SALLIE: My drug of choice is
food, a breakfast burrito, eggs, and cheese, and ham,
and sausage, and hash browns. I'm going to eat
myself to death. CHAD: My greatest fear
is premature death. I don't want to be robbed
before in my life even starts. SALLIE: I just can't
keep going like this. Now, I'm letting my
son get fat, too. And that makes me feel bad
because I'm the one buying it for him and feeding it to him. If anything happened
to her, I just don't know what I would do. Jeez. SALLIE: We eat out every meal. I mean, my life is at stake. My son himself, I don't
want him repeating me. CHAD: An average day for lunch,
we'll say we'll go to a buffet. I just eat a
[bleep] ton of food. I didn't want to be married to
him and have two or three kids, and then him die on me. SALLIE: I'm always
aware of everything around me that my
weight can affect. I break things. I eat like 7,500 calories
easy in a sitting. I just can't keep
going like this. AMBER: How bad do you want this? I want it bad!
AMBER: Let's go! ADAM: Touch your
shirt to the tire. Go.
There it is! Touch it. Keep that back
nice and straight. Two. [bleep] BEVERLY: We're here to change
our thinking, the way we think about ourselves. There's no way I
can do this every day. BEVERLY: You're here to
push beyond the limits. [grunt]
- Ugh Come on! CHAD: I'm ready for it. I'm ready because I
think I've hit my bottom. If I could just do it
myself, I would do it. And I just feel like I can't. You wanna get
something to eat? Yeah. The convenience of fast
food is a big thing with us. We'd like three
dogs, three nachos. I don't know how to cook. I work 40 plus hours a week. Come on, Sam. SAM: This is good. SALLIE: And now I'm letting
my son get fat, too. And that makes me feel bad
because I'm the one buying for him and feeding it to him. I'm eight years old. I'm 150 pounds. I'm the biggest person
in my whole class. SALLIE: Unfortunately, my
seat belt does not fit. Seat belt goes to
about right here. I've always been overweight. 150 pounds in
fourth, fifth grade. 250 pounds in high school. My stomach is right
on the steering wheel, so when you make turns,
that can be difficult. My back's hurting. My hips are hurting. My feet are hurting. You get wore out from
carrying all this around. You'll have chest
pains, and you're thinking, why do I just
keep doing the same thing? I was 24 when my dad died. My dad committed suicide. I mean, if you asked me,
was it out of the blue? Yeah, it was out of the blue. I didn't-- if there
were signs there, he didn't let us see them. It's really hard when
something like that happens, and anybody who's
been through it knows. You just blame yourself. You think that he thought
you didn't love him or-- it's really hard. I don't like to cry about it. I don't want to upset
my mom about it. We don't talk about
it a whole lot. So I kind of keep it to myself. And if I got sad about
it, go eat me something, and I'd feel better. I'm going to eat myself to
death and end up killing myself in a different way. I just can't keep
going like this. I mean, my life is at stake. My son himself, I don't
want him repeating me. Name is Chad. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. I'm 27 years old. Enjoy dinner. Thank you. Is that fried rice? Oh, yes. SALLIE: Laina is
the love of my life who I look forward to
marrying if she'll say yes. LAINA: His weight, it's going
to cause major problems. CHAD: Laina sent me an email
and pretty much blew me away on everything wrong with me. I can't continue loving
someone who is killing himself. And if you continue like
you are doing, you will die. I can't get myself
into something that I know will end in tragedy. You have to do something
now about your weight if you want to keep me. LAINA: I didn't want
to be married to him and have two or three kids,
and then him die on me. CHAD: My memories of
my father growing up are getting beat
the crap out of. Getting yelled and screamed
at and watching him beat the crap out of my mother. My dad just had drug problems,
abuse problems, alcohol problems. I think the breaking point
was when my father threatened to burn my mother
alive in the house. And so we left. So I never really
had a father figure. I wanted a father figure. I remember wanting to be able
to find somebody who could kind of just take me under their
wing and just help me and kind of define who I am as a man
and all that kind of stuff. Where as I got older,
I had no problem joining into my mother's kind
of coping mechanism with food. And so I started
putting on weight. My greatest fear
is premature death. I don't want to be robbed
before in my life even starts. I want to see him
get a hold of this now. I really do. These are ones that
are just too small. I can't fit into them. I remember when I was
mortified when I was size 52. Now I'm size 72. An average day at
breakfast would be two Croissan'wichs, a big ass thing
of Mocha Joe, hash browns. For lunch, we'll say we'll
go to a pizza buffet. We'd ask them to make a whole
thing of cinnamon rolls. I'd get them to make a
special kind of pizza that I like in conjunction with
all the other ton of pizza, and I would just eat
a [bleep] ton of food. SALLIE: Hey.
