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After literally screaming at her personal trainers, "Get out. Do not ever go back to my house again," and then slamming the laptop shut on Dr. Nile when he tries to talk to her about it. You gave me, I'm done. Goodbye. Here, I'm done.
Lisa Ebson, bedridden at 637 lbs, struggles with obesity, emotional eating, and relationship challenges on My 600 lb Life.
Key Takeaways
- Extreme obesity can severely limit mobility and independence, leading to bedbound conditions.
- Emotional trauma and stress eating are significant factors in the development and maintenance of obesity.
- Caregivers may unintentionally enable harmful behaviors out of love and fear of conflict.
- Medical intervention requires patient cooperation, which can be difficult when mental health and denial are involved.
- Hope and recovery are possible but require commitment, support, and addressing underlying emotional issues.
What the video covers
- Lisa Ebson, 51, weighs over 637 lbs and has been bedbound for over 3 years, relying on her boyfriend Randy for care.
- Lisa's living conditions are extremely poor, cooking food beside her bed and dealing with incontinence issues.
- She consumes extremely high-calorie meals daily, often exceeding 8,000 calories, driven by emotional and stress eating.
- Lisa's history includes childhood trauma, parental abandonment, and assault, which contributed to her reliance on food for comfort.
- Randy acts as both caregiver and enabler, preparing large meals out of love and fear of upsetting Lisa.
- Lisa struggles with self-hatred, guilt, and the physical and mental toll of her obesity, expressing a desire to change but facing resistance.
- Dr. Nowzaradan attempts to intervene with diet plans and medical advice, but Lisa resists and often lashes out.
- The video explores the complex dynamics of love, enabling, and the harsh realities of extreme obesity.
- Lisa's story highlights the slow progression of weight gain and its devastating impact on quality of life and relationships.
- Despite setbacks, Lisa shows moments of hope and willingness to try again with support from friends and professionals.
Chapters
- 00:00Lisa's Outburst and Living Conditions
- 01:51Randy's Role and Emotional Support
- 03:33Health Challenges and Incontinence
- 05:20Lisa's Childhood Trauma and Weight Gain
- 07:03Relationship with Randy and Isolation
- 08:03Medical Consultation with Dr. Nowzaradan
- 09:21Diet Plans and Resistance to Change
- 11:10Emotional Struggles and Therapy
- 13:39Support System and Renewed Efforts
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Alisa from season 10 is one of the most disgusting and disrespectful stars I've ever seen on My 600 lb Life. And considering she lives in absolute filth and needs to cook food from the side of her bed, you would think she would be
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doing everything in her power to change, but that would not be the case. Lisa Ebson is 51 years old and weighs over 637 lbs. It's quite surprising that Lisa's actually made it to over 50 at her current weight, as most stars would
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end up dying due to their obesity long before this age. I've got to say, I get up every morning except for the fact that I can't get up out of this bed. It's been about three years that I've been in bed. Randy.
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Randy's trying to get up. [laughter] It makes me feel because I can't do anything.
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I hate being here. I hate being in this house 'cause I hate [music] being stuck in a house. I hate myself. I just feel like I've let myself down and everybody around me.
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Lisa has been bedbound for over 3 years now and completely relies on her boyfriend Randy to take care of everything for her. Lisa also has to take a large quantity of medicine every single morning for her obesity-related
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illnesses, which is literally an entire bag full of medicine. With Lisa not being able to get out of bed, Randy has to do all of the cooking for Lisa. And with her size needing at least 8,000 calories a day to be maintained, you
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have to wonder what Ry's making for her and how big the portion sizes are.
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Well, for breakfast, I kick her eggs and toast and give her cereal and sometimes cottage cheese. Makes me upset 'cause I don't want her eating and stuff, but I don't want to make her mad, so I give it
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to her. Lisa gets upset all the time 'cause she wants to get up out of bed and do things and she starts crying. Makes me upset 'cause I love her with all my heart.
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Sometimes I hug her and other times I tell Lisa it'll be okay. Her biggest cheerleader.
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Randy seems to have the same excuse that many other enablers on the show have.
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They [music] feed out of love and the fear of upsetting their partner. But how far can love actually go when you're really just slowly killing them with food? Now, with his breakfast, Randy brings a portable stove and a pan over
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to Lisa so she can cook at the side of her bed, which does make her a little bit responsible for her diet.
