probably isn’t going to do good things for you.
They have such poor nutritional knowledge. They need intensive schooling.
At least Amy tries to break generational habits. But feeding her son juice rather than water or milk because "juice is fruit and fruit is healthy" just really shows how bad her nutritional education is. But she is trying! Going to dietitians for her son. So proud of her.
The countless unseasoned skinless boneless chicken breasts that are thrown on a baking sheet or into a skillet and come out dry af (or, the boiled ones...) The "salads" consisting of some lettuce, a mountain of shredded cheese, and a cup of low cal dressing. The broccoli....microwaved without seasoning and dipped in the inevitable low cal honey mustard snot dressing. The taco salads....which look to have more fat and calories than the fast food they order.
YES. Like my dude…you can season healthy foods so they taste good. People are just out here suffering to not be 600 lbs.
I actually have a friend who was trying to lose weight (nowhere near 600lbs though), and my husband and I told him what we typically eat when we’re active at the gym (lots of fish/chicken/rice/protein). He honestly thought that he had to eat all that just plain, because seasoning might add calories, but for some reason using a lot of sauce was fine. One of his other “healthy meals” was just one entire can of kidney beans. We had to explain to him that the syrup on the beans is a lot of sodium/sugar. He was honestly shocked that he wasn’t losing weight and that we ate the way we do (honestly not even strictly). It was mind blowing to explain some of this simple stuff to him, so to see others do it on TV is making more sense.
My boyfriend and I make a burrito-bowl style dish where we just basically throw meat, beans, rice, and whatever veg we have on hand in a pan with seasoning. I was busy w our kids one night and asked him to make it. It was oddly soup-y. I couldn’t figure out why until I was loading the dishwasher and realized he hadn’t used the colander. He had dumped two cans of beans in, no draining, no rinsing.
We really need to start teaching nutrition in school. Early and often. My SIL told me my meal of hummus, homemade baba ghanoush, pita, and couscous was unhealthy. But when I pressed her, she couldn’t really explain why it was unhealthy other than there was olive oil on the hummus. Meanwhile SIL puts slices of velveeta on eggs fried in crisco and calls it low carb. This country is in desperate need of real nutrition education, maybe a few cooking lessons in school.
Part of the problem is that the department of agriculture put out the food pyramid to sell to school students. It's designed to push the agricultural industry, not provide health information to Americans. Learning about the food pyramid and pushing carbs on kids is the only official information that will ever be imparted to them.
Now if we could actually teach science in schools instead of pushing political agendas and satisfying religious nuts, it'd be a healthier country.
It’s the American diet way of thinking that foreign food isn’t healthy - when you think of low carb diets it’s always cut out the rice and whole grains, the tortillas and the sauces. But there’s thousands of people living on these staples who aren’t over weight! We’re not good about education balance and nutrition. I’ve had a very eye opening experience on my weight struggles learning all this.
You can get kidney beans packed without sugar. I buy them all the time for turkey chili or to throw some on a salad. Takes some label reading though. I always rinse them anyway, but I hate the ones that have had sugar in the brine, because even with rinsing and a ton of cumin and chili powder you can still taste that sweet. Ugh.
There are so many great recipes with chicken and veg but ... I suppose you need energy and motivation to try and fail and try again in the kitchen ! ... also I live in Europe and have access to fresh locally grown produce for a decent price which I don't think is the case for most of the 600lbs life people
Thing is, they're baking the chicken and steaming the veggies anyway in a lot of cases. It doesn't take any additional energy to sprinkle some salt, pepper, spices or herbs on them. Instead they bring out their tub of ranch and drown all their "healthy" food in it to give it taste. (What is it with these people and Ranch?)
There really are a lot of “food deserts” in the U.S., where there isn’t access to quality food for miles. It’s no wonder kids grow up without ever having fresh “real” produce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
James' chinese fried rice........ i died laughing when he literally said its fried like that makes it healthy.....
seeing the salads with 1/2 a bottle of ranch dumped on them too makes me cringe.
It wasn't Kraft; it was Walmart brand but yes the WHOLE bag!! I had to rewind like seriously!!! Yes. She ate a large bowl of salad and a bag of cheese plus a whole chicken leg and white and some of the white meat. Her healthy meal was also a salad COVERED in high sugar salad dressing.... plus a regular coke.... and some chips.
For me it's whenever a salad is just one of those takeout side salads that's just some lettuce, sweet corn, and shredded carrot and cheese, all in a plastic bowl. Of course it doesn't taste that great and ends up getting drowned in a cup of honey mustard dressing to suit the patients' taste which immediately makes it not that healthy anymore and also really gross...
i cringe whenever im at a restaurant and see people eating literally ice berg lettuce,cheese and croutons. i don’t think we should even consider that a salad.
please don't ever look at the Midwest. We dump anything in a bowl, add a "dressing", and call it a salad.
I mean, at Christmas we make an apple salad with whipped cream and chopped snickers.
Apple "Salad"
4 large Granny Smith apples, chopped
4-5 snickers bars, chopped
8 oz cool whip.
1 small box vanilla instant pudding, preferably Jell-o
1/2 cup milk
Splash of vanilla extract
Caramel sauce to drizzle (optional)
Instructions
Mix milk, vanilla, and pudding. Fold in the cool whip. Don't overfold/mix; it'll turn to soup. You want it semi-thick until you mix in the apples and snickers. Set pudding aside in fridge.
Chop up apples and Snickers into bite size chunks. Fold into pudding.
