Plastic Surgeon Reacts to MY 600 LB LIFE! Her Enablers are EVERYWHERE!
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Dr. Youn. I love your channel and think your advice and attitude is great. So I feel it best to correct one minor error you made. A gallon of milk is not 10 lbs. It is 8 pounds. This is still a lot of weight but not 10 lbs. According to some sources on the internet it is actually 8.34 pounds. However, my information comes from the fact that liquid measurement is equivalent to weight in pounds. Therefore, one pint (2 cups) is equal to one pound. There are 8 pints in a gallon therefore there are 8 pounds in a gallon. Maybe I'm splitting hairs but I have few excuses to point out any errors in your videos... so I thought I'd take advantage. LOL! You do great work. Keep it up.
She also may have Lipedema, or even Lipo-lymphedema, which is usually overlooked by doctors. It is even misdiagnosed as Lymphedema, as you just showed the diagram of......Lymphedema usually affects one limb, where as Lipedema affects both. There is no cure for Lipedema. Diet and compression aids may help with the symptoms and shrink it some.......but there is no cure. Lipedema is genetic,.
Sorry but I only Mickey D’s Fish sandwich, Salad, chicken sandwiches, chicken nuggets fries and their ice cream but don’t eat their unless I’m on the road and no other
What about all that extra loose skin. It won't shrink back.
I would love to video a surgery like this.
But my time has passed.
I enjoy your videos. I wish I could share with you some of the past videos I've done. I still have the master DVD's 📀
Thank you
There is such a big link between mental illness and obesity. I am glad that Dr now meets people where they are at and is willing to walk alongside them.
No. There is a link between childhood abuse, sexual assault, and neglect. Mental illness is also a symptom of childhood abuse. Over-eating can become an abused child's only comfort and source of control.
@@buddygrouper3599 Isn't this just adding on to what they were trying to say in the first place? Why "no"?
@@buddygrouper3599ptsd is a mental health diagnosis
@@buddygrouper3599I agree. I went through therapy for an eating disorder. It helped so much. I'm in the best place I've ever been in my life, and I hope this woman has a successful outcome.
Where were her parents??? How can one get this big? She's lucky to be alive.
So I weighed a little over 300 pounds and for the last three years I have lost weight naturally. I cut out breads and pastas and tortillas. I also cut my meals in half too. It worked for me I am now 174 lbs.
did you exercise too
Well done
What are things you enjoy doing now that you weren't able to do or enjoy before?
I'm so happy for you!! I'm now struggling with mine. My dad's a doctor and I've been avoiding him because he gives me these obesity lectures that make me want to curl up and die. But I know he does it from a place of love, so I try to use that energy to push myself to lose weight instead.
@@azigarthat’s the problem right there. You’re running away from responsibility and self accountability.
I wish that show would also have patients see a counselor to address the psychological roots related to their overeating and relationship to food.
They do. Or they did idk now
@@janiexoxo they still do, I was watching the new season
Completely agree, I wasnt able to lose weight until I got my mental illness under control.
@@obvioustroll8181 I’m trying to get seen about mine. Unmedicated adhd but I have to re-prove I have it to a doctor.
Their latest seasons do! The earlier seasons… not so much
Knowing a few people with lymphoedema I know this is already tough on its own.
One of my friends was an absolute sports nut. But at one point, despite being basically on what medically was a starvation diet, she started getting bigger and bigger. And a number of doctors told her basically to cut out the burgers and maybe do more sports. They did no examinations whatsoever, no blood work, no nothing. They just looked her up and down and said something to the effect of „get in shape, fatty“. She got all the leaflets about healthy eating. One also recommended a consultation with a dietician.
She had super low energy all the time and dreaded each visit to a new doctor because no one would listen to her and take her seriously. Eventually she broke down crying in a doctors office and fell unconscious. She woke up in hospital and ended up self discharging because she did not want more doctors to keep telling her to eat healthier food. At that point she started hating doctors.
She was at the absolute end of her tether. She later admitted to seriously considering suicide and having done research on how to best do it painlessly. Which shocked me deeply because nobody really knew how bad it was. On the outside she was always chipper.
Only through online research she found out that lymphoedema was a thing and sought specialist help. And thankfully she got it. She is much better now.
Such a sad and scary story, glad she got the right treatment eventually.
Did they check her thyroid level and other hormones
+1
The ones that are super chipper always seem to be the saddest
This girl is gorgeous!!! So excited for her.
