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Weight Loss/Maintenance

spinbaby

(15,261 posts) Wed Jan 22, 2014, 08:08 PM Jan 2014

Did anyone see "My 600-lb Life" last night? [View all]

I should know better than to watch reality TV, but I got sucked into this one while I was finishing up the dishes last night. This woman who weighed about 600 pounds and was bedridden had some kind of surgery (a gastric bypass, I assume, but I wasn't paying that much attention) and GAINED WEIGHT. How is that even possible? They showed her husband frying wontons for her--a definite enabler.

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Did anyone see "My 600-lb Life" last night? [View all] spinbaby Jan 2014 OP

If she got a lap band TexasBushwhacker Jan 2014 #1

Corrections on your Rous-en-Y info.... madmom Apr 2014 #3

Oh I agree, Rous-en-Y is the way to go TexasBushwhacker Apr 2014 #4

I didn't see it. But I'd like to address the types of surgery (wish I'd seen the episode) auntAgonist Jan 2014 #2

Does anyone know how she's doing? MrMickeysMom Apr 2014 #5

Penny is her name. newcriminal Apr 2014 #6

Sadly, most of these people have serious enablers in thier lives. Marrah_G May 2014 #7