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When you turn to food for comfort, it's like your best friend. You know, you can eat it and you can cuss while you're eating it and tell them everything you're doing and it's not going to talk back to you and it's not going to judge
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you. Food makes you feel good while you're eating it. Makes you happy. But then by the time you're done, you feel so guilty. It's like, it wasn't worth it for eating all that food 'cause you know that food's killing you. You know how
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bad it is. It's absolutely terrible. And food becomes your best friend. It's your only friend, but it's always there. I mean, I've tried like not eating so much and stuff like that, but I'm a stress eater, so whenever I'm stressed out or
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something, I eat. The absolute mountain of food that Lisa is stuffing her face with is actually comical. She can't even get it in her mouth fast enough. She seems to have an entire packet of bacon, a whole tray of
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eggs, and honestly, it looks like an entire loaf of bread, too. With the food piling so high on her chest, it doesn't even look like she can see over it. The fact that Lisa's also making and frying food next to a bed is honestly just
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disgusting. I hate the smell of bacon in my house. And when I'm cooking bacon, I have to have all of the doors and windows open and have the extractor fan on. I don't even want to think about how
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bad her tiny room must stink of old food. And I highly doubt that those bed sheets are getting washed anytime soon given that she's constantly in bed just eating food all day. And speaking of the smell in her bed sheets, it's about to
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get a whole lot worse when you find out that Lisa just wets herself in the bed, too.
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I feel bad 'cause sometime my bedding gets wet [music] and then we have to change the bedding. You know, it's kind of stressful.
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I have to use the bathroom with stress on my body. Sorry. Oh, you want to get as good as you can.
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We have to change the bedding. So, yeah, I'm stressed a lot. And then if it's bath time, we'll take a bath.
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Yeah. Yeah. Get some soak and rags and wash my legs and rinse them off. It's a long process 'cause we have to wash and then I have to dry everything. I've always wanted to lose weight. I just never knew how to
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lose weight. Nobody wants to be like this. And if they do, they're crazy. It doesn't even look like there's a sheet on the bed. So, Lisa is just lying on a towel draped over the mattress. And obviously, this isn't enough to protect
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the mattress. And there needs to be some sort of plastic sheet there because the bed must just stink. Now, Lisa's food intake just seems to get worse throughout the day, too. As for dinner, it looks like she has one or two entire
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pizzas with a full packet of Doritos. Growing up, Lisa can always remember just turning to food as a source of comfort. Unfortunately, her dad was an alcoholic and she struggled a lot with feeling safe in her family home. So, we
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just turned to food for comfort. When her dad left and abandoned the family, her mother had to pick up more shifts.
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So, Lisa would just spend most of the time home alone eating food. Things just went from bad to worse for Lisa as well as she was assaulted while staying at a friend's house and never told anyone about it. She would turn to food even
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more to cope, claiming that she spent her whole teenage years crying and eating. When Lisa was 16, she already weighed over 300 pounds and started drinking pretty heavily. After a series of bad boyfriends, she met Randy when she was 40 years old at the supermarket
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and they've been together ever since. What dad meant about Lisa is her personality. She was fun and beautiful.
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I love everything about Lisa. I miss her being there with me. That's how I feel about that. We used to go down the park and she'd hold her on the back of her wheelchair and she'd walk around on
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that. We used to go fishing all the time. She'd go to the store with me. She'd go to the doctor's with me. I do feel lonely all the time when I go out and she can't go with me. Especially when I
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go to the doctor, I need her there for support. My biggest hope and dream for her is to get up out of bed. Let's go do stuff and eventually get married.
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Hearing Ry's side of the story is pretty heartbreaking, too, as he's never left the house in over 3 years, and her mental health has been deteriorating ever since, [music] leaving him to just pick up the pieces.
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About 8 n years. Randy and I spent a lot, a lot of time going places and doing things. We were never home. Most of the time I'm covered up and I really didn't even, you know, look at myself. I don't
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really think I ever really noticed it until my legs and feet and stuff started hurting so bad. And Matthew said, "Mom, you're getting fat." [laughter] Lisa's weight gain really crept up on her as slowly she stopped being able to
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do things she enjoyed like going out with Randy. Doctor told me if I stood on my ankle, it was going to punch the skin. The bones were going to go through my skin.
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Started staying in bed, but I never got out of bed. By that time, I know I had to weigh about 600. Been here ever since.
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With no other options but to lose the weight to avoid literally dying, Lisa makes an appointment with Dr. Now.
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Hi, Lisa. And I'm back. Hello. How are you today? I'm fine. And you? I'm good, thank you. Well, nice to meet you.
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You, too. As I understand it, you're reaching to me because of your weight and the fact that you're bedridden.
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Yes, sir. Okay. So, what is your wei
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Yes, sir. Okay. So, what is your weight? 637. You look like you could be a little bigger than that.