CHAD: Hey. How you doing?
- I'm Sallie. Nice to meet you.
Chat, it's a pleasure. Chad.
Thank you. BEVERLY: By coming here
to Hilton Head Health, Chad and Sallie are making
the first steps in really transforming their lives. My name's Beverly.
- Hey, Beverly. I'm Sallie.
Nice to meet you. BEVERLY: Nice to
meet you, Sallie. Chad.
BEVERLY: It's nice to meet you. It's nice to meet you as well. BEVERLY: For the
next six months, we will be teaching
them a whole new way to look at the way they eat. And they'll be exercising
like they never have before. Sallie, you're
going to follow me. OK.
BEVERLY: OK. We're going to go
right around here. We're going to head this way. BEVERLY: They've left the
distractions of home behind, and now it's time for them
to just focus on themselves. - How you doing, Chad?
- I'm doing good. How are you doing?
- I'm Adam. Nice to meet you. We're going to get
your weight done today. I'm obviously a little
nervous stepping on the scale, looking the monster in the eye. ADAM: All right,
step up on there. Your starting weight is 509. 500 scared the hell
out of me, honestly. I'm hoping by the time I leave
here that I can lose somewhere around 150 pounds. That's the goal. Your BMI, which is
your Body Mass Index, we want that number to
be between a 19 and 25. Right now, you're at 71. All right. OK? I think in order for someone to
be successful in our program, they have to be mentally
ready to make the change. The emotional is huge. While you're here, it's not
just about losing the weight. Right. It's about your mind and
really being able to implement everything that you've learned
here into your daily life once you leave here. Mm. - Hey, Sallie.
- Hi. - How are you doing?
- Good. How are you?
- I'm Adam. I'm gonna do your weights.
- OK. So we're going to have
you step up on the scale. 443.4. Whoa. You said whoa. Whoa, yeah. ADAM: How you feeling? I just didn't think
I weighed that much. My initial weigh in was 443, and
I thought that I was maybe 380, 390. So it was a big slap in the
face when I seen that number. You OK? I mean, it sucks, but-- That's the highest it's ever
going to be because it's only going down from this
point forward, right? Right.
Yup. Yup.
ADAM: All right. SALLIE: Like Adam said,
I'm just never going to see that number on a scale
again-- never, never, never. ADAM: Have you had this
stuff done recently? Not recently. It's been a few years. ADAM: OK. Are you trying to pick healthy
options when you're eating out? No, not really. I mean, if you're going
to eat out, what's-- I mean-- Tell me how you felt when
you stepped on the scale. Ugh. Had I seen that at home, I
probably would've went and ate something. I didn't expect to see
that at all, not that I'd gotten on a scale. I just tell myself that I
weighed something different. AMBER: Sallie's fitness level,
she's pretty much starting off at scratch. She didn't do anything in
preparation for coming here. I don't think she changed
her eating habits one bit. I don't think she tried
to work out one bit. Just try to rework
my brain to keep moving and not just go sit down or-- AMBER: Mind over matter, huh? Yeah. I'm ready to become the person
that I know that I'm supposed to be. AMBER: So this first
week with Chad and Sallie is really about
establishing a baseline. I'm anxious to see
how they're going to fare throughout the classes. Right!
Left! Right! Left! Down and cross! And down and cross! Two, one, left, great. SALLIE: I knew it wasn't going
to be easy, and it's not. But I'm going to do my best. I'm going to do what I can. AMBER: Step and cross! SALLIE: Oh! Oh my arm is dead. Ugh. I was flailing all
over the place. I was really working
hard just to keep up. A little quicker each time! Low, high, low, high,
low, high, low, high, low! Woo! CHAD: When you have so much
weight, you don't move as fast, and the demand of that
class was to move fast. It totally kicked my [bleep]. AMBER: Before Chad
and Sallie got here, they were probably doing
limited physical activity, and they were eating more
than 5,000 calories a day. And so now that they're
here at Hilton Head Health, they're going to be consuming
between 1,200 to 1,500 calories, which is
a major difference. I wonder how much lettuce is-- CHAD: I think lettuce you
can pretty much have as much as you want.
