“My 600 Pound Life” reaches the obvious end point - Reality show “My 600 Pound Life” reaches the expected conclusion

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‘My 600-Lb. Life’ star Robert Buchel dies during filming
BY RACHEL DESANTIS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 6:43 PM

Buchel — whose weight ballooned to 842 pounds thanks to a lifelong food addiction — made quick progress at first, shedding 217 pounds at a Houston hospital in preparation for lymphedema removal surgery.

Once Buchel had his surgery, however, his previously unacknowledged addiction to painkillers kicked in, and he grew depressed and struggled to make progress as his body deteriorated. In a desperate bid at scoring more painkillers, he tore his surgery stitches.

Buchel was forced to leave his rehabilitation center for a long-term care facility after it became clear he was no longer trying to stay active, and shortly after, suffered a heart attack and died.


His final moment on screen ended on a hopeful note, as Buchel expressed interest in making progress for the sake of his fiancée.

But not long after, Lemanski appeared on screen to recount their final night together, saying that Buchel told her he didn't feel well and didn't think he'd make it through the night.

"He told me, 'I don't think I'll make it through the night. I love you and I always will,'" she said. "I lost my best friend and the person I was supposed to spend the rest of my life with."

He’s dead Jim! Yeah, show of hands, who’s surprised at this?

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Sounds like the guy needed a lot of therapy and not just weight loss help. I'm guessing this show doesn't help with that.

That’s generally the way of it. The level of physical decay we see for this kind of thing is pretty much a guarantee that someone also has severe mental issues. You do not get that fat without some amount of mental disturbance.

 

[Kled]

I didn't see this one. I assume it's the one from this Wednesday. But I didn't get around to seeing it. Did anyone see it?

I did. The guy was molested or raped by a neighbor when he was younger and he lost his brother at a young age. If I remember right, the dad told him that "it should have been you" and that's what caused his spiral. This is a common theme in a lot of patients in the show. A traumatizing event causes a deep psychological issue that has them coping wiht food and they'll straight up say it in the show. The food gives them comfort and brings them to a good place. It's not good to do that and 9 times out of 10 they'll acknowledge it but its their comfort. What I have noticed is that a lot of these people do not have hobbies or didn't have them. They don't have a positive outlet to cope with their feelings. Robert's case was sad because until his painkiller addiction came out full in the open he was doing so well. Better than the lady before him.

I'm very surprised that Lisa Fleming hasn't died yet. She did not get the surgery and was gaining more weight. She faked a suicide threat and kept having tantrums. I don't see a success story in her future.
http://www.newsweek.com/my-600-lb-life-lisa-maggots-leg-weight-loss-surgery-816055

Her. This is the lady. You'll have people like her who game and manipulate a system that has the kindness to try and help and all she did was cry and whine and not try. Even her own kids were tired of her. Watching her story was just straight up frustrating. Steven Assanti was also another.

've always wondered how they afford this massive amount of food as well. A lot of states bar you from receiving food stamps if you receive disability benefits (yes, really), and in many of those same places there's no way EBT would cover even half of what that much junk food would cost.

It's a mix of living with a parent who enables them or collecting EBT or disability. Steven Assanti had EBT and his father enabling him at the same time. Most of the time though, these people live with parents and have (obviously) no job. There was a guy in the recent season, L.B., who had a really inspirational story. He was suffering from depression but because he was about 6 1/2 feet tall it truly didn't appear that he weighed over 600lbs. He's a prime example of someone who tries to actually better themselves, go to therapy (they do offer psychotherapy becaus they know these people have deep psychological issues) and in the end, he ended up gettign a job and doing some construction with his father (he also has a prosthetic which was another focus point of his journey).

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

I don't think that the show will get the very deserved bad rap that Celebrity Rehab and Sober House did. Dr. Drew isn't directly responsible for the deaths of Jeff Conaway and Mike Starr. But rehab should not be televised. Especially when you are dealing with emotionally damaged people. That kind of show just plain should not exist.

I think that this show is different. But they need to be careful about when addiction is involved because it can cause a multitude of other complications. Then again, the food addiction is just as bad because it's literally killing them and unlike drugs you can't remove yourself entirely from the need to eat. So there's never any way to distance yourself from the thing you are addicted to..

