Steven from My 600-LB Life

Hope they can scrap the barnacles off his lower legs...*shudder*

The campy guy a couple of episodes ago who kept screaming "My legs, my LEGS" (I think his name was David?) was the most awful one ever, whining and complaining over nothing. His dad remortgages his house to get him to Dr Now and he just pigs out and lies about it.

I think that on was my favourite episode ever.

His name was Steven. He was awful.

His leg tattoo is horrible. The skin is so stretched, you can't even tell what it is.

I love how "Princess" plus a fistful of Vicodin made him more comfortable being himself. When he cut his eyes at her at the hospital he nearly burst into flames.

It's hard to see someone that size as human. That's before you get to his temperament.

The closet kills.

Crazy bitch has a Youtube Channel where he goes by "John."

He goes by "John"? John? Cough...., cough.....

It's on TLC now. Dr. Now kicked him out of the hospital for being so abusive to the nurses.

I don't understand how someone can get anywhere near that weight without an intervention of some kind being done. What the fuck was the father doing all that time?

R11 the father was ordering him large pepperoni pizzas to shut him up.

Yeah he was pretty sassy. TBH he seems like he would've made a cute twinky guy.

Does he post on DL?

Why was he pulling out his hair? Is that something that addicts do?

Yeah.

Oh Jesus - I feel so bad for him, but he had a lot of help getting to that weight. And a lot of denial and collusion.

Whenever I see someone that heavy I always wonder about the human waste and how the FUCK do you clean it up. He was clearly eating a ton every day - that's all coming out somehow. And it's not going in the toilet.

Sickness.

R17, I used to live with someone who weighed around 400 pounds. He spent a LOT of time in the bathroom. I had to pee in a bucket a few times because I couldn't wait.

"The campy guy a couple of episodes ago who kept screaming "My legs, my LEGS" (I think his name was David?) was the most awful one ever, whining and complaining over nothing. His dad remortgages his house to get him to Dr Now and he just pigs out and lies about it."

The guy you're referring to is James K. He seemed pretty hopeless. He'd be on a strict diet but would whine to his idiot girlfriend that he wanted something else to eat, and she'd relent and order in Chinese or something else equally off limits. Whenever he was transported somewhere he'd moan in pain and act like he was being killed. The doctor on these shows is named Dr. Now; Jame K. would show up to be weighed and of course he'd put on dozens of pounds and they'd give him excuses like the car had broken down so the girlfriend couldn't buy food do they had to order food to be delivered. The last episode featuring James K. had Dr. Now telling him he had to go back where he came from; if he lost weight then they could discuss the possibility of weight loss surgery. James K. seemed very upbeat and was sure that he was going to improve. Viewers have been curious about what's going on with him, but no follow up about him has been scheduled.

The disgusting blob the OP mentioned is named Steven (or John) Assanti. He and his brother Justin were both featured on "My 600 Pound Life." EVERYBODY on these shows blames their food addition on being abused as a child and these two are no exception. Justin is the more sympathetic; he seems to have always been in the shadow of his big brother Steven, who gets all the attention. Steven, as some viewers have suggested, appears to be a sociopath. His behavior is chilling; he's a pathological liar and manipulator and if doesn't get what he wants he hurls abuse at anyone around until he gets it. His videos on YouTube are further proof that he's a crazy man, irredeemable, a vile piece of garbage. God knows what he'd be doing if he wasn't a bedridden behemoth.

There's going to be a follow up to the first show about the Assanti brothers next week. I hope the poor brother Justin seeks help; Dr. Now offered him weight loss surgery, but he declines and went back home with his fucked up father. At the end of the first episode the horrid Steven was sent to drug rehab (he was addicted to painkillers). Why doesn't the numbskull Dr. Now just tell him to fuck off? He's probably the most loathsome character ever to appear on this show. I think a lot of viewers would like to see him explode like Mr. Creosote in "Monty Python's Meaning of Life."

Nice tits.

God, I hate that fat prick Steven/John Assanti. He's probably the most disgusting asshole that's ever been on "My 600 Pound Life" and that is really saying something.

Yes, I think we can safely say that Justin has indeed been in the shadow of his big brother.

I was only able to watch about 12 minutes from the attached clip before I had to shut it down. Heartbreaking. I felt so much anger, but also, so much sadness that grown people could end up living the way they did. I know how easy it is to attack them, but I just can't. The pain is palpable, and I can't attack people who are in pain.

Agree

It is an addiction....are there any addicts that get sweet when someone tells them they can not have what they want?

That one guy was a real crybaby but it seems like he did try...

I feel sorry for them but I also feel sorry for the caregivers, a lot of times they are also fat and they are probably worn out.

I've only caught a few episodes. My question is how in the world do they have enough money to support all the food they consume?

I can't even begin to estimate the monthly cost of their food bill. Are they running up credit card debt?

Any ideas about the amouny of money they spend?

Steven/John needs to die. Instead of putting him in rehab for his painkiller addiction they should just make heroin available to him, then fentanyl, then carfentanil, which would allow him to peacefully OD. I have no empathy for sociopaths: they cause nothing but misery wherever they are, and are irredeemable.

How can someone let themselves get THAT fat? Surely you'd reach a point where you'd say "hang on - it's getting hard to wipe my arse - maybe I should do something?"?

Steven's brother and dad are both assholes too. Seems to run in the family.

If you notice, all of their families on this show are also huge.

"How can someone let themselves get THAT fat?"

A doctor answered that question on one of the shows and his answer was this: by eating. Eating lots of food high in calories and never getting an exercise. Of course people who do that blow up and eventually become immobile. So they have an enabler who goes out and gets the food and brings it to them.

Everybody on these shows always say they started overeating due to some kind of childhood trauma. That's always the excuse. But I remember at least on case where there was no childhood trauma. It was about a teenage boy named Billy Robbins who had eaten himself to close to 800 pounds. In that case it was his mother who had experienced the trauma; she'd lost her first son Matthew while he was still a baby. Some years later she had her son Billy; she doted on him, pampered him, spoiled him. Billy Robbins had a father, but the poor man appeared to have been shut out of his son's life by his wife's smothering attention to her son's every need. The relationship between mother and son was truly sick; she would refer to him as him "my baby" and spoke to him like he was an infant ("You hungies? You want Mama to make you a sandwich?"). Anyway, Billy Robbins was similar to Steven Assanti; he would whine and complain until he got what he wanted and even physically resembles him. They did two shows about "the half ton teen" Billy Robbins; at the end of the second one his fate was uncertain. He'd had some weight loss surgery (they sliced off mammoth slabs of fat from his blubbery body) and had lost weight but was backsliding again. I think they didn't do any more follow ups on him because he's ceased to improve. He's probably still living with his doting, besotted mother. I can't say I feel sorry for people like this. It's their life, their choice.

The father with the grating RI accent is normal size.

Body anyway... not sure about the brain

Is Justin the male Penny?

This guy is insane.

R13 has a much better imagination than I...

He throw the pee-pee at the nurse.

He nasty.

Really the best, most effective treatment would be for a judge to put a restraining order on the enabler family members. Keep them separated from the morbidly obese patients and assign home health aid workers to bring the fatsos their food rations. The fatsos can scream and moan but as long as they're too fat to get up and go buy their own food at the store, they'd be stuck eating what the physicians and nutritionists prescribe.

That's a lot to go through just to get titties and a gunt.

R39 Your scenario works fine until the fatto gets down to a weight where they're mobile enough to get around, then they can go out and buy the same terrible stuff that got them in the predicament in the first place. Cycle continues.

Steven needs to be taken into protective custody and put into the state mental hospital that is equipped to care for someone his size. He is clearly insane, and his weight is at a point that it is a danger to caregivers who aren't equipped to handle him safely.

Nobody could get and stay that big without a lot of help from a well-trained, relatively high earning codependent. You don't eat like that on food stamps.

I think anyone over 350lbs should be quietly euthanized.