- Does it have calories? CHAD: Not much. OK. I'm not used to eating
what I don't want to eat. I am a picky eater. I don't want to eat mushrooms. I don't want to eat onions,
and I don't want eat peppers. You're hungry, and you're
like, yay, it's lunch, and then it's like, oh-- How many calories are we eating? I think 250 to 300. It's easy to pick up fast
food and kind of get back on to your day. I definitely think that I
was taking an easier route. SALLIE: My preparation
is, hey, I'm leaving work. What do you want me to pick up? You know? And then it's, what do
they want me to bring home? [laugh] When you see what it takes
to burn 1,000 calories-- SALLIE: [laugh] You're not
gonna want to eat 2,000, huh? So how much do you
burn in a mile? 100? That's unbelievable. Yeah. Where are we?
We're gonna pump it up a little. [exhales] I-- no, we're not. [nervous laugh] I feel like I'm getting
so much thrown at me that I'm not able
to catch everything. You can push it. You can push it. Y'all can do this, all right? You've got this. All right? So this is going to make it
hard out here by your ankles. Oh my Lord. Here's your safe zone, bring
it in towards your thighs, OK? All right. And come down. [exhales] If you
say so, brother. You've got it, Sallie. You got it. Get positioned. Good, Chad. One. Good, Sallie!
Two. That's all right. That's all right. Three. Get it. Two more. Two more. Two. You're all right. You're all right. Good. Good. SALLIE: My knees have been
giving me some trouble just from doing nothing and then
doing all of this activity, but I'm hanging in there. I'm working through it. You all right? Good? Yeah. - Good morning, Sally.
- Good morning, Jeff. - How are you?
- I'm good. How are you?
- Great. My ultimate goal is to lose
200 pounds while I'm here. If I can lose 8 and 1/2
pounds a week, in six months, that's 200 pounds. Go ahead and take the plunge. That's awesome.
Congratulations. Thank you. I'm really happy. I've lost 9 pounds. It's so rewarding when you see
all your hard work pay off. Good morning, Chad. - Good morning.
- How are you? I'm doing good. How you doing?
- Good. My goal is definitely to lose
a minimum of 8 pounds a week. Let's see how we're doing. Oh! So my starting weight was 509. Oh, that's so much
better than I expected. And I am at 486
and some change. [exhales]
Woo! Awesome job! CHAD: I lost 23
pounds in one week. [laugh]
Today's gonna be a great day. It's gonna be a good day.
I'll see ya later. BEVERLY: The big
numbers this week are partly due to
excess water weight. Once they've sweated
that off, they won't see that kind
of weight loss again, which can be discouraging. When someone has as much weight
to lose as Chad and Sallie, it's not only about
changing bad habits, it's getting down to the reason
why and the emotional issues surrounding why they
put all this weight on. So, guys, we're
going to be working on the elliptical today. Tell me what you want
out of this experience here at Hilton Head Health. SALLIE: I want a
new way of life. I'm tired of wasting my life. I've wasted 29
years of being fat and my inside not
matching my outside. Good. How proud would your
father be of you right now? I wish he could
see me when I'm done. [sobs] I do. I'm really sad that
he won't be here. BEVERLY: Your father's
going to be proud of you, and he's watching you. He knows. He knows, Sallie. He knows what you're
going through. Chad and Sallie both have
issues with their fathers, so I want for them to have
a dialogue around what the missing of their fathers
in their lives mean to them. I never had a
father to begin with. He was verbally and
emotionally abusive. BEVERLY: You don't
feel a loss at all? - No.
- No loss? I lost out on a
horrible father. I lost out on a man
who couldn't be a man. SALLIE: You really
should rethink that. CHAD: Why? Because you gotta forgive. I forgive, I just don't-- And once they're
gone, they're gone. You're never going
to get them back. CHAD: I like Beverly. I think she's great, but
she's focusing on my father. And that is not a
particular trauma in my life that I feel is
connected to my weight. What am I losing out on? He's in denial about it. And until he is ready
to resolve those issues, he'll never be able to get
through this weight loss journey and get
onto his new life. CHAD: So we're at
about the halfway mark. I've been amazed at how much
easier it's getting day by day. This shirt, I couldn't
wear, I couldn't even fit into when I first got here. Let's see how I do, right? OK, last week, 443. OK. I'm thrilled, five pounds. Woo.
