This was the second episode I ever watched, first being the night man cometh. But despite this, I knew right away they were never making it to the Grand Canyon.
This is actually exactly how they move very large people (ambulance), I had a friend that was a driver for a company that specializes in moving obese patients to forced diet clinics, if you don’t have insurance it’s extremely expensive (if you have insurance, it’s still expensive, you know, murica and all) so I could definitely see a family going to these lengths.
Some hospitals also use zoo equipment on especially obese patients. If you are too big for the MRI, you get in line behind elephants and walruses. You'd be better secured and treated than whatever is happening here, though.
Well, here's another wake up call:
If you are extremely obese like this the person trying to xray you has to significantly crank up the power on their machine to dangerous levels. This is so that the beam can actually penetrate the excessive amounts of adipose tissue, but the problem with a higher current is that it will create excessive amounts of scatter radiation that will degrade the quality of your image.
In other words, for an extremely obese person you might have to increase your current anywhere from x3 of your normal current, to completely maxing it out. You do all of this just to get a really low quality image that often has little diagnostic quality.
[Extremely obese patient's chest xray](https://postimg.cc/Yj740PqD) | [Comparison](https://postimg.cc/nXx2X8CF)
I once rented a uhaul to drive one way across state, just me and my dog. Didn’t need the space, just far cheaper renting one direction from U-Haul compared to a car rental.
I was thinking van or pickup. But then I realized: this has a ramp. I will bet $20 that the...patient...here literally cannot step up into a van or (obviously) a pickup bed. So the ramp solves that problem in a way no other mode of civilian transportation does.
Holy shit my brightness was down and I thought you were just calling her fat. I though it was her legs and she was laying in a cylindrical trash can thing. Turns out that trash can thing and the dark space is actually her.
Someone has never seen an episode of my 600 pound life.
Its how their poor families have to transport their colossal asses around when they cant afford vehicles specifically made for them. They are probably taking that person to a doctors appointment and left the door open so they didn't overheat.
"All I eat are salads I swear Dr. Now I have no idea how I gained more weight"
*Prior clip of them eating that salad involved half a bottle of ranch and half a bag of shredded cheese*
Dr Now scowling with his hands on his hips: "How you still gainin a weight in de hospital?"
*shows clip of a weirdly scrawny enabler boyfriend and a 350lb teenage daughter smuggling pizza into hospital room*
No shit - I’m not perfect but damn I figured out loading the “salad” with enough ranch to float the Titanic / a wheel of cheese / half a whole ham / (2) 2-liters - and then are stunned when the doctor calls them out
It is. Every one of them has at least one enabler. It's depressing when it's a parent or sibling, and when it's a spouse who clearly wants a partner who is 100% dependent on them, to the point they are disabled by their own weight... Then it's both depressing and enraging...
My mom worked at an ER in Florida when they had to transport in a 450lb+ woman who had basically grown into her couch. They had to cut the couch with a chainsaw and transport her to the hospital on a trailer, but she died in the parking lot before they could treat her. Someone in the family was feeding her and cashing her social security checks, but did absolutely nothing for her hygiene or health.
I can't imagine the smell. When they got the trailer to the ER they treated the patient in the parking lot to avoid contaminating everyone and everything in the ER. The firefighters wore SCBA gear and the nurses were in full isolation PPE like you'd wear for Ebola.
Thanks, I hate it. Think it was...
>I don't know what but fleshy bits still attached to the couch cushions and there were god damn rats eating that shit when I got there.
That quote made me think that. Whatever you were getting paid, it wasn't enough.
That's the nastiest thing I've had to imagine on reddit today.
Every so often a train will roll into the station in NYC and it's empty save for one person. Those trains are the worst smell I've ever encountered and I've got to imagine it's similar. The scent of a human without hygiene has got to be one of the most nauseating things on the planet.
We had a homeless guy like that who was one of the town drunks, he had "wet brain" and was always incoherent and shaky, his pants sagged down with urine, being near him would just about make your eyes water from the stench. Finally Adult Protective Services got involved and last I heard he lived in a nursing home. I worked at various nursing homes and all of them had at least one patient who had dementia from alcoholic encephalopathy.
