- Joined
- Jun 21, 2018
Year for sure. On the show we see the end results of their choices, but not the journey that got them there. We see them show up at Dr. Now's 100lbs heavier than they were a month before, but we don't really get to see how that happened. I think that's what fascinates people about Amber -- we've watched her steadily marching towards the grave despite constant warnings and offers of help from friends, family, even professionals who don't know her IRL and want to save her from herself.
You can sympathize with the poverty-stricken 600lb bedbound hick who has seen the error of their ways and, while they may have the odd relapse or setback, ultimately get their shit together in the end, despite the odds. But Amber's ego, entitlement, and her defiant, fuck-you attitude make her impossible to pity even for the bleeding-est of enlarged, fatty-sympathizing hearts. She's happily waddling to her death and what's entertaining is that despite pretending otherwise, she gives not one single fuck, deep down. She only wants views and asspats and to keep stuffing her maw.
That and the fact that she could get surgery tomorrow if she wanted, while most of the folks on the show struggle to afford it. That, to me, is proof she never plans to get better. She's not afraid of pain, or dying on the table. She's afraid because she knows when she wakes up she'll be out of excuses and surrounded by people who have been instructed to hold her accountable, and they may let her get away with lots now, but she knows if she actually got the surgery and didn't comply with the diet, she'd likely lose any and all remaining support she has online or IRL. That's why it hasn't happened and won't until she's on the brink of death, if at all.
ALR is the kind of person who will need to get (some form of) weight loss surgery more than once, if she's to ever have a chance at success. No way would she learn her lesson without at least 2 painful, expensive, difficult surgeries, minimum. That Candy girl on YouTube who is always posting Torrid hauls has had the surgery twice and gained the weight back bolth times. The only difference is the surgeries caused her to gain it back in even weirder places.
Most of the folks on MSHPL are desperate for help. They go to Dr. Now because nobody will help them. If they'd had nutritionists and dietitians and fitness instructors offering them free help both online and in person for years, they likely would have taken that help way before they hit the 600lb mark. Amber is fascinating because of her continued entitlement and defiance in the face of death itself.
This is the darkest timeline, darker than even her beetus knuckles. Prepare yourself, gorls.