Her Facebook is public. She has three boys and is pregnant with a girl. In January before she was pregnant she was down to 160. At this point, the surgery was over 10 years ago.
She has two boys. The oldest boy in her pics is her nephew.
When I worked in the hospital in the radiology department we had 2 patients, over the years, who had gastric bypass surgeries but didn't follow the diets and it caused abdominal ruptures. They were each hospitalized for nearly a year due to infection and destruction of tissue. You have got to show that you are ready to make the change because if we only eat when we were hungry, we wouldn't need abdominal surgeries to begin with.
my dad had gastric bypass and while he didn't rupture his stomach, he also didn't stick to the diet long-term and has gained back at least half the weight he initially lost. they specifically told him to avoid soda because the carbonation would stretch out his pouch faster but he just can't stay away from the diet coke.
Please educate yourself about leptin resistance. Many if not most people who are this obese have brains that are wired NOT to tell them when the don't need to eat anymore, and to make them think they're hungry when they actually don't need food. The idea that people only get fat because they eat when they aren't hungry is false;
Sure … 😂😂😂 🙄 didnt you comment you also worked in an airport, the ED, as a lawyer and dental assistant? You are a busy body, sorry busy bee 😂
@@dietotaku 600 lb life states that only 5 % of the weight loss will be maintained. So much work and pain to just swell your stomach right back to its pre surgery size.
@flight101 Well I am old. I did a lot of crap.🤣 I have had a lot of main income jobs that have almost all been in medicine. Private home care and Geriatrics in Nursing Homes as CNA, PCA IN HOSPITAL, Urgent care and Doctors offices as a MA with Radiography licensing, Rehab, MRDD Home care, phlebotomy, Radiography. BUTTTTTTT on the side I worked retail, in a veterinary hospital, commercial cleaning, sold life insurance, delivered flyers, Drug testing and physical testing for new employees, and what feels like hundreds of other things. Gotta pay the bills! Anything else you think I did Flighty? ...er flight101 oh oh, I spent a summer interviewing young prostitutes for Social Services for a grant to see what services they could use to help get off the streets. Happy hour everyday after work to drown the day.
There was a lady that lived right around the block from me and she was on my 600 pound life. It was very sad to constantly see ambulances there. I will never forget the day they took her away and never brought her back
She died?
@@hibooty7262duh
@@hibooty7262yes
@@hibooty7262what do you think mate
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I'm honestly really disappointed where this video ended. Christina ended up developing a significant eating disorder, consuming just 400 calories a day. I really wanted to hear Dr Youn's thoughts.
Oh wow really? 😢. I was like holy cow does she look so much better. But then I saw your comment. That’s sad to hear.
@@PinkieJoJo Yes. Dr Now was very concerned and sent her home with high calorie shakes and told her she needed to gain 15 pounds by her next appointment. I'm so glad he takes both over and under eating so seriously.
Well, she already had an eating disorder. What happened was her disorder morphed into restriction rather than binging.
@@nicholaspoulos7694This is actually extremely common with eating disorders. Also, with her not knowing how to eat, she probably thought this was a good thing. She needs consistent support or a dietitian and a therapist both focused on eating disorders.
That's what happens when you try to bandaid mental illness with other procedures.
If you are going to put someone in hospital to lose weight, you need to have a no bag policy and no outside food policy for visitors entering the unit.
I wonder if there are legal or just the logistics of personnel that would make this impossible at the hospital Dr Now is affiliated with. I know sometimes when I have visited someone in the hospital you have to check in and get a badge at others you don't.
Absolutely.
I absolutely agree
@@judysocal8682 If they can force me to stay and take everything from me as an adult for "mental health" they can keep people eating themselves to death and give them emotional support while taking away the temptations lol.
Im surpriseed he didnt mention when she got to the 170s the doctors were concerned she was losing weight TOO FAST and made her gain an extra 20 lbs. I thought that was incredible that she REALLY went with the regime beyond what doctors thought she'd do.
She sounds awesome.
Well that’s because she lost the weight because she developed an eating disorder and only ate 400 calories a day
If she's any smaller than 5 ft 9, at 170 lb she's overweight.
I don't watch My 600 lbs life, but I'm familiar with Christina via videos on UA-cam.
Therapy seems to have helped her tremendously. She struggled with body image issues, even at 171 pounds. But once she started therapy it seemed to help her control those thoughts a little better to where she wasn't scared of eating anymore.
She ended up having to divorce her husband because he wouldn't stop enabling her. But her fiance' that she had when they did a follow up episode on her seems to be amazing and supportive.