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So, how old are you? I'm 51. So, what is your mobility? I don't I don't I can't get out of bed unless I get someone to help me get in a wheelchair. [snorts] So, how long you been in bed?
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Um 3 to 4 years. You didn't think you should try to lose weight and get out of bed?
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No, I guess not. So, you didn't know what the problem was in 3 4 years?
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Well, yeah. I knew I I like to snack a lot and eat a lot.
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Well, you're not the person you go to pantry and get your snack. Who's bringing your snack?
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Well, when I could get up and walk, I'd get them myself. But now, Randy brings me everything I eat.
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So, that is called enabler over there. So, when you got enabler over there, enable you to eat all the high calorie food. How we going to change that? Well, we somebody that's interested to keep you in the bed. No,
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he can be your provided. He bring you the food and you obligate to eat.
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No. Who cooks the food? Randy and I cook it together. How you going to cook in the bed?
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I got an electric skillet that I sit on the side of the bed and cook.
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So, you cook food in the bed? Well, yeah. I sit in the bed and put the skillet on the side and cook.
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That sounds dangerous. Randy take care of you full time. Yeah. Okay. So, what are you willing to do to save your life?
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I'm going to follow whatever you tell me to do and he's going to make sure it I hope so because your health will start to deteriorate rapidly if anything's happen to you.
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Doctor now comes off as really harsh, I think, in this introduction call with Lisa, but as this is a later season cuz it's in season 10, I think he's just sick of hearing his patients reel off a huge list of excuses and wants to get
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straight to the point. It's pretty scary too how we think Zisa must be over 637 lbs. And given that she's bedridden, [music] I'd probably be inclined to agree with him, too. Normally, patients that are bedridden tend to be over 700
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lb. And the danger with being bedridden is that it's so easy to keep gaining weight because you're not moving at all.
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When you're hardly burning any calories, the weight can easily pile on and stay there. But, I mean, in reality, if you're eating over 10,000 calories a day anyway, no matter how much you move, you're going to gain weight. As Lisa is
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bedbound and lives around 15 hours away from Houston, her only option in getting to see a doctor now in person is through losing enough weight at home first and starting to walk again so that it will be safe enough to travel the long
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distance. Lisa has to lose at least 75 lbs in a month and doctor now schedules a PT for Lisa to help her get out of bed and start walking. Now, this comes as quite a shock for Lisa as she finally
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has to take responsibility for the serious harm she's done to her body over the last few years and she struggles with the reality of the situation. He is right about one thing or any. I'm going to run out of time if we don't do
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something. We're into it. I'm so mad at myself. [sighs] You be mad at me, not yourself.
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You did not put that food in my mouth or any how many times I have to tell you that nobody did this to me.
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I gave it to you. So what? You could bring me 10 pieces in here, but unless I choose to eat them, then I shouldn't be eating them. This is nobody's fault but my own. I killed basically killed myself.
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No, both of us killed you. No, I did. We're going to get you out of this.
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The problem with Lisa is that up until now, she showed absolutely no effort to lose any of the weight before or even try to get out of bed. All of the habits she's created, like being washed in her
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bed, going to the toilet in her bed, and having the stove next to her bed, has created the perfect situation for Lisa to stay in bed. When Lisa wanted to cook but couldn't get out of bed, she should
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have done everything she could to get out rather than just made herself more comfortable by getting a portable cooker so she can stay in bed. I don't know how many times I've just said bed there, but situations like this just really
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frustrate me because she's just making zero effort at all. It'll be a really big uphill battle for Lisa as there's a huge part of her that just wants to stay in her bed and given her age, I think
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she'll struggle with motivation quite a lot. Dr. Now has given Lisa all the tools she needs to lose the weight. But it'll be completely up to her to put the plan into action. But just a couple of weeks into the program and she's already
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starting to complain. The diet is confusing. He wants me to eat a lot of protein, no carbs, but he don't want me to eat like fat [music] stuff, you know, a lot of hamburger. My sister Robin cleaned my house out for
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me. Got rid of all the junk food. I fill my kitchen with healthy stuff. Whatever.
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I'm just going [music] to, like I said, pray to God and hope that Randy will help me figure out what to eat, what not to eat, and the servings, and we can make this work together.
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I don't understand what Lisa means by the diet is confusing. It's high protein and no carb. It's actually really straightforward because there's only probably like three meals on there. I think it really just shows how unaware Lisa is of what she's actually eating.
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And when she sends Randy to the shop to get her some food for the new diet, she really falls short on the list.
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Hi, honey. What do you want to get? [sighs and gasps] I don't know. Go get some cookies.
