This guy had an incredibly unhealthy relationship with not only food, but his mother. She fed him and enabled him until her death, then he passed shortly after. Depending on your viewpoint, he didn’t stand a chance even with Dr. Now’s help.
I honestly don't understand how/why when patients like this present to Dr Now, he doesn't have the authority to just put the son in hospital and ban all extra food, the mum can visit but she has to be searched for food, or she is banned from seeing him. Yes it's harsh but she killed him, he might have survived if these radical actions had been taken sooner. Obviously a huge tonne of therapy afterwards but the guy needed urgent intervention and I guessed he probably died but reading your comment still hit me like damn she actually killed him....
13:56 "We didn't feel comfortable putting him on a 800 Kcal diet" m'am your son is so large he could probably fast two full years under a doctors supervision only drinking water and taking multivitamins and would still be overweight or chubby
For several weeks at least but he still needs protein. It's necessary for any form of repair process in the body (cells, wounds, organ and tissue maintenance), immune system, hormone production (this also requires essential fatty acids from nutrition). Otherwise the body will start self-digesting in an unhealthy way. So he at least has to eat protein and necessary unsaturated fatty acids in addition to the vitamins.
@@FeuerblutRM dude is talking about starvation. by eating any amount of protein you will stop the process and body will just be malnourished(dude will be hungry af). If you drink only water after couple of days you will stop feeling hunger, body starts using fat cells to survive. You won't lose much muscle in 1-2 week of doing it and lose like 1 kilo per day. If you using protein might as well get TDEE and cut it by 20% and lose weight gradually to help the skin readjust. Man i've seen some pics of people that lost 100+ pounds fast and that is goddamn nightmare material with the skin touching the ground and everything.
@@bertranwalker Otherwise eggs, that has everything the body needs, except vitamin c but that you can just take a pill for. Yeah he might need quite alot but it has also 0 carbs so the body will use the fat as well, not only ''eating'' the muscle lol if some would think that it would at that weight. But ppl like this won't and can't change, especially with enablers like that, she should have been convicted to manslaughter imo, guess she got ''lucky'' dying before that. I don't fkn know why they even sign up for the show if this is how they will react, wtf did they think would happen? Dr. Now gonna give them surgery and then say ''goodbye and good luck''? lol
@@FeuerblutRM He could probably survive on fat storage alone. His body will produce ketones for energy and most amino acids can by synthesized from breaking down his adipose tissue
@@FeuerblutRMFor people with enough extra body mass you potentially only really need micronutrients and water. The current record that has been confirmed by medical science is 385 days and the person who achieved this didn't have any serious long term side effects from the fasting other than extra skin.
She didn't give him a gun, she gave him a grenade she pulled the pin from and didn't tell him she pulled the pin, that he should throw it a safe distance soon or what a grenade is.
@@anthonyernst999 Yes. Exactly. I'd genuinely blame the mother, yes he was an adult, but obviously stunted and who's fault is that.. Especially since she raised him into this eating habit.
Losing weight really isn’t hard once you get in a routine. It is a lifestyle change but it’s completely doable. Getting to 900# is just pure laziness on his part and enabling to the extreme on the mother’s part. Ridiculous 🙄
My boss is 55 years old. His wife started losing weight and he couldn’t let get her skinny without him. He was 265 and is now under 200 and back to his high school weight. He literally walks miles around our store everyday. It’s never to late to loose weight
I swear I know I give overweight people a hard time throwing their life and health away just by having a really bad diet but come on dude don’t give up on yourself. If other people are fighting to stay alive and loose weight trying that’s all that matters but I have no remorse for folks that just sit on their behinds all day and eat their day away everyday day and night it’s depressing I know it’s a mental factory but who doesn’t go through addictions? It comes in all forms! Hell I even deal with alcohol addiction…. But that’s just my two cents I’m slowing down drastically I used to drink everyday to literally once a month a beer reward to myself!
My husband is down 30 pounds and I’m down 45. We both cook fresh food at home now, even our own healthy twists on fast food favorites. I never thought I’d be that person. Every time I saw people losing weight I would think “I pray one day I can stick to it like they do”. Never give up, anyone reading this. Much respect to your boss and his wife. It’s difficult at 31, I can only imagine how hard it is being obese at 55. I don’t think my body would have made it.