I don't know where the money to eat like that, too. I also don't know where drug addicts get their money for drugs.

r33 Billy! Billy is hungies! I look for updates on him every few months and have yet to find any. I felt bad for him too, the symbolic visual of him on the table like he was being crucified was so apt, he was dying for his mother's grief. He was not as vile and repulsive as this motherfucker. And his jivey talking with Princess and then overdoing that disgusting accent...ugh, he thinks he's funny and seems to be angling for some kind of show.

r45 Drug addicts generally have some kind of a hustle, they do what needs to be done, they can never be called lazy. It's hard to hustle when you're melded into a couch ala Gayle Grinds.

I'm sorry, but these people are mentally ill, and their "support system" enablers should be procutued for abuse.

These threads always attract some loon who wants to prattle on about how they pay for the food.

The cheap food is what balloons you up the fastest.

They can eat 16 slices of little Caesar for $10.

It's not that hard when you are willing to shovel garbage into your pie hole.

Exactly, R49. Eating high-calorie garbage is fairly inexpensive compared with healthier options, like fruits and veggies. Plus, when you eat that amount of sugar and fat, you become addicted and just crave more. There's probably a reason why some of the worst foods for us are also the most inexpensive.

This borderline fat fuck is going to be on again this Wednesday.

It's Britney bitch

I just watched this first installment. Wanted to feel sorry for him, hope he'd be a success but felt more disgust and distain. The father really enables his eating and personality.

"I don't know where the money to eat like that, too. I also don't know where drug addicts get their money for drugs."

You don't have to be rich to become morbidly obese. You can get lots of food cheap, especially when it's fast food. Drug addicts steal and rob to get money for their habit.

A lot of viewers have stated that they think Steven Assanti is a sociopath. I think they're right. It's probably a blessing he can barely move around, because I think if he could he'd be a thief, a rapist or a murderer. He ought to be locked up somewhere, for good. I do feel sorry for his brother Justin. I hope he gets some help. The poor guy, having a brother and a father like that. I hope Dr. Now will help him.

Can you just imagine his bowel movements in a tub at that hospital. Pity the nurses who have to hose down that angry hole. So many questions. Has it ever had a boner? Does it feel shame or embarrassment to always have to rely on others except to feed his pie hole? What happens to all that skin even if it does come down to 250#s. What's up with that one leg covered with ?????

I don't think I'll ever be able to look at pepperoni pizza in the same way.

Is there more to this story to come? Did he die? Lose the weight? Eat his father and brother?

r56 Part two is on Wednesday night.

You can tell he doesn't want to change. He's hugely (no pun intended) unhappy, and takes it out on everyone around him. I'd be surprised if he lived another 5 years.

His face when those poor nurses were giving him a bedbath. Sick fuck.

Does anyone else wonder if he sexually abused Justin?

Is he cut or uncut?

Oh gross, R60. His dick has probably been lost in a skin fold for so long who could tell?

He should avoid wearing plaids, unless he wants to be mistaken for Scotland.

Raw sexual heat

IFHH

R64, why does that man have a third breast under his arm?

Saddest thing ever. There's a soul in there somewhere.

I wonder why medical care is thrown away on such people.

It's like giving an organ transplant to an old person. It should be seen as a waste.

He is a sociopath who is draining the resources of others. He should be left alone and be allowed to die as on some level he wants to very much.

[quote] Saddest thing ever. There's a soul in there somewhere.

Excuse me, but how can you tell?

Just another tubby tinhorn...

Has he ever done porn?

How much weight can a human body gain before it literally starts to rip and tear apart?

How far gone to you have to be before sitting up in bed for the first time in years (with the help of 4 other people) is a positive development?

[quote]How far gone to you have to be before sitting up in bed for the first time in years (with the help of 4 other people) is a positive development?

Depends. Is there money to be made?

He's going to end up losing one or both legs. Looks like a massive open wound on the lower leg, and given his weight and circulation issues, there is little or no chance of healing.

He is literally killing himself.

His feet are so tiny . . . . . .

R74 It is what he wants and as he has so completely destroyed his body beyond any salvation it is ok.

He needs to let go.

Anyone remember Penny? She was the worst I've seen (I haven't seen any of the newer episodes).

I feel bad for the people that have to work for patients like this - as one example, washing them must be a chore and a half. The workers wear these gloves, but then I've seen them on shows like these having to go deep into folds on the patient's bodies... and the gloves only go up to the wrists. I know they wash up immediately afterword, but it still skeeves me out.

Some of those from the show have deceased. It has not been reported how many. The show itself has reported that around 5% really turn it all around. Surgery will help some, but they still have to change their eating habits.

Most doctors would refuse to perform surgery on someone that obese because it's just too risky. The patient is required to lose a certain amount of weight before surgery to lower the risks involved, and to prove that they are really serious about losing the weight.

What about stripes, r62?

Think prison jumpsuit.

Think 6' x 8' prison cell.

Think STRIP SEARCH.

Why doesn't this dude ever wear any clothing? Jesus, for what he pays for pizza, he could have a seamstress make something large enough for him out of a king size flat sheet.

Those poor nurses should just run him thru a car wash.

R82 I had exactly the same thought. The scene of four nurse aids attempting to bathe him was just sad. It takes fewer people to wash and detail a car.

Enablers need to walk away and let them die.

[quote] I'm sorry, but these people are mentally ill, and their "support system" enablers should be prosecuted for abuse.

I've never seen this show. Do they talk about gainers? Those people who deliberately try to get as fat as possible and their enablers who are sexually attracted to them?

Apparently it's a thing in both the gay and straight community

R81 Something like this?

Oops sorry, bad link. R81 Something like this?

Yes to both gifs. Being completely naked at all times in front of hospital staff has to be humiliating. On another note, I think he's gay.

It's still heartbreaking -- and painful to watch. I am 50 pounds overweight (post giving up smoking) and hate that enough, just in terms of stairs and clothes and some general aches and pains that come with getting older. I can not even imagine struggling to rise from a chair. And thinking of the organs working overtime underneath all that weight... yet they're still alive.

I thought the same thing when Darlene Cates (I think?) died, the mom from "Gilbert Grape". She made it to age 69 at that weight. So maybe the body has amazing tenacity even under those circumstances.

Some enablers want the person to totally depend on them. It is a control issue. Some feel if the person loses much weight, they will be abandoned.

Some enablers are just stupid, giving the morbidly obese one whatever is desired or demanded. These enablers are needy people themselves.

I felt sorry for Justin. I hope Dr. Now can help him.

Living and dealing with Steven, I wouldn't wish on most people. He definitely has a personality disorder. His behavior was out of control. I think he is quite frankly a lost cause at this point.

Uh, R88? Yes, we can see that from space.

I moan and groan too when I get up and get dressed and I am only mildly overweight compared to them. It really is painful to get around - just think about trying to carry a load that heavy. I'm getting the surgery at the end of this month.

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Does 'mildly overweight' qualify for the surgery?

welp I'm never eating again

R79, Dr. Now requires his patients to lose a significant amount of weight on their own before he'll perform surgery. I think in the 50-100 range. There have been whole episodes in which the patient returns to him several times after losing too little or even gaining, and they never get surgery.

That Dr No is a cheap hustler who makes Jerry Springer cringe...

Seeing this thread also called to my mind Zsalynn, R94. She was put down, and actively discouraged by that man.

I sincerely wish her all the best.

Omg this guy has Youtube videos of himself playing with and eating his own shit. I wish I'd never clicked on this thread.

r98 Right, he's a prick, he has a bad dye job, etc. But he's the only one who will operate on these fat fucks so I guess the end justifies the means. When these people are able to wipe their own asses then they can demand a better looking doctor.

i don't think Dr. Now is a prick. He might not have the warmest bedside manner, but he does okay communicating with the patients whether they've done well or not. And you could see the show as exploitative but he is willing to take on desperate people whose lives are at risk due to their weight.

He's lining his pockets and not helping anyone.

He is a vulture...

[quote]She was put down

Well, that's a little extreme.

God, I loathe the poor, fat and stupid.

The poor medical staff who have to take care of their pigs should get gold medals. These huge piles of blubber have to be cleaned like an infant; the show actually films this happening, blurring out certain areas of course. One show depicted a mother lifting her tree trunk leg up so her daughter could clean her between the legs. Another show had the viewer treated to the sight of a woman whose boyfriend (HOW can anyone become involved with someone like this?) was cleaning her butt crack. It's revolting, yet it's hard to look away. It's just so unbelievable.