That's awesome. Good way to start the day.
Thank you so much. - And kick ass in that class.
- Appreciate it. 71 pounds, it feels good. SALLIE: Before I came,
it was 17 years or more since I've rode a bike. Now I get on a bike
and ride 10 miles. Chad! [laugh] Watch it! SALLIE: I've never gone kayaking
because I know I wouldn't have fit. But after losing the
weight that I've lost, I was totally
comfortable with going, and that's something
that me and Sam can do when I get home, as well
as biking, and paddle boarding. There's just so
many more things now that I'm going to be able to do
that were never options before. Well, last week, you
were right at 385.6. OK. I am at an even 80
pounds lost total, which I'm very pleased with. My mom and my son, Sam,
are coming to see me. Today is Sam's ninth birthday. I have a sign and
balloons for Sam and just can't wait for him to
see what I have accomplished while I've been here. Hey! Happy birthday. Hey, Mom. That was a fun trip. It's good to see y'all. Hey, you look good. Thank you. So do I look skinnier? - Yeah, definitely.
- Definitely? [laugh]
- Definitely. SAM: See my mom was the best
birthday present I could ever get. She's actually a lot skinnier
now than she was before. Not as hard as you did it. SALLIE: Before I came
here, putt putt golfing wouldn't have been a typical
thing we would have done. Here's your water, Sam. We really didn't do a whole
lot of outdoorsy stuff. Woo! Give me five. I would get too tired,
just couldn't do it. Woo, what a shot! Go down there and look! Oh, it went in! You got a hole in one! Woo! [laughing] He couldn't chase
it fast enough. No way! I got the hole in one! Oh god. Yes! SALLIE: That is so funny. I brought some snacks. Is it, like, candy? Uh, like, no. SALLIE: Sam's only going to
be here for a couple of days, but while he's here,
I want him to get on the track of healthy eating
and kind of get a glimpse into the world that I'm going
to be bringing home to him. You like doing
stuff like this? Yeah. Because I'm gonna be
able to get out and do more stuff like this with you now. SAM: Sure am. So how you like having a
healthy snack and some water instead of-- Tastes pretty good. I feel a lot more energetic
than eating junk food. SALLIE: Yeah? Good. Hey. How are you guys doing? SALLIE: This is Chad.
- Good to see you. This is Sam.
CHAD: Nice to meet you. This is my son, Sam. And this is my mom, Irene. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Pleasure. Join us for lunch. Oh, busy morning. So my mother's coming
into town, as well, so that'll be pretty nice.
- I bet you're excited, too. Oh, yeah, it'll be great. It'll be nice to see her. [gasp] Oh my God. Oh my god! Woo! Yeah! Baby, what are you doing here? I couldn't wait to see you. Is my mother even--
where's my mother? Is my--
- She's coming. She's coming.
OK. Yeah, she's coming. I was very surprised
to be able to see Laina. It was the best surprise I could
possibly have ever imagined. So how do I look? You are looking awesome! I-- oh, god-- Oh, you gotta feel the muscle. Holy-- baby, you
are doing awesome! [laugh] I'm so-- I'm so happy to be here. He's slimmed down in the face. I didn't know what to expect,
but I'm very, very happy. So what do you think? Does he look so different? He does. Like, pretty young? You're looking awesome. SALLIE: I'm really looking
forward to my mom coming. And being the only child
of a single mother, we have definitely developed
a very close relationship. What's going on, Mom? Got some new clothes
going on there, huh? I tell you what.