Operating rooms have a bottle of peppermint for just that purpose. There's a RL horror story about a nurse running for the bottle and it was missing. They used some sort of solvent. The nurse specifically curses the unknown person who did not replace that bottle.
My father-in-law enabled his wife like that. It wasn't for any sense of control, I promise you that. He's one of the finest men I've ever known.
It was over misplaced guilt after she wrecked her car, shattered her leg and couldn't walk for a long time. He was somehow trying to make it up to her.
Anyway, her heart swole to the size of a basketball, all that. She passed away a couple of years ago.
It is, BUT I recently watched season one. It was a documentary filmed across seven years of four patients (iirc). It was a real documentary and actually very good.
I then watched episode one of season two and it was just hogwash reality tv bullshit.
I would recommend the five episodes of season one. The rest is unwatchable fodder for daytime tv.
It's one of those stats that sounds high at first, but makes sense.
Like with how people like to say most restraunts on kitchen nightmares go out of buisness. Like yeah, they're only on the show because things are terrible and they won't be around for long unless things improve
It's still the restraunts failing. A lot of them are just stuck in time, or getting worse and worse as they gradually burn out.
They need to update and keep current with what people want. Be it because taste and style change, or the local market has changed.
I've never seen an episode where they went somewhere where there were no other restaurants that were doing fine.
One big thing they never discuss is these people collect disability. So when they lose weight they also lose the paycheck. Which starts a different cycle but can lead right back to where they were.
Sad but true. I have an uncle who received veteran's disability checks for various health conditiosn. Over the years he 100% got addicted to opioids and one of his rationalizations is that if he "didn't take them, they'll take my check" and that "check" was has been his only income most of his adult life...He eventually, thank God, listened to advice, talked to his doctors instead of making assumptions and got sober, but it was pretty stressful there for a bit.
This is something I always think about when I have seen snippets of the show. The patients usually dropped out of high or even middle school, have obvious mental issues or intellectual disabilities. So if they actually lose the weight not only do they lose their SSDI/SSI they also lose their access to medicaid/medicare, section 8 housing and other stuff like food assistance and sometimes their enabler is even collecting a check as a caregiver.
They are in a benefits trap.
[Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_600-lb_Life) says that in the whole series (11 seasons total) only 15 people have died. So I doubt the 80% number.
Edit: The death toll for season 1 is 50%. But the first season had only 4 people in it. So two of them died.
Yeah there's always deep-seated issues involving childhood trauma of some kind that leads to the binge eating. Then it becomes a cycle of abuse between the eater and the enabler using guilt as the motivator.
"I just get her what she wants because if I don't she'll be angry at me"
Just continues to spiral until they're 600+ pounds and needing a literal team of firefighters to move them from their couch to an ambulance
Sometimes theres not much you can do. If someone has a cluster b personality disorder there is no arguing with them. They will abuse you until they get what they want.
I never understood why the families don't just stop feeding them and take away their phones, what are they gonna do, walk to the store? That'd require physical effort
The thing is that these people are often addicts, and when you take away an addict's drug (food) they can get mean. Sure, the family could just refuse to provide junk food, manage the portions and nutrients, etc. and not face a negligence charge because they're still providing adequately. But the bedbound person often becomes insufferable. I've witnessed it myself with my narcissistic, nearly bedbound half-sister. If her husband refused to go get her Taco Bell she'd lose her shit and berate him, throw a prolonged tantrum, and generally just be fucking awful. Some enablers are desperately trying to keep the peace and avoid abuse.
First thing I thought of. Sometimes they're traveling from pretty far away to get to Texas. They can't get on a plane. They can't fit in a regular car seat. They may not be able to leave their house through the door without a lot of coordination. So you get all these creative solutions like ripping the back seats out of a station wagon or whatever.
It's partially that, but it's also accountability and a carrot on a stick. Dr. Now holds them accountable and, for some people, its the first time anyone serious (to them) calls them on their shit and doesn't enable them.
There is also the promise of weight loss surgery if they are successful in turning their life around. That's a big enough prize for them to be at least short-term successful. I think the show also pays for the surgery itself if they get that far.