Thank you for the update. I hope she’s still doing well. It’s horrible the way our society treats overweight people. Morbid obesity and anorexia are just flip sides of the same coin, and yet there seems to be much more compassion and medical options and counseling, etc. for anorexics. Obese people are mocked and scorned.
Oh wow, an actual success story.
Seeing her walk around and not needing her wheelchair made me so happy!
I watched an update video of her recently. I’m sure you can find it on UA-cam if you want to watch it as well. Basically she divorced her husband and has a new boyfriend who’s way more supportive not an enabler. She seems really happy, her mom isn’t mentioned at all, so I don’t know what the situation is there. She actually lost so much weight that doctor now was worried she was going in the opposite direction. It actually made her gain 15 pounds. But she did it and got back to a healthy weight and he did skin removal surgery for her. She had skin removal, surgery on her arms, legs chest, and stomach. It was a lot of recovery, but she ended up looking fantastic after it was all over and she ended up being pretty happy and positive by the end of it
From the time I married my ex to the time we'd been married for about three years, I gained a hundred pounds. I was constantly trying to lose weight. At one point I asked him why do you keep sabotaging me every time I try to lose weight? And his answer was you get all thin and beautiful and leave me. Ironically, when I got down to my pre-wedding weight about 17 years after we got married, I did leave him. The irony didn't catch up with me till about 45 months after the fact.
Holy shit, the end result photo for her was amazing! So impressive the amount of resolve she must have put into that, especially with a family so unhelpful.
she divorced her first husband - he was a feeder
Feeders are just sick.
She had an eating disorder that mimicked anorexia!
My cousin was one of the first people to have gastric bypass. She lost A LOT of weight - and actually had her excess skin removed. Insurance paid for that because she had to have a hysterectomy and the surgeon couldn't do that operation with all the excess skin. She looked fantastic ....for a while. However, she went back to her previous eating habits, gained all that weight back (and more), and ended up in a wheelchair, completely disabled. She died at a very young age. Before the operation, she told me that she was supposed to eat 2 oz. of food several times a day after the surgery. I told her to do that instead of the surgery and she would certainly lose the weight. If she had been able to control her eating - and stop drinking sugary sodas, she would still be alive.
Yes agree if people followed the “post-gastric bypass surgery meal plans” before the surgery, they would slim down.
Everyone I knew that had it gained it back as well. I had a friend that had it many many years ago. The incision burst open and had to heal from the inside out. It was so bad. But she ended up gaining it all and then some back. But later in life she got a grip on her eating and slimmed down. But her family has a history of bad hearts and she died from heart at like 52. That was over twenty years ago.
I watched also a video of her making even more progress and she lost SO MUCH that she made it to the skin removal surgery, but she was still loosing weight, eventhough she didn't have to anymore, so Dr. Now told her to gain weight and gave her some food supplements to help her with it she had to gain i think aroun 15 or 20 pounds back, because she was on the another extreme side which was anorexia. But she got over it and now looks stunning ♥
It’s pretty common
The problem with gastric bypass surgery is you have to keep overeating, because your body can't absorb the nutrients from your food.
The last girl lost 6 people wow 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👏👏👏👏👏
@@StarOnTheWatera properly diet
I wish there was a way for her to get therapy but also her mom. I wonder if her mom experienced food insecurity due to poverty at some time in her life. That could be done if the reason she had such s hard time not over feeding her child. I hope they are both able to enjoy Christina's newfound independence!
My mom lived through the Great Depression where her family lost everything and had a problem affording food. But even this didn’t cause her to overfeed us children. My younger sister and I have never been overweight.
People need to realize the connections between food and emotional and mental health. I can remember as a child literally stuffing myself with cheese sandwiches whenever my mother left me and would disappear for days at a time. It was like the food physically pushed those feelings deep deep down so I could no longer feel the anger. I actually had an uncle who caught me one night doing it. He said it was my choice whether to do it or not, but he hoped that I would try to understand what was motivating me to do so. A few years later, in my late teens, I finally acknowledged the "connection" and with time and maturation was able to deal with the feelings without the food. It really is life-changing when you can let go of the baggage.
I’m almost 5 years clean and I see her struggle as very similar to my struggles with addiction.
Except she can’t completely stop eating food, while I could stop doing and drinking completely with the help of a doctor.
I feel for her and hope she is doing well today. ❤
I really liked the examples of the meals based on the calories. It really helped put things in perspective. Thanks Dr Youn! 💖
1200 calories isn’t much food.