Six months ago, I was 295 lbs. I ate out of depression, the convenience of cheap, unhealthy food and the lack of knowledge that I could change my eating habits with my own willpower and support from friends and family. As I am right at this moment, I weigh 262 lbs. I've only been on keto for a month and a half now. I'm barely saving any money due to the expenses I put into buying the food for my diet, but it's worth it just to be able to look down and see my own feet again. I was uncomfortable for a long time, but I feel like I can finally breathe again. Never give up on your weight loss journey! Be it friends(online/offline), family or partner, support is the biggest motivator. Let me be a friend that needs you to never give up, and never let your body control you.
Good job brother, stay strong, stay dilligent and disciplined. The more you train your body with the power of your mind and prove to yourself that your body is a slave to your mind and not the other way around. Try to fast more too if you find yourself on a budget, or try to eat cheap things like eggs and ground beef and most importantly try to do any sort of movement while fasting/keto. It massively boosts your bodies capabilities to burn fat when you do exercise and fasting/keto together. I believe you will reach your goal. Much love brother
Here a month later to ask how you're holding up! I was having trouble losing weight, then i got super sick and inadvertently lost weight (215 to 185)- im recovering physically, and using the weight i lost as a jumping point to get to my goal weight. Its been easier to get to moving, at least! Might as well try to make a negative into a positive, ya know :D I believe in you to stay healthy and on track to your goals, buddy!
Im wishing you luck in your journey, but allow me to offer a little advice. Keep up with your physician and have them run bloodwork routinely. Keto can be hard on the kidneys and weight can cause type 2 diabetes, which can go away after loss so watch your blood sugars if you can. And of course, water.
At some point we have to acknowledge that he’s also a grown man and is as equally responsible for his own predicament. Please do not neglect the fact that he still had agency in that relationship.
Seriously, just looking at him Dr Now probably knew he was O-cap already, yet I appreciate the psychology behind trying to intervene in a subtle manner.
I always try to remember this is the opposite of Anorexia. Compulsive over eating is still and eating disorder. No doctor would tell a severely, severely underweight person to go away and put on 100lbs with no help or support whatsoever.
Well yes and no. A lot of of these people cannot afford the intensive therapy and medical treatment they require. In my country Australia, there are few services for people with anorexia so they end up at home with family doing their best.
Odd enough, it's not exactly the opposite. Overweight people can get anorexia I think it's rare but still has happened I'd have to do more research for exact cases
At my heaviest, I weighed 630 pounds, and when I tell you everything hurts horrifically bad, I mean it. It was constant agony while waiting to die. I now weigh 220 pounds as of today, and hate thinking back to just how big I was. I was not an addicted eater, but instead suffer from a rare brain malformation, and the steroids needed to keep me alive then was also causing me to gain weight rapidly. The debilitating headaches I would suffer from would cause me to aspirate vomit into my lungs and end up with a terrible infection, coughing up blood and barely able to breathe. I spent most days either in the Emergency Room or admitted to the hospital being pumped with antibiotics and steroids. At that size, life was nearly impossible. You can hardly do anything on your own, and the care needed around the clock is demeaning and demanding, never mind the psychological issues and depression that comes with being morbidly obese. If anyone is looking to better their health and lose weight , try and make small changes that you can stick to instead of starting and failing a popular crash diet...
Thank you for sharing that, Jake. It sounds like you are in a better place right now and I sincerely hope that is the case. Congratulations on a significant weight loss. I’m guessing it wasn’t easy.
@@SquirrelWizard22 Thank you graciously for your kind words. It was anything but easy, but I much prefer the size I'm at now compared to before. It's hard to fathom just how limiting and debilitating being that obsese brings with it. You can not even put your own socks on when that big, and it ruined my mental health for a long time. Thankfully I have a good support system I'm incredibly grateful for. My main point to posting was to say that the pain is very real at the size, and every little movement hurts.
I think it's completely fair. He was a lazy glutton, never contributed to society, never had any discipline in his life. Natural selection allowed the consequences of his actions to unfold.
Completely disagree. That’s like blaming a child for not being able to do multiplications when they’ve never been taught math. He can’t fix what he doesn’t understand.
@@thehobbist5544 His perception and established comfort zone were corrupt. He realized there’s a problem but he didn’t have enough understanding on what that problem really entailed and what he needed to do to beat it…trapped in a loop. It’s culture and education. His mother killed him by fostering and allowing an unhealthy cycle. His agency wasn’t there. People like to believe it’s that simple but it’s not. This is why the military breaks you down, stripping you of your insecurities and problematic comfort zones, then builds you up to have new eyes, skills, and confidence.
Made her feel uncomfortable putting him on a diet but she was comfortable watching her son grow to that size. Disgusting. She failed him and it cost him his life.