Come here. Hey. Oh, it's so good to see you. CHAD: My mother struggles
with weight, as well. And now it's really taking
a toll on her physically. And so it compels me to
deal with it now because I see the hardship that
she's going through. And I've watched it
rob her life enough. This is from grandma. Is this from grandma? Yes, pictures. I get photos of my childhood? Yeah. [laugh] CHAD: My mother had brought
these two photo albums of me. It was really nice because
I don't have hardly any pictures from my childhood. Look at that. This is my swagger look. What's up? He was always adorable. Beautiful. Look at your dad, see? That's your dad. That was the first
day we brought him home. LAINA: Wow. I don't have many memories
of my father, but the ones I do were not good. I don't really remember what
my dad looked like because it's been so long, and he looked
different from the image that I had in my head. See, that's how he
looked when I was with him. For most of Chad's life,
I was a single parent. Do I think that he
missed having a dad? Absolutely. But do I believe that it's had
a factor in his weight and all that? I truly do not. CHAD: There's my
grandfather, Pa-Pa. Looking at these pictures got
me thinking about reaching out to my father. I don't know what it will
lead to, maybe nothing, but I might give him a
call when I feel ready. BEVERLY: As Sallie's
life coach, I've been working with her on a lot
of feelings around why she's eating, and I know
one of the main issues is the death of Sallie's
father, your husband. And Sallie mentioned that you
guys have really never talked about that. SALLIE: My mom
went to the bedroom and found a note
that said, I'm sorry. I'm sick. I'm behind the shed. And immediately, she runs to the
shed, found him in his truck. And it was carbon monoxide
poisoning is what killed him. I mean, we never
really talk about it because we don't want to-- I'm assuming-- upset
each other about it. It was just a point to where
I gained a lot of weight. Food was my way,
it seemed like-- I feel better when I eat food. You know, if I'm
having a bad day or if I'm sad about something,
I eat, and I feel better. Which now I've learned
that I can't do that. Because you weren't
able to discuss it, you don't feel that that was
part of the reason why you gained so much weight
because you were stuffing all those feelings and-- SALLIE: Yeah, I know I was
stuffing those feelings. I would go eat instead of
go cry in front of somebody. And probably your mom
would have been the one you'd want to do that with. SALLIE: I don't
want to upset her. If I am feeling sad
about missing my dad, I don't want to want to call
my mom and say, you know, hey, I'm feeling bad today, or-- Would that upset you? I mean, just talking about
sad stuff upsets anybody. She's talked to me about
other things, I mean-- BEVERLY: If Sallie can
get her feelings out with her mother about
her father's suicide, I think it can be a really
healing moment for both of them, but it's obvious
that Sallie's mom isn't ready to go there. So Sallie is going
to have to deal with this issue on her own. Come on, Mom. I'm coming. In the past, I was always
watching from a distance. And today, I'm really excited
to be able to actually do something active with him. Work them leg muscles. It's going to be
really important for me to keep exercise fun. Woop woop! Look at me on a bike! [laugh] You know, I don't
want him to hate it, so I want to keep it fun
and exciting for him. Come on, come on, come
on, come on, catch me. Catch me!
Catch me! Catch me! You gonna tell your
dad you rode a bike? Yup. When we go home,
we will definitely be getting some bikes. Good job! It's so awesome! You like it? Yeah. It is hard to say goodbye. I don't want to say goodbye. Aww. I'll miss both of you-- a lot. I hate to leave because I hate
to have to say goodbye to him, but I can't wait. He's going to look better
than he ever has as an adult, since he's been a teenager. We're going to see
the real Chad emerge. It's only a few months. Come here. It's going to be OK. - I know.
- I know. I know it's hard. I love you. I love you, too, babe. I'm so glad I got to see you. You're going to be OK. I know. CHAD: Seeing them definitely
gave me an extra push to stay focused and
remember what I'm here for. It was just kind of a
good kind of motivation for the next phase of this
whole journey that I'm on. SALLIE: It wasn't long enough. I'm very thankful that
I got to see them. [sobs] SALLIE: It was really
hard, really hard. I wish he could
have stayed with me. It's hard, but
it's totally going to be worth it in the long run. If they could see such a
difference in three months, what is it going to be like
at the end of six months? ADAM: Every year on the island,
there's a Beach Bum Triathlon which consists of a
500-meter swim, 6-mile bike ride, and a 5K run. For Chad and Sallie to
really step it up and want to participate in the
triathlon by themselves was a major accomplishment. CHAD: We're working out
hard and focused every day. And we're going to be doing
it hard until we're done. SALLIE: I did a bunch of
swimming laps in the pool yesterday. Full strokes, Sallie! That's it! That's it! SALLIE: And that was killer. I had no idea how
exhausting swimming is. ADAM: Touch your
shirt to the tire. Go.