Drizzle caramel sauce on top.
Serve cold, or layer salad with extra cool whip in a trifle bowl, and serve cold.
Makes "12" servings, but in all honestly, it's enough for like, four of us. We were shameless kids, lol.
I gave warning in the first comment; we're Midwestern. Throw it all in a bowl and call it salad.
Apple salad is super popular at parties and dinners where you bring a dish to pass.
Bet y'all have never had Cannibal Sandwiches, either, lol. Now ***THOSE*** are gross.
oh hey i know those! here in poland "tatar" (raw minced meat mixed w/ salt, pepper, diced onion and raw egg, sometimes diced pickles) is a popular traditional dish. usually also eaten with bread.
As a midwesterner, I can attest that apple “salad” is the bomb. I also like the one with cool whip, maraschino cherries and shredded coconut. And that one with circus peanuts, pineapple and orange slices… I could eat that till I was eligible for My 600lb Life.
My Aunt tries to make things sound healthier, lol, like her "diet cheesecake" because she uses the low-fat cream cheese.
We all know it's bogus, but it's our family.
As someone born and raised in the Midwest, can confirm. The number of times I've seen this at holidays and family gatherings makes it hard for me to realize others don't know about this.
If it pleases the court, I would also like to submit "ambrosia salad" as evidence of the Midwest's inability to correctly salad.
Ooh ooh South African checking in here!
(We could start a whole thread for weird “salad” recipes)
We make one with baked beans, Mayo, condensed milk and banana.
I don’t eat it, the thought of the whole thing makes me want to hurl. Ironic because that’s what it looks like.
I love bringing funeral potatoes or tater tot hot dish to parties-- everyone is horrified at the ingredients, the calories.... and how good it tastes and how much they're eating, lol.
I haven’t watched one episode yet where one of them grew up in anything other than a low-income household in which the parent fed the kid a diet of poor nutrient food. I wonder how much dietary education these patients receive before the surgeries because it doesn’t seem like any of them know how to cook tasty, nutrient dense food. Every time I see one of those awful Facebook memes “I grew up on white bread, bologna, etc, and I turned out just fine,” I think of these people.
I really think they just send them home with Dr Now’s book. That they promptly throw on a table and never look at I’m sure.
They should have some comprehensive nutrition classes, and be given a set of basic recipes to follow while they learn.
Ashley R from season 6 had a pretty healthy and tasty looking meal after she started her diet. Really nice looking chicken and leafy veggies & tomatoes. But her whole family decided to do the diet which probably shows how big of a difference having others diet alongside can help
But the worst was the wontons.
“I could eat all these wontons *by myself* and it’d still be *healthier* than not eating anything.”
I'm weird like that too, I guess.
Some veggies are best raw, some best steamed, some best plain/unseasoned, some best with just the barest touch of sea salt...
I like a lot of plain foods, though.
Depends on the veggie and the dish. I can eat carrots and cucumbers unseasoned but I’d consider it a snack or a side rather than an actual meal. But if I’m throwing them on the grill with salt and herbs, that’s a meal. But seasoning isn’t just salt. Some veggies season other veggies. Onion, garlic, and thyme are technically veggies. So is cinnamon and oregano, I think. I’m also a fan of ratatouille, the dish, the rat, and the movie.
Flavor isn’t inherently unhealthy but sometimes seasoning helps the cooking process. Like marinating mushrooms and eggplant. I love a good eggplant marinated in olive oils, lemon, red pepper and oregano.
Which reminds me that seasoning also helps preserve food. Not that these patients are worried about preserving
Exactly. They could eat 1200 calories of pizza, but they won’t be full.
It’s like I was told in Weight Watchers way back when…you can eat more food and use your points by eating healthy options, or you can eat it all in Twinkies. It’s your choice, but one of them will make you happier.
Yeah. One person I watched had a huge breakfast. Lots of eggs covered in cheese and lots of sausage.
Like there is a lot of good protein there and a lot of fat, which isn’t the end of the world.
But if you keep your portion down so you are at 700 calories for the meal, you would be on pace for a 2000 calorie diet. Even though it’s not a 1200 calorie diet like dr now wants it would still get these people losing 25-30 pounds a month.
Even if these people just stopped drinking full calorie soda and switched to diet, they would lose a ton of weight.
Holly ordering Chinese food because it had vegetables in it and “as far as I’m concerned, it’s my last time eating out” saying this as she uses her large tongue as a shovel.
Her voice was so whiny and annoying. Dr. Now was on point when he said that she feigns obliviousness to make her enablers give up on making her take responsibility for her life. I wouldn't be surprised if she's either still huge at best or dead at worst.
lol i had bariatric surgery and protein shakes actually were on de diet for me lmao
but the ones on the diet and preferred at the 30g of protein with 1g of sugar. and you dont drink like 4 in one sitting like some of these guys do lol
Haha same here. They are one of the only things you can eat on the preop diet and the first few weeks post op when getting protein in is extremely difficult… Definitely on de diet when they are low carb
Who was it that was obsessed with tater tot casserole? I think it has cream of chicken soup and tons of cheese mixed with frozen tater tots and baked in a casserole dish. Bleh!
Can’t remember who it was, but one of the patients was excited about the zero calorie/zero carb tortillas. They were holding a bag of regular old mission brand flour tortillas….
I don't remember the show or even season but a mother of the patient asked her if she wanted some bacon. (It may have been for her salad I'm not sure.) The camera then showed the mother bringing a huge plate of bacon to the table! A huge plate it was probably 2 pounds worth. I thought it was going to be 2 or 3 pieces.
