I would probably feel like it was a death
sentence. 649. This is the highest I've ever weighed. What do you. Think got you to this weight? Stress. Depression? Anxiety. But I also eat when I'm happy and
when things are going good. She fainted whenever we were trying to get
her to bed. Christina has been pushing herself a little
bit too hard. We need to monitor her health. It's been two years since I had weight loss
surgery and I would have never imagined life could be so great. I've gained a whole new
independence and I finally moved out from my family's house. They had to do everything
for me there. I have to have help getting dressed or
getting up out of bed, being put in bed. And it's been a year since I finalized the
divorce with my ex-husband. Our relationship centered on him enabling
me. How many neighbors are there? I won't. But now I can focus more on getting healthy. I've lost a lot of weight in the last year,
mostly because I'm really careful about what I eat. But when I look in the mirror, I see
the skin, flabby arms, and I see myself still as a big person. It's hard to let it all sink in. How much has changed? I'm currently living with my boyfriend
Shane. He moved in about a month ago. Hey. Hey. You want to jump in? Yeah. Shane and I have been friends for eight
years. He knew me at my biggest, and it was also
really supportive of me. Uh, after dating for a while, things got
serious and I asked him to move in with me. We've got to know each other on a really deep
level. We just opened up to each other, and we'll
finish each other's sentences sometimes. Like, I'll be thinking of something like a
song or something, and she'll start singing it. I mean, it's just crazy. I'm gonna go get ready. How about you find a
place? All right, let's do it. Shane's really good
for me. He helps me get out of the house, even
though I feel insecure about how I look. I still feel like I need to hide my arms and
my legs when I go out. It's weird because before when I was £700, I
couldn't even get out of the house. And now that I can, I still don't feel
normal. But doctor now has approved me for skin
surgery on my arms, so I'm really hoping that it helps me finally be happy with how I
look. That's good. It's really hard for me to be
present when I'm out in public, because I'm so distracted with the way my body looks. I'm hoping that once the surgery is out of
the way and I feel better about my body. It'll help me be more comfortable with our
relationship. All right, ma'am, you're gonna have our pan
seared chicken. Shane is great, but it's just so hard to
believe that he wants to be with me. Even with the ugly body, I still have. I have the dessert menu. Are you sure? Good. Okay. I just wanted to get to a place where I feel
comfortable in my new body. Instead of feeling like I'm still £700. And getting rid of this flabby skin is the
final step I need to take. Jeff. I'm ready for my skin surgery. As you squeeze those shoulders together. When I was £600, I would struggle with even
the smallest amount of physical activity. The simple walking from the living room to
the bedroom. I'm out of breath. Now I can do so much more than I ever
expected. Good.
Fantastic. But it's hard to let go of my fears of
gaining weight. Remember the weight lifting that's going to
help you not only build muscle, but also burn fat. All right, see you next time. But knowing I can get my final skin surgery
keeps me motivated. We want chicken. Broccoli. Yeah. I'm also trying really hard to eat the right
foods and enough of the right foods. So I'm sticking to high protein foods that
help me gain muscle weight. Last year, I wouldn't have dreamed of eating
this much food, but I'm trusting what the doctor has told me I need to do. I really want to have all this skin surgery
behind me. So I'm doing everything I can to do this the
right way. I'm back at Dr. Nell's office to see if I've
gained enough weight to get approved for my leg surgery. It's still a little hard for me
to see that number go up. I did what Dr. Now wanted and gained some weight. Hello. Okay, so you're waiting now? 177. That's good. That's £17 up. You have come a long way from £708. That's great. I think you're ready for surgery at this
time. And we'll let you know when we can schedule
it, okay? Christina has done well, so I'm going to
move forward with her leg surgeries. She has a lot of extra skin in her legs, so
the surgery will take some time. All right. I'll see you later. Thank you. Okay. But I think Christina will
be really happy with the results. I can't wait to get this last surgery on my
legs. I'm starting to feel like I'm finally able
to see that I'm worth it. And I'll be one step closer to where I feel
like I should be. I've been working really hard lately to be