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How many do you want? Get like six or seven cookies. Get some peanut butter cookies.
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A sixack of them if they got them. You want bacon cheddar? You want jalapeno cheddar?
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Just grab one of each one. Go get some cereal, too, babe. We need about seven boxes of cereal. So, keep track of what you throw in there. Get some something with sugar on it. It's interesting.
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[music] Right there. Get some of them peanut butter right up there. Okay. Now, go to the candy aisle and then we're going to go to the chip aisle.
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Where's the chip aisle right now? Oh, well, get chips while you're standing there. Um, I don't know. Get five bags. You might just get a couple jars of that dip, too.
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All right. What else you need? Go to this soda aisle. Get like eight cases of pop. Just grab any of it. It'll get drinking. Okay. And then go over and get like six frozen pizzas. And get a pack of corn dogs, too.
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I don't see corn dogs. All right. Just grab four bags of pizza roll. Get out of there.
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All right. I'm leaving. All right, babe. That's all we need. So, I'm going to see you when you get here.
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All right. Okay. Love you. Bye. The amount of food in that trolley honestly looks like something from a comedy skit. It's filled to the brim with cookies, crisps, pizzas, and sugary drinks, and just ultrarocessed junk. It doesn't look like there's anything in
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there actually on the diet plan. No fresh meat or vegetables at all. Honestly, it feels like she's just completely forgotten about her meeting with Dr. Now and thrown the diet plan out of the window.
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Well, I can do the exercise and diet Dr. Now wants me to do, but not today.
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Honestly, if not today, then when? Because with that grocery haul Lisa has now, she has enough food to last at least a few weeks. Although, she can probably go through it a lot quicker than that. So, it seems like Lisa is
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just delaying the start of her diet instead of actually following through it. And honestly, I'd hate to think how expensive that food shop must have been, too. And it must have been at least a few hundred. But I'm sure some Americans
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in the comments can help us out and estimate how much all that food would have been.
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It's been about a month since I talked to Dr. Now. I got Dr. Now's books and the paper he sent. Yes, I understand everything they want me to do.
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Lisa is outright lying to the cameras now as well, saying that she's doing everything they asked of her while at the same time eating an entire family's worth of food. It seems like she's just throwing some weights around while the
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cameras are film and honestly not much else. And while Lisa struggles with her weight, Ry's also suffering with some health issues of his own.
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Randy, my arms hurt. So my chest. I know your chest hurts. Keep telling you go up to the doctor, but you won't go. I love Randy cuz we've been together forever and he's really good to me. He does a lot of stuff that a lot of men
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wouldn't do and I appreciate him for it. You want to go to the hospital, babe?
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I think I have to lay down for a little bit and see if that'll help out.
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Got pain in my left leg. I don't think Ry's jealous. He's afraid if I lose weight that I'll leave him cuz then I won't I won't [music] need him.
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You know, right now he does basically everything for me and if I can start doing by myself then I think he's going to feel like I'm not going to need him anymore. But I mean that's not the case
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cuz when we first met I did everything for myself. We got different personalities though. He's really quiet.
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He doesn't talk to people. He's not around people. And I'm the opposite. I like to be around people and I like to go out and do things. He's not like that. And you know damn well if I lose
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some weight my butt's going out. See you. [gasps] I tell them every day my expectations for myself in one year is to lose enough weight to get out of this bed cuz I got a date with my granddaughter, take her
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to the fair, and I do not plan on missing that date. So that's that's my plans.
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Lisa talks so flippantly about her plans post weight loss. While it genuinely looks like Ronnie's having some sort of medical crisis, chest pain is the biggest red flag you can get in the medical context, especially combining that with leg pain. These are serious
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signs of a heart attack. Although Ronnie doesn't end up having a heart attack, it's clear his needs and issues are ignored by Lisa, who is clearly just a selfish person. We see more of this when Lisa refuses to see the PT every time
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they come to see her, and Dr. Now has to call her to find out what's going on.
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Hey Lisa, what are you doing in bed? Sitting here doing nothing. That's a problem I'm calling about. You keep refusing PD and you're not working with them to get up. So someone talked to you said you could sit and get to the side of bed if
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you had help and we sent PT to help you as doctor do that to build up your stamina but you refused to cooperate with them. So what's going on?
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I never said I sit on the side of the bed. You must got me confused with someone else.
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Really? Yeah. So if you can't get up, how do you expect to come to Houston?
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I'm supposed to be coming tomorrow. Uh, how in the world you're in the bed?
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You going to come with the bed and remove that bed from uh where you are to the visa?
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No, they're the ambulance people are going to help me get in the van and then I'm going to come down there to see you.