@Alex.CulkinThey're both guilty. She failed as a mother, and he failed to see why he was so big, and never made an attempt to lose weight. That is on him. The fault of the mother is her enabling him.
@Alex.Culkin it's literally impossible for to her not to have as his mother she either let it happen or did something to make it happen, the fact they both reached that size shows she didnt try (or didnt do enough) to stop it
It doesn't matter how immobile you are, you don't get to 600lb or more unless you have an unhealthy relationship with food, period. I've met a lot of crippled people that are stick thin. It's just calories in vs out. If you're less active, eat less. Even if it means you feel a little rumbly in your tumbly now and again. It won't kill you to feel hungry.
I've lost 40lbs and I'm hitting a point in my weight loss journey where it's hard to keep going with the restricted calorie diet. Episodes like this encourage me to keep going lol
I work in healthcare. (Emergency Department) and I can promise you, morbidly obese patients use up incredible resources for one person. It’s not just detrimental to themselves, but these patients continuously come in and hurt staff from having to move them (and throwing out our backs) and having to make CRAZY special accommodations for scans. Thousands for dollars goes into the care of massively obese patients than you would think. Oh and 99% of them are demanding and expect compliance from staff 100% of the time or we’re fatphobic. (and ofc not just looking out for ourselves and our safety) I can’t.
I wonder if it would make a difference for some of these patients if they’re made aware that their decisions to gorge on food is not only hurting themselves, their friends, and their family, but also the healthcare workers who are forced to assist them? Imagine knowing you’re responsible for someone needing spinal surgery, all because of your overwhelming mass
I have been retired for a little while now. But at the hospital I worked at we didn't keep the bariatric beds in house. We had to call one of the companies to deliver the bed. Plus we needed the bed scale to get a weight. Most of the patients wouldn't help with their personal care either. You're so right about the resources.
I’m gonna guess no… As I’ve gotten to the point, I will tell them “I cannot perform that maneuver or I will hurt myself” and I am met with complete shock and anger most of the time. Unfortunately, I’m not willing to get hurt to prove my point LOL otherwise, they just don’t seem to get it
I had a patient the other day demand to be wheeled to the bathroom. In a huge gurney. Bc she didn’t wanna walk. Turns out, after telling her no…she grew legs and found a way to walk herself. When I say I CANT, I seriously mean it😂
You could be a little bit nicer. You are in healthcare, with that you need a bit of tact. I understand where you are coming from, but you’re kinda coming off as insensitive in these comments.
Depending what kind of "accident" he's talking about... Extremely obese patients have increased intrabdominal pressure which can push down so hard on the bladder that people experience incontinence, so they feel it then it just... Happens.
I had BED (binge eating disorder) I got help, took 3 years of therapy specific to the disorder. Went to a nutritionist who specializes in EDs, went to a nutrition group for people with EDs, Took ED personal therapy, and ED group therapy. The goal isn’t directly to lose weight, it’s to treat the disorder, but losing weight is a byproduct of treating the disorder. I lost 100lbs and I walk 2.5-3 miles every day with my dog and am able to dress how I want with pride and no self consciousness. I’ve never felt better or been more happy. It’s never too late to change- but you have to put in the work.
How did you deal with finding the right person to ask for help? Like did you tell your main doctor "I'm experiencing this. This isn't normal and I need help." Or did you have to try to book the appointment without a referral?
I also hit my largest weight this year too. 5’7” at 368 lbs in January. I also decided enough was enough so I’ve been on a deficit since then and am down to 315 💪🏻 currently my goal is 250 but I’ll be excited to be under 300 since I haven’t been that light since high school. Keep up the good work Ken!!
To be fair, telling him to eat 800 calories at home is setting him up for failure. If he actually ate 2,500 calories a day he would have rapid weight loss at that weight
@@megalou6567I mean sure but it’s not sustainable or realistic. The dude was never gonna be able to cut down that much with consistency even if he had iron willpower. Even when I was 110 lbs and disordered 800 a day was insanely difficult to maintain for more than 2 days. It triggers binge urges if anything.
Nurse here. This man has an addiction. He is not going to make logical decisions. He is physically and emotionally dependent on food. Addiction logic is not logical.
I watched this episode last night!!! I think his mom was a big factor in him not being able to lose weight. It's incredible how people can be this big. Biggest person they ever had on the show!
I’m thinking that he can’t get food unless she feeds him. So she could have stopped giving him so much. And if he called the police or something because she wasn’t feeding him, she can bring up the doctor’s orders
Yeah, in a case like this, there's always an enabler or something wrong in their mental state or their environment. Anyone with sane mind would someday stopped and think to change before falling deeper or getting worse and would have the necessary drive to push through in order to get better. Something like this won't happen overnight.
