Community Chat

[Deb1010again]

Wow, I just watched one of the stories. It was Paula. How sad. Yet I kept watching. People get the weight loss surgery and then don't change their habits and still put on weight. It's frustrating to watch. Yet I do. Another story comes on at 9PM after this one. Has anyone else watched? What's your opinion?

[gazelle77]

There are some that lose weight , some that do not. They say most of them gain it back in five years. I do find it depressing to watch. Sad.

[Deb1010again]

Paula actually started really making progress at the end. She joined a gym and started working out. It ended on a positive note.

Now there's another story with a guy who is HUGE.

[gazelle77]

They have a new story every Tuesday.

[circles]

I have seen some of the shows....it is difficult to watch....sad and frustrating when you see them continuing to eat like they did before the surgery....however I can sympathize...dieting is not easy...

[Feline Fine]

Sadly, if they don't make the emotional breakthrough and connection in their minds, then not even healthy lifestyle changes nor surgery will make a true and lasting difference.

[missy1]

Even after losing weight and having skin removal, the body don't look the the same. Our bodies are not made to be 600#.

[PAX]

Do the producers or advertisers pay for the surgery and follow-up care or is it all on the patient and/or the patient's insurance?

[chickenbutt]

Yeah, some of them are infuriating. They have this opportunity and they just qrap all over it. There was one woman (several weeks ago?) who was so bad I just wanted to knock her over. She was doing everything exactly the opposite of what she was supposed to do and, even with that doctor (he's kind of creepy, but he knows what he's doing) giving her very specific dietary information, she kept saying that he wasn't doing anything to help her. How about - that's a lie - and how about doing something to help yourself!

When they go in having gained weight, I like (not) how they are incredulous as to how that could have possibly happen. Then you see them eating huge portions of junk.

Some of them really WANT to get healthy, though, and it's great to see them succeed.

[chickenbutt]

On 2/19/2014 Georgie the 5th said:

Do the producers or advertisers pay for the surgery and follow-up care or is it all on the patient and/or the patient's insurance?

Somebody must be paying because most of the stories I've watched had a two-adult family with one being the patient (couldn't work) and the other being the spouse whose full-time job was taking care of the patient, so the spouse couldn't work either. If nobody is working, there must not be money coming in or insurance. I could be wrong, but that's the way it looks.