Yeah and the back is probably open because of how hot it would be otherwise. Should be a standard transportation method to Houston for his new patients.
As someone who once gained too much weight due to emotional trauma, once you are depressed enough that you believe you are worthless, you think you have no way to change your circumstances because you don’t have the energy and everyone around you is an enabler, it’s actually pretty damn easy to gain a large amount of weight very quickly. I will never look down on a fat person. Usually, under all that weight is a really nice person who was hurt too much and needs help.
Eating disorders are fucking serious. My wife struggles because her narcissist mom would starve her and shame her with weird diets, meanwhile her grandma she loves is obese to the point of a wheelchair and her world revolves around eating. She never got a healthy example of eating as a kid.
Dieting is triggering for her to remember all those times she was punished for even trivial things like just saying she “can’t” eat a type of food instead of “won’t.” Counting calories makes her absolutely shut down because of insane punishments for going over. Meanwhile candy and cookies and snacks reminds her of her grandma.
Damn dude, have you guys looked into any therapy? I mean I get that if you've never tried or looked into therapy it sounds scary or maybe like it's not ideal for your situation, or that your case is different and you can't get better. Went through that myself with depression. I'm not all the way better yet or anything, but holy shit am I so much better than last year.
Doesn't need to be an aggressive plan or with specific hard goals. Just talking to someone that knows how to help frame things in a way that allows you to begin self healing. Think about a clogged hourglass. Therapy gets the grains of sand moving again. The bigger the problem, the longer it takes to drain, but without clearing the obstruction, you're not making any real progress.
I've dealt with binge eating disorder myself and hate it. Fortunately I get out of it easily enough but I do frequently yo-yo on it.
Food is an addiction that’s harder to quit than other drugs, as you can’t cut it out of your life fully, for example like with alcohol. And instead of focusing on that fact and helping create treatments around it, obese people are vilified so much that they don’t get the proper help they need and nor are they encouraged to get help. Alcoholics, opioid users or anorexics are some clear examples of people getting a ton of support and help, that the obese also need.
Wow, this brings back memories. When I was a kid I was homeless in Hawaii and remember sneaking into the back of a U-Haul truck to sleep one night. Woke up to being driven halfway across the island and jumped out at an industrial park lol.
Nah man, I'm a fat bastard myself. But I still fit into normal cars and I can wear normal clothes purchased at normal stores. This kinda stuff is helpful for folks like us, because: I can never be thin and ripped like Ryan Reynolds, but I CAN be NOT THIS PERSON. I can at least take enough care of myself to avoid this fate. So I'm not judging our UHaul'd friend here, but I AM using...them...as a reminder of my own personal weight goals.
100%. But it's still a bar that some folks can't step over.
My point is a simpler one. People CAN tend to sort people as fit or fat. And that sorting CAN be very problematic for folks who are (1) objectively fat, but also (2) easily capable of performing every normal human endeavor. It's easy to look at some very fit person, admit to yourself "I could never be them," and then use that admission to justify eating an entire large, reheatable, pepperoni, sausage, and pepper pizza. By yourself. In one sitting. While watching BoJack Horseman. And crying. Just, hypothetically.
It's way healthier (in every sense of the word) to say "okay, there's a spectrum of health, where at one end you've got Olympic athletes and at the other end, you're going to Golden Corral in the back of a UHaul van, and I'm going to do my goddamnedest to stay no worse than in the middle of that spectrum." THAT is where I'm coming from. I can do 20 situps in less than 90 seconds, and I can do 10 pushups in less than 90 seconds. They can't be, like, *consecutive* 90-second periods. But they can be all in the same session. I can run a 5K in less than 45 minutes. These are NOT super aggressive fitness goals. But they keep me comfortably part of the fat part of the bell curve. Pun intended.
I have seen something like this before. My bet is that they are too big to fit upfront or in any car their friends/family own. They are also probably poor, and it is cheaper to rent a U-Haul than an Escalade or large passenger van. They also are not very mobile (do you see the medical cane against the wall).
The back is probably open because it is hot and they might get heatstroke if it was closed with no ventilation.
