S11.E08: Patrick's Journey - My 600-lb Life

14 minutes ago, gaPeach said:

Well, that was interesting.  The large tattoo of a women squatting with her hand in her privates, on his back was nasty.  No wonder they blacked it out.

Patrick's breakfast was mind boggling and apparently wore him out to the point he had to take a nap!  Only to wake up and eat lunch.  I don't know how he will ever break the cycle as he showed zero interest in changing.

Yikes and yecch - glad I didn't see that tat. 

Patrick's comfort zone is obesity and he's addicted to eating food. He must have some motivation to change, because he went through a year of all that. But. After 12 months he'd lost 129 pounds. That's not nothing, but short of the goals Dr. Now had set him along the way. 

I quit watching this show more than a year ago, after just too many bed-bound 700+ pound seriously dysfunctional participants. This episode was my first peek at it in quite awhile. At least Patrick was able to get out of bed, dress in real clothing, walk, and drive a car. And he wasn't living in filth. I know - low bar. 😂  He's immature and self-centered, and his beloved wife/feeder appears to know sh*t about nutrition.

I keep wondering, about Patrick and many other poundticipants, what would have happened if when they were at, say, 300 pounds, their feeders said "If you want your damn breakfast, get into the kitchen and make it yourself." In Patrick's case he might have just hopped in his truck and done a big drive-thru purchase. So probably wouldn't have made much of a difference.

Ya know, I can be a junk food junkie sometimes. But even *I* wasn't tempted by the corndog and tater tot meal. Gosh, maybe I have standards after all! 🤣

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