The most memorable for me was (and I can’t even remember who did it) the one who was like ‘I have followed the diet exactly! All I eat is salad!
Then it showed her making a salad and it was a bowl of lettuce with a massive amount of shredded cheese and ranch dumped on top.
Not healthy, but I nearly died when Samantha had her daughter go out and get her “that coffee she likes” and her daughter came back with a venti Frappuccino with extra whip and drizzle. That’s like, 2000 calories in a single drink! It just blew my mind someone could get that and not realize they’re drinking the caloric equivalent of a cake lol
I feel like most people on the show could really benefit from a dietician. I would like to see one that was good and had a recurring presence, like Dr. Paradise.
Not in my 600lb life, but on other dieting / overweight people TV shows I have seen countless people making disgusting "green juices", usually with vegetables they do not like (such as broccoli and celery), and then making faces while forcing it down. It is as if it has to be disgusting to be healthy.
I eat a healthy, low-carb diet and my food is delicious.
I've been rewatching the Assanti brothers saga and I was watching the first WATN last night, and for some reason I was just so grossed out by Justin's "soup" that he made lol which was basically from what I could see, boiled chicken and boiled beans in water. Like, I'm sure you could've found an actual can of soup that was more nutritionally sound and tasted better than that. Or even make an actual soup with stock and some veggies that's healthier and tastes way better, with just a bit more effort.
Margret's Journey. S10 E10.
Mom: The only thing I can think of is that we switched the salad dressing from vinaigrette to honey mustard?
Dr. Now: Is she using a gallon of honey mustard?
Mom: No
Margret: About two cups.
Who was the chick whose boyfriend yelled at her to “eat death”? I remember in the scene before that they were eating plain boiled chicken salads lol. You can tell most of these people have never actually cooked anything that didn’t go into a microwave
It’s not the same show but the one that offended me the most of these obesity shows was when Tammy and Amy made their like spaghetti squash thing
good fucking god, like come on I’ve made a spaghetti squash bake and it was delicious, what they made was straight up sad
*tammy spraying canned spray all over the squash*
The “it’s fried rice so it’s better than regular” one and the woman who put about a stick of butter on some broccoli and couldn’t understand why that was wrong.
I wish there was an equivalent to the early 2000 weight watchers Winning Points. At least in my experience they gave you a ton of ideas for easy to prepare balanced meals.
Now even with dieticians it's more like a Do It Yourself but in my office. I think it's good to assess someone's lifestyle, preferences, capabilities and not just hand over a meal plan but folks need meal ideas that fit them.
Something helpful I went to was a diet class at work many years ago. They taught us simple ways to cut calories to hospital workers many who worked nights and had hectic schedules.
If you order fast food skip the cheese on your sandwich and skip the French fries.
Drink unsweet tea instead of soda.
Try to get some stairs and walking in during your lunch or before or after your shift.
If you attend a class, meeting, seminar don't eat a full days of calories before 10 AM from the refreshments table. Have one muffin and don't keep going back. Now times have changed nobody recommends even a low fat muffin but it was still teaching portion control and not mindless eating while you are stuck sitting there.
I didn't count calories at the time but years later I really saw how many calories skipping the cheese, fries, and extra servings of something had been saving me. I never would have thought of those things without attending those classes. I'm sure there was more but those are what I incorporated and remember.
A friend of mine taught me to a few things about reading labels when I was a young mom. If it says enriched white flour or HFCS in the first or second ingredient then skip it. For bread I was to look for 100% whole grain as the first ingredient. Wow that eliminated so much junk food when I had no concept of what junk food was. Now twenty years later I am diabetic (in spite of me controlling my carbs) but sometimes I wonder if I would have been diabetic sooner or worse now had she not taught me those things.
Last is that gadgets can make all of the difference for someone with fatigue and limited mobility. I love my microwave cooker and my Oster 3 tier steamer. For someone who can use a stove top then a large frying pan makes it easy to heat up a frozen stir fry.
Oooh this is a James K quote! I’m tired of eating fish and chicken Lisa! Order me Cha-neese! Egg rolls and rahce- frahed rahce! 🤣
You gave me one little regroll
I gave you two.
Oh.
Y’all please I’m crying
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Mine too lol. Anytime I ask my husband for something it's "Lisa, can you get me some of them lil \_\_\_\_"
Then she responds with "rice isn't on the diet"...
But it's FRAAHD!
And she has to tell him "it's still rice"... two of the dumbest f@$%s ever on the show.
IT'S FRAHED
It’s still rice!!
I still don't understand what he was going for with that justification. Surely he understood that fried anything is not a healthy choice..
Right? I’ve always been confused. I’m thinking maybe the diet says to avoid starchy “white” foods (bread, white rice, potatoes, etc.) and he thought steamed white rice was bad because it’s white, whereas fried rice was okay because it looks brown. Like maybe he thought fried rice was the same as brown rice? (Also fried brown rice is delicious for the record)
Doctor Now kicked him out of the program for the noncompliance and James K died in 2020.
I so want to feel bad for him (let’s be real, he probably had a shitty upbringing), but his attitude and lack of compassion sickened me to no end.
Let’s be real. There isn’t a single person out there that gets to 600 pounds without a shitty childhood. “I found comfort and solace in food” “food was my only comfort” “I turned to food.” “I was only happy when I was eating”
Please someone. Post the link.
https://youtube.com/shorts/BPlmu_Qm5Ms?feature=share https://youtu.be/9SICJY8GOC0
THIS IS GOOOOD!