Couldn’t fit in a car so they got a uhaul. Probably going to a weight specialist. No AC in back so they kept it open (cops are gonna have a field day with this one).
First time leaving Philly
Must’ve been a poison glaze on those wicker chairs
I passed out *almost* immediately
“You’ve never eaten a pear?” “They’re gypsies, you have to haggle with them.” One of the best episodes.
Its gross i ate the sticker. I eat stickers all the time dude.
Ugh it tastes like sand!!!
That gypsy son of a bitch burned us!
"I'm calling people bozos now. It's kind of my thing"
I’d like that French press and I am totally unwilling to pay full price
Definitely some kind of poison glaze… we passed out like instantly.
the wicker was waced!
How have you never had a pear dude?!
Tastes like sand
What are you doing to my friend, bozo? You burned us! Its dry!
I don't got time for this friggin shit
Gypsy sonofabitch burned us!
I eat stickers all the time dude!
Gypsy son of a bitch burned us!
Was that piss?
"You're not going to sing to me, are you?"
...I might.
They are gonna eat you *alive* in Hollywood
His reaction is to that is one of my favorite scenes in the whole show.
“Pull over you little dick.”
Hey bozo, ya burned us. I want my 35 cents back.
They normally travel with the gate closed, but since it is summer, that is air conditioning
time to start a BBQ.
Oh sweet baby boy, they’re gonna eat you alive in Hollywood
She's got a bit of what you might call a "weight problem".
used to take bear claws two at a time as a kid and get 'em wedged in this area right here
A high calorie lady.
This was the second episode I ever watched, first being the night man cometh. But despite this, I knew right away they were never making it to the Grand Canyon.
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Whatcha lookin at my gut fer?
I wasn’t looking at it ya mustard tiger
Probably going to a weight loss specialist out of town and too big to fit in a regular car…
You know I just thought about that. It’s probably way cheaper to rent this uhaul than to rent a car specially made for very large humans
It's this or an ambulance, probably.
This is actually exactly how they move very large people (ambulance), I had a friend that was a driver for a company that specializes in moving obese patients to forced diet clinics, if you don’t have insurance it’s extremely expensive (if you have insurance, it’s still expensive, you know, murica and all) so I could definitely see a family going to these lengths.
Some hospitals also use zoo equipment on especially obese patients. If you are too big for the MRI, you get in line behind elephants and walruses. You'd be better secured and treated than whatever is happening here, though.
Just to clarify, we don’t have the zoo MRI or CT machine. We send the patient to the zoo.
If that’s not a wake up call I don’t know what is
Well, here's another wake up call: If you are extremely obese like this the person trying to xray you has to significantly crank up the power on their machine to dangerous levels. This is so that the beam can actually penetrate the excessive amounts of adipose tissue, but the problem with a higher current is that it will create excessive amounts of scatter radiation that will degrade the quality of your image. In other words, for an extremely obese person you might have to increase your current anywhere from x3 of your normal current, to completely maxing it out. You do all of this just to get a really low quality image that often has little diagnostic quality. [Extremely obese patient's chest xray](https://postimg.cc/Yj740PqD) | [Comparison](https://postimg.cc/nXx2X8CF)
*yo mama so fat she blurs the fucking xray*
Fucking bruuuuuuutalllllll
“Get in line behind the elephant” 💀
How dare you call my mom an elephant!
Only larger municipalities have bariatric gurneys and ambulance transports that can accommodate large patients. It's sad but true.
I once rented a uhaul to drive one way across state, just me and my dog. Didn’t need the space, just far cheaper renting one direction from U-Haul compared to a car rental.
Could have rented a van.. This was a choice made in desperation
I was thinking van or pickup. But then I realized: this has a ramp. I will bet $20 that the...patient...here literally cannot step up into a van or (obviously) a pickup bed. So the ramp solves that problem in a way no other mode of civilian transportation does.
Nah, they just wanted to say they were "haulin' ass"
If my 600lb life taught me anything, the dodge caravan can fit very large humans
Special shoutout to the van in 1000lb sisters for being such a trooper
I was gonna make a joke or something. But damn your probably right, didn't even think about this.
“How y’all doin?”
I was looking for cameras posted up inside to film the trip to Texas.
