My 600 Pound Life - Did you watch last night?

 "TLC's My 600-lb Life follows four individuals--Melissa, Donald, Henry, and Ashley--over the course of seven years as they struggle to go from weighing over 600 lbs. to being at their ideal weight. Their journeys begin with gastric bypass surgery, which allows them to start losing weight."

Last night, a man named Henry was featured.  Henry is a super-sweet man in his late 40's.   Henry has been obese since he was a child, and gained up to 715 lbs.   Henry had gastric bypass with Dr. Younan Nowzaradan in Houston, who has done all of the surgeries for this television show, and many other documentary-style shows.  

After Henry loses hundreds of pounds, he has a panniculectomy (skin removal of the lower abdomen) and later, a brachioplasty and removal of the skin on his chest.  This is hard to watch, but realistic.  Henry flat-lines after his second round of plastics, and has to be resuscitated.

Henry's transformation is long and arduous, though we only see bits and pieces of it, you get the impression that we are missing out of A LOT of his post op life.  We see him struggle with family who eats poorly in front of him, and he knows it, he knows that he can't handle being in the moment with that food.  Henry mentions that his family keeps asking him to "go to the buffets," and we see him, instead going to the gym.  He eventually reaches his weight loss goal, but it takes years.  I wondered how much we didn't see -- while watching the show.  

This is where I'd be inserting photos -- but -- curiously there aren't any online yet.

By seven years, as the show wraps up, he's got his girlfriend back, his body back and things appear happy.  I hope it continues for him.  

• Read here for my thoughts on the first episode.

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I watched it.  It seemed he was glowing at the end of the show.  He is so thankful to get a fresh shot at life.  I hope he continues to do well.

I missed that one, I was in a Xanax induced sleep, I did see last weeks guy and I hated his mother, I kept wanting to slap her for feeding him junk food.  Really you don't save someones life by bringing them junk food.  It was super hard to watch, I really wanted to cry during most of it, I don't even think he ever got to walk by the end of the show.  I don't even know I lasted to the end it was so upsetting.  Weigh issues really do suck.

 I missed last week's episode...  I wish they'd put it online.

Not only was he glowing,  he is so grateful for his new life and wife.

 So happy for him. He looked so happy at the end of the show. Good for him for sticking to his guns and losing that weight despite being surrounded by people who eat junk all the time.

Beth, last week's episode was about a young man named Donald who got Guillain-Barre syndrome after his WLS (not as a direct result). It left him unable to breathe on his own. Over a few years he regained his abilities, and about 200 pounds. At the end he was losing again.

 

Oh. my.

I missed all but one of the episodes. Does anyone know where you can watch it online?

 I can't find any full episodes online yet.  I am hoping they allow it.