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That's medical transport and I told you that's too risky, but that's okay. I don't think you are really planning on doing that.
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So, what do you have done to change your eating habit and lose some weight? I sending my book and all the instructions you need.
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I don't quite understand your book and what kind of diet you want me to be on.
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Then you haven't read it because there is only one diet in there. You read the stuff where you understand that you eat only three times a day only about 400 calorie high protein and you avoid um all the high calorie food list that we
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send you. Which part of that is hard to understand? I'm I'm confused all the way around. I guess you're you're confused. Okay.
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I think the reality is you are playing games and pretending to be confused because you still want to eat whatever you want whenever you want. So, we need to cut the food off at the source. Where is your enabled boyfriend so I can talk
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to him and see why he's overfeeding? Just a minute. I'll hand him the computer here, babe.
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Hello. Hello. How you doing? All right. So, [snorts] you're the one who brings Lisa all the food that's killing cat.
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So, why you doing that? I bring her a whole lot. I bring her some.
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She hasn't lost any weight over the last month. She's still over 600 lb. So, you're not feeding her a little. You are feeding her a lot.
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If you give her a protein back, then she should be able to lose enough weight to get out of the bed. But she's not able to do that. So why are you overfeeding then?
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Cuz she asked me not to get it for her. So if she asks you, you're obligated to bring it to her.
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Yes. What happened if you don't bring it? She going to get up and go get it.
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You have to talk to him because this is important. This is about saving my life. You can't just not talk to the man.
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I'm not overfeed you. You need to finish talking to him. I'm done talking to him. We both know we're both doing wrong. So, I mean, he's only trying to help us.
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Nothing we can do now except get you down there. I've been trying to cut your food down, too. You know, after now, he don't want to talk to you no more.
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Well, that may be the only problem and that you have some enabler to bring you a lot of food.
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He doesn't want to stop doing that because he likes to overfeed you for whatever reason. And as long as he brings it to you, then you got to be in the bed. And if you both aren't willing to stop this
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unhealthy behavior, nothing is going to change. And if that's the case, what is the point here [music] to see us? What do you think we got to do magically to make you lose weight?
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Well, no. I know you're not going to magically lose weight, but I got to do it myself and he's going to have to help me do it.
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And you don't have a lot of time to waste and you're going to work hard time soon.
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I know. [music] I can't blame Randy for not wanting to speak to the doctor now because it's clear that Lisa's just trying to pin a lot of the blame on him.
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I think Randy honestly just wants an [music] easy life and he looks like he's in pain a lot of the time. I don't think he actually has the strength to fight Lisa. And to be honest, I think someone
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should be looking after him as well as her. When Lisa starts to fight Doctor now, saying that she really is trying, the waterworks obviously start.
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So, what are you trying to say, Lisa? I'm trying to tell you I need help, but I want it.
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Well, the help that you want, we've given you the help. You're not taking it. The help you want is to stop eating and stop overeing and killing yourself with the food. And we give you opportunity to do that. And you're not
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doing that. And you want us to help you. I'm doing the best I can, Listen. [snorts] Yeah.
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Okay. Right. And throwing a tantrum. Is that going to be a solution for I'm not throwing no tantrum, doctor.
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Now, you are. You know, we gave you all you need to start making the changes you need and you have every opportunity to make progress this past month.
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So why you haven't done that? I don't know. Well, what is the point of calling us and you're not doing anything you're supposed to?
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I do want the help. So, what kind of help do you need? I don't know, doctor. Now, I just know I need help losing weight and getting out of this bed.
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We send you the diet. You need to do it. and work with PT if you want any more help.
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You think you can do that? Yeah, I can do that. Well, let me talk to him again.
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The most frustrating thing about Lisa is that she's crying and complaining, blaming everyone around her, but hasn't even done one thing to contribute to her weight loss. I haven't seen her eat one healthy meal at all. And while she has
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lifted a few weights now and then, it clearly hasn't made a difference. Things only continue to get worse for Lisa when she cancels every single appointment with the dietitian Dr. Now got for her.
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Annoyed that she's wasting both time and resources, Dr. Now tells Lisa not to cancel the next appointment. It's so important for Lisa to see the dietitian given that she was so confused about Dr.
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Now's diet plan in the first place. If she really wanted to become educated on how to eat properly, then she should buy my cookbook and subscribe to my channel because I talk about obese people a lot and look at where they're going wrong in
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their lives. The second best option though would be to see the dietitian that Dr. Na was set up for her. Even when the dietitian does arrive, Lisa is pretty rude and uninviting. She doesn't even sit up in bed or get out the covers
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when the dietitian Emily tries to speak to her. How's your day going so far? [music] Fine. I probably won't even answer your questions. Be honest with you.
