I,m truly enjoyng the Show "Heavy" on A @ E.

   I truly enjoying the show "Heavy".  It is more relistic veiw of weight lose. Why more than the Biggest Loser.  It deals with peoples compulsion to over eat.  It is so much better show than the Biggest Loser.  The lonelyness of their lives.
       All the people on the Biggest Loser are tested.  And chosen because of their ability types to lose a lot of weight all at once.

   Most of American are more like the people on Heavy.  You can workout all week for fours a day and still only lose three pounds at a time.

  

Me, too! Me, too!!!

I love the way they are showing the work, and HOPE they follow up in another six months, year, etc.  The last time I lost over one hundred pounds, I was only able to keep most of it off for five years.  Add another five years, I was gaining it all back.  I was at my original starting weight - PLUS by year ten -- so I needed intervention.

I am still not completely released for full exercise, but I am doing all I can with what I can!!!
Brenda : )~

   I was just going to say.  I know what you going through with your open wound healing slowly.  My sister had the same problem.   I hope it heals soon.
  

    I was also suprise on the show.  That show him showed get surgery on his Lipiderma on his leg.  Very few doctor will operate on a lipniods because,  
Their is a chance that will grow even bigger. That takes a long time to heal and is very painful.   But, They never covered the pain or the  time that it takes to heal or talked about his open wound.  They just showed him six monthes later walking with a big smile on his face.

Editing for a one hour show you can,t show eveything I guess.

I watch and like both shows but I totally agree about Heavy being much more realistic.  TBL is like a game show and a contest that just happens to also change many of their lives. 

But just like any weight loss program including WLS if you don't apply the mental aspect of the journey you will gain the weight back. 

I like it that Heavy has super morbidly obese people with real food addictions and they refer to it as just that.  They also have them going to a therapist which I always said TBL should have also! They have started to improve on this some but Jillian is not a therapist and even when she talks to people about their head issues she does not bring up the addictive part of it.  Yep it is a hit!!  I do not have cable but I watch it every week now!