My 600-Lb Addiction
Two things I have
noticed about TLC of late…
1 – These folks are fucking obsessed with fat people.
and…
2 – I can’t seem to look the hell away as they do it.
Last year, one
of my wives my lady tricked me into watching an episode of My 600-Lb life
and despite being initially repulsed by the concept of a human being weighing a
quarter of the weight of my smaller car and not instantly exploding, I
watched. I noticed, then, their response
to the popularity of the show was to add more “fat people” programming. I know this is nothing new, not with prior
shows like Honey Boo Boo and the
whole My Big Fat Fabulous […]
series. For good measure, they threw in Big and Little, a show about fat
midgets overweight little people.
“Phillip, how have you paid so much attention to even KNOW all of this?” you ask.
I remind you to have a look at #2 above.
So anyway. Caught up in the “can’t look away” angle has
kept me morbidly interested in the show.
Another thing is the “that will NEVER be me” angle. Well…
Let’s remind you both that the last time I was even ALMOST headed in
that direction, it ended in the triumvirate of visits to Urgent Care, Primary
Care and Heart Specialists so I am sure I wouldn’t survive to see 350 pounds,
let alone 600+.
But the shit is MOTIVATING.
But the shit is MOTIVATING.
Wait… First of all, my family and those
around me keep it too damn real to even entertain enabling me or anyone around
us to get that THAT big, and especially not while they were left holding that
grocery bill.
But yeah, these shows are motivating…
But yeah, these shows are motivating…
“You know what I want right now? Some cookies!” and then someone is having to
be washed on a tarp in the middle of their bed that they can’t ever actually
get all the way out of, lymphedema masses flopping all over the place.
“yeah… fuck them cookies, you wanna go to the gym in the morning?”
“yeah… fuck them cookies, you wanna go to the gym in the morning?”
All that said, I
am in the best shape I have seen in years and only getting better. I can thank my mild obsession with fat people
shared with TLC for my progress.
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