Watched 600 lb life for the 1st time...

And omg it was really, really hard for me to watch. Is it just me?

I couldn't help thinking holy **** I was only about 200 pounds from that which isn't all that much! I'm glad I watched it alone but I was close to tears and nauseated the whole time. 

I just don't want to ever go back there. 

Girl I hear you.  I find it so sad.  It's also amazing what is obese for different people.  I think about how big I was (only now do I look at pics) and how my knees hurt, at 350 lbs...but these individuals are THRILLED to get down to 350.  So the weight that tipped me towards surgery is their happy weight.  It's fascinating to me.  

You won't go back there.  You have a tool, and you are learning lifestyle changes.  You are coming here for support.  You are tracking your food intake.  While regain can happen, you will not go back there.  You know what to do and are doing so awesome!

Right?? It's like me being ecstatic to be 232 while other people start there. I'm going to try to watch the show again. I think it helped me think about some of the food issues psychologically (I do see a therapist too!). But it was just so crazy to watch it like that. 

I've watched this show from the start, long before I considered surgery and can't say that I've ever seen myself in any of the people portrayed. The people on these shows are basically home bound due to their weight-- I could never relate since I've always been an active wife, mother, working full-time, if not two jobs, and not saddled by pains, aches, health issues, depression etc. I think I watch to be careful to see if I ever saw their traits/behaviors coming out in me. 

And hogwash-- 200 pounds is an entire person away from 600#...but I do get how easily it would have been to get there had we continued our old habits. 

I never was housebound either so I didn't relate to that part, it was more just the craziness of their eating habits and recognizing myself in that immediately. 

I so could never have watched this before. I was way way too in denial!

I have been watching that show and I can totally see myself in them, even though I am not home bound and work full time and take care of my house and family.  I can see where one tragedy in my life could send me down that path and never return. It scares the hell out of me.  I watch that show to remind myself to keep fighting.

I have never seen it, because I am afraid. At my highest I was 446lbs. I had horrible back and knee pain and could barely walk. I literally have a handicap sticker for being overweight, and I am only 33! I do not think I can watch that show, because I have been there, and that makes me so mad at myself. Maybe when I am further along I will be able to watch it, but not yet.

You are right though, when I was 446 I would have done anything to be 350! Now I am 304 and feel fantastic, imagine how I will feel when I weigh even less! I am 2 weeks post op and wish I could fast forward time, but I am trying to be patient :) I just canno****ch that show, because I wish I could talk to those people and help them before its too late.

Season 2 is on Netflix. I would love to watch more.  I really found myself identifying with some of them,  and it only reinforced my determination to never go back to how I used to live.  

Thanks, I might try to watch it there. 

I just double checked and it's actually on Hulu plus, not Netflix.  Sorry for the confusion.