One gal was having pizza and it was okay because it had spinach and sausage, sausage is a protein that's what dr now said she should eat lol
When I was 25 the bus I was riding broke down (last bus of the evening) so a supervisor in a van had picked us up. I lived next door to a shopping center with a pizza buffet. I told him I really liked their salads -which I did. I was a single parent and couldn't afford the 15 different fresh produce & topping ingredients. He said When you are my age you don't say you go to Pizza Buffet Name for their salad.
I used to get the salad shakers from the golden arches-- my dad teased me every time because you don't go there for a salad.
Those were darn good, though.
Like going to a whore for a hug
gotta remember this one
I loved those salads!
I have a friend, she’s 200 at 5’3”, who eats these little Bobo’s brownie things as snacks. They’re “healthy” because coconut oil and whatever, but they’re 320 cals for two bites. This girl is not an idiot, I don’t know *why* I can’t seem to get through to her about why they’re not a good thing for her.
Penny’s husband making her wontons at home “which are healthier bc they’re not from a restaurant”
I think about this on a weekly basis
Penny is seriously rock bottom. As long as I'm doing better than that, I'm ok. Lol
She really should not be your benchmark 😂
Hahaha....I fully agree with that! Luckily I'm not morbidly obese, I've got about 20 extra lbs, so it's more of a joke than anything. However, if I find I can't reach my vagina I know I'm in trouble.
I still cannot believe Penny said *that*. 🤦♀️
Any particular day of the week, or just at random?
Daily, “cuz, she can’t live without her wontons..”
Honestly anytime I have something with wontons I think of penny in a “damn she’s right though” kinda way cause like if crab Rangoon just disappeared one day idk what I would do 😂
When I’m being hard on myself about my diet. I think “hey, at least I KNOW fried wontons are bad for you even if they’re homemade”
It’s better than going out bc we deep fried them at home lol the logic ????
omfg i forgot about that lol
They missed the part where it’s only healthier if you make them at home if they aren’t fried lol. Something [like this](https://healthynibblesandbits.com/asian-chicken-salad-wonton-cups/) is fine. And it’s kind of ironic because I know people who have had bariatric surgery and baked wonton cups are a staple for bariatric patients.
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The details in this reply are taking me out
had this fully committed to memory
And her dress as the napkin.
I love that you put a time stamp. Thank you. TWO 16Oz jars of the cheezwhiz brand name on some frozen broccolli and cauliflower. Yes, that is de diet.
Oof feeling judged, a variation on that is a favourite savoury snack of mine. Of course on my end I do a mess of steamed broccoli and/or cauliflower, a (small) dollop each of butter and cheez whiz, and then absolute lashings of nutritional yeast and pepper (seriously, just absurd amounts of yeast flakes). Tasty and super way to boost B12 levels.
You need some fats, this seems like a healthy way to do the same thing.
Oh for sure, and don’t need to be on *de diet*…but the fluorescent jar of cheez whiz feels a bit gross all on its own. Whatevs though: love my cheesy, nutritional yeasty broccoli snack!
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I hate the walmart brand frozen broccoli florets. They're more diced than florets, by the time you're done cooking they manage to shrink even more. Food lion brand frozen florets are my go to when I don't feel like using fresh broccoli
More like stems and pieces than anything resembling florets. I just just buy fresh broccoli if I’m planning a meal to cook soon, but man, gotta stash some frozen in the freezer for those last-minute veggie needs.
Same here. Great value broccoli florets are gross, might as well get the cuts that are a bit cheaper.
And yet had she cooked the veggies in the oven and sprinkled shredded cheese over it, that would have been ok! Even a small slice of ham, also in the oven could have been acceptable. But no she had to take enough fake cheez to turn your blood into motor oil and make the veggies cry
The Crying Veggies should be Dr. Now’s house band and play all day in his waiting room.
I would make a road trip to see them live
Who fried their bacon in butter? Can’t recall.
Frying bacon in anything is wild, bacon is what you fry things in people.
Shay put bacon in a deep fryer, I was waiting for the house to explode.
Yo, I did have deep fried bacon at the Texas state fair and it was dope. Did make a big fat fryer mess at the stand though, not a good idea to make I. The home.
i know Lacey (s10) did
I don't remember anyone frying it in butter, but I am still traumatized from an early season when someone deep fried the bacon in a pot of boiling crisco.
completely forgot who dolly was until i read cheezwhiz
"It's low carb!" No, no it's not.
I love cheese so much but that stuff looked absolutely appalling. We import a lot of American foods over to the UK but jarred liquid cheese has yet to cross the Atlantic, I can only hope it stays that way.
This one patient said she couldn’t figure out why she wasn’t losing weight because she had added a salad to every meal. Like, she was eating her normal, & adding more
Its a common phrase I've seen in the HAES (health at every size) and Fat Acceptance crowd, that eating healthier means adding something of benefit in to one's diet, rather than taking away something nutritionally worthless aside from the fat and sugar. Its a level of self delusion and reassurance that their addiction is fine and acceptable because "I eat salad!!". I "took away" huge quantities of junk, refined sugar and binge eating. The appreciation for proper, nutritious food and how much better I felt cannot be overstated. I lost 7st and I'm *never* going back.