There it is! Touch it! Good work. Good work. Good job. All right, Sallie! SALLIE: My feet are sore. My back is sore. My sides are sore. I'm really, really,
really tired. Hopefully, I won't
pass out today. We're gonna start this
race with a cowbell! When you hear the cowbell,
the race has started! SALLIE: It's a race morning. I'm excited, a little nauseous. Stomach is a little
upset, nervous I guess. CHAD: I just have so much
energy and adrenaline towards being able accomplish
this, so I'm really excited. Are we ready? [cheering] SALLIE: I'm probably the first
350-pound woman that's ever done this triathlon,
so if I finish, I will be proud of myself. CHAD: I started off swimming
through a school of jellyfish and getting stung
multiple times. It is easily going to be the
most physically demanding thing I have ever done in my life. SALLIE: The waves was probably
the biggest thing because when you come up for a breath,
you got a wave hitting you in the face. I was so happy to
be back on land. The next part was
getting on my bike and riding six miles
across the beach. CHAD: I'm already
feeling sore and tired, but the energy from everybody
around me just cheering me on is like adrenaline to my system. SALLIE: Riding a
bike through the sand is not the easiest thing to do. It was really difficult
and very tiring. Good job!
Way to go! Way to go! CHAD: In heading
into the 5K, I'm excited because I'm in the
last leg of this triathlon, but my body is exhausted. Great job, Sallie! SALLIE: So I'm starting the
run part of the triathlon, and Chad was way in front of me. I mean, I didn't even have
him anywhere in sight. Sallie kicked [bleep]. And when it came to that
final stretch in the 5K, she blazed past me. SALLIE: I just pushed. I didn't stop. I just ran until I
crossed the finish line. [cheering] Good job, girl! Way to go! CHAD: My body was dying,
and I really, really had to push to be
able to finish. [cheering] MAN: Awesome job, you guys! Great job! Here you go. SALLIE: Never believed that I
would be doing a triathlon when I came here. I wanted to do it
in 2 and 1/2 hours. I finished in under two hours,
and I'm really, really proud of myself. CHAD: I am a triathlete now. And how many over
400 pound people can be able to say that
they're a triathlete? I'm one of them. [cheering] Oh, thanks, Amber. Love you. [ringing] JOHN: Hello? Hey, John. This is Chad. How you doing? JOHN: Wow, surprise. Hey. So how have you been? I'm just starting to develop
a kind of relationship with my father, and we're just
starting to really kind of talk and get to know each other. I'm coming to the
end of my stay here, and I'll be proposing to
Laina when I get home. I lost a significant
amount of weight, and so I'm feeling really good. And just wanted to
give you a call. JOHN: You sound good.
- Thank you. JOHN: You sound awesome. Well, thank you. JOHN: I am above proud of you.
- Thank you. JOHN: I know so many
people are, and I know you hear it all the time. But you have-- you have
achieved something that is just far and beyond the
capabilities of what people would believe in their own self. I would not reconnect
with him while he was still in an unhealthy
place in his life. And the truth is he
has changed a lot, and he isn't the man
that he was 25 years ago. And I'm just getting kind of
learning what all that looks like now. JOHN: I'm still
battling the weight, and that's gonna be my new plan. Awesome. JOHN: So once you
get out, you know I'm going to be calling you,
like, OK, what do I gotta do? Absolutely. Absolutely. I've learned a lot, so that'll
be a good conversation. JOHN: I look forward to
hearing all about it. CHAD: Going into my final weigh
in, I'm feeling really good. Regardless of what
the scale says, I am satisfied with
what I've been able accomplish because I've
gotten my health back. I've gotten my strength back. I've gotten my mind back, and
I have gotten my life back. ADAM: Chad.
- Hey. ADAM: Morning, buddy. You ready for the
final weight in? - I'm very ready.
- Are you excited? I'm very excited. I'm feeling good,
good and ready. Step on up there. All right. ADAM: Your starting
weight is 509. 368.4, OK. Woo!
ADAM: Good job. Let me do some math. So that gives us a total
of 140.6 pounds, Chad. Great job, man! - Thank you so much.
- Last weigh in, that's awesome. - Woo!
- Way to go. Good work.
- Thank you very much. - All right, buddy.
- Thank you very much. Great job. CHAD: For the first
time in my life, I feel very proud with what
I've been able to accomplish in my health in the area I
felt defeated for so long, so it's been amazing. SALLIE: Going into
my final weigh in, I can't believe that
this is the final one. This is the last time
I'll weigh in here. Next week, I'll
be home, and I'll be holding myself accountable. Good morning, Sallie. How are you this morning?
- Good morning! I'm good.
How are you? - Everything's good?
- Yeah. ADAM: Looking great.
- Thank you. ADAM: It's your last weigh in.