That's what TLC knows R106. They know these walruses are repulsive, but yet it's fascinating to watch the people in their lives deal with them. And the fact that many of them have SO's is also too insane to be believed.

R94 Is she the one who he took through the drive through while bringing her home from hospital? And then said "I should put you on the lawn to graze like an animal" when she asked for a salad?

R103 - what can be done to help these people? To get that big they all have SEVERE psychological issues. The only way to stop them eating is to remove them from their families and force them to stop, and the doctor doesn't always have the right to do that. I've only seen a few episodes where he was able to commit them to the hospital to be on a controlled diet... and even then their parents/lovers snuck fast food inside.

It's like treating anorexia, they will actively go behind your back to avoid treatment, there's only so much a doctor can do.

Then he shouldn't collect fees and drive up ratings for not helping.

What actual value is Dr No bringing to the table?

Even he himself only admits to a 5% success rate...

These are human trainwrecks and everyone watching is rubber necking.

[quote]A lot of viewers have stated that they think Steven Assanti is a sociopath.

He's Italian, isn't he? For all intents and purposes, that's a synonym for sociopath.

R111 having grown up in an Italian home is that ever true!

Ok, TLC has this show and then another one called 'my big fat fabulous life.' What the fuck? The Lard Channel.

[R113], I suspect a significant number of the viewers watch this show (and others), and say to themselves, "At least I'm not that bad." Others view the show while on their treadmills.

One thing is clear, when I hear the poignant piano/violin music, I know I'll get to hear about the loss, abuse, or suffering these fine folks endured. Thing is, if one lives long enough, all of us will experience loss, abuse and/or suffering. There's no getting around it. So, I admit to having mixed feelings about those, virtually inevitable, portions of the shows like these (I include shows like Hoarders, ect.).

Where are these people getting their money? Disability? And who is paying for this surgery? I'm sure none of these people are unable to get private insurance. Are they all on Medicaid?

On last weeks episode, Steven was in the hospital for a month just for weight loss and a controlled diet, not for surgery. That bill alone must have been yuge, yuge, yuge. Then the surgery, and later the excess skin removal, and Dr. Now's fees. This whole process must cost a million bucks, easily.

To think TLC actually used to be The Learning Channel in the 1990s. Now the only thing we're actually learning is just how big a mistake the McGovern Report was and how the sugar industry has got us all held hostage to their fatlogic and pseudoscience.

Isn't the Rhode Island accent charming?

There is hope for Steven.

Just look at that big guy sweat R118

A good show could be made about Gainers. There was one in the next town over who was trying to be the heaviest person in the world. When the local news interviewed his wife, she said that he should be compared to a professional athlete going for the world record.

The horrifying results of being in a relationship with a feeder:

These people are even considerably fatter than the obese people that used to be considered 'freaks' in side shows(thank god that period of American entertainment is over.)

Those people had to be mobile enough to go from to town to town constantly without collapsing.

Now they're practically barely able leave their bedroom to get into a hospital bed.

Dear god I just realized it exists worse than ever on shows like this.

We now get our sideshows on TV.

R123 Oh yes, reality TV is the new sideshow. Take Hoarders for example. The mental illness exhibited on that show is far beyond anything I've ever seen. And many of them are also obese.

Am I wrong in thinking that getting that obese is just a way of slowly committing suicide? Clearly these people have a death wish.

I'm attempting to understand how people get here. I'm guessing it starts in childhood, and the weight gain just continues from there.

I grew up with a mentally ill mother. She was horrible, still is. I'm somewhat grateful that I coped with drugs and alcohol, because I can't imagine coping with food, and ending up disabled due to my weight. Getting sober is no picnic, but it is when one sees the catastrophic effects of obesity. Obviously, it's easier to stay sober, than to lose weight.

Steven is a cunt who should be left in a locked room with nothing but water, a treadmill, and fruits and vegetables for a year. What an asshole.

Watching this has given me a lot of compassion for people who go through this. I hope that anyone struggling with this can overcome it, and find happiness regardless of the outcome.

I remember seeing one of these shows a long time ago where this obese young guy lost all the weight and got into shape was transformed into a good looking young man that young women were suddenly interested in. You can imagine how thrilled he was.

Really amazing. But I did wonder if in a bathing suit his body would be covered in scars due to the years of stretched out skin and it being cut off.

What is on his leg? Are those callouses and what causes obese people to get them?

R127, are you talking about David Elmore Smith (the 650 lb virgin)? If so I don't mean to be a downer but he gained the weight back and is now losing it again.

So they relapse, just like recovering alcoholics and addicts, r129.

Change is one of the most difficult things to achieve, and I cannot imagine having to change so drastically regarding food.

I've got it easy. As long as I don't drink alcohol, or ingest cocaine, I stay sober. But everyone HAS to eat in order to survive. Imagine growing up in an environment where all of your coping mechanisms were contingent upon food intake

Not good.

All addictions are about quelling anxiety. Food, liquor, drugs.... They all numb or distract from anxiety. If we can figure out how to treat anxiety without numbing other parts of brain function, we will have solved addiction. Not easy or straightforward though. Recent studies have suggested we developed exagerated anxiety as a by- product of evolving larger brains/cortexes. So we are smarter but a percentage of us are nervous wrecks. How to help those people? That is the issue.

"All addictions are about quelling anxiety. Food, liquor, drugs.... They all numb or distract from anxiety. If we can figure out how to treat anxiety without numbing other parts of brain function, we will have solved addiction."

Do you know what helps get rid of anxiety? EXERCISE. It's been proven that exercise is a good way to relieve stress. But most people want to do something that doesn't involve much effort on their part, like taking a drink or a drug or eating. Most people are lazy. They do what's easy, not what's beneficial.

Yes that was him R129. I'm very sorry to hear that. It was such an accomplishment and he was rightfully proud and happy.

There was another man like that but older like about 40. And after losing all the weight I couldn't believe how handsome he was. I thought gee I wouldn't have minded being so handsome.

He then proceeded to gain it all back and it must be so insidious because he couldn't believe he had done it to himself all over again.

[quote] So they relapse, just like recovering alcoholics and addicts

Which is why I keep telling people to stop wasting their time and effort helping those who are just going to undo everything you've done for them.

Did anyone watch the follow-up episode?

R133, based on facebook he seems to be doing pretty well right now. He's married and appears to be active.

R131's pronouncements are overly simplistic and not grounded in the breadth of research on addiction and dependence. Anxiety's (using a general and non-technical meaning for the term) role often is present. However, addiction often, if not usually, is much more complex than "I am trying to get okay with my own head and face things through my taking X."

Biological bases for addiction, the role of such substances in pleasure seeking, the social component of addiction, and the fact that people are not just anxiety machines need to be considered when dealing with addiction. And the absurd notion that "EXERCISE" is the answer is just as ridiculous as saying that alcoholics drink to avoid anxiety. Is everyone so untutored and tweet-brained that easy answers are all they can admit for complicated human issues?

Duh. Apparently.

P.S. These people are impossible and require the most patient, detached care givers in order to not trigger addictive behavior in the people they require to care for them. Ugh.

I have suffered the highs and lows of depression my whole life. Genes and terrible terrible disappointments. They can trigger some horrible feelings in me where I literally don't want to live.

Exercise personally has meant nothing in terms of ridding myself of terribly sad feelings no matter how well I get my body into shape to the point where people think I'm an athlete. And god knows I've never been an athlete.

These folks are stretching the limits of what I previously thought possible - just a few years back, I would have had a difficult time believing that a person could get that large, and live.

Adipose tissue (fat), is not an inert substance. It is quite active. It interacts with the body in all sorts of ways, and when excessive (or too minimal), the entire body system is thrown out of wack.

I cannot even imagine what that amount of excessive fat is doing to the endocrine system, for one thing. I have wondered if that explains some of the behavioral and emotional problems I have often noted in very over-fat people.

Also, many of these people have never known what a normal amount of food is - never in their lives have they experienced eating normally, for any extended period of time.