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I just want to get to know you a little bit. Okay. Can you tell me about yourself?
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I don't know. Ain't really nothing to tell. Well, we didn't just end up here today, right?
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No. What's some of your story? Um, I don't know. Can you tell me about just growing up and what food was like for you?
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I don't know. We ate regular meals. Yeah. Did you get the diet that Dr. Nell had provided?
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No diet, no nothing. Okay. You haven't talked to him at all? Yeah, I've talked to him.
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Okay. What has he provided for you when you have met with him? Nothing but rudeness. I refuse to talk to that man again, too. I don't need to be made like I'm a piece of [music] from someone who's supposed to be helping me.
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You're not a piece of Well, [clears throat] that's not how they make you feel.
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At this point, Lisa is just straight up lying to Emily. She said she doesn't get anything from doctor now, which doesn't make sense because we've heard her talking earlier about how the diet was confusing and doesn't make any sense.
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So, which one is it, Lisa? You didn't get a diet plan or it didn't make sense, or you're just incredibly lazy.
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What types of things do you like to snack on? [snorts] Just depends on whatever's around. I don't have a choice.
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Okay. So, what kind of foods get brought into the house? I don't know. Well, what do you eat on a day-to-day basis?
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I don't know. I had oatmeal toast for breakfast. You like to eat snack food. So, what type of snack foods?
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I don't know. I don't eat chips. I used to never I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what the I eat. I just eat whatever people give me. And now the waterworks start yet again. And Lisa
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continues to lie, seemingly starting to blame her entire situation on Randy. She says she doesn't know what she eats or what food gets brought into the house when she literally speaks to Randy on the phone and tells him [music] exactly
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what to buy. Getting nowhere with Lisa, Emily turns to speak to Randy. And honestly, I just feel so bad for her because both Lisa and Randy are so rude and standoffish to her.
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Lisa, do you mind if I ask Randy some questions? [music] Ask all you want.
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Okay. Randy, are you familiar with the recommendations that Dr. Now has made? [music] No. Okay.
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He hasn't made none. He doesn't do anything to make you feel like a piece of Can I tell you about those recommendations?
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No. So, I think the overall goal is that we're promoting some weight loss to be able to help get you to Houston [music] to get help. Is that correct?
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I'm not going to Houston. Okay. So overall though, you have the goal of you're wanting to lose weight so that you can get out of bed, right?
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Yeah. Okay. So, what do you think is contributing to continuing to gain weight or I don't know.
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If I was Emily in this situation, I would [music] have just got up and left.
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She doesn't deserve to be spoken to this way and it's clear she's not getting any answers from her. The acting like they're doing Emily a favor by letting her in when in reality they should be grateful that she wants to spend some
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time there. When Emily tries to probe a little bit deeper as to why Lisa isn't answering the questions, Lisa explodes and kicks her out the house. [music] Lisa, if you want to make change, I'm going to need you to engage with me.
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But I don't know. So, you've not struggled with What is this going to do me any good with you just coming here and talk? This is not even what a nutritionist has done. I've seen nutritionist before.
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This Lisa, this is my specialty of working with people who struggle in their relationship with food. This is what I do every day. They're wasting my time.
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What would you rather be doing? I don't know. Leave me alone, lady. Sometimes when we get angry and frustrated, we want to blame other people and have them take Okay, this is over with. Get out. I'm done. I'm done talking to you. Give me
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my book. I don't blame nobody for anything that's happened to me. Lisa, is part of you afraid of getting help?
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Just get away from me. Get the out. DO NOT EVER GO BACK TO MY HOUSE AGAIN.
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CLEARLY, Lisa is not committed to her weight loss at all, not even 1%. She refuses to accept that she is the problem, blaming her bad choices on everyone around her. She admits she doesn't know anything about having a
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healthy diet, yet outright [music] refuses to engage and accept any help. Even hours after Emily has left, Lisa is still worked up from her argument.
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And then I also told them I cannot do physical therapy after 3:30. So, how I mean, what are we going to do about that? I set that up at 6:30 AT NIGHT.
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DOCTOR. NOW he knew good well I cannot do anything after that. So that's disrespect on his part and then I'm supposed to respect this man. No, it's all disrespect towards me. But it's okay to respect me because I'm respect. Where
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is my respect? Lisa is complaining that Doc now is scheduling appointments too late in the day. But when the PT arrives at 6:30 p.m., Lisa still isn't really in the mood.