Me too! And also that he showed the weight in KG for all non-US people (like me) who watch the video :D
I have struggled with any weight all my life. Obesity is so much more complicated than just "eating too much".
My adult weight has ranged from 122 lbs (55.3 kg) to 295 lbs (133.8 kg). Either end was too drastic! I found that dieting is actually a matter of WON'T power--I won't have soda to drink, I won't have 2nds, etc.
Chronic pain has a high rate of coomorbidity with eating disorders. Either overeating, as eating a lot allows the person to forget the pain for a brief moment, or some can become more anorexic, because they are so stressed they struggle with digestion, and would space out meals as much as possible to avoid because their chronic fight or flight response make eating very difficult and unpleasant.
I just love how emphatic you are as a doctor and what a good vibes you bring out!
empathetic?
It really pisses me off that these corporations are allowed to sell poor quality, high calorie, addictive food products which are extracting a huge cost to society with no responsibility to the public, but huge profits.
Agree
I think the very first thing they need to address is the mental health of the patient as well as their enablers. The patient throws a fit because they aren’t getting 10,000 calories? Ok, get up and get the food themselves. It is NOT a kindness to keep feeding them. The most reprehensible is the sickos who want to keep their loved one fat.
How do they afford all this food every day? I get a normal person’s meal from the drive through it costs me $14.
I know this is an old comment, but I want to say a couple things.
1. I do find it sad and frustrating that they do not seem to have trained dieticians and psychiatric counselling on this show. Most people do not get to this weight without some form of mental health issue and not treating that feels like a recipe for disaster. You see it occasionally when people do well and then relapse soon after. The doctor tests them to loose weight initially, so why not have them take some counselling sessions?
2. Sometimes we can’t see the problems our actions cause until it’s too late. Her family was not trying to hurt her. They genuinely did not see why their actions were wrong, and they got used to doing this over years. They do not want her sad and know that food helps, and despite that being a problem, they do want her to be okay. It’s a mistake, and while perhaps we all cannot say we enable this behaviour, I’m sure you’ve enabled someone else before. All I’m saying is to be a bit more understanding.
3. It’s the processed foods and sugar. It is expensive, but it is actually often cheaper to buy garbage foods than healthy ones. Not to mention healthy foods can be hard to find depending on the area and season. Also, while not her case exactly, some of these people use delivery apps or the like to make life easier for them. This means they’re incentivised to eat rubbish that’s high calorically
Zack is a very good man. Anyone else might have left this woman... I'm glad that this woman was able to help herself.
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My mom had gastric bypass surgery back in 94, and Dr Youn is right. My mom is in her mid 60s, and she still has a loooong scar from her breastbone to way past her bellybutton, which will never go away.
Good morning!
#1: Most Enablers fearfully need to be needed.
It's their job!
When this person looses the weight (or quits drinking, whatever) the Enablers are out of a job!
Who wants to help themselves get fired?
So they do this thing: 'change/change back'.
This is a very painful situation. One where there are no winners. Only miserable anguish.
**applause** You are so correct. It's hard to explain that to people.
I find it horrifying that a parent or caregiver is putting their own need of feeling needed above their childs well being... if this would've continued in the way it did, the overfeeding would've killed her...
@@LaraOlina
You are so believable.
Yet, here we have "the human condition".
It takes all kinds because there are all kinds.
I encourage you to do your own research on this topic.
For me, this is:
- a very real "dance of life"
and
- frightening to view
and
- hell to live.
Blessings. Now.
As a chronic pain patient and "new" to the life, 5 years in the rest of my life, knowing that activity will be hard on me for the rest of my life, THIS reality TERRIFIES me.
Everyone has their own medical conditions and NO ONE should shame a morbidly obese individual.
But the extra weight will make things worse in any case. I feel so bad for these people. They need love, encouragement and support from those around them. That includes saying NO, when its necessary. Weight loss is 90% diet.
She's doing amazing now! She is a mother to 2 beautiful babies
God bless this young woman and her family. She did a lot of hard work.
I have a lot of respect for how you handled this subject. Informative without being judgmental.
It is so helpful to hear Dr Youn's compassionate approach to folks who are severely overweight. I have struggled since I was 13, when my parents started telling me I'd be so pretty if I just lost weight. Part of that is from Daddy's hatred of his own weight. I had so much shame, but I have broken that pattern mostly -- I still have a binge eating disorder, though. Keto helped me lose 65 pounds!
I really enjoy hearing your commentary and your visuals and descriptions of what's going on in the show. Thank you!!