There are not an abundance of medical facilities in the U.S. adapted to treating 600 lb. patients. That hospital in Houston is very reputable, and have accepted patients from all over the country. Dr. Now is well credentialed. The show only presents a fraction of the assessments and processes involved. Many of these patients are also referred to dieticians, physical therapists, trainers, and counselors as part of treatments. The show depicts some of that.

These patients are not just a challenge physically, but also carry much psychological baggage, addictions, negative attitudes, destructive habits, and accompanied often by complicit and confused enablers.

I agree, r140. They never followed proper nutrition standards, obviously.

It's interesting that I was formerly such a lush with booze, because I am extremely disciplined in other areas of my life.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE eating healthy, whole, home cooked meals, and I truly enjoy exercising. I have since I was a teen, and even when I was in the throes of addiction, I made it a point to eat sensible and nutritional meals, and I made a point of getting out and at the very least, walking around the neighborhood for an hour. It actually gave me hope that I would eventually beat alcoholism. I'm also extremely disciplined with work and was even more disciplined with school. My mother was a fucking mess who never taught me anything of value, so I'm not sure where that personality trait came from, but I'm grateful that it is there. But once active addiction enters my life, the less disciplined I can become, and it can spiral out of control. Had I had enablers, it most probably would have. But I don't. I've always had to pay my own way as an adult, so I had to join the rat race with everyone else, despite my addiction. Yes, addiction wreaked havoc in my life, but it would have been far worse, or perhaps fatal, had I had an enabler in my life.

These people on this show ALL have very sick enablers surrounding them. They had plenty of malevolent assistance when it came to this type of weight gain. In order to succeed, they will probably have to cut these enablers off. I don't see any other way around it. Even if the enablers get treatment as well, it's just way too tempting and easy to fall back into familiar roles and dynamics that are antithetical to weight loss.

My heart truly goes out to them. It is not OK to judge people in this situation. I absolutely judged the overweight, which was gross ignorance on my part. After watching several of these episodes, I will never judge obese people again. It's just not OK to laugh at others who are obviously in lots of emotional (and physical) pain. I feel like a complete cunt for ever having done so, and it's a horrible trait of mine that I need to change.

I have yet to see a family on here that is not clearly poor. HOW the FUCK do they afford all of this food?? Seriously. They are eating about ten times the normal amount that an average person consumes in a day. Most live in trailers, or low income housing. How does this work?

I wondered as well, r143.

I think it was mentioned on an earlier thread about this topic that anyone that cares for the obese person (boyfriend, mother, etc) gets some sort of compensation. Also, when you're so obese that you're bedridden, you're not paying for transportation, or for things like clothes and nights out. so a lot of your money could go to cheap food.

R143 I think that Amber (the young woman who's Arabic father doted on her) was not poor. No one else in her family was that big, and she said her diagnosed Anxiety had a role in her weight, and was one of the few successful.

You can tell though that most of them have poor nutritional knowledge and are poor (shown by the weight of their family), but have a mental disorder on top of that to take it too far.

Part 2. God, Steven is worse than ever. He could lose 500 pounds and still be a manipulative, unpleasant cunt.

I feel so sorry for that little cat he somehow acquired.

I can't believe that anyone in their right mind (I'm looking at you, Princess) thought that letting this guy have a cat was a good idea.

He'll take it into bed with him and it will suffocate to death in no time.

What a horrible way to go.

At least he won't eat it. I hope.

This kid is awful. I watched Part 1 today and was revolted by his toenail, which looked like a unicorn horn. Hospital staff were in contact precaution gear; the doctor put a glove on his stethescope before listening to his heart. Just imagine all the fungus and yeast going on in those folds!

In Part 2, he's put on so much more weight that they don't even have to blur his front when he's naked, because his stomach covers up everything to his knees.

I see him with an iPad. Heaven help us if he's found DL and posting here.

^He would be young for most of DL; otherwise he may be quite compatible.

Steven's Brit clan...

how big are assanti's shits?

Does anyone else remember when Dr. Phil put him in a house with a thin woman who hates fat people, a white supremacist, a black woman who hates white people, a 'phobe, and a lesbian who hates straight people?

I was recovering from knee surgery, so I know it was ten years ago this summer.

Him falling off the fucking golf cart...I saw that coming. Let me guess, he needs i.v. dilaudid? Who the fuck doesn't wish they could morphine out all day and eat, but the rest of us have to work for a living. I hope that cat goes to someone who can take care of her.

He needs to meet Sheriff Brody.

I just saw part of the Stephen episode. Did he die. He was addicted to pain pills, how could they not put him in the hospital to get over pain pill addiction.

I think they will have to cut his legs off.

They DID put him in the hospital to detox. They put him in the hospital to lose weight. Then he'd go home and order pizza and coke non-stop and inhale pain killers.

The amount of pain killers that guy took was unreal.

Why did the dad set his other son up with that stupid hobby store? Maybe that's a thing in Rhode Island, but I don't think it would last a month where I live.

He says he got the surgery and that TLC will show that in a future episode (though not this season, apparently). I'm amazed, because Dr. Now said he wouldn't approve the surgery unless he lost more weight on his own. So he must have cleaned up his act. I would never have predicted that.

The best thing that could happen to him is if they put him in something like a prison and not let him have enablers near him. I understand addiction and since both brothers are in serious danger of death because of their weight, I really wonder if they had a brain disease that made them constantly hungry? I really do think they should investigate this type of eating disorder.

I think Dr. now does his best, he is trying to help these people.

Wait so at this point in the show he's lost 77 pounds or 73 but hadn't he gained 100 after he got there? So he still has to lose a lot more weight before the surgery.

In the Facebook video, Steven says that Justin hasn't had the surgery yet. Steven says he's had the surgery but can't discuss how much weight he's lost because his contract with TLC doesn't allow it.

Justin has a little John Popper thing going on, if he stays fat maybe he can take up the harmonica.

Steven's neck beard is strong.

I live in Providence and I want to go see the store that john popper and creepy dad opened. Anyone remember what they sold? It looked like an "ebay store" a la 40 year old virgin.

What happened to the cat? Where did the cat come from? That's all I could think about: what will happen to that poor cat? I couldn't care less about the fat fuck with the rotting legs.

But how does the cat afford all that food?

True, R146. I also seem to remember a young woman who actually had a job as a costume designer and lived with her family that seemed to be at least comfortably middle class. I could tell by the home, which wasn't the typical lifeless Section 8 apartment or trailer. I think poverty comes with a bunch of risk factors that makes obesity more likely, but it was good to see people like the one you mentioned who also struggled.

Steven seemed to have personality problems (like Trump?). I feel extremely sorry for him because of his legs.

Even if he has the surgery and loses some weight he'll just pack it all on again in no time.

Is this freak show just there to fascinate us, allow us to tut tut and disapprove and make us feel better that we're not quite that fat ourselves?

His YouTube videos reveal him to be an absolute psycho. If he was a normal weight he'd probably be habitual criminal.

I saw some of the older videos that this guy posted online in which he shrieks at nurses in a hospital and cusses out anybody trying to help him and decided there and then that this was the worst person on YouTube. Which is a hard fought contest.

Are there any stats as to how many people end up dying, after this show?

Those stats might scare some obese viewers straight.

{169} Really? Annoying screechers? It is a logical question, troll.

R176, a lot of these people have either enablers and/or get some kind of disability. And it's been established that high fat, high calorie food is pretty cheap. Plus it's not like most of these people have lives BESIDES eating in their beds/chairs that require them to spend money. Many don't wear anything but a bed sheet because they don't have to go anywhere anyway. I can easily see how they can afford it.

And... logical answers are regularly offered up.

Despite that fact, you and the other insipid screechers with the room temp IQs refuse to stop babbling about it...

Exactly what part of the thorough answer given at R177 is too hard to comprehend?

These people make other people's lives miserable.

Why don't they just let them eat themselves to death? Seriously.

Would you eat Stevens ass for $100 grand ?

I wouldn't eat it for a million dollars.

R167, Hobby Haven at 325 Benefit Street in Pawtucket.

R167) Correction .... 4 3 5 Benefit Street, sorry.

'Benefit' Street. How rich.

R175 A Latina/Hispanic woman with several children died in the hospital after surgery.

r186 Yes, Renee. That was crazy, the show was going along as normal, she had her surgery and was recovering and the next thing we know the black screen of justice said that she had a heart attack and died. I feel bad for her kids but they knew she wasn't long for this world and had started exercising too so they could get some better habits.