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Bring your in. Hi there, Lisa. Yeah. Hi, Lisa. My name is Stacy and I am a physical therapist.
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So, [music] how about we can we do a little chatting first just to You have 5 minutes.
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Okay. Without lifting her eyes from her phone and giving Beast Stacy 5 minutes to explain why she's there. Lisa is the absolute epitome of rude. I actually really cringed at this part too because I just hate when people are so blatantly
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rude. And I've got to say, both the dietitian Emily and PT Stacy are both young, good-looking women. So, I can't help but think that Lisa might be a little bit jealous of them, too.
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So, how about this? What goals do you have as far as physically with physical therapy? What can physical therapy help you?
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There's nothing you can do for me. Have you had physical therapy in the past? Are you interested in any type of exercises that you can do in bed?
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No. [music] I'd like to help you. You are not supposed to be here this late. HOW IS THAT FAIR? YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO COME THIS LATE. I really don't have anything to say to you or anything I want to do. You wasted your
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time. Thank you for coming. I appreciate [music] it. I have some resistance bands out in my vehicle if it's something that you'd like to I can bring in here [music] and show you a couple things that you can
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do. I'm not show I'm not having you show me anything, but if you got some papers, I'll take them and I'll figure it out later on.
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Okay. I don't have any papers with me, but my plan was just to see what we can do today and then I can get you papers.
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And I have to give credit to Emily and Stacy as well. as they both stay a little longer after Lisa screamed in their faces just to see if there was anything else they could do to get a bit
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more information out of her, which is more than I would have done in that situation. If I heard Lisa shout like that when I knocked out the door, I l just would have turned around and left.
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Stacy tries to get a better understanding of how mobile Lisa is and gets completely cut off.
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Even just raising your arms up overhead and coming back down. Oh my god. Never mind. Thank you for coming. That's the end of it. Bye-bye.
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Thank you. This is why my family don't with white people no more. Very, very curious as to why Lisa says at the end there, this is why my family doesn't [ __ ] with white people no more.
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This really doesn't make sense. They were both just two nice women who wanted nothing more than to help Lisa. But clearly, she doesn't say it that way.
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After seeing those interactions, I'm confident that Lisa is honestly just a miserable, disgusting person. After hearing about how Lisa kicked off with both of the professionals that came to see her, Dr. Now arranges a video call with Lisa to get to the bottom of what
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happened. [music] Dr. Nile's a lie cuz he claim you sent me a diet and you never did. He makes the devil look good.
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Hey, Lisa. Hi. How are you? I'm all right. So, what's going on with you?
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Nothing. That seems to be what you do best because you're clearly not doing the diet and you still haven't cooperated with PT. So, why is that?
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I still don't understand no diet. I don't understand your book. It didn't have no diet in the lysene. You don't understand to eat less. Is that hard to understand that?
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No. [snorts] I guess it is. I don't know. So, why aren't you eating less?
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I don't know. Okay. And you can't tell me anything, so don't bother wasting your time.
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Hey, what? Nothing. I'm not talking to you. Uh, why haven't you been working with physical therapy?
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I don't know. Yeah. Well, you know, Lisa, if you don't make any changes, you're not going to be able to get out of your bed and your condition is going to deteriorate and you're not going to survive that
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and you know that, right? Yeah. So, you you need to stick with a healthy eating habit and you need to do your physical therapy.
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The one lady did come, she says, "I'm too fat and she don't know how to work with me." That's not what happened. You refused to work with her every time she came. And now you're lying to manipulate the
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situation. If you want to survive and not die that bad, you're going to have to do your own part. You know that, right?
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Yeah. But the symptoms of things are hard to understand for Lisa. And when doctor now hits her home truth, Lisa erupts, slamming the laptop shut and ending the call.
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You have to decide to change your life. But I think what you're expecting is for someone else to do the work for you and giving to your manipulation.
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Lisa, we have given you everything to change your life and have to do your part.
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What you gave me. I'm done. Goodbye. Here. I'm done. I'm done. It's clear that Lisa doesn't like to ever feel uncomfortable and as soon as she does, she has to leave the situation immediately. Lisa thought she could manipulate the situation from the
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beginning, always planning to have the weight loss surgery without having to lose any weight beforehand. I don't think she ever changed her diet one bit as she actually doesn't seem to care to live anymore. It's sad to say, but I
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think Lisa at this point is just completely hopeless. It can either go one of two ways. Lisa can lose some weight to be in a position to travel to Houston for the surgery, or she will just die from her weight. A few months
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later, Lisa and Randy both contract CO and are hospitalized. given they both have very fragile immune systems.
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My boyfriend, he got real sick and um they actually had to come and take him out cuz he was unconscious.