I had both anaroxia and bulimia, I hope she also go to see some good theraphist too coz It helped me with my eating disorder through my teenage years and early 20s 😢. Hope she feel better ❤
Its sad to see this. She is so young and very pretty. I wish her well.
I am 5’3” and weigh about 130 pounds. I buy cat litter in the 25 pound bags (I have it delivered). It’s miserable enough to carry the litter into the house one heavy bag at a time. So for me to weigh 600 pounds it would be equal to carrying in 19 bags at 25 pounds apiece all at once. I cannot imagine the pressure that 600 pounds puts on every inch of your body.
She’s about 160 lbs, has three kids with a 4th on the way and it’s been ten years since the surgery. She’s doing much better ❤️
I saw a tv documentary on a lady here in South Africa who had parasites in the lymph nodes and her one leg was as big as this lady. The problem was that she lived in a very poor rural area and in our country there is no help for hugely overweight people. Her family managed to hire a 1-ton truck to get her to hospital- but the hospital staff didn’t know what to do with her and our government health system is NOT geared to deal with overweight patients. By the time they finished filming I think the most help she had was for a nurse aid from the nearest clinic to come and help her husband bathe her once a week. I hope they have found some way to help her to at least get rid of the parasites and bring the lymphoedema down.
As a metric system person, I appreciate the conversion! ❤
You are so kind and show so much compassion and understanding toward these people with problems.❤
What a nice video! I like the way you present Christina so sympathetically. I like watching this, I get so frustrated watching a whole episode.
Dr Now (wrong spelling) is AWESOME and so patient. I don't think I could even be as diplomatic as him to be honest.
I do hope Dr. Now gave the enablers a piece of his mind. I would ask them why they are trying to kill her?
It's usually very complicated, and a type of co-dependancy. Like people who enable alcoholics or drug addicts, they often don't know how to handle the situation.
Telling an adult "no" isn't easy, either. And if you love someone you want to make them happy which isn't always the best way to handle things.
It takes a lot of strength and willingness from both/all sides to overcome this.
In parts we are all enabling one type of behavior or another, just not all of them end up being so unhealthy. It could be small things like always doing laundry because your partner doesn't know how even though they often do and just weaponize their "incompetence".
But it seems they have learned their lessons as well and kept supporting her. So I guess they got some talking to (and help to learn to actually help her).
@@sylverscaleI noticed she had different people in the appointment compared to at the start, younger in age like her. Maybe sister or friends? I don't think the mum was being the best and the husband seems to be helping which is good.
Well her man was apparently a feeder.
Doc you always speak on these reviews with such kindness and empathy you are just lovely 🥰
Im so happy for her, she sees how much better things are going and is actually looking forward to the future. Shebwill do so much❤
Doctor Youn, you are just a very sweet and caring human! I've watched a few of your other videos as well.
For me, a big thing thats rly hard to combat is sugar addiction (a chemical reaction in the brain) and taste buds used to high sugar/ high salt content (contributes to satiety). Without appetite suppressants and therapy, it's going to be way too hard to weigh less than a walrus.
Dr Youn seems genuinely like such a kind person
Dr Youn seems like a genuinely kind person!
Indeed!
Congratulations 🎉🎈🎊🍾
I love these wholesome vids of individuals getting their life’s together and doing the things necessary to ensure they live longer…..am not obese but I am pudgy..and working out 4 times a week is helping my self esteem and keeping my body in shape especially due to my hormone imbalance..exercise is really beneficial to me. Thanks Dr. Youn for the great content as always
Shes actually a really pretty girl, hope she can keep the weight loss up.
Daddy Doctor Youn back at it!! Thank you for this video. Your knowledge is amazing🎉
Dr youn ,Thank you for sharing this videos! My prayers for all ❤the people with health ❤weight ,and Thank them ❤for allowing the public to watch their videos❤
This poor girl. Whenever I hear stories like this I think back to when my children were small, about 3 and 5 years old. I had one friend who also had a 3- and 5-year-old but she was almost abusive toward forcing these two girls to eat the amount SHE thought was good for them. She would insist they sit at the table until they finished everything on their plate, even when it took hours. We're lost touch but I wonder now if those girls have weight problems. It was awful to watch. I was never happy if my children didn't eat much but I never forced them to finish. I had to remind myself that the amount I put on their plate was only a guess at what they needed-- and I'd rather they have enough than underfeed them. And I knew, at that age, little bodies don't need that much food to go on. But some parents seem to miss that part.