okay with who I am. And now that I've finished my skin surgery,
it's nice to buy clothes that speak to who I am. It's making it a little bit easier to
see what everyone else sees. And it's definitely a confidence boost. When I was £700, I couldn't go anywhere in
public, let alone go shopping for clothes. Thank you. Have a great day. You too. So I'm really grateful I can do
normal things like this. Ms.. Phillips, I've been learning that the
number doesn't matter as much, and the priority is that I need to be healthy. 171. All right, so we lost £537. That's a lot of weight to lose. Thank you. Christina is a really amazing success story. I know it's been a difficult process for her
to have a healthy outlook on food and her self-image, but she's made great progress. You've done amazing job, and I'm proud of
you. Thank you. All right. It's still so hard to believe I've come this
far. And now that my skin surgery is behind me,
I'm glad to be done with this process. And I'm ready to live my life. I feel like I'm starting a new journey. It's really pretty. I'm so glad I found
someone that loves me like Shane. Now my life is full of so many new
experiences that I could never have imagined when I was big. I'm miserable all because of my size and how
big I am now. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning dad. Good morning. Be good at school, okay? I love you all. Love you too. I try to spend time with Caleb because I
love being his father. And I love being married to Amber. I've never been able to be there for them
like I want because of my weight. I need to be more active. But it hurts when you shoot. Push with your leg. There you go. Yeah, you're getting it. And the more I hurt, the more I just want to
eat. And I know it's the same for my older
brother, Ronnie. Food is destroying my life now because I just
keep eating and getting bigger. I'm a hairdresser, and if my weight gets to
the point where I'm too big to work, I have no idea what I'm going to do. Lonnie and John. I think it'll be worth it for both of us to
get this help. And we just have to face the music now. This is so stressful. I've gained a little bit of weight since
last time I weighed. Yeah, it's your turn. For. It's been a while since I've had my weight
checked. So it's quite a it's a big number. Yeah. Hello? Hello. How y'all doing? Good. How are you? How are you? Lonnie, you are
£612. John is £14 away from being 700. So the time to change for you both is now. You two are going to need to work together
to do this. Okay. Me and John are finally back to see doctor
now after a year, and I'm very excited to show him my progress. I was going to ask doctor now to fix my
turkey gobbler and all this. Can you give me a facelift? I'm for real. I hate this. John. Lonnie. Hi. How are you? Good. Shall we sit in the same chair? We probably could. Let's try it, actually. I don't think we can. No. You can. Bet you ten you can. You realize that together we weigh less than
we weighed before. Think. Yes. And we can fit in the same chair that we
used to take up the whole chair. Don't know why we wanted to do that, but
anyways. Okay. Who wants to go first? Okay. At our last appointment a year ago, I was
336. I remember clear as day. That doctor now told me that my final goal
weight was 200. And I know I've already beat that. Holy cow. That's different. Yeah. That's different. I think doctor now is going to be really
happy with that. Whenever you're ready. Well, it's your turn. Okay. A year ago, when I was here, I was around
370. And doctor now told me my final goal weight
was around 180. And I'm getting really close to that. I mean, it's pretty freaking good. I'm cool with that. Yeah, with all my clothes on. Yeah, yeah. Bout that bass 300 and something down. Okay, you can go ahead and go to the room. Me and Lonnie have lost about the same amount
of weight. I was just heavier than Lonnie, so I'm still
catching up a little to get to my final goal. Me and John have joined a gym so we can take
our workouts up a notch. You know, I have muscle and weights put on
and John has weight to lose and we're going to make sure we get it done. Slam it as hard as you can into the ground
and then, like, just slam it as hard as you can. There you go. The gay man just got the ball. All right, come on. Lonnie. I'm a little far back. You have to have that really good core base
locked in. You said it wasn't gonna be a workout. Just some of the best part of all this for
me is doing stuff like this with Lonnie. Just a few years ago, we didn't have much of
a relationship at all. Laying into it. And then tighten up that core. Yeah. Oh, that's much better. See? So I'm really happy we're like this now. Smashed it on the ground. There you go. Come on. Ronnie. What are you going to make me do? I don't