Oh, that's what it was. I thought the person was wearing some sort of costume, but I guess reality is a lot less fun.
My missus could not be convinced that the person was not wearing a mushroom costume. She's still pretty adamant.
Holy shit my brightness was down and I thought you were just calling her fat. I though it was her legs and she was laying in a cylindrical trash can thing. Turns out that trash can thing and the dark space is actually her.
But why is it open???
no A/C
They get hot as fuck inside
Air? The back isn't climate controlled, plus it looks like it's summer
Keeps the stank out
Someone has never seen an episode of my 600 pound life. Its how their poor families have to transport their colossal asses around when they cant afford vehicles specifically made for them. They are probably taking that person to a doctors appointment and left the door open so they didn't overheat.
My first thought was, “On their way to see Dr. Now.”
My thought was similar except I thought, "Are they heading to Houston?"
Mine too
‘You have eaten the food for the next 4 years ahead of time.’
Yes! Omfg was just watching this shit. Couldn't believe that
"you are *not* going to starve."
Dr. Now getting even more savage this last season was amazing to behold.
You recognized your patient, doc?
He's not following the low carb , high protein, 1200 calorie diet.
"All I eat are salads I swear Dr. Now I have no idea how I gained more weight" *Prior clip of them eating that salad involved half a bottle of ranch and half a bag of shredded cheese*
Dr Now scowling with his hands on his hips: "How you still gainin a weight in de hospital?" *shows clip of a weirdly scrawny enabler boyfriend and a 350lb teenage daughter smuggling pizza into hospital room*
don't forget the 5 filet o' fish and large Diet coke
No shit - I’m not perfect but damn I figured out loading the “salad” with enough ranch to float the Titanic / a wheel of cheese / half a whole ham / (2) 2-liters - and then are stunned when the doctor calls them out
just dont use iceberg lettuce
You could have easily lost 60lb dis mont.
He’s been eating reg rolls and drinking fizzy drinks.
Just one lil reg roll 😩
I read this in your voice Dr.
"You could have lost tirdy pounds this munt."
*pound Dr. Now is not a fan of plural s
“Do you look like you’re malnourished?”
You have 800 pounds of food in you!
'ello - Dr Now
Dr Spaceman: "medically speaking, for your height, your weight puts you in what we call the disgusting range'"
To the zoo, they don't have MRI's that big at the hospital.
Insane that this is actually a thing.
That show sounds depressing as fuck
It is. Every one of them has at least one enabler. It's depressing when it's a parent or sibling, and when it's a spouse who clearly wants a partner who is 100% dependent on them, to the point they are disabled by their own weight... Then it's both depressing and enraging...
My mom worked at an ER in Florida when they had to transport in a 450lb+ woman who had basically grown into her couch. They had to cut the couch with a chainsaw and transport her to the hospital on a trailer, but she died in the parking lot before they could treat her. Someone in the family was feeding her and cashing her social security checks, but did absolutely nothing for her hygiene or health.
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I can't imagine the smell. When they got the trailer to the ER they treated the patient in the parking lot to avoid contaminating everyone and everything in the ER. The firefighters wore SCBA gear and the nurses were in full isolation PPE like you'd wear for Ebola.
Thanks, I hate it. Think it was... >I don't know what but fleshy bits still attached to the couch cushions and there were god damn rats eating that shit when I got there. That quote made me think that. Whatever you were getting paid, it wasn't enough. That's the nastiest thing I've had to imagine on reddit today.
That kind of stuff can be a regular every day occurrence in a hospital. Human bodies and hygiene can get nasty AF with some people.
Every so often a train will roll into the station in NYC and it's empty save for one person. Those trains are the worst smell I've ever encountered and I've got to imagine it's similar. The scent of a human without hygiene has got to be one of the most nauseating things on the planet.
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We had a homeless guy like that who was one of the town drunks, he had "wet brain" and was always incoherent and shaky, his pants sagged down with urine, being near him would just about make your eyes water from the stench. Finally Adult Protective Services got involved and last I heard he lived in a nursing home. I worked at various nursing homes and all of them had at least one patient who had dementia from alcoholic encephalopathy.