But as for Christine, I'm glad she was able to overcome her problem. I wonder if she and her family went to therapy together to work out the issues causing this problem.
Eating is not the issue but rather eating and sitting on the food. You can be eating less but sitting and not using the food up, you would still get fat.
Her kids must have finished all their food but she must have let them play outside. Now that's different. When growing up kids need all the food (they are rapidly growing and energy reserve s better be enough), of course not junk.
Thank you for helping this beautiful lady to be confident and successful! ❤
People don't get that big without enablers. If you're that big that you can't take care of yourself, someone else is buying and cooking the food.
Good for her! She’s a trooper and it’s an unbelievable achievement already… she looks 100000x better!
Just pre-ordered your book, can't wait to read! I watch all your videos.
I'm so HAPPY FOR HER ❤️💗❤️👏🏾🤗 I loved Dr. Now's strategy. It made perfect sense. I wish the very BEST for Christina. 💯🥇
I saw an overweight person running this morning. It made me smile because its not Jan 1.
I remember a story I read as a child. That was at a time before all these gastric bypass surgeries were available or even needed. In that story, a clever doctor told an overweight man that the reason for his problems was that a wyrm was living in his body. In order to kill it, he had to walk a lot, drink a lot of water, and eat less, or something like that.
In the story, it worked.
I am sorry for her. Wishing well for her healthy recovery both physically and mentally.
This is like a huge trigger for me, because I had to spend most of my life taking care of my mother, who was just like this only instead of me enabling her, and she would manipulate me into enabling her without me realizing because I was a child so this went on for most of my life and now I really have nothing to show for it except a dead mom, I could be successful with my music I could maybe have a better body or be healthier or or maybe even have my own family now but no, I spent most of my life, if not all my life taking care of someone like this, and as much as I loved her and she was my best friend I feel like I feel like it was just all for nothing, I really only find solace in my music, and helping other people with their strict mental diet, as it helps me stay on my own strict mental diet and now after losing 130 pounds I hate my body even more, got 40 lbs more to go, which causes me to hate myself even more and hate myself even more for even putting myself thru this, but I put myself through this for my mom, no one would help, I didn’t even have emotional support, my friends and family like abandon me because I put all my love and care into her. It really did show people’s true colors to me. I’m really happy for this girls outcome, the horror of this had been my reality for so long as a care giver, I have come to realize over the past few days that maybe subconsciously and consciously because I am so uncomfortable in my own skin cuz of the way I look, that maybe that hinders the manifestations I do want to co-create with my creator everyday, so I stay stuck in a vortex with the same repetition like a death loop. Always wanted to try your skin care so maybe I will start there.. will prolly delete later cuz this is so painful to share. @DrYoun
Take care, sweetie. 🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼
@@trixie9777 Thank-you. Take care too and be safe, hope you are enjoying the season!
People downplay social media, but you can really get a lot of socialization and friendships thru it. You don't need to go thru things alone there is always a group for everything. Like on face book. There's no reason to be alone
I had to be isolated, worked from home kind of kept apart from other people. On line friends were a life line. But always maintain enough distance and a healthy level of anonymity. It's good online practice. I'd have said go to Twitter but that's a hot mess. A private face book group on topics that affect you is best
Woooo! I just pre-ordered the book! Excited for January! 🤩
For those who didn't know Dr Now's son is the executive producer of My 600lbs Life.
Thank you doctor for explaining this type of problem to us and this wasn't taught in nursing school when I went for nursing assistant. I have put on a lot of weight myself over the past 36 years.
Learn to cook - buy fresh food - make your own food. Cooking is wonderful and helped me lose A LOT of weight. I was 97 kilos - I'm now 59. I did not join a gym, worked out at home a bit - but TOTALLY changed my diet. Home cooked meals. I still add brown sugar to many but also garlic, ginger etc - great for the body! The less you eat - the less you need to eat. Fasting two days a week helped me too.
