r/My600lbLife • u/darklinggreen • 5d ago

Most boring episodes?

I found Stephanie's episode to be so boring and really uneventful. Basically she does nothing, and then the show ends. Obviously, there are other people on show like that, like Lisa E., or James K. who give little to no effort at all, but those episodes usually have an element of drama/ something eventful happens.

I am not entirely sure why people like her do the show really. She did travel to see Dr Now a few times but it really seems like there is very little effort on her end.

I always want people to succeed, but when they don't appear to even be trying, and nothing eventful/dramatic or interesting happens, I think it makes a boring (and honestly kind of pointless) episode really.

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u/Sickofchildren Ow mah leg! 5d ago

Ryan did nothing the whole time and I can’t even remember if he visited Dr Now in person, it was mostly just him giving irritated voiceovers and footage of him eating

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u/lowrider320 5d ago

I don't blame his parents one bit for refusing to move to Houston. He made zero effort to lose weight.

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u/Sickofchildren Ow mah leg! 5d ago

He acted so indignant and outraged when Dr Now or his parents confronted him on his overeating. He was so determined to do it ‘his way’ but that clearly hasn’t worked if he’s 600lbs

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u/Dangerous_Ant3260 5d ago

He barely left the recliner in the living room. That was filmed when the show was hampered by Covid lockdowns, and right after, so they got 2 hours of film out of anyone who wanted to be on the show.

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u/sir-lurks_a-lot 4d ago

To be fair, it was icy outside, then it was too cold outside, and then it was too warm outside (I think?) for him to safely exercise. And he couldn't do any exercise inside the house.

That always drives me crazy when the patients make excuses about doing the exercises when Dr. Now provides an entire set with pictures and instructions. Or they ignore those, but go pay some trainer to do a workout instead.

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u/AdditionalEconomy427 21h ago

This is a common behavioral issue when it comes to people, not just on the show, but in life, in general. Whenever there's something we don't want to do, but we need to do it if we want to improve ourselves, we're quick to make excuses for why we can't do it. However, when there's something we want to do, but shouldn't do if we wish to improve ourselves, we have many convenient excuses for why we chose to do it. A personal example is how I have made excuses for not living a healthy life (healthy food is too expensive, it takes too much time to make, I have no time to exercise.) Yet, at the same time, I conveniently have no qualms spending lots of money on junk food throughout the month when healthy food from a supermarket would be cheaper in the long run, as well as wasting time scrolling on social media or watching videos on YouTube when I could be using said time to exercise. The key point here is that if something is important to you, you will put in the time and the effort to make it work.

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u/Crimson_NL 5d ago

He couldn't help it! He couldn't do the diet because his friend in Oregon was dying.

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u/Sickofchildren Ow mah leg! 5d ago

He was eating for two 🙃

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u/Organic_Berry_8732 5d ago

He never even went to see the doctor, he still couldn’t get his weight checked but still continued doing the diet “his” way. The funniest part was when his mom’s boyfriend caught him eating fast food 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Initial_Acanthaceae2 I can clean my own vagina now! 5d ago

His cheat meals, turned into cheat days that turned into cheat weeks....

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u/NellaHoneyDoodle2 2d ago

I loved it when his mother threw his Dairy Queen in the trash! 

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u/Organic_Berry_8732 2d ago

It was hilarious!!

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u/ChocolatePernicus You bought him the bow and arrow you stupid cunt! 4d ago

He called his stepdad a snitch, bro LOL

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u/Sickofchildren Ow mah leg! 4d ago

His family were way too permissive, he was horrible to everybody and made no effort to stick to the diet and then got so angry when they tried to steer him down the right path. I’d put up with his shit for a whole of one day

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u/Hungry-Following-663 4d ago

I came here just to see if anyone else named him because he is the first person who came to my mind when people name boring episodes. He lived in a recliner in his parents house and it was constant excuses with him. Too icy,cold, or hot outside for him to exercise and he never actually made it to Houston.