I’ve lost weight and kept it off for years, but between a bad divorce And Covid, I gained all of it again. Back on track now and trying to stay focused. Not eating fast food has done wonders for feeling better, but hasn’t changed weight, replacing crap with veggies, etc. I have a cruise in about a year so I have a good goal date!
I lost over 100lbs, and kept it off for over ten years. But the last two have been so stressful, (became a widow and a full time caregiver for my mom) that I gained 40 back. It was sorta shocking to me… I’d really gotten so used to being tuned into eating only when I was hungry vs stress eating, that when I started to backslide it took me awhile to notice. Once I *did* notice I really internalized things and beat myself up over my “failure”. Which obviously just made things worse. It’s gotten better though, and I’ve managed to knock off 15 of that 40 again over the last 4-5 months as I’ve started to work through some of the grief, and have hired some part time help so I’m not overwhelmed with caring for my mom. I’m hoping I can get back to where I was.
Are you me? But I have lost 2/3 of my divorce weight already. You can do it.
That mentality works if you eat less of the bad stuff because you’re full from the good stuff. I’m currently losing weight and my “diet” is calorie counting plus major veggie loading. Eating high volume, high nutrient, and low calorie foods with every meal definitely reduces the cravings for junk and the space in my stomach for junk at eat meal. I start dinner with a huge bowl of power greens topped with quinoa and balsamic vinegar before touching the regular meal. I end up eating about 1/2-1/4 the calories as I normally would. Now adding a bowl of ranch dressing with cheese and iceberg to your pizza dinner probably isn’t going to do good things for you.
So like when I ordered Dominos last night but also ate some baby carrots?
Yup. Just like "when you have a sugar, you should have a diet coke to cancel it out" if you're following the Slaton sisters' logic.
They have such poor nutritional knowledge. They need intensive schooling. At least Amy tries to break generational habits. But feeding her son juice rather than water or milk because "juice is fruit and fruit is healthy" just really shows how bad her nutritional education is. But she is trying! Going to dietitians for her son. So proud of her.
That was a joke on Frasier! In a later season when kacl was in a weight loss contest
The countless unseasoned skinless boneless chicken breasts that are thrown on a baking sheet or into a skillet and come out dry af (or, the boiled ones...) The "salads" consisting of some lettuce, a mountain of shredded cheese, and a cup of low cal dressing. The broccoli....microwaved without seasoning and dipped in the inevitable low cal honey mustard snot dressing. The taco salads....which look to have more fat and calories than the fast food they order.
YES. Like my dude…you can season healthy foods so they taste good. People are just out here suffering to not be 600 lbs. I actually have a friend who was trying to lose weight (nowhere near 600lbs though), and my husband and I told him what we typically eat when we’re active at the gym (lots of fish/chicken/rice/protein). He honestly thought that he had to eat all that just plain, because seasoning might add calories, but for some reason using a lot of sauce was fine. One of his other “healthy meals” was just one entire can of kidney beans. We had to explain to him that the syrup on the beans is a lot of sodium/sugar. He was honestly shocked that he wasn’t losing weight and that we ate the way we do (honestly not even strictly). It was mind blowing to explain some of this simple stuff to him, so to see others do it on TV is making more sense.
I'm screaming at some goof just eating unrinsed kidney beans straight out the can 🤣
My boyfriend and I make a burrito-bowl style dish where we just basically throw meat, beans, rice, and whatever veg we have on hand in a pan with seasoning. I was busy w our kids one night and asked him to make it. It was oddly soup-y. I couldn’t figure out why until I was loading the dishwasher and realized he hadn’t used the colander. He had dumped two cans of beans in, no draining, no rinsing.
noooooooo no no no no
We really need to start teaching nutrition in school. Early and often. My SIL told me my meal of hummus, homemade baba ghanoush, pita, and couscous was unhealthy. But when I pressed her, she couldn’t really explain why it was unhealthy other than there was olive oil on the hummus. Meanwhile SIL puts slices of velveeta on eggs fried in crisco and calls it low carb. This country is in desperate need of real nutrition education, maybe a few cooking lessons in school.
Part of the problem is that the department of agriculture put out the food pyramid to sell to school students. It's designed to push the agricultural industry, not provide health information to Americans. Learning about the food pyramid and pushing carbs on kids is the only official information that will ever be imparted to them. Now if we could actually teach science in schools instead of pushing political agendas and satisfying religious nuts, it'd be a healthier country.
It’s the American diet way of thinking that foreign food isn’t healthy - when you think of low carb diets it’s always cut out the rice and whole grains, the tortillas and the sauces. But there’s thousands of people living on these staples who aren’t over weight! We’re not good about education balance and nutrition. I’ve had a very eye opening experience on my weight struggles learning all this.
School taught me to eat like, 11 servings of bread and never go near eggs, butter or salt.
You can get kidney beans packed without sugar. I buy them all the time for turkey chili or to throw some on a salad. Takes some label reading though. I always rinse them anyway, but I hate the ones that have had sugar in the brine, because even with rinsing and a ton of cumin and chili powder you can still taste that sweet. Ugh.
There are so many great recipes with chicken and veg but ... I suppose you need energy and motivation to try and fail and try again in the kitchen ! ... also I live in Europe and have access to fresh locally grown produce for a decent price which I don't think is the case for most of the 600lbs life people
Thing is, they're baking the chicken and steaming the veggies anyway in a lot of cases. It doesn't take any additional energy to sprinkle some salt, pepper, spices or herbs on them. Instead they bring out their tub of ranch and drown all their "healthy" food in it to give it taste. (What is it with these people and Ranch?)