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So um after that they're like, you know, they [music] think he has CO. You really got to go get tested. So, I called an ambulance and they came and got me in, [music] took me to the hospital and
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said, yeah, you got CO and this is where I winded up at. Ry's case was so severe that he actually ended up passing away, leaving Lisa alone. After not speaking to Dr. Now for 4 months, Lisa decides to
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try and call him again. He was a good man. I think it's going to be very hard to go home cuz Ry's not there. We got to go home to that empty house where I'm used to him being there
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and all his stuff there and he's just not going to be there. The [music] only good news to come out of the hospital is that Lisa recovered from CO and ended up losing over 80 lbs in [music] a month
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simply because there was no one to bring her massive amounts of food anymore. After the call with Dr. Now, Lisa has two friends who will be helping her in Ry's absence and she agrees to give the weight loss another go. I think the loss
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of Randy really put things into perspective for Lisa and obviously terrified her as she is really lucky to have survived CO given her weight. It's sad that it had to come to this Felisa though to realize the reality of her
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situation. Back at home, Lisa's friend goes through Dr. Now's diet plan and agrees to help Lisa with it. She also encourages Lisa to start exercising at home, too, which is more than she's ever done before.
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[music] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. This arm is weak. You got this. Okay, now we have to do the leg ones. Okay.
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Two. Three. Four. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Okay, [sighs and gasps] now I'm wore out. Let me check my oxygen since I've got no oxygen on.
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It's scary to think just how immobile Lisa actually is. Imagine being stuck in a bed like that and being barely able to move your arms without being completely exhausted. A few weeks later, Lisa also agrees to speak to a therapist, which
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she does over a video call. She's pretty open with him, surprisingly, and ends up getting emotional as soon as Randy is mentioned.
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Randy was one of those people who would do anything and everything for you. He was pretty committed to to seeing you get out of that bed, I bet.
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Yeah. I I want you I want you to hang on to that because I think that that um probably the best way you can remember Randy is by losing weight.
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What are the tears about? I just want to get out of his bed. I want my life back.
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I want to be able to go do things with my grandchildren. And you know, Lisa, it's it's meaningful that you're getting emotional about this because it it means you really care.
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[snorts] And I I want to see the behavior that matches that care. I need to figure out a way to feel like I'm really worth it, though, because I don't feel like I'm worth much of anything.
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Well, laying a in a bed will do that to you right? Yeah. After a good session with a therapist, Lisa agrees to see PT Stacy again, too.
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The one who she literally shouted out the door to. Surprisingly, Lisa is actually engaged with her this time and gives a few exercises a go. To start with, I'm just going to have you raise your arms up overhead and back down. And
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you had physical therapy earlier. Is that right? Have you had that? No. Okay. Okay. Good. We're gonna do 10 of these.
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Does that sound all right? I want you to let me know if anything is sore, anything hurts.
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Okay. Feel like your arms get tired. Okay. All right. Okay. Although Lisa's progress starts off well, she slowly starts slipping back into her old ways by declining the appointments and isolating herself yet again. Doctor now schedules another video call with Lisa to discuss her
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behavior because they tell me you were cooperating when you got back home, but over the last month you haven't been doing as much and you've been telling them you're too tired and you can't do it. So they have to come back later. So
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what's going on now? Well, I've been trying. All right. Are you able to start walking?
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No, I haven't even got out of bed yet. How about sitting on the edge of the bed?
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No, we haven't did that neither. Are you working to do that or what? Yeah, I'm going to work on it.
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All right. So, being in the bed for that length of time, you develop a fear of walking and I think that may be a factor here. You need to work through that.
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Okay. Okay. So, you can work with the therapist to work with that fear walking [music] and that's going to be important because getting up and moving around is going to be a very important step in your recovery. Lisa is putting in more effort
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this time around, but is quickly losing momentum and falling back into her old habits. She lost over 80 lbs in the hospital, and it's so important she doesn't gain that back at home. But as she's snacking and eating more again,
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it's likely that she will if she hasn't already. Now, since the episode aired, there isn't much to talk about with Lisa. Although, she did give an interview where she said that she wasn't happy with the way she was t by the
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producers of My 600lb Life. She said that they fabricated story lines and even turned off her hospital equipment to add to the drama of the show. Outside of that though, it seems like she's still on the program and is still losing
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weight. And honestly, I hope she does lose weight for the good of her health.
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Now, if you want to see someone who couldn't lose the weight in time and was incredibly disrespectful to Doc Now and his staff, click the video that's on your screen now to see Latona Potain's story, follow my Instagram @ big
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