I remember this story. So incredibly sad. His MOTHER was to blame for his downfall. She died and then he died shortly after. He didnt really have a chance
Yes, the mom had a big role to play in it because when he asked for those foods, she should’ve said no you are on a 800 Aurier diet. I cannot get you that and if he throws a little hissy fit, then she needs to deal with it. But it is also, I hate to say it on him it is a disorder, but you have to have the willpower and the power to say in your head that you want to change. Obviously he did not want to change and I hate to say it ended his life. I have a friend who is 400 and something pounds. I always tell her she is beautiful the way she is, but I worry about her health. I worry about the health aspect of her being that weight not the looks and she is losing weight because she has to or else she’s gonna get worse And her health is going to get worse She’s lost like I think 60 pounds now because she had to have the willpower she had to be the one to change like I said, of course the Mom is to blame she was severely enabling him but I’m sorry we all can’t just put the blame on the mother
I was stress eating for a large portion of my life. I ended up at my highest weight of 280. When I met my significant other, I finally felt happy with myself and happy to be with him and starting eating less and less due to just that feeling of happiness. I didn't have that need to eat to make myself feel better. In a matter of a couple of months, I easily dropped 80 pounds, then shed off another 50. I'm now sitting comfortably at a 150, though you can still see the signs of where I was overweight (the loose skin and stretch marks). Despite that, I view it as a good sign of progress and a constant reminder to not let myself get that way again. Some people need those reminders because yes, your body does goes numb from all that weight. I can't feel my feet at all anymore, and that's the price I paid.
I have this relative that will eat a whole ice cream cake in one sitting. Drink a can of condensed milk like it's water, etc. I'm not getting involved anymore, and now her enabler says I'm "inhuman" for denying her "the only thing that gives her joy". I am not involved in her diet at all, but anything less than applause is perceived as "abuse".
It's honestly sad, it always seems like enablers like that don't have any boundaries in handing the people they're supposed to be KEEPING ALIVE. I'm very sorry for your family, it's a real shame...but just like any addiction, until they themselves want to change AND theyre able to get away from their enablers environment, theyll never get better.
30.000 calories/day? During battle of Stalingrad, people in the city had around 600 calories/day + severe winter, no heating, diseases everywhere, constant bombing and death for 6 months.
Maybe in 2012 when the show started that was impressive. It was supposed to be shock entertainment and a wake up call. Not a challenge for people to go "Six Hundred? Hold my celery."
5:21 He might have compressed nerves that cause problems with incontinence, but also if he’s eating that much every day, his digestive system is bound to be very, very unhealthy and that can cause issues. Imagine overeating that much, and the strain it puts on your stomach, pancreas, intestines, and everything else, but then also take into account the fact that when you overeat even to a more normal extent, it can make you sick because your body can’t handle that much food and it will expel stomach contents somehow to resolve the problem. He might also have pancreatitis, which can be caused by an excess of heavy, fatty foods, and sometimes chronic pancreatitis can cause bowel problems, but it can also just give you uncontrollable diarrhea. But also if you’re sick to your stomach at that size when you can’t walk or move on your own, accidents happen since you can’t just go to the bathroom.
As a former extremely obese person... this is a mental health issue... and ironically, losing the weight helped this issue... it's like everything is interlocking...
It would be nice if therapy was part of the treatment, since obesity is the symptom of a bigger problem. Doctors tend to look at obesity as the problem that will solve everything else if it's gone. The mental health issues will still be there, though.
My sibling is still denying that their weight is connected to all their health issues even though they can’t walk across a room without getting out of breath. It’s hard to see them continue on a path of self destruction and meanwhile hide behind the body positivity movement as an excuse to not change.
Conjoined triplets that are actually body builders, capable of deadlifting a truck. They eat 4,000 cal in protein shakes, milk and chicken breast. They weight 300lbs each of unadulterated gorilla-like muscle.
@@caitchri2426 honestly I think a lot of people are not aware that super bulked up men do eat a lot of carbs. Body builders tend to eat less carbs, but even they do bulking season that has a loooot of carbs. Its just that they use those carbs on their workout sessions and to maintain their muscles which expends 4000 calories instead of only expending 2500 calories a day with a more sedentary lifestyle. So saying they only eat chicken and protein shakes is a bit disingenuous.