know. I thought I'd kill you with that. You killed me. Yes. Yeah. See what you got? Every day I wake up, I look at it as a new
day. And I have everything I want in front of me. I just got to go get it. There you go. Yeah. Doctor now sent me home to get muscles. That was his last conversation with me. Get muscles and gain weight. I made myself heavier. John and I set out on a mission to change
our lives for the better. And we've already made big strides to get to
that life. Now we just have a little ways to go, and
I'm making sure that we both make it, no matter what. Now keep going. You're almost there. There you go. Ha! You did it. How are you doing? Hey, how are y'all doing? All right. Fine. How are you? Lonnie. I'm Lonnie. Nice to meet you, Lonnie. I'm John. John. Nice to meet you today. John and I are headed to the race track to
drive. A race car has always been one of John's
biggest dreams. So I had a friend get us in so I could take
John to, like, do this, like, dream like thing. This is. Lonnie. Lonnie? Yes, sir. Nice to meet you. Lonnie, this is John. John. Nice to meet you, John. You all have a good time. Thank you. Thank you. Not a problem. We appreciate you letting us use your
racetrack. Okay, well, if your dreams have been to
climb through the window of a race car, we got this dream for you. You do have to keep it under wide open. All right. I think you can wear that one
there. And you can wear this one here. All right, we'll get you all in that. And you can kind of put it. Like over his coveralls. Put it. Over your. It might go over your clothes that
you got on. You guys look pretty skinny. I appreciate that. I like being called skinny. Don't get out of that line. Okay? Otherwise you're going to spin out. Okay. Well, I'm not going to I'm really not going
to go very fast. He's gonna drive about ten miles an hour. Well he said. Growing up, me and John didn't get along
very well. I know we've always loved each other, but a
lot of times I never thought I'd be able to have this relationship with my brother. Now we really appreciate each other and
enjoy each other, and I'm super grateful for that. He can die. Slowly, very, very slowly. He was getting it around that racetrack. Holy cow! We were going to die and we were going to be
miserable. And now we just thriving in this crazy
world. We're thriving. We've worked our asses off for three years. It was good to see him just like so agile
and being able to climb into cars and jump out of cars. I grew up going to dirt track races as a kid,
and this by far has been one of the best days of my life. Before I was in a chair in a
scooter. I couldn't even walk from the car to the
middle of the racetrack. Every single molecule in my body is painful
to be inside of my body. It is pain. It is sadness. Most of the time I'm like, maybe would be
better if I just don't wake up. Because every single day I look at myself in
the mirror and I'm like, what did you do to yourself? A human body should not look the
way my body looks. That is the most disgusting thing in the
world. I'm so big, I'm almost to the point where I
can't even take care of myself. It's difficult to even try to wash myself. It is the most exhausting part of my day,
and no matter how much I clean myself, I still feel like I stink. My husband doesn't see me undressed most of
the time. I don't walk around naked because I'm afraid
that he will be absolutely disgusted if he sees me, and that he will never look at me
the same way again. So I hide and I do nothing all day. I probably spend a good 6 to 8 hours on my
couch every single day. The only time I do get up. Is to get food. I think about food nonstop. From the moment I wake up till the moment I
go to bed. I know that's not normal. But I can't remember a time when food wasn't
the most important thing to me. When I'm eating food, everything's okay for
that one moment. Nothing else matters. I'm not thinking about the past. It's bliss. And so I'm constantly trying to find that
moment where I'm okay. Britney alone could eat as much food as a
normal family of four would order. That's your wings. I will eat until I feel like I'm going to
throw up, and then that doesn't even stop me. And when I'm done, I think I'm the most
nastiest, most disgusting person in the world. And then I need to eat more to make
me feel happy. And it's just a vicious cycle. She always wants to eat and I can't tell her
no. Now, Britney size is preventing us from
doing everything we want to do. I'm missing out on taking my wife out for
dinner, taking my wife on a date. Our date nights are in house. Me and my husband live very separate,
different lives. I've never been able to be affectionate with