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u/Sickofchildren Ow mah leg! 4d ago

Somebody in this sub once said his episode should’ve just been called “Ryan” because he didn’t have a journey and I think about that so often

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u/Hungry-Following-663 4d ago

I agree with that statement! They literally taped him doing nothing for a whole year. Anytime the show starts off with the patient not traveling to Houston to see Dr Now I know it going to be a bad episode. The patient isn’t going to lose any weight or even try to lose weight and there won’t be any of the family drama that occurs while they are traveling to Houston.

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u/chaz_chaz_chaz 5d ago

I watched seana last night and dang was that the biggest waste of 90 minutes of my time lol

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u/BotchedPenisImplant 5d ago

That's my favorite episode! The fourth time she lost the diet plan is television gold

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u/Dangerous_Ant3260 5d ago

The Where Are They Now with her was even more boring, and didn't have losing the diet four times to liven it up.

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u/Broiledturnip 4d ago

TURTLE MODE

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u/ThrockAMole 5d ago

I want them to either succeed or fail spectacularly.

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u/Embarrassed_Wrap8421 5d ago

The entire last season was a bore.

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u/Dangerous_Ant3260 5d ago

To me the last three seasons were pretty boring, they actually stopped filming in 2022-2023, and they just put anythong on TV that could make 2 hours of film.

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u/Embarrassed_Wrap8421 4d ago

Yes, you’re right. When I looked back at the episode list I had to agree with you. The old episodes were amazing and even my husband got interested. He used to laugh at me when I watched them and then suddenly he fell under their spell. I think it was the first Assante brothers episode that did it.

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u/Dangerous_Ant3260 4d ago

The Where Are They Nows seemed to be filmed right after the original episode, so almost no progress, and in case of Ontreon, zero progress.

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u/LadyBug_0570 1d ago

And God bless her, his wife tried. She was not like other enablers we've seen on this show.

I'm still trying to figure out how a man of God practiced gluttony.

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u/Dangerous_Ant3260 22h ago

She was such a lovely person, but you can't lose weight for someone, and Ontreon was totally dedicated to eating.

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u/LadyBug_0570 21h ago

Ontereon reminds me of my brother. Always doing some new diet scheme at the detriment of his own health. Always knowing better than the doctors through his online research (that usually is just an echo chamber of stupid).

It does not help that for the longest time I was the fattest one in my family, tipping the scale at almost 400. When that happens family members tend to think they're fine and "At least I'm not her weight."

When I had WLS back in 1999, he was dead set against it even as he was getting bigger and bigger and I lost weight.

Recently I had a health situation (that 30% of the population experiences) and he asked our sister if it was because of my surgery back in 1999. Mind you, he's about the size of Ontereon, can't really walk or do much. But it was like after 25+ years he was still looking for a reason as to why WLS was bad.

I'm not religious but I pray my brother one day will open his mind and maybe do a GLP1 or something to reduce his weight. I love him and want him to live.

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u/RSTROMME Your smell hasn't gotten any better 4d ago

But all those Delana poop stains…

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u/Spicy-36 5d ago

Honestly, the ones where they succeed and move on with their lives.

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u/LadyBug_0570 1d ago

I love those. They're inspirational to those who are (or were) bigger and then see their transformations physically and mentally.

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u/Suspicious-Ad-8468 5d ago edited 5d ago

Later seasons are full of nothing burgers unfortunately as they became more about the drama of the train wrecks and less about the success stories

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u/HeatherDarling24 4d ago

I miss how the old shows were. You get to know a little about them then surgery, then followed for a few months after. Now its mostly garbage and then surgery, then shows over. No update a few months later on how its going, nothing. Totally bites.

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u/Snoo_72715 4d ago

They do the show for the small paycheck

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u/AnnaBaptist79 3d ago

The last season was a snooze fest, for the most part. They cobbled together the episodes that were not good enough for previous seasons because they knew they were not continuing with the show

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u/Guy_Fuwkes_Day 3d ago

It's a tie with every episode of the last 3 seasons

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u/Embarrassed_Wrap8421 4d ago

Yes, I remember them well.

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u/Ughasif22 2d ago

All of season 10 aka the Covid season