@@Koselill I totally hear you. My gorilla triplets are human, they enjoy milkshakes on vacation. And their Italian grandma makes them pasta dishes constantly. They only go all-protein before a big competition.
This poor guy. He was so young and had his whole life ahead of him. I can't imagine being in that state at 26. I am also surprised they didn't keep him in the hospital
Dr. Now: is he on any diet? Me, watching this on my phone: yeah, a see-food diet, he sees food and eats it. Dane: HE'S ON A SEE-FOOD DIET. HE SEES FOOD, HE EATS IT
@feedsyoutube Oh, I concur! Just commenting when Ken said if he sleeps wrong his back hurts. Lol It seems as though it's true about hitting 40 and your body starts acting up lol
I started going downhill but sixty has done me in. Anyone who reads this it is never too late to make changes. I am trying let’s all be in this together!!!
As someone still trying to lose a bit more weight, this dude's easiest strategy would be to tell him, "If you want something to eat, you need to get up and get it yourself." The strain would keep him from getting up too often, and the calorie burn from even that level of activity would be substantial.
@@moder4228 How did you decide I meant 'unaided?' He has a wheel chair, and at this weight he might have a problem using a walker, but even the effort of getting into the friggin wheel chair and wheeling himself would be SOMETHING.
This is one of the few times where I think his mother is mostly to blame. He broke his ankle at age 16 and has been bed bound ever since. He has a few episodes about him and it becomes clear his mom is purposely overfeeding and enabling him. Dr. Now even called adult protective services on her at one point, though nothing reallu came of it. After she passed away he had zero life or survival skills of his own. He passed shortly after her.
Both are just as guilty as each other. The mother is guilty of enabling him, but as far as I can tell, he isn't mentally disabled. He failed to realise why he was obese, and never made an attempt to lose the weight until it was too late.
@TheNinthGenerarion yes. It's in place for vulnerable adults who may be at risk of abuse from family members or care givers. TheUK has similar. Ours is called adult social services.
I’m sure Dr. Now has been doing this for so long, he’s just sick of dealing with these people. He must be sick of the lies and excuses, the total refusal of accountability. That’s why he’s so harsh with them.
It's hard to feel bad for these people and i don't even work with them. I'm sure his sympathy is worn out at this point. U can't help someone who doesn't wanna help themselves
He used to be more soft with them in earlier seasons, but he was always a tough love kinda guy. I could never have him as my doctor cuz Im too sensitive 😂In the newer seasons he seems to snap at everyone a lot quicker though and its a bit exhausting to watch.
The 1,400 pound man was actually able to loose a lot of the weight. I can't remember the specific number, but it's considered the largest amount of weight lost by a single person. I felt incredibly sad for Sean. His mom was the biggest contributor to him not being able to loose the weight. If he'd been able to get away from her, he'd have had a much better chance.
The conversation about you two hitting your peak kinda woke me a up a bit, and watching this series is more than enough motivation for me to lose my weight, thanks for the amazing content
Man, thanks for mentioning Nizoral. I have been cursed with a very bad kind of dandruff for like 20 years of my life, and you mentioning the shampoo I never knew existed finally helped me! You're a legend, love you
260’s my worst as well. I’m 6’4” so I’m not that obese but I’m still a fat ass. Still hovering around 250/55 but losing weight’s not the biggest priority right now. I hope you get under 200z
It’s hard to feel bad for this family. The mother is a big factor in his demise in the end, especially with the fact that she admitted she wasn’t comfortable giving him a lower diet, even though she was told it’s to save his life not to starve him.
my husband's daughter got a life long injury in her back at 22 as a nurse student because a morbidly obese patient fell on her. i'm a bit biased with my dislike for people who let themselves get this far.
I'm almost 300 ( health reasons cysts on my ovaries cystic ovarian syndrome I think it called) I refuse to become like these people and I eat a really good diet I probably eat less then 1000 calories a day because sometimes I'm not hungry but because of the syndrome I have like a beer belly ( for a 25 year old it's not great) I walk my dog all the time and do stuff and are active I also have autism and I would hate to hurt someone. I know I am obese but I refuse to become a problem for others ( autism social anxiety and panic attacks not included because well I push though or try to I'm working on it)
@@lunine I feel for you and the medical and psychological problems you are dealing with, and wish you well. The thing is though, try to be more honest with yourself. Even with PCOS, you wouldn't be nearly 300 lbs on a daily diet of 1000 calories or less. You burn more calories a day just existing, without any physical activity.
@@lunineThat's not fat from eating too much, so you're not in the same class as the people on this show. You're in the class that if the medical staff don't want to deal with you, they should figure out how to help you. You're doing everything you can on your end. Ball's in their court now, as far as I'm concerned.