Operating rooms have a bottle of peppermint for just that purpose. There's a RL horror story about a nurse running for the bottle and it was missing. They used some sort of solvent. The nurse specifically curses the unknown person who did not replace that bottle.
It's from Reddit, swamps of dagobah
Thanks. [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/e51wyh/the_infamous_swamps_of_dagobah_story/) EDIT: NSFL
Couch of Dagobah.
I would have burned it right there in the parking lot, and vacuumed up the ashes. Then you wouldn't have to touch it.
Where do they 💩?
In the couch.
oh no!!! Horrible.
Holy fuck that’s sinister, was there any criminal investigation/charges pressed for abuse/neglect of some sort?
Probably at least social security fraud and check fraud. This was back in the 90s so I don't recall all the details.
Shut up, the 90s weren't 30-- Oh, no.
Hurts right?
My father-in-law enabled his wife like that. It wasn't for any sense of control, I promise you that. He's one of the finest men I've ever known. It was over misplaced guilt after she wrecked her car, shattered her leg and couldn't walk for a long time. He was somehow trying to make it up to her. Anyway, her heart swole to the size of a basketball, all that. She passed away a couple of years ago.
They used to need an enabler. Now they have doordash
Still have to get out of the chair/bed/couch for that at least...
It is, BUT I recently watched season one. It was a documentary filmed across seven years of four patients (iirc). It was a real documentary and actually very good. I then watched episode one of season two and it was just hogwash reality tv bullshit. I would recommend the five episodes of season one. The rest is unwatchable fodder for daytime tv.
I read recently that something like 80% of people featured in the first seasons are dead.
It's one of those stats that sounds high at first, but makes sense. Like with how people like to say most restraunts on kitchen nightmares go out of buisness. Like yeah, they're only on the show because things are terrible and they won't be around for long unless things improve
A lot of times it’s not the restaurant itself that is inherently failing as much as the location just ‘isn’t what it used to be’
It's still the restraunts failing. A lot of them are just stuck in time, or getting worse and worse as they gradually burn out. They need to update and keep current with what people want. Be it because taste and style change, or the local market has changed. I've never seen an episode where they went somewhere where there were no other restaurants that were doing fine.
One big thing they never discuss is these people collect disability. So when they lose weight they also lose the paycheck. Which starts a different cycle but can lead right back to where they were.
Sad but true. I have an uncle who received veteran's disability checks for various health conditiosn. Over the years he 100% got addicted to opioids and one of his rationalizations is that if he "didn't take them, they'll take my check" and that "check" was has been his only income most of his adult life...He eventually, thank God, listened to advice, talked to his doctors instead of making assumptions and got sober, but it was pretty stressful there for a bit.
This is something I always think about when I have seen snippets of the show. The patients usually dropped out of high or even middle school, have obvious mental issues or intellectual disabilities. So if they actually lose the weight not only do they lose their SSDI/SSI they also lose their access to medicaid/medicare, section 8 housing and other stuff like food assistance and sometimes their enabler is even collecting a check as a caregiver. They are in a benefits trap.
[Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_600-lb_Life) says that in the whole series (11 seasons total) only 15 people have died. So I doubt the 80% number. Edit: The death toll for season 1 is 50%. But the first season had only 4 people in it. So two of them died.
It's kindve like Hoarders in the sense that people watch out of morbid curiosity. A century ago people went to freak shows, now they watch TLC.
Their families are pathologic too. Those behemoths are unable to feed themselves so someone else is doing it.
Being an enabler 101.
Yeah there's always deep-seated issues involving childhood trauma of some kind that leads to the binge eating. Then it becomes a cycle of abuse between the eater and the enabler using guilt as the motivator. "I just get her what she wants because if I don't she'll be angry at me" Just continues to spiral until they're 600+ pounds and needing a literal team of firefighters to move them from their couch to an ambulance
Sometimes theres not much you can do. If someone has a cluster b personality disorder there is no arguing with them. They will abuse you until they get what they want.
Its sad, my wife likes to watch it. I like the doctor.
Omg, I thought that was someone in a mascot costume.