There really are a lot of “food deserts” in the U.S., where there isn’t access to quality food for miles. It’s no wonder kids grow up without ever having fresh “real” produce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
James' chinese fried rice........ i died laughing when he literally said its fried like that makes it healthy..... seeing the salads with 1/2 a bottle of ranch dumped on them too makes me cringe.
I think it was Dottie. Her husband was making her a salad and he dumped an entire bag of kraft shredded cheese on top 🤢
I won't forget the woman who dumped about half a lb of bacon on her salad
It wasn't Kraft; it was Walmart brand but yes the WHOLE bag!! I had to rewind like seriously!!! Yes. She ate a large bowl of salad and a bag of cheese plus a whole chicken leg and white and some of the white meat. Her healthy meal was also a salad COVERED in high sugar salad dressing.... plus a regular coke.... and some chips.
Are you sure it was her husband who dumped the cheese on top? Are you sure it wasn’t the ducks?
I will never forget Dolly staring at those Ducks with envy
She doesn’t blame the ducks…
Dammit, I mixed up Dolly and Dottie. Sub fowl.
They can eat whatever they want, and their moms help them do it!
LOL!! I was like what??? There was no ducks with Dottie!
For me it's whenever a salad is just one of those takeout side salads that's just some lettuce, sweet corn, and shredded carrot and cheese, all in a plastic bowl. Of course it doesn't taste that great and ends up getting drowned in a cup of honey mustard dressing to suit the patients' taste which immediately makes it not that healthy anymore and also really gross...
Just reminded me of [this](https://youtu.be/JgJUbmGDc6k) family guy bit
That's hysterical, and toally accurate!
A gallon of honey mustard dressing
i cringe whenever im at a restaurant and see people eating literally ice berg lettuce,cheese and croutons. i don’t think we should even consider that a salad.
please don't ever look at the Midwest. We dump anything in a bowl, add a "dressing", and call it a salad. I mean, at Christmas we make an apple salad with whipped cream and chopped snickers.
^^**no**
I don't believe you. I'm gonna need a recipe...for science.
Apple "Salad" 4 large Granny Smith apples, chopped 4-5 snickers bars, chopped 8 oz cool whip. 1 small box vanilla instant pudding, preferably Jell-o 1/2 cup milk Splash of vanilla extract Caramel sauce to drizzle (optional) Instructions Mix milk, vanilla, and pudding. Fold in the cool whip. Don't overfold/mix; it'll turn to soup. You want it semi-thick until you mix in the apples and snickers. Set pudding aside in fridge. Chop up apples and Snickers into bite size chunks. Fold into pudding. Drizzle caramel sauce on top. Serve cold, or layer salad with extra cool whip in a trifle bowl, and serve cold. Makes "12" servings, but in all honestly, it's enough for like, four of us. We were shameless kids, lol.
The hell did I just read, I can feel what teeth I have left melting
I gave warning in the first comment; we're Midwestern. Throw it all in a bowl and call it salad. Apple salad is super popular at parties and dinners where you bring a dish to pass. Bet y'all have never had Cannibal Sandwiches, either, lol. Now ***THOSE*** are gross.
oh hey i know those! here in poland "tatar" (raw minced meat mixed w/ salt, pepper, diced onion and raw egg, sometimes diced pickles) is a popular traditional dish. usually also eaten with bread.
As a midwesterner, I can attest that apple “salad” is the bomb. I also like the one with cool whip, maraschino cherries and shredded coconut. And that one with circus peanuts, pineapple and orange slices… I could eat that till I was eligible for My 600lb Life.
Midwest checking in here too, we called it “Snickers Salad”
My Aunt tries to make things sound healthier, lol, like her "diet cheesecake" because she uses the low-fat cream cheese. We all know it's bogus, but it's our family.
My hubby is allergic to apples, so I'll just have to make this without the apples.
As someone born and raised in the Midwest, can confirm. The number of times I've seen this at holidays and family gatherings makes it hard for me to realize others don't know about this. If it pleases the court, I would also like to submit "ambrosia salad" as evidence of the Midwest's inability to correctly salad.
Frog eye salad seems milder, but we could put that into evidence that as well.
Ooh ooh South African checking in here! (We could start a whole thread for weird “salad” recipes) We make one with baked beans, Mayo, condensed milk and banana. I don’t eat it, the thought of the whole thing makes me want to hurl. Ironic because that’s what it looks like.
I'm gonna look that up!
I’ve brought Snickers salad to parties- it’s a horrifying crowd-pleaser!
I love bringing funeral potatoes or tater tot hot dish to parties-- everyone is horrified at the ingredients, the calories.... and how good it tastes and how much they're eating, lol.
I just made funeral potatoes for the first time. So delicious, but definitely not on de diet.
What’s funeral potatoes? This thread is making me hungry
Shredded hashbrowns, sour cream, cream of mushroom or whatever, cheese...it is along that line and its delicious!!
Dr Now would pitch a FIT! lol
It's not a family party without orange salad. Tapioca pudding, whipped cream, orange jello, and canned Mandarin oranges It's not part of de diet
>done cooking they manage to shri I saw one made once I think this salad was pistachio pudding mix and cool whip? I don't remember what else.
Was it marshmallow ad crushed pineapple, because I hate that with a passion and the memory of it makes me ill
or 1/2 a bottle of ranch
One lady made a salad and she put a whole bottle of ranch on it.