him. We're intimate in ways that we can be, but
actual physical intercourse we've never had. As a married man, I do wish there was more
intimacy, but that's an impossibility. All I've ever wanted to be is a housewife and
a mommy. And with me being this size, it's physically
impossible. For having children, time is running short. The way Britney's body and joints are
deteriorating, she is getting to the point where she's pretty much housebound. The next progression is bed bound, where
she's unable to take care of herself at all. Hello. I'm Dr. Nzadi. It's nice to meet you. And you're Britney. Britney. So you're over £600. What do you think got you to this weight? Emotional eating in general. Stress. Depression. Anxiety. But I also eat when I'm happy. And when things are going good, I just eat. Britney clearly is a compulsive eater. This type of behavior is usually the result
of emotional trauma. When an enabler is involved is one of the
most difficult dynamics to break. So you're overweight and he's overweight. Yeah. It's going to be very hard to change
it unless we change the whole dynamic of the household. Let me just listen to your heart. You get short of breath with the activity. Yeah. Just from walking from the waiting room to
the scale, even, I was, like. Huffing and puffing. You're eating yourself
to death, and you're helping her to do it. This is going to be very difficult for them
both. But I have to see if Britney has the ability
to get control of her compulsive eating habits. If he doesn't serve, he is not going
to help. At this point, you're not going to be a
candidate for any kind of surgery, but you can get to that point by losing some weight
and changing your eating habits. So frequency of eating has to be only three
times a day. No, no snacks. Like not even like no snacks or nothing. No. Okay. There is no such thing like a healthy
snack, okay? If you change your habit, you should be able
to lose £40 in one month. Okay? There's going to be something that you
both going to have to work on it. I can do that. The time to do this is now. Okay. Thank you doctor now took me by surprise. I thought he was going to say, get under
£200. I'll do your legs. So I'm thinking I have,
you know, 2 or 3 months. So I'm excited because this is what I've
wanted for 20 plus years. I've just wanted to be a normal person and
I'm not quite there yet, but I'm closer now than I have ever been. I've never been this size. I've never been this small. I've never been this healthy. And I am so excited every day. And I'm just happy. I'm happier now than I've ever been. The last couple of months have been some of
the most amazing of my life. I had my second skin surgery about five
weeks ago, and Dr. Nowzaradan said I was healed enough to
travel. Bill and I decided to do a romantic getaway
to Chicago. And so far it's been incredible. I've always loved spending time with Bill,
and now that we're able to be more of a typical couple, our marriage is just getting
stronger and stronger. Being out with Britney. We're just like every other couple now. We don't have to worry about where we're
going to stop all the fire. We can walk. We're just out and about like
everybody else. Oh, Lord. Okay. Two years ago, I could hardly go anywhere or
do anything. And now I feel like just a normal, everyday
person doing what any tourist would do. And I've always wanted to go to the Skydeck
and not only stand on it, but lay on it and take a picture. Oh my God, this is so cool! Laying on the Skydeck. I'm getting pictures. That was amazing. I've never been able to do anything like
that. And people were looking at me. But it wasn't because of my weight. It was because what is this chick doing
laying on the floor and why is she laying on the floor? I have lost approximately £400
and that number is just incredible to me. I feel amazing now and I'm finally starting
to see myself as a normal person. When I wake up, the pain that I feel is
overwhelming. I feel like I'm trapped because it's just
difficult to move my body. But the hardest thing for me to live with is
my stomach. It gets in the way of everything is
miserable. When I start my day, my dad will make me a
plate and send it up to me so I don't have to go downstairs. There were many times that I would talk to
her about her eating habits, but Nicki told me food is one thing I have control over. It hurts my feelings when you talk to me
about it. Finally, I'd say, okay, you know what,
Nicki, I don't care. Food has always been an addiction for me in
my addiction to it is killing me. But I've done this to myself and it feels
like every day I can do less and less. After college, I moved back home with my mom