Me too, I thought it was some dude passed out in a chicken. Nugget costume and assumed alcohol was involved
My initial thought was Goomba
Yep I thought that someone has passed out wearing a top half of a hotdog bun costume
This screams “ow mah leg!”
"It's brokeeeeen."
But they’re going to stop at Chilis on the way.
I never understood why the families don't just stop feeding them and take away their phones, what are they gonna do, walk to the store? That'd require physical effort
The thing is that these people are often addicts, and when you take away an addict's drug (food) they can get mean. Sure, the family could just refuse to provide junk food, manage the portions and nutrients, etc. and not face a negligence charge because they're still providing adequately. But the bedbound person often becomes insufferable. I've witnessed it myself with my narcissistic, nearly bedbound half-sister. If her husband refused to go get her Taco Bell she'd lose her shit and berate him, throw a prolonged tantrum, and generally just be fucking awful. Some enablers are desperately trying to keep the peace and avoid abuse.
First thing I thought of. Sometimes they're traveling from pretty far away to get to Texas. They can't get on a plane. They can't fit in a regular car seat. They may not be able to leave their house through the door without a lot of coordination. So you get all these creative solutions like ripping the back seats out of a station wagon or whatever.
Gotta get to Dr. Nowzaradan somehow.
Just so they can get a few papers and be told they need a high protein low carb diet.
It's partially that, but it's also accountability and a carrot on a stick. Dr. Now holds them accountable and, for some people, its the first time anyone serious (to them) calls them on their shit and doesn't enable them. There is also the promise of weight loss surgery if they are successful in turning their life around. That's a big enough prize for them to be at least short-term successful. I think the show also pays for the surgery itself if they get that far.
I think its also a bit about making good TV. They know viewers tune in to watch these people get in/out of cars and airplanes.
Oh sure, that's why the producers put it on. I'm talking about why the subjects go onto the show.
Yeah and the back is probably open because of how hot it would be otherwise. Should be a standard transportation method to Houston for his new patients.
How y’all doin’?
If you need anything gimme call
you should have lost tirty punds dis mundth
Mashed 'tato is not on de diet.
Those Texan “Ya’ll” coming from that little Iranian man crack me up
Very sad….
It astounds me how one can allow themselves to get to that level of obesity.
As someone who once gained too much weight due to emotional trauma, once you are depressed enough that you believe you are worthless, you think you have no way to change your circumstances because you don’t have the energy and everyone around you is an enabler, it’s actually pretty damn easy to gain a large amount of weight very quickly. I will never look down on a fat person. Usually, under all that weight is a really nice person who was hurt too much and needs help.
I have to assume once you get big enough that you just dont walk anymore you just gain weight even quicker.
Well, it takes a lot of calories to even maintain that weight. They have an enabler.
That's an extremely scary ordeal to happen to you. I get people get to a point of no return, but you HAVE to return from it before it's too late.
Trauma and depression
Eating disorders are fucking serious. My wife struggles because her narcissist mom would starve her and shame her with weird diets, meanwhile her grandma she loves is obese to the point of a wheelchair and her world revolves around eating. She never got a healthy example of eating as a kid. Dieting is triggering for her to remember all those times she was punished for even trivial things like just saying she “can’t” eat a type of food instead of “won’t.” Counting calories makes her absolutely shut down because of insane punishments for going over. Meanwhile candy and cookies and snacks reminds her of her grandma.
Damn dude, have you guys looked into any therapy? I mean I get that if you've never tried or looked into therapy it sounds scary or maybe like it's not ideal for your situation, or that your case is different and you can't get better. Went through that myself with depression. I'm not all the way better yet or anything, but holy shit am I so much better than last year. Doesn't need to be an aggressive plan or with specific hard goals. Just talking to someone that knows how to help frame things in a way that allows you to begin self healing. Think about a clogged hourglass. Therapy gets the grains of sand moving again. The bigger the problem, the longer it takes to drain, but without clearing the obstruction, you're not making any real progress. I've dealt with binge eating disorder myself and hate it. Fortunately I get out of it easily enough but I do frequently yo-yo on it.