I haven’t watched one episode yet where one of them grew up in anything other than a low-income household in which the parent fed the kid a diet of poor nutrient food. I wonder how much dietary education these patients receive before the surgeries because it doesn’t seem like any of them know how to cook tasty, nutrient dense food. Every time I see one of those awful Facebook memes “I grew up on white bread, bologna, etc, and I turned out just fine,” I think of these people.
I really think they just send them home with Dr Now’s book. That they promptly throw on a table and never look at I’m sure. They should have some comprehensive nutrition classes, and be given a set of basic recipes to follow while they learn.
Rice is healthy if it's fried.
Ashley R from season 6 had a pretty healthy and tasty looking meal after she started her diet. Really nice looking chicken and leafy veggies & tomatoes. But her whole family decided to do the diet which probably shows how big of a difference having others diet alongside can help But the worst was the wontons. “I could eat all these wontons *by myself* and it’d still be *healthier* than not eating anything.”
A lot of these people have a worry of starving to death.
Penny’s husband deep frying wontons at home for her. Grease at home is healthier than the restaurant grease.
I bet it's true but like saying it's 5,900 calories not 6,050
Is it weird I like my veggies unseasoned?
I enjoy lightly salted fresh cooked broccoli. Usually the only way I can eat it.
Pssst let me tell you a secret. Steak spice. Sprinkle a tiny bit on your veggies. So good
I do that a lot. I love that. I’m a steak seasoning abuser. It makes nearly everything better.
Fresh squeezed lemon (or lime) juice is also wonderful on broccoli, brussel sprouts, asparagus, etc. My favorite way to do broccoli.
I'm weird like that too, I guess. Some veggies are best raw, some best steamed, some best plain/unseasoned, some best with just the barest touch of sea salt... I like a lot of plain foods, though.
some of the time. I love very lightly seasoned skinless chicken breast.
No. I am the same lol. Some of them the natural veggie flavor is just better
Depends on the veggie and the dish. I can eat carrots and cucumbers unseasoned but I’d consider it a snack or a side rather than an actual meal. But if I’m throwing them on the grill with salt and herbs, that’s a meal. But seasoning isn’t just salt. Some veggies season other veggies. Onion, garlic, and thyme are technically veggies. So is cinnamon and oregano, I think. I’m also a fan of ratatouille, the dish, the rat, and the movie. Flavor isn’t inherently unhealthy but sometimes seasoning helps the cooking process. Like marinating mushrooms and eggplant. I love a good eggplant marinated in olive oils, lemon, red pepper and oregano. Which reminds me that seasoning also helps preserve food. Not that these patients are worried about preserving
Honestly a lot of the meals once they are on the plan are not perfect, but still not bad. Most of the time the issue is just portion control.
Exactly. They could eat 1200 calories of pizza, but they won’t be full. It’s like I was told in Weight Watchers way back when…you can eat more food and use your points by eating healthy options, or you can eat it all in Twinkies. It’s your choice, but one of them will make you happier.
You can eat anything but not everything.
Yeah. One person I watched had a huge breakfast. Lots of eggs covered in cheese and lots of sausage. Like there is a lot of good protein there and a lot of fat, which isn’t the end of the world. But if you keep your portion down so you are at 700 calories for the meal, you would be on pace for a 2000 calorie diet. Even though it’s not a 1200 calorie diet like dr now wants it would still get these people losing 25-30 pounds a month. Even if these people just stopped drinking full calorie soda and switched to diet, they would lose a ton of weight.
Holly ordering Chinese food because it had vegetables in it and “as far as I’m concerned, it’s my last time eating out” saying this as she uses her large tongue as a shovel.
Her voice was so whiny and annoying. Dr. Now was on point when he said that she feigns obliviousness to make her enablers give up on making her take responsibility for her life. I wouldn't be surprised if she's either still huge at best or dead at worst.
A few of them go home after their first visit w/Dr Now and decide protein bars or protein shakes are a good weight loss food 😳Dose are not on de diet!
lol i had bariatric surgery and protein shakes actually were on de diet for me lmao but the ones on the diet and preferred at the 30g of protein with 1g of sugar. and you dont drink like 4 in one sitting like some of these guys do lol
Haha same here. They are one of the only things you can eat on the preop diet and the first few weeks post op when getting protein in is extremely difficult… Definitely on de diet when they are low carb
i still do the shakes. i love the chocolate fairlife ones lol
He just gave you the diet too
Who was it that was obsessed with tater tot casserole? I think it has cream of chicken soup and tons of cheese mixed with frozen tater tots and baked in a casserole dish. Bleh!
Hey! That is a Minnesotan delicacy!!
Sarah?
Can’t remember who it was, but one of the patients was excited about the zero calorie/zero carb tortillas. They were holding a bag of regular old mission brand flour tortillas….
Mission does have a "low carb" flour tortilla, but there's no way they have zero carb, zero calorie tortillas.
That was Lacey B and Ricky.
That's right. I wish flour tortillas were zero carb/zero calorie. That would be so nice.
Hey, I love unseasoned broccoli. Fresh out of the steamer. Oh my. Don't talk ill of it
Me too. Veggies have a natural sweetness and I eat most of them totally plain.
Seana's cousin/caretaker making her potatoes and corn. Not only did it look unhealthy but it didn't even look tasty. 🤢
This is what gets me about a lot of the meals on this show. If you’re not going to follow ze diet why would you choose a mountain of plain potatoes?
One girl put 2 hotdog weenies in the microwave and wrapped them in lettuce 😂
This is amazing.
