Samantha’s Weight Loss Story | My 600-Lb Life | TLC

you can do it Dam it there you [Music] go my life is so miserable now because I've let my weight get so out of control that I'm barely functioning and it's getting harder and worse every single day and I know I very close to becoming bedridden so at this point I wish my life was just a nightmare that I can wait for but I don't instead I struggle to do what I need to do to survive and it's getting harder to get out of bed [Music] right now I live by myself in a one-bedroom apartment on the second floor but my size makes it almost impossible to do anything on my own I'm barely able to even make it to the bathroom cuz walking is so difficult and once I get there I'm at the point where it's getting hard to fit through the door mostly because I'm my stomach and how far it hangs and by the time I try and bathe myself I'm already exhausted and hurting with barely an ounce of energy left to clean myself it's been a long time since I could stand in the shower like 12 years and it's getting so hard to keep clean I've had to go from bathing every day to about every 4 days because I have to work so hard to do it but even on days when I push myself to do it some areas I can't even reach without using a stick or something I have to reach and poke and prod at myself so it's just it's so hard and I hate that I've let myself get to this point where I'm struggling just to keep clean one of these days with all the pain and how exhausted I feel I'm not going to be able to do it anymore come on come on come on come on we're up [Music] okay if I fall in that little tiny bathroom I'm just going to stay there for God knows how long without a phone to call for help [Music] and I just hate it I hate how hard it is for me to be in this body and I'm constantly [Music] miserable so all I want to do is find ways to forget about my life so I eat because food lets me do that and that's mostly what I do all day is eat I have food delivery set up on a schedule starting in the morning I have to have it brought to me because walking up and down stairs I'm too weak to do that now and I'm scared to admit that just walking across the apartment to get the food is almost more than I can handle but instead of thinking about that I just think about the food I'm about to eat and how full it's about to make [Music] me hi hi thank you be careful okay all right having a nice day you too because more than anything else it's the feeling of being full that I [Music] love food is just so good to me food can fill me up and make me feel the most comfort that I've ever felt it makes me feel like I'm at home and that I'm safe as long as I'm full and happy because food is a hug from the inside and no matter how much I eat it's never [Music] enough and there are days where I ask myself how I ended up here and I know it's because food has always been the most important thing in my life sanda's lifestyle it's such a trial for Isabella it's been one bad decision after another and I finally realized about 3 years ago once somebody's not motivated to help themselves you can knock yourself out trying to help them but you're not going to get anywhere with it so I can't do it anymore I'm through so I've called doctor now because he's one of the only people that I know of that might help me and he said he will and he gave me an appointment that's supposed to be in a couple weeks in his office but I have to figure out how to get get to Houston to see him and I can't fit into any vehicle except a bariatric ambulance and there's not any that can get me from Denver to Houston and I'm terrified because I don't know what to do cuz I'm almost out of time and I don't want to die [Music] we're not going to let you fall okay you're going to focus on me all the way down okay let's get you comfortable okay moose piggy back sucks come on you got this you're strong enough you got this step down right in front of you let's do it focus on me come on Focus tell me which leg's coming first there we go good one more another step one more step come on I know it hurts I know I'm sorry come on you're doing great one more come one at a time one more go you guys me have to get me I'm losing my strength keep going we got go good j keep moving keep moving keep moving keep going keep going two more steps keep going one more step good job good job one more step one more step all right good job no I know come on let's go these are scary that's all right we got you we got you come on all right good job gra this one we're going to do one at a time one leg at a time one two three want want your head up a little bit here we go this was excruciating that was just a horrible experience I'm glad it's done now and I'm going to go to the hospital I'm just really hoping that I can make it because I'm getting worse by the second I've never been in this much pain and it's really scaring me that my body's going to give out now I love you everything's good you don't have to take care of me now I love you because I want to make it and I want to be there for [Music] Bella I've been in the hospital for around 6 weeks now after they ran out their tests and everything the good news was was my body wasn't breaking down or anything that I was afraid of at that time but I still have so many health issues related to my weight so they haven't felt like it's been safe to send me home doctor now wants them to put me on a controlled diet here but it turns out they don't really do that or at least not how doctor now wants he's been checking in on me in some of my treatments the almost hitting the around th000 PB huh yeah itess you you can just stand up at almost 1,000 but being better than at your weate there'll be no way you can survive long and it sound like your body is already given out so this is a very bad situation Sam I know you say that but you're still eating whatever you want and as much as you want and pretty soon you're going to hit th pound huh I hope not I I every pound that I hear that has add it I I just I'm pretty I'm a realist and I just assume that if I keep going I mean I'm G my heart's gonna stop and it's not going to come back something's gonna happen if I don't fix it all right and so what plan you have to get healthier so you can travel and come and see us what is the plan what is the plan yes I don't think I have one I've been um Okay so here's the plan you need to follow you ready for it yes I'm ready so I'm going to send you the 1200 calorie diet again okay and try to follow that which means no snacking you only three time eat only about 400 calories per meal you can have the cooked vegetable and salad and 4 to six o of meat with that and if you do that you should have no problem losing 250 lb over the next two months it's important you do that because if you don't lose any weight your health is not going to improve and then you're going to get bedridden and that's going to be really dangerous situation with the weight we are in you understand that yeah okay then you think you to follow a 12200 calorie diet we send you yeah I'll do anything and do you feel like you're motivated to make all the changes you need oh yeah I just I'm 36 and I've gotten to this point it's terrifying like I I'm just really scared like I'm overwhelmed right now it's going to be a lot of thing food is my entire life I don't know what I am without food I'm sorry no need to apologize this isn't an easy process and is always scary to take the