My cousin is a manager at a hospital, he’s not supposed to even touch patients. The fattiest needed him and all the security guys to lift them. He hurt his back, and has never been the same since. He has no respect for fat people. He knows there is no reason to be over 300lbs if you are 6’5”
it is simply amazing and horrible that someone can actually end up like this guy. i used to be a drug addict (11 years H free, now) and the amount of self-hate it takes to get to the point i was at and the point this guy is at is honestly heartbreaking. i hate to see stuff like this but i watch it to remind myself how truly blessed i am to no longer feel like this.
As a very overweight person from a family of such who grew up through the 90s and early 00s (so not the best diet times), who still struggles to get below the 260lb mark at my lowest, I do NOT understand how a human can even eat enough to get to 800 let alone 900-1400lbs?! The amount of food that needs to be eaten just to do that... I'm shuddering in terror, that's so much food I would out-and-out call mom's life-time treatment almost ab*se-like. I mean, the food has to have been pushed on him in such absurd quantities for so long I can only imagine its been an entire lifetime of no activity and horrifically large meals to get there. My mind is boggled... O_o
People really don't understand that binge eating disorder is a real thing. People have empathy for anorexics but not for people with other eating disorders.
@@danthemankhan why are you putting it in quotes? As an ED survivor, EDs are incredibly complex disorders, and there's much more to treating them besides discipline. It takes years of intensive therapy, rehab, refeeding, etc. to treat eating disorders. It's a diagnosable DISORDER my dude, that's literally the whole point. Open a DSM-5. Google is free. Don't judge what you don't understand.
@@annalupton9284 The supposed disorders that involve overeating are the ones that merely require discipline. The ones where a person can't keep food in their stomach without regurgitating it involuntarily are different, and may require medical treatment.
@@danthemankhanimagine food is heroin and your an addict. Now imagine a world where... You need heroin every day to live - but not too much Heroin is affordable & widely available 24/7 or even via delivery Advertisements for heroin everywhere Using heroin is a 3 times a day event You get offered it on a regular basis. You are confronted by it and have to say NO to it multiple times a day every day.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive Hard to do when you've been raised that way and treated like a child your whole life. He may have been 26, but he was definitely still a child. A child that, from an early age was misled by his mother. Poor dude never stood a chance.
That’s a grown ahh man. My parents used to over feed me as a kid. I was 275 pounds until I took my life into my own hands as an adult and lost 85 pounds
So, back in October of 2023, I was 385 pounds. After watching 600 pound life along the ways with this channel, I've lost down to 301. I don't plan on stopping my weight loss, and looking at these people's lives and how difficult they seem made me realized I should change before it became too late. Thanks for the inspiration Ken and Buff! Edit: Should mention, 1000 pound sisters and the Cinnamon Toast Ken videos surrounding it helped a lot too.
I made sure to visit you today because it's my birthday! Thank you so much for the well wishes 🙂 This was an apt birthday video for me because i've been overweight since i was born. It's a complicated thing when you have health conditions. I appreciate both of you because, while y'all do find humor, y'all are also empathetic and/or sympathetic towards large people and i can tell you really are rooting for them. If you ever wonder why some of these ppl behave the way they do i can probably tell you. I'm really glad for your happy birthday. My world is small but watching y'all makes it a bit brighter.
I recommend you check out some of his follow up videos, he goes on a complete rollercoaster! It's sad to see someone get like this because his mum enabled him so much and didn't teach him any life skills.
Checked up on him. Apparently, he lost 400 lbs. But then his mother died, and he started eating again and gained 300 lbs before his death, so he was maybe close to 800 lbs again. His death is listed as a heart attack due to infection. I wonder if he popped his staples (if that's the type of surgery he got) and got the infection due to that.
According to a quick search, Numerous complications from an infection, he passed away in February 2019 due to cardiac arrest. Apparently he lost around 400 pounds though, according to Bing.
@@jessilynallendilla5433 I see no logic here. A death from being fat is worse than a death from trying to lose weight? A death is a death and I don't see anyone winning here. The irony is that it's the infection from trying to lose weight that killed him. His mom died, so he would've lost weight naturally because he would have to get food himself.