I think, so far, only one person has died from my 600lb life. Henry from the first season. He was a bus driver and had a heart attack while driving.

Right r188 except also Renee.

Oh sorry she wasn't on the show but I knew I remembered her name and death! Steven can gain 100 more pounds then and still be okay.

They're re-running pt.2 of this fuckhead's saga on Thursday. My God, he is the worst actor in the world! His blubbering is such an act. He's a pathological liar. Don't the dumbass doctors know that?

Wait till you see him call the cops on his caregiver, after he slips into a jivey patois whenever she is around.

Is there another installment on this? It is not listed on my cable guide. Or was that it? Thx.

Feeling like a Twinkie Feeling like a big Mac Feeling like a Coke FEELING LIKE A DONUT...

R191, I saw that episode. He is bizarre and the cameras were showing close ups of his long, filthy fingernails and his android tablet which has to be a biohazard at this point. And there's a cat. I doubt he's vigilant about cleaning the litter box.

If he's receiving any type of public assistance, the providing agency should require his weight checks be done on truck weight scales which are on most interstates or a city zoo where they weigh hippos and elephants. These are govt funded facilities and his time on the scale should be open to the public. A few public shamings and his manipulative self would drop those pounds. Once he reaches 500lbs., his weigh ins could be done at the surgeon's office.

I know it sounds mean but he's clearly not responding to conventional medical standards of care.

R195 used to work at Shady Pines

R195, you sound nuts. Weigh him at the zoo? Public shaming? The cunt is on national television!!! If that's not public shaming, then I don't know what is.

This guy will be dead within the next 10 years, max. Fuck him if he doesn't want to save his own life. He may be better off dead, because he does nothing but create chaos, and treats all people around him like shit.

This guy has nothing of value to contribute to society, thus far. He's a taker, and horrible human being. That's not going to change if he loses weight

R195, I think that embarrassing the elephants is unkind and your notion of the benefits of "public shaming" something for you to discuss with Mr. Himmler and not us.

Oh. And we found your picture, Miss Humanity Sveltburger.

[quote] He may be better off dead, because he does nothing but create chaos, and treats all people around him like shit.

Or he could run for president

This is what reality tv does: it makes stars out of scumbags like Steven "Elephant Legs" Assanti.

Ok, I am scared to watch the video of him eating his own shit. Will someone watch it and tell us what he does?

Watching now.

I saw that too but closed it when he produced the baby wipe from his tush. Such a vile blob of useless adipose tissue.

What are you guys talking about r 202 and r203? He does a scat video? How fucking vile. He really is a rabbity looking attention whore.

I suppose R202 and R203 are talking about Steven Assanti, at least I think they are. I don't remember seeing anything like that, though. Did he really eat his own shit? He's seems psychotic, so I sure wouldn't put it past him. I think he's capable of anything. It's probably a blessing he's immobile. What on earth would he be doing if he could move around normally? Unspeakable things, no doubt.

I agree, R205.

That type of weight gain goes beyond metabolism, thyroid, or prescription drugs issue. This is rage eating. Some people call it emotional eating or emotional binging, but I believe it's rage.

Steven is an extremely angry man. He hates everything and everyone, and he also hates himself. I'm not sure what his background is, because I haven't watched this show other than perhaps twice in my life. However, it is obvious that something went terribly wrong on his childhood or adolescence, in order for him to get this way. Obesity is a manifestation of severe depression.

According to the show, Stephen's mother is/was an alcoholic. After his parents divorced, Stephens mother attempted to raise the boys. She often left them alone to go out to party and drink. She'd leave some food out for them and then be gone for hours and even days. Justin's hatred of his brother began when Stephen would eat most of the food the mother would provide, leaving Justin with little to eat.

Well, that explains it, r207. So eating was a way to cope with the emotional loss that a child feels when neglected, so he ate all the food as a sign that he, himself, was loved, and his brother was not deserving of it. Which reinforces my opinion that Steven is a sociopath.

Also, I haven't ever read up on a link between obesity, and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, but perhaps there is one.

Someone should truck these people out to the suicide is legal states and let them go ahead and finish things.

There is a video on youtube that is supposedly him eating his own shit. I am scared to watch it.

What intrigues you to even consider watching it, R210? There are dozens of things that I wouldn't even think of watching, and an 800 lbs man who is eating his own shit is almost at the top of that list.

[quote]There are dozens of things that I wouldn't even think of watching, and an 800 lbs man who is eating his own shit is almost at the top of that list.

I'd rather watch that than "According to Jim."

r212 makes a valid point!

How would you know the difference, R212?

What is 'According to Jim?'

I'd check it out but now I'm afraid to.

I watched some of the video supposedly showing the fat fuck Steven Assanti eating his own shit. It's a fake. He reaches behind him with a tissue or something and holds it to the camera and says "as you can see, it's legitimately shit and I am about to eat it", then starts making fake noises like he's about to throw up. I stopped watching after that. Since the viewer does NOT see him wiping his ass with the tissue, the "shit" is no doubt chocolate syrup or chocolate cake icing or some other brown substance that is NOT shit. The fat fuck just wants attention and will even resort to making a video where he's supposedly eating his own shit to get it. Sick fucking bastard. He belongs in a mental institution and should stay that for the rest of his miserable useless life.

What is going on with his legs? And why isn't it being treated? It literally looks like some sort of fungi or mold is spreading. Any guesses on how long it's been since Steven last saw his dick?

Even Divine was never too fat to walk and ate real shit.

[quote]seems like he would've made a cute twinky guy.[quote] Even if he was normal weight his nose is huge and those nostrils. YIKES!

He had a very attractive face and a great head of hair. I don't believe he will be long for this world.

I think there was a Mexican guy who died and A southern guy who died of a drug overdose and a Cuban woman who died in Miami. She simply refused to do what her doctors ask of her.

"Oink, oink, oink"

He's too fat to boink.

r215 It's a shitty sitcom with Jim Belushi. David Cross hates him and David is Tobias Funke so I side with him. Sorry to derail!

He could feed an entire village.

He's into scat too?

He is a gross pig and not just because of his weight.

Aside from his manipulation and psychosis, it is sad. He is just one of those extremely obese people that refuse to change their eating behavior, and deceive themselves that they plan to change. They are full of excuses and and will project blame.

About 5% of the morbidly+ obese will actually lose enough weight to function normally and not gain it back. Some of the younger ones will survive a few years longer if the heart is still strong enough.

I think a lot of his outbursts are just bad acting. He obviously loves attention and by behaving as badly as possible on camera he gets it. Of course it's all NEGATIVE attention but that doesn't seem to bother him.

On part 2 episode Dr. Now told him if he tried to get drugs through his usual manipulations he would be arrested, so he's up shit creek as far as feeding his habit goes. The same episode showed him actually losing some weight. Is TLC really going to continue featuring this very hated individual? If the shows keeps getting ratings, I guess it will.

How exactly is arrest a threat to an 800lb bed bound shut-in?

^R228 You have a point to a major degree. A judge may determine the prison system is not equipped to handle someone of that size and physical needs. Also, giving him a fine may be useless since he is unemployable. With his mental issues though, he could be mandated to a state psychiatric prison for a short period. This is Houston and Texas, and they may have such an option, but it would be a risk and strain also. More likely, he would be sentenced to house arrest, allowing him to leave for treatments. No real difference since he is basically bedridden anyway. His probation officer would call and visit periodically, and could try to take urine samples or have it done when he has hospital visits..

[quote]How exactly is arrest a threat to an 800lb bed bound shut-in?

Prison food would, I think, be a deterrent.

Do you actually think she's discriminating about what gets shoved in her piehole?

I actually was surprised I didn't laugh when he fell out of the golf cart be stuff like that usually makes me laugh (although I am smiling as I type this) but I found the whole exchange really sad. O actually thought he was hurt but the father was right. He faked it the whole time. I guess all that fat was like a cushion when he hit the ground.

I knew he was going to do that, I could see the wheels in his rat faced little mind churning about how to make this about getting some drugs and getting out of having to walk 3 feet or more.