I've struggled with my weight for most of my adult life. I know I'm an emotional eater & that makes it more difficult. I've lost a relationship due to my weight. He could not handle it & I weighed 225 at the time. He would get upset that losing weight was so hard for me. I have a slow metabolism. I am postmenopausal & have hypothyroidism. All of which makes it hard to lose weight, not impossible just harder. He did all of the cooking. Something he loved to do. He wanted to introduce me to different cuisines & new foods which I loved & appreciated. BUT it did not help me lose weight. We did the KETO diet at one point. It works, but for me it was SLOW going. I do think the high calorie meals made losing much more difficult. My allowed calories were 1200-1300 per day. I would eat the same salad everyday for lunch & then come home to a 800-1000 calorie dinner. It was of course higher in fat (that's KETO). I did lose weight but for me, this is not a diet that I can maintain forever. He tried so hard to control what I ate, thinking since he was losing much much faster than me, I must be doing it wrong. Trying to please him by eating what he wanted me to (the high calories) & working out at the gym 6 days a week, & having listen to his "lectures" on a near daily basis...I got so stressed I found myself snacking at work on foods I actually did like. So frustrating. I am no longer with him (we are friends). I am losing weight by eating healthier, lower carb, smaller portions and staying within my calorie allotment. So far so good & I am eating "normal foods". Enablers mean well, I believe most really do want to help but...they don't realize they may be contributing vs helping with the weight loss process.
Glad you are in a better place.
i tried keto but it didn't work for me. my biggest problem is that i've become responsible for cooking all the meals for myself, my (thin) husband and our 2 kids, but i don't even like cooking so i default to a lot of processed/frozen stuff. and i don't have the luxury of just fixing something low-calorie for myself, everyone else's food will be too tempting. plus i don't have much motivation to lose weight anyway - the first time i did was because i was planning to get pregnant and i wanted to attempt a vaginal delivery after my first ended in a c-section. i lost around 40lbs in 6 months. but that was before i had to cook for a family of 4. at this point i don't care if i die fat.
I don't want to say "men" but I suppose "those who burn calories better" seem to dominate the diet advice. Do what works for you. If you like to eat like a mouse all day and it works for you, then do it! All the food advice out there seems be about prescriptions on what to eat and having 3 square meals yadda yadda. Sounds like you're just listening to your body. Go for it.
I sure you already know this, but there are new prescription weight loss drugs available. Since you really struggle, it might be worth a try to talk to your doctor.
Very clear explanations Dr Youn!
I wish her only the best. She’s a great girl very brave.
12:28 The Doc must've been 12 performing his transformations.
25 yrs ago?!
Youn is Youn 'young-looking.'
Dude must be a century legend.
I feel so much for this young woman.Hope she gets the help she needs.I don’t watch the 600 pound tv series it’s too sad.
Thank you for this amazing video.
I ended up with gastric bypass surgery. But I only gave into this after I became aware of my mental struggle with food. I was ready to totally submit to what to do for me successfully. Yes, I learned to eat popular , to exercise. Nothing helped until I got my head fixed. I am 20 years post surgery and managed to keep my proper weight and control. I believe the failed is that the person has not accepted their responsibility to make this dangerous situation work.
Eat Popular? Or properly?
I am so happy for her I can imagine how she feels now😊
This girl is gorgeous!! So excited for her!!
I think that our bodies never evolved to comfortably _lose_ weight. So even if we have a great deal of fat that we need to burn off to get healthy by dieting, our bodies are going to view that weight-loss scenario as a kind of starvation situation.
A few times, I've wanted to lose some weight. It _always_ feels uncomfortable. My body is telling me something is wrong and I need to eat more food. It's easy to say "Oh, then it's just a matter of willpower and pushing through it," but the desire to eat more to keep from lowing weight is instinctual. It's like telling your hand to put itself on a ripping-hot pan on the stove for five seconds. Can you push through it and override your instincts that are telling you to pull your hand back? Maybe. But we'd forgive people who can't make it that long, even if the reward is ten thousand dollars. The body just freaks out too much, and we can't always wrangle it in.
People sometimes think of food as bad, an addiction, something to control or be afraid of. It's unlike addictive things because it's necessary for life. When they get education about foods, meals, proper portions or planning, it's possible to see it another way. As a life benefit and pleasure. Combination with exercise tho.
Losing weight shouldn't be about denial or sacrifice, it should be about balance. If you do a denial diet, you'll simply crave what you don't have. You'd be better off with an Add One Thing with Remove One Thing. Sustainability and longer lasting. You won't miss the missing thing because you've added a nice new thing. You add an activity or more water or more fruit, you take away one old thing or a portion of it. Some people remove alcohol and lose a lot of weight. Some people start steps, 1000 to 2000 etc every day. Everything you do makes a difference. Diets or "must lose weight" does not
Happy for her, she lost that weight and woke up to LIFE 💗
Dr now isn't scared to do what other doctors are too with much heavier patients. He gives them guidance and confidence to help them see their goals
I am friends with Christina. She is doing amazing and is now a mommy to 3 children ❤️❤️❤️
Dr. Youn, you are the best.