and my dad and my brother Chris, because living on my own is just too difficult. But Chris has cerebral palsy, and in many
instances my limitations far exceed his. And that's a big statement because I need to
be there for him. This is my rock bottom and my last chance. And if this doctor can't do anything for me,
I would probably feel like it was a death sentence. 649. This is the highest I've ever weighed. Nicky is eating 5 to 6 times a day. Some of that is enabled by her family. They're helping kill her. I'm going to start you on 1200 calorie a day
diet. And you should be able to do £50 or next
month. Oh, my gosh. That sounds like a lot of weight. This is a little overwhelming, but I have no
doubt that this is something that I have to do because I can feel my body deteriorating. So I know this is a race against the clock. I'm really scared that I'm not going to be
under £600 to qualify for surgery. I see you lost £63 in one month. You done very well. But I need to run some tests to be sure that
you are ready for surgery now. Okay? Okay. She carry most of her weight in the abdomen,
which can compromise her astral system or heart. So I need to make sure that her body
can handle surgery or she would likely not survive the procedure. I'm not sure what the doctor is looking for,
but I've worked really hard to lose the weight and I'm scared right now. That's all going to have been for nothing. Nick, you still have a lot of weight pushing
on her heart. The only way to fix this is for her to lose
more weight. I want you to lose another £50 over the next
couple of months and try to address this issue. I worked so hard. I just feel hopeless right now. But I want to live. I did it once. I know I can do it again. And I'm running out of time if I don't do
this. Everything looking good. I think we're going to go ahead and preview
surgery at this point. Excellent. And I'm glad this day has come. But I feel terrified about what could
happen. I love you. I love. You. I'm risking my life to have a life. Everything went very well. A sleeve is going to help her to lose a lot
of weight. I'm proud of how far I've come, but my
cravings are slowly coming back. So I'm going to see a therapist today. It's important to deal with the emotional
issues that caused the weight gain in the first place, and once you're able to let go
of that, then it becomes easier to keep the weight off. I decided it was time to talk to my mom. I think I felt like I was just never good
enough. Hate that you ever felt that way. Hope I don't ever hurt your feelings. I love you, baby. My goal has been to hit £449 within a year. 443? What? Yeah. She lost £200. That's very good. Thank you. I'm starting to be able to do
more, and I feel like I'm getting my life back. Here we go. For the first time in a long time, I believe
in myself. And my goal was to finally get under £200. And I'm hoping I did that. That's incredible. I'm like £30 from my target weight now and
two skin surgeries away from my goal, and that's amazing for me to even think about. Hello. Hi. Dr. Neil. How are you today? I'm good. How are you? Great. You are down to £194. That's £455 weight. Loss. That number is breathtaking to me. I'm proud of you. You're doing great. Nikki is back to making good progress, and
she's very close to her target weight. But I'm concerned about the treatment she
received on her sutures. So let's take a look at you now, okay? And deal with this wound back. You mentioned. Okay, this is all wrong, and it's not
looking good. See this stuff in here? Wound back. Don't pick that out. It doesn't need to be picked up with the
gauze. You should not have a wound on you at this
point. And you're not healing because of it. They took, like Nikki, went to some local
doctors and got very bad medical treatment that has prevented her wound from closing. So I have removed the wound back and cleaned
up that area. If she doesn't irritate it and keep it
clean, then the opening will close and heal within a month or so. But she's still doing well and I think we
can get her there. I'm proud of you. Okay. Thank you. All right, doctor, now I will see you later,
okay? I'll do it. All right. Thank you so much. Okay. I think she'll be
able to hit her target weight within a couple months. Once she healed from her first skin
surgery. We can discuss her final skin removals, and
then she'll be completely done. I'm a little disappointed to find out that. Got medical advice that wasn't good, and
that set me back. And that I could be completely healed at
this point. But I'm glad to have that whole thing off
me. I was so upset when they put it back on, but
I'm on the right track again, and I'm just going to focus on how far I am and how much
I have to be grateful for. I've come such a long way in two years and
I'm almost there.