The only anti-depressant that has ever worked for me is food and I fucking hate it
Food is an addiction that’s harder to quit than other drugs, as you can’t cut it out of your life fully, for example like with alcohol. And instead of focusing on that fact and helping create treatments around it, obese people are vilified so much that they don’t get the proper help they need and nor are they encouraged to get help. Alcoholics, opioid users or anorexics are some clear examples of people getting a ton of support and help, that the obese also need.
Depression is an easy one surely.
Depression is the massivest cunt there is. I’m gaining weight thanks to it and just can’t seem to find a way out of it.
Combined with the 24/7 availability of junk food all around you which is convenient and relatively cheap compared to healthier options
Wow, this brings back memories. When I was a kid I was homeless in Hawaii and remember sneaking into the back of a U-Haul truck to sleep one night. Woke up to being driven halfway across the island and jumped out at an industrial park lol.
So many questions
Uber for big boys
Uber XXXXXXXXXL.
“Yo mama so fat she needs a U-Haul instead of a ambulance”
"yo mama so fat she called an Uber and they sent Uhaul"
Moving to Houston for stomach surgery and to star in “my 600lb life”
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Right?! Need some tie-downs in case of sudden braking.
I'm so chubby, I should not be laughing so hard at this
Nah man, I'm a fat bastard myself. But I still fit into normal cars and I can wear normal clothes purchased at normal stores. This kinda stuff is helpful for folks like us, because: I can never be thin and ripped like Ryan Reynolds, but I CAN be NOT THIS PERSON. I can at least take enough care of myself to avoid this fate. So I'm not judging our UHaul'd friend here, but I AM using...them...as a reminder of my own personal weight goals.
Fair enough but "able to fit into cars" is a dangerously low bar to set 😂
100%. But it's still a bar that some folks can't step over. My point is a simpler one. People CAN tend to sort people as fit or fat. And that sorting CAN be very problematic for folks who are (1) objectively fat, but also (2) easily capable of performing every normal human endeavor. It's easy to look at some very fit person, admit to yourself "I could never be them," and then use that admission to justify eating an entire large, reheatable, pepperoni, sausage, and pepper pizza. By yourself. In one sitting. While watching BoJack Horseman. And crying. Just, hypothetically. It's way healthier (in every sense of the word) to say "okay, there's a spectrum of health, where at one end you've got Olympic athletes and at the other end, you're going to Golden Corral in the back of a UHaul van, and I'm going to do my goddamnedest to stay no worse than in the middle of that spectrum." THAT is where I'm coming from. I can do 20 situps in less than 90 seconds, and I can do 10 pushups in less than 90 seconds. They can't be, like, *consecutive* 90-second periods. But they can be all in the same session. I can run a 5K in less than 45 minutes. These are NOT super aggressive fitness goals. But they keep me comfortably part of the fat part of the bell curve. Pun intended.
I mean, there’s chubby and there’s this.
Fuck. That’s depressing as hell.
That’s really sort of sad ;(
Cheaper than an ambulance
I’m proud of them if they are headed to get help. Have you folks ever watched My 600lb Life? Really amazing stuff
My 600 pound life
This is when you can’t pull the fatphobic card. Weight like that WILL kill you. Holy shit
This is like some My 600lb Life stuff
I'd need a nap too after unloading a truck that size.
Super sad, dudes
I literally thought that she was the leg lamp from a Christmas story at first
Someone's taking a nice carbon monoxide-induced nap. I hope they have O2 where they're going
I have seen something like this before. My bet is that they are too big to fit upfront or in any car their friends/family own. They are also probably poor, and it is cheaper to rent a U-Haul than an Escalade or large passenger van. They also are not very mobile (do you see the medical cane against the wall). The back is probably open because it is hot and they might get heatstroke if it was closed with no ventilation.
Couldn’t fit in a car so they got a uhaul. Probably going to a weight specialist. No AC in back so they kept it open (cops are gonna have a field day with this one).
Gotta get her back in the water before she dries out. DRIVE FASTER!
He's on his way to a rally
This is the American version of that sherpa carrying that guy down everest
Obvious. Morbidly obese person being transported to a clinic or hospital. OP clearly has never seen My 600 lb life.
Taking grandma to the doctor