Just like drug users, they have to stay away from people they use to hang out with.
Its hard with food cause they everyone has to be on board and not enable her.
@@zoraidacastro2703plus you have to eat to survive
Christina seems like the sweetest person ever.
Wow such a great story. That’s so great for her 👏
I am obese and am currently doing the golo program I will be having weight loss surgery in 6 months
Thank you for this video doc. It made me aware of my weight.
I just checked out Christina's socials and she is looking great and has two sons! I'm so happy for her.
And a little girl on the way! Due next month.
@@jennyn5692what’s her channel on UA-cam?
I can't believe someone with knowledge in nutrition/diet would recommend 1000 calorie diet to anyone. That would indeed lead to a VERY fast weight loss, especially with someone as heavy as this patient, but it would slow down their metabolism so much. They would never be able to eat more than this without risking weight gain.
When people overeat to this extreme, lowering their daily calories to what's considered normal (1800-2000 kcal a day) would still lead to fast weight loss due to the fact that they are used to eating so much more and the fact that their resting metabolic rate is much higher than that of a person with a healthy BMI. I certainly hope they only reduced her calorie intake for a short period of time just to check if she has the will power to restrict her eating. Otherwise, it's a recipe for disaster.
Her transformation is AMAZING OMG
I honestly feel bad for people that end up in 600 Lb Life. There's no doubt that their weight is an incredible insecurity for them - I definitely wouldn't want to be the subject of a series that's literally about the world's fattest people
Pretty sure they pay for the procedures.
Would you rather be insecure your entire (very short) life, or endure the shame of being on public television for one episode, and drastically improve your quality of life, and extend your life?
Would suck to die at 35 because you had too much shame to be on one episode of this show and have your procedures paid for
Right? Like, they help you but at the same time you're the object of so much judgement and scrutiny from strangers
I don’t. They did it to themselves. See my above comment
@@julieann3934 it's sad to see people be nasty to others who are going through similar struggles. Congratulations on your weightloss, but that gives you no right to demean other people.
I hate that they always start with putting close up camera's right when waking up and then putting them naked in the shower or how they struggle getting on the toilet. Like, is there no other, less demeaning, way to show how they live their life at 600+ weight?
She looks even better in other videos. She did amazingly!!
I'm blessed with a caregiver (my mom) who will never enable negatively. Nor will she allow me to become too complacent. I developed a BAD over-eating disorder due to the depression from the multiple conditions I have (hEDS, PCOS, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, and fibromyalgia, just to name a few). I'm almost bed bound, in constant pain, and pain meds don't work. Opioids even only take the edge off. So it's understandable. But I've kicked that disorder almost completely and am on my way to a surgery to help me get the weight off while still having such low mobility.
A tip to keep yourself from feeling hungry and to be able to not eat much food if you're trying to loose weight:
Eat very small snacks throughout the day that add up to your maximum calorie intake, no real "meals", or at most one or two. Seriously, even 1/2 a cup of trail mix can keep you from feeling really hungry for two hours or so. Granted, it depends on how big your stomach is. (And eating a lot of food at each meal stretches it out btw.)
I've had better success with the opposite of this, which would be intermittent fasting. With your method, you never get your blood sugar down to where it needs to be to fix insulin resistance.
I can't imagine how difficult it would be to be mobile with those masses, and they probably hurt too. Getting those off would make a big difference in her life.
Totally unintended pun... Dr. Youn, "Last time she was weighed she was 670 lbs. How much of that weight is due to the lymphedema? Believe it or not, probably not a ton of it." I honestly looked up at the screen to see if he gave us a winky face, but no... definitely unintended. 🤣🤣
I had gastric bypass surgery when I was 26 years old... I almost died... I have issues with it till this day... My stomach ALWAYS hurts!!! Food makes me nauseous!!! I don't really go out to restaurants, because I'm never sure if I'm going to get sick or not... There's a side effect that most people get called "dumping syndrome". It's when you eat something and you getting really nauseous, hot, sweaty, extreme stomach pains, vomiting and diarrhea... It's horrible!!! If I knew what I know now, I would never have had the surgery... I did lose 203 pounds... I wish I would've exercised and ate better!!!
I live around the corner from a man who owns a chain of bariatric surgery centers. We call his house “the castle.” The main house is 46,000 square ft with several large outbuildings, indoor/outdoor pool, on a private lake.
Goodness, I sure hope she gets better!
You’re such a sweetheart❤ thank you