Are you excited? I am. ADAM: All right, whenever you're
ready, you can step up there. Your starting weight is 443.4. 306.8, good. Let me do some math. 136.6 in total. Woohoo. ADAM: That's awesome. Good job!
- Thank you. ADAM: That's excellent. SALLIE: Walking out of
here 136 pounds lighter, I am proud of myself. I am happy with what I've done. Thanks, Adam. Keep it up! I put in a lot of
hard work to get that. Six months, it's flown by. I can't believe I'm
leaving already. On my first day here, Amber got
me and Chad and said, come on, we're going to go for a walk. This seem like
forever, to this tree? Yes. SALLIE: I was so out of shape,
so overweight, I didn't think I was going to make it. I mean, in looking back now
on a mile, that's nothing. I mean, I run three miles,
and it's nothing to it. To know what I'm going home
as versus what I left as, it's been totally worth it. CHAD: It is my last day here. I'm packing my clothes,
and I realized today that I have dropped
a lot of sizes. My shirts have gone
from an 8x to a 2x. My pants have gone from
a 76 to, like, a 56. I'm going home happy and proud
of myself for the first time with my life, with my body. Thank you for everything.
- Be good. Be healthy. Stay in touch. CHAD: I am so excited
about going home. It was nice
being your partner. It was a pleasure. Take care keep
up the good work. CHAD: I'm back home
in Atlanta, and I'm at a park near my house. And today, I'm going to
be proposing to Laina. Definitely excited for Laina
to be able to kind of see me at the best I've ever
looked, and being able to have a nice suit,
and being able to feel good. She has no idea what's
going to be happening. [laugh] I round the corner,
and there he is. And he is looking phenomenal. I was just blown away. I mean, it was just more
than I had ever expected. [laugh] My love, my darling,
would you marry me? Oh my gosh, yes! I love you. I love you too. Woo! It's beautiful. Oh, wow, that is gorgeous. Thank you. I love you. I love you too. Finally. [laugh] Woo! Woo! I feel thrilled, thrilled. Look at this thing,
it's beautiful. I am so happy. Cheers. Cheers. You look absolutely phenomenal. Welcome home. Thank you. It's good to be home. Well, next up, we are going
to be going to see my friends and family for the first
time in six months, and I am very excited to be
able to show them the work and be able to celebrate kind
of this momentous occasion. LAINA: Are you all
ready to see Chad? [crowd cheering] [cheers and applause] Not seeing him for six
months, he would just-- he's a knockout. I couldn't believe it was him. He just looked so healthy. It's beyond words how
proud I am of him. Ugh, I cried again. You cried? To see him, no, he looks
so great, but to be so strong and just to see what
his goals are now and where he's going
now is beyond anything I could have ever dreamed of. Thank you. SALLIE: I am excited. I'm nervous. I'm ready to see
my son, my family. I'm doing things that I did
not think six months ago that I would ever be doing. I hope everybody notices
the change that I've made. I've worked really hard. And I just want everybody
to be really proud of me. Sallie, you are a beautiful. I love it. Oh, thank you so much. You're welcome. MITCH: I haven't seen
my sister in six months. I just can't wait
to see how she looks and give her a big old
hug and a big old kiss and just tell her how
proud we all are of her. Good evening. It means a great
deal for me right now to be here with Sallie. Getting ready with
her, going to the salon today, spending all the time
helping her get in her dress is just kind of like that
final hurrah for her, so it's very special
for me to be here. My name is Amber, and I
am the fitness specialist at Hilton Head Health. So I have been with Sallie on
her journey for the past six months. Without further ado, let's bring
out our inspirational lady. [cheering] SAM: It took every
ounce of energy for me not to cry when I seen her
come out on that stage. My mom looks really great. I think she looks great. I'm very proud of her. Brought tears to my eyes
to see such a big change. AMBER: For Sallie's 30th
birthday, and a little gift to Sam, too, we have a
surprise for both of them. Here they are. Oh, yay! I'm super excited
about our bikes. I can't wait. I want to get Sam on that bike. I hope he's ready because
I'm riding 20 mile loops. So we'll start him
slow, but we're going to work up and start
riding those bikes quite a bit. Thank you.
- Good job. You look great. SALLIE: I'm not stopping here. I have 100 more pounds to lose. My mommy, oh. I'm going to take
what I've learned, I'm going to move forward. Sam's life is going to be
changed now that I'm home. This is just the
beginning for me. [music playing]