My gawd. I can't believe a person like this actually exists. I've had my bouts of depression. I almost drank myself to death and gained tons of weight during that time (55 lbs), but I rebounded. I just got sick and tired of being drunk and fat.

There are plenty of reasons to let one's self go. I get it. The world isn't some rosy garden, where everything goes our way and happiness abounds. But fuck, once I realized that reality can and does at times suck, I remembered that there are also good times. Even if rare, I'll take my chances by waking up and facing the day as a healthy, slim, middle aged wanker. It beats the alternative, you know?

Was that Leonard Green guy at the rehab place gay? I looked him up on FB and he has two kids ( started young, too), but no sign of a GF/ wife.

Agree that this guy is a sociopathic troll, reveling in his grossness. He won't make it to 40. I hope his brother fares better.

The clumsy editing irritated me. You could tell from the changes in physical appearance (darkened tooth, hair) that the show was put together out of sequence and events like toppling out of the golf cart and Stephen's apology to his brother strike me as totally fake.

FYI, NYU's bariatric program requires a year's worth of psychological therapy and nutritional counseling before surgery. Why is therapy always a last resort on this show? Why are they handed a print out of a diet when most have no idea what a carb is? So much distracts me from the willing suspension of disbelief.

I was a fat teenager and have to work hard at diet & fitness so these shows keep me on the right path, much like A&E's Hoarders did for my apartment.

Dr. Now may have saved some lives by taking on the morbidly obese but I have read he has lost a few too and don't view him as any kind of a saint. Some of his patients do really seem dumb but not Steven.

I watched one of these "600 Pound Life" shows last night. Its subject was a woman named Nicole, a blob with a chest tattoo and two piercings in her lower lip. Although she was the size of a hippo she nonetheless had a husband or boyfriend (an average looking guy with an average weight) and somehow they managed to have sex (he would have had to lift her belly up to get at her crotch) and she they had a couple of kids. It amazes me than there are always people, both male and female, who are willing to become involved with people who are morbidly obese; it would seem to me that the obesity would be a huge rad flag. Since his lady love was too big to fit in a bathroom, her long suffering hubby or boyfriend had to take her out in the back of their small dwelling and hose off her naked body like she was a circus beast. It was not to be believed. Anyway, these 600 Pound Life shows are the equivalent of the freak shows that sideshow carnivals used to do and which were eventually outlawed. It's the same thing: these people are put on display for entertainment. And they are indeed freaks.

Years ago I saw a production of Inaurrato's "Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie," with James Coco, very padded for the part. I only remember that it was powerful.

@250 lbs. or 300 lbs. that's when to be thinking about taking elevated methods to get matters under control. @600 lbs. it's amazing some of them are still around.

r237 He lost a few because the people were 800 fucking pounds, no one else would even touch them. Once you get to the point where your friends have to come hose you off like a fucking literal elephant, you really can't be choosy about who your surgeon is.

I know some of the people can't afford to be choosy, but the way Dr. Now performs those skin removal surgeries he literally looks like a hack.

R242, I'm a nurse but no expert here; nonetheless, I think these skin removal surgeries are more for function than form--to help mobility and decrease infection. They may be misshapen but with hard work and then surgery they've extended their lives for decades. If you've lost a large amount of weight and are over 30-35, the skin doesn't bounce back and even the greatest surgeon can't carve out a beautiful form. You end up looking lumpy.

I'm not a Dr. Now apologist. I think he's way too knife-happy and does not view his patients holistically. I'd never let anyone I care about go to him.

Interesting, R243 - why do you say that? Just the way he does surgery? I kind of like how upfront he is with people. He doesn't oblige people with sympathy, which is an approach that, for myself, I like. And he does get people get the emotional/psychological help when the need it, so at least he recognizes some people need it. I rather like him and his approach, but am curious why someone wouldn't like him.

R224, he is a surgeon who is performing surgery on patients whom most other doctors wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. He is not trained in plastics. He is trained in vascular surgery which is why he deals with lymphodema, a very complex disorder which is often non-operable. You can't just cut these huge masses off, you're lucky to have them reduced. He is not aiming for pretty, he is aiming for functional.

Even the best plastic surgeons can't do much for the formerly morbidly obese whose skin has lost its elasticity. Healing is difficult, especially if the patient has eaten his or her way to diabetes. Look at that hobgoblin, Mama June. She's had multiple surgeries but she'll never look proportional or "normal". The human body is miraculous but not supernatural. It wears out with abuse.

Amber Rachdi was/is a lovely young girl who had the worst lymphoedema i have ever seen on that show. She has achieved her goal weight, is happily married now and saving up for skin removal surgery. She is a breakout star though and unlike all of these much older, more solidified addicts, acknowledges food addiction as omething she must resign herself to forever. She says this surgery does nothing but buy you some time to rehab yourself. These people are at death's door. Having the surgery gives them a little time (before they go back to addictive over-eating to lethal levels), to get therapy and to come to grips with a horrible addiction.

In one season of Skin Tight there where two formerly obese persons ready to have their skin removed. One formerly obese person went to Dr. Now to get the skin removed and another one went to expensive plastic surgeons in Austin. Trust me, Dr. Nows patients looked so much better and several of the ones done in Austin had surgery complications and had to go to Dr. Now to get it fixed. By the end of the season it was obvious he did the better job both medically and aesthetically. There is only so much fat that can be removed and veins that can be reattached.

r246 Amber was one of the most intelligent and self aware people on this show. She really is a lovely woman.

R236, that mammoth toppling out of the golf cart was some of the best television I've ever seen, I don't care how it was edited.

Dr. Now has lived long enough in the United States to have learned proper English. I think he plays dumb to avoid talking too much to the patients.

Disgusting blob of shit.

He sure knows the English when it's time to talk about the bill!

I thought the whole cart was going to topple backwards and upside down.

I know it was wrong and not a nice thing to do and I did try not to but..... I laughed my head off at the cart fall. You knew it was coming and him squawking about calling an ambulance was priceless.

Is there a part 3?

R228 nutraloaf should do it

but Dr. Now's office is in a shitty strip mall. it looks dirty and unsanitary and was probably a Cinnabon before Mr. personality moved in. my favorite fat fucker was Sean, who shit his pants in Dr. Now's office and didn't realize it until he sat back down in the wheelchair. "I think I just went in my pants." LOL

They did a follow up show this week on Lupe; her story stuck out in my mind because the first show that featured her showed her getting stuck on a toilet. She'd lost some weight and wanted to try and use the toilet like a normal person (her husband boyfriend Gilbert had to clean her up like a diaper-wearing baby when she relieved herself) and promptly got stuck on it. It took several men to extricate her. Anyway, she'd been doing well enough to have the weight loss surgery; after having it her husband Gilbert couldn't keep his hands off her still gelatinous body, so she had to go to the hospital to see if any of her stitches had popped. I didn't watch the show closely, but at the end of it she leaves the long suffering Gilbert (he's cheated on her and who could blame him?) and she thinks he's too demanding (he takes care of her like she's an infant and she thinks HE'S too demanding?) and goes to live with a cousin. Gilbert tells her if she wants to come back he'll be waiting for her. If he has any sense he'll find a normal sized woman and move on with his life, but maybe he really is that codependent.

Obviously these shows are scripted (ALL of the 600 pound blobs sound exactly alike when telling the story of their lives) and once you're seen one you've pretty much seen them all. Only a few seem exceptional, like the case of the Assanti brothers; I don't think I've seen anyone on these 600 pound life shows who equals Steven Assanti in terms of repulsiveness and psychotic behavior. I think some of it is acting but he really does come across like a soulless piece of shit. I wonder what will become of his brother, though. Maybe they'll devote a show to him.

r257 what about "oh mah layg!" James K? He was obnoxious too but not as evil as Steven.

How exactly did she get stuck to a toilet?

Was she wedged in between the wall & sink or something?

She broke the toilet seat

He should wear a sheet with shoulder pads. He's a bit hippy and some width at the shoulders, combined with a bright color to draw the eye upward, would balance him right out.

What they spend on food they make up for in buying no clothes!

Always avoid hoizontal stripes!