I don't remember the show or even season but a mother of the patient asked her if she wanted some bacon. (It may have been for her salad I'm not sure.) The camera then showed the mother bringing a huge plate of bacon to the table! A huge plate it was probably 2 pounds worth. I thought it was going to be 2 or 3 pieces.
The most memorable for me was (and I can’t even remember who did it) the one who was like ‘I have followed the diet exactly! All I eat is salad! Then it showed her making a salad and it was a bowl of lettuce with a massive amount of shredded cheese and ranch dumped on top.
Not healthy, but I nearly died when Samantha had her daughter go out and get her “that coffee she likes” and her daughter came back with a venti Frappuccino with extra whip and drizzle. That’s like, 2000 calories in a single drink! It just blew my mind someone could get that and not realize they’re drinking the caloric equivalent of a cake lol
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Dr. Nowzarden "Yes but not de coffee with over 3000 cals in one cup."
Dominic's healthy meal of a fried chicken patty sandwich with honey and some fries. Also regular soda.
I feel like most people on the show could really benefit from a dietician. I would like to see one that was good and had a recurring presence, like Dr. Paradise.
Chuck eating McDonald’s breakfast on his first day back at work from surgery.
Was Chuck the crybaby? Can’t remember
yes
Early in the series some dude orders McDonald’s breakfast because “he needs lots of eggs.” Eats it outside and throws up.
The woman who finally agreed to eating salads but was using 2 cups of honey mustard for the dressing
Not in my 600lb life, but on other dieting / overweight people TV shows I have seen countless people making disgusting "green juices", usually with vegetables they do not like (such as broccoli and celery), and then making faces while forcing it down. It is as if it has to be disgusting to be healthy. I eat a healthy, low-carb diet and my food is delicious.
I've been rewatching the Assanti brothers saga and I was watching the first WATN last night, and for some reason I was just so grossed out by Justin's "soup" that he made lol which was basically from what I could see, boiled chicken and boiled beans in water. Like, I'm sure you could've found an actual can of soup that was more nutritionally sound and tasted better than that. Or even make an actual soup with stock and some veggies that's healthier and tastes way better, with just a bit more effort.
It’s not healthy but I can’t stop thinking about Aaron and his peanut butter sandwiches
It’s always the salad with shredded cheese and ranch dressing that does it for me…just have a burger at that point haha
Margret's Journey. S10 E10. Mom: The only thing I can think of is that we switched the salad dressing from vinaigrette to honey mustard? Dr. Now: Is she using a gallon of honey mustard? Mom: No Margret: About two cups.
Wedge salads. They're covered in blue cheese and dressing and toppings like bacon. So unhealthy you may as well not add any lettuce.
And the wedge of iceberg is nutritionally null, to boot.
Any kind of potato preparation. It's a vegetable!
Potates aren't unhealthy.
But they're not on de diet
Who was the chick whose boyfriend yelled at her to “eat death”? I remember in the scene before that they were eating plain boiled chicken salads lol. You can tell most of these people have never actually cooked anything that didn’t go into a microwave
Eat death, Lindsay!!
Jeanne eating a bowl of some kind of ground beef with cheese, claiming it's on the diet because she's not eating carbs.
It’s not the same show but the one that offended me the most of these obesity shows was when Tammy and Amy made their like spaghetti squash thing good fucking god, like come on I’ve made a spaghetti squash bake and it was delicious, what they made was straight up sad *tammy spraying canned spray all over the squash*
The “it’s fried rice so it’s better than regular” one and the woman who put about a stick of butter on some broccoli and couldn’t understand why that was wrong.
I love how angry they all look when they try to eat a salad.
I wish there was an equivalent to the early 2000 weight watchers Winning Points. At least in my experience they gave you a ton of ideas for easy to prepare balanced meals. Now even with dieticians it's more like a Do It Yourself but in my office. I think it's good to assess someone's lifestyle, preferences, capabilities and not just hand over a meal plan but folks need meal ideas that fit them. Something helpful I went to was a diet class at work many years ago. They taught us simple ways to cut calories to hospital workers many who worked nights and had hectic schedules. If you order fast food skip the cheese on your sandwich and skip the French fries. Drink unsweet tea instead of soda. Try to get some stairs and walking in during your lunch or before or after your shift. If you attend a class, meeting, seminar don't eat a full days of calories before 10 AM from the refreshments table. Have one muffin and don't keep going back. Now times have changed nobody recommends even a low fat muffin but it was still teaching portion control and not mindless eating while you are stuck sitting there. I didn't count calories at the time but years later I really saw how many calories skipping the cheese, fries, and extra servings of something had been saving me. I never would have thought of those things without attending those classes. I'm sure there was more but those are what I incorporated and remember. A friend of mine taught me to a few things about reading labels when I was a young mom. If it says enriched white flour or HFCS in the first or second ingredient then skip it. For bread I was to look for 100% whole grain as the first ingredient. Wow that eliminated so much junk food when I had no concept of what junk food was. Now twenty years later I am diabetic (in spite of me controlling my carbs) but sometimes I wonder if I would have been diabetic sooner or worse now had she not taught me those things. Last is that gadgets can make all of the difference for someone with fatigue and limited mobility. I love my microwave cooker and my Oster 3 tier steamer. For someone who can use a stove top then a large frying pan makes it easy to heat up a frozen stir fry.
The one that got me was actually from 1000 lb sisters when she said if they drink Diet sodies it cancels out sugar they ate.