@@jessilynallendilla5433 Let's hope he actually tried his best. Looks like his lifestyle still lead to his death though. No activity and all that overeating led to a very weak heart, so when he lost the weight and actually could move, his heart couldn't take the extra work. The fact that he wasn't talked to earlier is astounding, or maybe he just didn't listen before the show... But his life ended as it was going to. All of his and his mother's decisions led to what happened. Just a simple case of cause and effect. A concept that people just don't seem to understand anymore it seems... How sad.
tbh going from 6,000 calorie maintaining to 800 calories for a diet does not seem like a setup for success. That's like going from a normal diet to one apple slice.
The reason why food addiction is so hard is because you need it to survive its so easy to feel like its the end of the world when your only source of happiness is food
I deeply empathize with that. I'm a drug addict but I have had to be on opiates since I was a toddler due to disability. I cannot function without it. It's really hard to have to face your addiction multiple times a day and say no to the side wants you to abuse it. And I applaud the people who do it with food. Because food is EVERYWHERE too. You can't just put it away and not face it.
I hate that saying because it invalidates and minimizes your own struggles. Yeah, of course other people have it worse. But what's that got to do with me? We're all on our own journey, with our own struggles.
@@GmmBeast it's about cultivating humility and charity. Struggles suck but yeah _we all_ have them...what makes one so special anyway?? Life is too short to be all "woe is me" all the time
I hit my biggest weight at the end of last year too. I was 253 my new year resolution was to to drop some and since then I've dropped 30 pounds. You know I'm not going nuts with it but I dropped some calories and picked up some working out and it's made a big difference. Also these videos from you and Dane keep me feeling better about myself. Thank you! I couldn't actually stomach a full episode of my 600lbs life but your commentary is what helps.
As a person with Cystic Fibrosis, 2500 calories per day is what I'm supposed to eat every day at minimum, and I am underweight. That is nearly twice as much than what some men need and is hard enough to eat by itself for me. I don't understand how the hell anyone can eat 20K+ per day. That's insane. Especially if all you do every day is exist. ETA: I meant 2500 calories on top of what the average male my age needs while also living a relatively sedentary lifestyle. As in additional calories. My bad.
2500 is 25% more than an average man's daily minimum. If you are more active or bigger, or both you need more. I am on about 6000 a day as a collegiate wrestler and am still loosing weight.
Do you have much of an appetite though? My friends brother has CF and he used to hardly ever feel like eating. Now he's on new meds though he's been eating everything in sight.
*I should add, I just get on the treadmill during breakfast and during supper. Then it counters the calories I'm eating.* *I WISH that was the way it worked.*
Because that guy had no choice, he had to be somewhat active. Back in the olden days. He probably had some sort of gland issue that made him weigh so much.
Muscle weighs more than fat. The heaviest guy had both muscle and fat on his body. This guy was all fat. He's missing several hundred pounds of muscle.
@@danthemankhantrue that, even if you were rich, in those days it would have been much much harder to reach that much weight because they didn't have as much processed easy to access suger and saturated fat filled food like us nowdays. I also agree with the gland issue comment because usually eyes popping like those are an indicator for a thyroid issue but I have to admit im doing only an educated guess at that point as there should be alot more signs to check 1st
Angus Barbieri was an obese man who fasted eating only vitamins and water for over a year and lost all his weight with little to no health complications. so being worried about caloric intake when you are obese is completely unwarranted
true. there have been studys who had ppl not eating a single calorie over a timespan of 1 year and more. all supervised by medical staff and with vitamins and everything u need suplemented. they lost nearly exactly the amount of weigt calculated before. so if ppl say i just cant loose weigt its always makes me wanne slam the head against a wall.
I'd argue fasting would have been better than 800 cals daily. Starvation studies during war era showed that this is way worse on the body than no food.
how do they even have enough money to afford this amount of food, bro I crap my pants everytime I gotta buy food cause this sh*t so freaking expensive, I can't imagine SITTING ON YOUR BED 24/7 AND STILL EATING 20-30k calories a day like wtf is the government giving them more money than I make for them to do nothing?
Ken and Dane, I just want you both to know how appreciated you guys are. My heaviest was 315 pounds, and I am down to right at 200 now. You hurt SO MUCH when you carry that much weight on your body. I know both of you expressed some frustration with your weight, but it is possible to lose it! Remember you are doing it for yourself and your loved ones. Thanks for always making quality content - I can't wait until my birthday shout out in October! :)
I wonder if being so sedentary has caused nerve issues, making him harder to feel when something happens. My mom was 450 and there were plenty of times she didn't make it to the bathroom, she'd just walk around with a washcloth between her legs. That even continued after her bariatric surgery due to how much pain she had from carrying that much weight for so many years.