Amber turned out very pretty.

r257, Gilbert was a creep but she met him when she was morbidly obese and barely mobile, he wiped her ass for 9 years while she laid in bed. Did she really think she was going to attract the cream of the crop of men?

[quote]What they spend on food they make up for in buying no clothes!

Ugh! Poor people problems.

is Steven a top or bottom?

[quote] is Steven a top or bottom?

Bossy bottom!

Apparently Steven has brought increased ratings to the show. Episode repeats are happening. People are entertained by his belligerence and other antics.

I feel bad for the father. A nice stupid ass guy who was repeatedly bulldozed by his two mammoth sons. Terrible. I'd have packed up and moved cross country.

^^^^^Did we really need Andre Leon Talley to brighten our day?

I guess Steven Assanti is one of those reality stars that people love to hate. That's too bad, because he's obviously a very sick fuck. I guess he thinks he 's a star now.

Just got back from Steven's brothers Hobby store. Steven isn't dating anyone atm so if anyone is interested hmu, i got his cell.

But is that hot super hunk brother of Steven, Justin, still single, R273? Hard to believe no one has bagged the big one (literally) yet.

That golf cart video looks like something from a John Waters film.

r273 you went to John Popper's store? Dish! Was the guy nice? Good selection? Is he still a rotunda beast?

My favorite line is when Steven is getting kicked out of drug rehab. He calls his father, tells him he has to come and get him cuz "This place is the devils playground". if I were his father, I would want him high ALL of the time. At least he gets mellow when he's high and shuts the fuck up.

I happen to know two guys who own an animal cremation business for large animals. They claimed that they have cremated four or five, over-500 pound human corpses over the years. Apparently, they don't make coffins, and the normal, human-only cremation ovens don't have doors, large enough to accommodate these people without dismemberment.

So does one of the two do the butchering? Is it like a monster cut up raw chicken on a platter? And how long does it take to cremate a 600lb corpse? And what does it turn into? Charred bones, ashes and gristle? The urn must be the size of a barrel.

R279 a crematorium large enough to handle a horse would accomodate a human body, sans dismemberment.

[quote] Hard to believe no one has bagged the big one (literally) yet.

A bag wouldn't work. You'd need a circus tent.

R276 it's small and empty, the opposite of Stevie's gunt

r279, I would guess that what is left /goes in the urn is exactly the same as any normal sized person- it's just the bones and teeth ashes and their bones and teeth aren't fat. I certainly hope they have good drainage for the bacon grease though.

I think it's around ten pounds of ashes per 100 pounds. Steven could go in a super big gulp cup.

Why don't they force him to wear a gown when the female nurses come in. Do they really need to see all of that? I keep feeling sorry for the young lady in OPs pix. He must really smell rank.

can't see any genitalia R285

Think of what a huge diamond he'll make!

He could be buried in a piano case.

I think LifeGem (287) should use the following promotion

"The tightwad never gave you a diamond alive, but he sure as hell will dead."

R257 spews the kind of misogynist idiocies that are so common on the DL. Lupe's husband not only cheated on her, after promising he wouldn't any more, but he was also an alcoholic who at key moments when she needed him was too drunk to offer support. She also says that one of the reasons she left him is that he beat her.

On top that, her nasty hubby insisted on having sex with her right after she had skin removal surgery, against doctor's orders--all because, in his words, "a man has his needs." That ended up opening her stitches and causing an infection--a disgusting green mold was growing on her body. She had to be rushed to the hospital and almost died.

Sure, the hubby had washed her ass and taken care of her, but like the other enablers we've seen on this show, he got off on that, because it allowed him to dominate her and remain in control. As soon as she started getting better, he started acting out--a pattern that's been shown on the show time and time again. Lots of marriages on this show have not survived the morbidly obese person's weight loss. When the fat person gets better, it interrupts the sick dynamic that the enabler wants.

Good for Lupe for kicking his sorry ass to the curb.

R290:

Hon, you're idling at an 11.

Gonna need you to dial it back to a 6.5...

I'm sorry, but having to care for and cater to someone day and night who weighs would probably make anyone an alcholic.

(600 lbs)

R167 did you make a visit to the store?

At what point can the food industry be held accountable for lowering its standards and changing its methods until so much of American food became quasi-edible anti-nutritious shit?

This fella is a portrait of what would have happened if Roseanne bombed her comedy career and decided to go FTM in the early 80s

I know I should be ashamed at myself for laughing at that, R296, but that was W&W-worthy if anything on DL is.

"On top that, her nasty hubby insisted on having sex with her right after she had skin removal surgery, against doctor's orders--all because, in his words, "a man has his needs." That ended up opening her stitches and causing an infection--a disgusting green mold was growing on her body. She had to be rushed to the hospital and almost died."

I believe that part of the show was entirely made up by the writers. Gilbert was so hot for Lupe's elephant bod that he simply HAD to have sex with her right after the surgery? And he says by way of explanation "a man has his needs?" Yes, I think this was just shit concocted by the writers of the show. And if she got an infection...well, lots of people who have surgery like that get infections. It's not like sex is the only thing that can bring them on. Anyway, if Gilbert wanted to fulfill his "needs" he could have gotten a prostitute or just jacked off. Both options would have been preferable to fucking a pile of blubber.

I remember some other show about a morbidly obese woman named Connie: "The Incredible Shrinking Woman." She was over 600 pounds and had weight loss surgery (she wasn't attended by Dr. Now); due to lack of circulation her inner thighs started to rot. It was beyond disgusting. She recovered from that and traveled to England (who was paying for all this? The show?) to talk to a surgeon about getting the skin under her arms tightened up and having her breasts done). The surgeon declined to do the surgery because he said it wouldn't be a good idea to do it so soon after her having such a severe infection. Mightily pissed off, she storms out of his office after saying "I guess we don't have anything else to talk about." Later she was shown eating and crying. She said that's what she does when she gets stressed or upset: she eats and cries. Of course she couldn't eat a great deal because the weight loss surgery had reduced her stomach to the size of a walnut, but she was reacting to stress the same way she did before she had the surgery. The doctor in England commented that you could surgically remove excess fat and reduce the size of the stomach but you couldn't change a person's mental state. In others words, you can take the fat out of the body but you can't take the fat out of the mind. Connie, "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", was the subject of two shows, but after the one where the doctor turned her down for surgery there weren't any more, maybe because she wasn't making any more progress. I think that same thing happened with "The Half Ton Teen", Billy Robbins. His story was a two parter also, but after the second one there weren't any more, probably because the fat fuck was still morbidly obese.

Are these people also into bestiality? Would they also fuck elephants and hippos if they got half the chance? There's something about fetishizing obesity this morbid that comes off as sick and dehumanizing.

I first watch both parts of Steven's episodes online, but this afternoon, I caught it in HD on a friends high-def TV.

OMG ... terrifying!

r298 And yet, I pine for Billy Robbins after watching this Assanti clown. Billy sending his mom to gamestop in a hurricane to get him some video games seems sweet and reasonable next to this fat fuck.

mmmmmm Billy Robbins and Stevie Assanti, dream threesome

There are Chubby Chasers here pounding the pud as they watch Steven.

r290 Lupe and Gilbert are back together

"Lupe and Gilbert are back together."

Where did you hear that? Anyway, if it's true I'm not surprised. Their "break up" seemed very fake to me, manufactured to make the show more interesting.

It's on Lupe's Facebook, somebody posted a screen shot of it on another forum

Excuse me, bitches! Make that fish Lupe her own thread, this one is all about me!

Is he bringing the Mich Womyn Festival back in r307's post? He should transition... to a female beluga.

Assanti suffers from pungent penis odor

He really is like a character out of a John Waters movie. I'm surprised Waters approached him with a movie offer.

Make that I'm surprised John Waters HASN'T approached Assanti with a movie offer. Maybe Assanti is too repulsive for even John Waters.

Are there any new episodes to his story? He's repulsive but I just can't look away.

Any new episode needs to be about him having lost a lot of weight and complying with the program.

I am not interested in seeing more of his gross behavior and him failing to show significant improvement. He's a sad case.

The guy last night and his mom were fucking loser/enablers too. Dr. Now got quite snippy with them and he was right to! I don't know how he deals with these people everyday.