first steps to change like this but remember as important as food is to you your life is more important than food and if you don't make these changes now then you're going to kill yourself with the food you get that yep for sure so lose 250 lbs over the next two months this going to be very easy if you stick with a 1,00 calorie diet okay okay plan and make sure you get up a walk every day because you can't allow yourself to become completely immobile okay if you have any question give me a call okay sounds like a plan okay bye [Music] bye after months in the hospital I'm very glad to say that I'm finally discharged and I'm able to go back home with my weight down to around 900 which is a 40 lb loss but I'm also nervous because I'm not going to have all that help like I did in the hospital right now with even how far I've come I still hit my limit too quickly if I'm up and then I have to have help if I don't want to end up on the floor and in pain okay sideways I got yep I got the pant but we've made some big changes to make my life easier and to improve my living situation some the biggest is that Bella helped me find a new apartment on the first floor and move my stuff into it because trying to make it up a flight of stairs was killing me so that's a big help that's going to make getting in and getting out easier one two three catch your breath we made it guys Yes we made it take care it's a pleasure meeting you you too thank you for the help uh-huh want going to show the door [Music] yeah today I'm home after being in the hospital for a while and I feel really good to have my freedom again but to be honest I'm real scared about being here because living alone at home freaks me out I can't imagine it's going to work but I have no choice I've had Bella help me as much as I need her help for and then when they leave the rest is up to me the positive thing is that I'm able to order anything that I need or want or like it it's comforting to me so I've been following the diet but sometimes it's just like why bother if food makes me happy and I'm going to die anyways why don't I just make myself [Music] happy look at that I'm right off the bom it's really hard to watch my mom like this it's so good to makes SM cry does it actually really that good it really is it breaks my heart seeing my mom just kind of lose Mobility I don't know how to describe my emotion today I was excited for her to come home today but I was also unsure because I feel like the best place for her right now is probably the hospital I used to always like expect the worst and I was trying not to do that and be happy for her but I know that she's definitely scared of being alone and I just scared that she's going to have suicidal thoughts and be not okay on her own whenever we leave and that's terrifying to me she's been in the hospital for so long that you have people constantly checking up on you but here she's on her own she has no one at first everything was fine and then everything went South really fast I just want to go back I'm so disappointed about the central Earth situation and it just progressively got worse I'm so overwhelmed I stop shoving food like that face it's really hard to watch her spiral like that I'm trying my best to keep like a positive mindset and then whenever she's coming at you with so much negativity how are you supposed to keep that positivity this past month has just been hard harder than I thought it would be but I haven't let that stop me from working hard to make it to my weight loss and Mobility goals and I know I've made more progress this past month because I'm back to handling more on my own I still need my Walker if I get too tired but I can walk some without it now so I'm using it a lot less it's just when I push myself too hard that I have to get it and once I'm at that point I have to have some help so Bella and Ivan are still staying with me but I feel like I'm getting close to being able to completely take care of myself and I feel good about how I'm doing I'm just hoping it'll be enough to show Dr now I'm good I'm supposed to go to the hospital again next week to get my official weight checked and I'm supposed to be down to the the 600s from 940 690 but I think I did that to make that weight and if not I'm at least close because I feel like I've been starving myself you [Music] know [Music] [Music] hi Samantha hello Dr how are you good how are you nice to see you Sam this is really exciting you get to get out of the hospital finally you done really well you know I'm so proud of you okay you know this was major surgery was a big risk we took a risk operating on you however I appreciate your confidence in Us in me to have surgery nobody would ever ever take a chance on me I was always told I was too big oh no so thank you for looking at me and saying okay maybe she can do it cuz I did it and here we are look of course of course you've done so well you've had no problems with surgery and after surgery You've Been So Dedicated but moving forward you going into rehab okay very important to work as hard as you can in rehab with physical therapy also with behavioral specialist that becomes a big part of this process not just about surgery okay it's about everything after surgery you've lost a lot of weight already but in order to continue and not to regain you have to really work with physical therapy and behavioral specialist okay I'm progressing past the The Walker I don't really even need it anymore I see that I see you're very active you really have been committed to this you've been excited you worked hard so continue okay okay sounds great right okay good job I'm very proud of you thank you okay you're welcome so we're going to do a weigh in before you go we we're going to weigh in let me see this is the best way oh okay it says 28.2 so this is in kilogram I'm just going to do a quick quick calculation oh my god look 616 lbs good job yay wow from 950 970 970 yeah 970 this is really good so proud of you but you're not done okay not done you're not done you're going to get below 500 below 500 absolutely yes okay great job I will check on you with rehab and we'll see you in about a couple weeks okay okay okay today Samantha was being discharg to rehab after being in the hospital for a while want to get off on that side or this side of it everybody's peing I'm not a orangutang guys just a really large human yeah I'll come out theide we're only going to be able to keep Sam in rehab for about a month maybe a little bit longer but now that Sam has completed the physical stress of surgery and come through the surgery so well it's important for her to get serious about the emotional aspect of this problem and her issues she's going to reab to work with physical therapy and also work with behavioral specialists with Psychotherapy to really help her continue with weight loss she needs those as support now that she's done so well with surgery oh yeah the first few months the weight loss is rapid so it's quite exciting the challenge is going to be the fact that the weight loss is going to slow down and because of that slowdown she may get down a little bit she may get depressed and she may kind of want to go revert back to Old Habits so it's very important for now for her to have support with behavioral specialist and physical therapy that

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Length: 22min 41sec (1361 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 02 2024