It's bullshit that this is somehow different from Celebrity Rehab and the like. Addiction is addiction and the fact that there is a tendency to place one addiction over another is really disturbing to me. These hambeasts on this show are no different from black ghetto crackheads or heroin junkies. Addiction is addiction and trash TV is trash TV, it's all just a sideshow for us to gawk at, and the fact that the sideshow is featuring broken, diseased, dying people is fucked up in it's own right.

 

[RodgerDodger]

The fiance did it.

Ronald McDonald did it!

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

That’s generally the way of it. The level of physical decay we see for this kind of thing is pretty much a guarantee that someone also has severe mental issues. You do not get that fat without some amount of mental disturbance.

Nobody just gets that way by just being lazy. (There's some exceptions, however.) Sometimes I wonder if people focus on getting these people some kind of therapy instead of just dieting. Perhaps therapy plus dieting would work or other healthy treatments.

 

[keksz]

What, you can die from obesity complications?! That's not what HAES told me!!!

 

[Assorted Nuts]

Companies have literally come into existence just to put these fat fucks into the ground.

Look at this one.

http://www.oversizecasket.com

Goliath Caskets. The Big & Tall of dead motherfuckers.

Series finale: My 600 Pound Funeral followed by My 600 Pound Grave.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

James was in the hospital suffering from kidney failure right now. Putting my money on him being next.

Not surprised. That guy made no attempt to lose weight during the episode and actually made his fiance order him Chinese food when he didn't wanna eat any of the healthy stuff she had bought him.

 

[Male Idiot]

If any of you chemist kiwis could make a food that had no calories but was full of taste enhancing chemicals, we could be so rich that we would all go to live at New Zeland.

Seriously, if diet foods didn't taste like shit, maybe these poor idiots would die less.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

It's his mortician I feel sorry for. I've just been reading a book about cremation and apparently fat people, if cremated, melt internally then burst and you get torrents of scalding hot liquid human fat pouring out of the cremation machines and down the floor drains. It stinks for weeks afterwards even if you pour a ton of detergent down after it.

 

[ASoulMan]

I saw this episode not too long ago and it was quite depressing. I was half expecting him to wind up dead at the end of the episode.

 

[Donovan the Man]

Not surprised. That guy made no attempt to lose weight during the episode and actually made his fiance order him Chinese food when he didn't wanna eat any of the healthy stuff she had bought him.

I hope his daughter gets to go back to school. Her education shouldn't have been jeopardized so she can clean diarrhea from her dad's fat folds.

 

[sperginity]

It's bullshit that this is somehow different from Celebrity Rehab and the like. Addiction is addiction and the fact that there is a tendency to place one addiction over another is really disturbing to me. These hambeasts on this show are no different from black ghetto crackheads or heroin junkies. Addiction is addiction and trash TV is trash TV, it's all just a sideshow for us to gawk at, and the fact that the sideshow is featuring broken, diseased, dying people is fucked up in it's own right.

In the book Physchopath test, the author talks to people who make these shows. He talks to a woman named Charlotte whose job it is to make sure guests are crazy enough to be entertaining, but not too crazy to become a liability. It's something all these shows have to worry about. In the part I am going to share it was about ABCs Extreme Makeover:

 

[Kled]

Nobody just gets that way by just being lazy. (There's some exceptions, however.) Sometimes I wonder if people focus on getting these people some kind of therapy instead of just dieting. Perhaps therapy plus dieting would work or other healthy treatments.

You are exactly right. A ton of these people sound like if they had therapy at a younger age, they'd be far better off than they were on the show. These people have a mental issue that causes them to just mindlessly eat and you need to deal with that issue before toppling the weight one. That's why on the show 99% of the patients have to go to therapy as well.

 

[Dorsia.Reservation]

It's his mortician I feel sorry for. I've just been reading a book about cremation and apparently fat people, if cremated, melt internally then burst and you get torrents of scalding hot liquid human fat pouring out of the cremation machines and down the floor drains. It stinks for weeks afterwards even if you pour a ton of detergent down after it.

What's the name of the book?

 

[Racist Trash]

I just don't understand how they can get so fat.

 

[Internet_Loner]

I just don't understand how they can get so fat.

Depression, laziness, enablers and lack of psychical activity.

 

[ObeseScreamingBlackMan]

Dude that’s the ship captain from WALL-E.

I was thinking the French chef guy from Ratatouille.

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

What's the name of the book?

I bet it's "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes".

 

[:thinking:]

I just don't understand how they can get so fat.

It's a slow motion suicide attempt. Like smoking, but tastier.