I'll have to watch this.

Steven and I dated for a while, but when he became so internet famous, he ghosted me.

I've never, ever seen anything like Tracy's legs before.

There's a facebook group called "My 600lb life viewing and discussion room" that Steven Assanti has joined in and now women are throwing themselves at him!! It used to be a fun place to bitch about people like him, but now if you say anything against him, you get kicked out.

So fucked up. People are crazy.

Ha r318, what dumb twats since Miss Assanti is a huge old ka-ween! I may have to go check that out. It's because he's now famous adjacent.

since Miss Assanti is a huge old nasty, vindictive, manipulative ka-ween!

Fixed.

Do you think Steven molested his younger brother, R320?

That would explain a lot.

But then I see this comment in that facebook group and I am baffled: " He was taking pictures of female staff with his phone and tablet so Dr Now took them away while he was in the hospital. Eek!"

not baffled about what a huge piece of shit he is, but why pics of ladies? Maybe he's bi.

I definitely think he molested Justin!

Perhaps he was just taking pictures of the nurses to try and intimidate them. That makes sense, given how manipulative he is.

"There's a facebook group called "My 600lb life viewing and discussion room" that Steven Assanti has joined in and now women are throwing themselves at him!! "

How are they "throwing themselves at him?" Are they offering to have sex with him? If so, they're either crazy or think they can profit monetarily from their association with him.

They're saying they think he's hot and that they want to hang out with him and leaving heart emoticons.

He's hot? Some chick thinks he's hot? I just retasted my dinner. In what universe? Are broads so sex starved they'd mount all that thundering heap of blubber?

More FB posts please. They can't be real.

I'd love to oblige with screenshots but I got booted from the group a few days ago for saying that he is melded to his keyboard from a mixture of oozing fat and cheeto dust. Sorry.

No one in their right mind would consider him "hot." He posted a video of himself where he claimed to be eating his own shit!

I know there is always hope as long as there is life, but lord help me, it is hard to hold on to it when it comes to steven assanti.

I don't want to join the group because it's a bunch of people talking about their weight loss too and I don't care as I am not fat and would probably get kicked out like r328 if I didn't admit that fat is not caused by calories or whatever. I guess Steven keeps making new profiles and rejoining, here is a link to the page.

R317, the caption says that she suffers from lymphedema-- an incurable condition. She may experience some improvement with treatment, though. I hope so for her sake as it's a terrible affliction.

Making fun of the obese seems a bit mean.

Of course he's hot, carrying around all that weight.

I wanted to add that thin people suffer from lymphedema too. It can develop after surgery and radiation treatment for cancer. I was very worried about lymphedema following my own treatment for breast cancer but fortunately I seem to have escaped it.

Welcome to DataLounge, R333

Steven Assanti does Britney: "Ooops, I Gained More Weight!"

My humps!

r337 this is why people fucking hate him! There are fatties that can't get to Houston and get in with Dr. Now and this blob of shit mocks and doesn't stick to the program and thinks it's cute. Ugh, he's so vile.

Miss Assanti (if you nasty) can really move her hips.

Why would he post videos of himself behaving like a retard, showing off his grotesque body, jiggling his blubber and pretending to eat his own shit? Because he's a self-centered narcissist who craves attention and will anything to get it. This asshole should be locked away in a mental institution for the rest of his miserable life.

He could be R341's cellie

Who support$ him? The taxpayer? Rent, food, medical? Did he ever get the surgery? I never laughed so hard seeing the golf cart flop.

And he can't get any attention in the outside world so he films and posts his childish sick shenanigans pretending it's a real life.

OMG!

R345 He can tran; already has the titties, and the dick is hidden.

Hello, bitches! Are you jealous of me yet? I'm practically disappearing!

r347 I'm not jealous of that nose, the thinner your face gets the worse it looks

His nose looks like a pig snout.

No one thinks this cretin is remotely hot. He's an easy target. They are just trying to get with him for his money and fame. . Now that he's 'somewhat' famous, and has lost some weight, he's endorsing diet products. That's a billion dollar industry he can exploit. Ho's know he doesn't get female attention of any kind, so he's low hanging fruit for easy picking

He looks like a serial killer in that picture at R347. Deranged and evil. The guy is a psycho. No matter how much weight he loses he'll always be a psycho.

He’s back! Anyone watching the new episode? It picks up where the last one left off.

Tbh when I saw this thread bumped I thought he'd died.

Is Steven the one that "had an accident" and didn't even know it until he got out of the wheelchair and "mud" slide down his legs??!

btw, I wouldn't let Dr. Now hand me a Z-Pack! His office is in a disgusting strip mall and it looks like the LEAST sanitary place on earth. I just imagine those "nurses" grinding their Texas-sized farts into the chairs all day long when cameras aren't rolling.

Texas sized farts, BWAHha

I’ve wondered about his office before,too. It looks like it used to be a car dealership.

So, has the charming Steven lost any weight? What happened to his cat? Did he eat it? I think he loves every bit of attention he gets from being on a tv show, even though it shows him to be the most repulsive, repugnant, deranged idiot on earth (aside from Donald Trump).

Steven is gay, right? On the show his dad was talking about how when he loses weight he will meet a nice girl?!?!

Argh - I'm outside the USA and none of the torrent sites have the new episodes. I've got schadenfreude withdrawal!

Steven claimed he wasn't eating in the hospital and Dr. Now said sarcastically, "are you on a food strike?"

Amber alert!

At least years ago when there were side shows you didn't have to pretend to care about these people.

People were honest that it was nothing but exploitation.

I thought Amber always had a really pretty face. She looks good.

Steven's house is full of empty pizza boxes and 2 liters and rodents. Crossover opportunity.

R362, where in the world are her feet? How is this even possible?

This is Steven's thread, stop trying to make Amber happen

R367 = Steven. Have you had your daily XXL pizza yet? You know you get grumpy when your intake is below 12K calories per day!

PRINCESSSSSSSSSSSS, im calling the police

Glamorous, FLossy FLossy

Instead of performing dangerous surgeries, why not just send morbidly obese people to a rehab that only serves salads, water and vegetables? Lock them up, and keep them there for 6 months. Wouldn’t that be much cheaper and healthier than surgery?

R371. That would not work for most. They can't be kept against their will.

There are so-called 'fat camps' or 'fat farms' that use more PC names such as Wellsprings.

These facilities are voluntary and expensive. Most may not accept clients with extreme health conditions or largely bedridden.

If obesity kills, why aren’t these people DEAD yet?

I really would have appreciated a trigger warning before seeing that photo, OP. Have you no soul?

Many of these people are put into the hospital by Dr. Now to be on a supervised diet and exercise program. Steven was such a creep that he was kicked out of the hospital and we often see how delusional they are because they think that doing something passive like having surgery will cure them of their problems.

Is someone like Steven able to produce a boner or semen? I mean, he must be pretty backed up.

R376 I nominate you to crawl under there and find out

These creatures are no longer human.

These creatures symbolise our decadent society .

You vant to go to jail?

A woman or man might be willing to come over and give him a pity tug now and then, r376. Like that scene in “Johnny Got his Gun.”

I feel very sorry for those people. Food is the addiction that tortures you most.

Actually I think that’s krokodil, r381, you know, the drug that rots your extremities off?

What you gonna do with all that junk?

sorry, trying to find David Archuleta's hole

Omg, I’ve never laughed harder at any other thread.

Sorry if that's a stupid question, but why aren't these guys put in a coma and then drained of all the fat, cut off all the extra skin and then kept in a drug induced coma for awhile until the body managed to adjust to the new body (IF they really want to lose all the weight) and then practice to eat healthy and work out regulary? Is that too much stress for the body when they manage to make youtube / social media videos of themselves?

This is actually really heartbreaking. Imagine how bad off one is mentally and emotionally for this to happen.

I know this guy is known to be an asshole, but wow, just wow.

Some may want to track down this 2004 Australian film called Feed.

Are they tracking his progress for upcoming episodes, I wonder? Even if he gets skinny though, he'll still be an asshole.

steven is almost as attractive as "ow my legs" james

What is that shit on his legs?

OW MAH LEG!

This thread is too funny!

this queen got married.....to a woman?