@@yofukashidayo Weird info I just learned there are two slightly different conversions when it comes to the unit of "Ton". There is a short ton (what United States and Canada uses). The short ton is exactly 2,000 pounds or around 907 kg. Then there is the long ton (used by Britain). The long Ton is 2,240 pounds or 1,016.05 kg. Seems rather confusing to me but the more you know!
@@11rossboss huh, that's definitely confusing but it makes sense for short ton being 2000 pounds, but long ton being 1,016 kilos is just weird.. Would've expected it to be exactly 1,000 kilos.
I hope people like this boost the confidence of some people who think they're "Fat" and refuse to eat. Because this is super sad. It sucks we live in a world of extremes. Many are extremely fat, extremely Skinny or extremely buff to the point where it becomes unhealthy
Its not "many" its just a vocal minority that gets a voice bcs they are basically a modern version of a freaks circus. The world doesnt have that many insanely obese people. But they do exist. Enough that a show like this can exist. Its just that "many" isnt the right word for it.
Unfortunately, for a lot of people who are on the opposite end of the spectrum this type of show isn't a confidence boost, more like horror porn. I'm mostly recovered from my ED issues (I still have days where I struggle, and admittedly having health issues that crashed my weight dangerously low and having to have constant weight checks and goals has actually helped keep me at a healthier, if still slightly under ideal weight), and I enjoy M6PL reacts videos. But I have to be mindful of how much I watch, who I watch, and my own mental space. When I recognize that first little ear worm of "oh god, I could be just like those people" I know I need to take a break from it for a while. A lot of low weight EDs have a huge component of fear around gaining any weight, and that fear normally takes the form of "any kind of weight gain will lead me to be fat/obese/morbidly obese". Even when I first started trying to gain weight back around 2 years ago I really struggled with the idea. And a lot of it was my brain thinking that the smaller weight was safer and better. There is a huge control component too, where your brain can't control everything, but controlling your weight is an easy and safe option even when it isn't. Watching M6PL shows what happens when people refuse to get that control back over what they eat in excess, so to someone with a low weight ED it becomes "if I relax even just a little bit, THAT is what MY BRAIN will lead me too, so I must control it all the time" even though in reality it takes a long time and conditioning/deconditioning for someone to gain that amount of weight (by that I mean that even the average person isn't going to ever spiral to 500+ lbs because your body physically says "STOP!" after a point. Your body deconditions to even allow someone to eat 10k+ calories a day without help from super calorie dense foods)
Yeah its super unhealthy... For me I watch this show because I think its interesting. Im overweight but I know I'll never be their weight, so its not to scare me not to eat... I decided to lose weight to fit into clothes better, not because I watched this show and went "omg if I keep eating I'll be 600lbs!! 😱" and the amount of people that say they use this show as motivation to not eat or lose weight is DISTURBING. I can guarantee most of those people have never crossed 300lbs... Getting complacent and just eating calorie dense foods can easily lead someone into the 200's, but to cross 300 your relationship with food has to be disturbed in some way that you should probably explore in a therapists office.. People who get to 600lbs have very serious trauma that they're controlling with food instead of therapy, just like severe drug addicts.
This guy had an incredibly unhealthy relationship with not only food, but his mother. She fed him and enabled him until her death, then he passed shortly after. Depending on your viewpoint, he didn’t stand a chance even with Dr. Now’s help.
Oh wow!!! That's insane.
god damn. that’s heartbreaking.
It reminds me of the horror movie "Thir13een Ghosts" with the "Great Child and the Dying Mother."
He would need years of therapy to undo his mother and his relationship with food, but he didn’t have that kinda time
I honestly don't understand how/why when patients like this present to Dr Now, he doesn't have the authority to just put the son in hospital and ban all extra food, the mum can visit but she has to be searched for food, or she is banned from seeing him.
Yes it's harsh but she killed him, he might have survived if these radical actions had been taken sooner. Obviously a huge tonne of therapy afterwards but the guy needed urgent intervention and I guessed he probably died but reading your comment still hit me like damn she actually killed him....
13:56 "We didn't feel comfortable putting him on a 800 Kcal diet" m'am your son is so large he could probably fast two full years under a doctors supervision only drinking water and taking multivitamins and would still be overweight or chubby
For several weeks at least but he still needs protein. It's necessary for any form of repair process in the body (cells, wounds, organ and tissue maintenance), immune system, hormone production (this also requires essential fatty acids from nutrition). Otherwise the body will start self-digesting in an unhealthy way.
So he at least has to eat protein and necessary unsaturated fatty acids in addition to the vitamins.
@@FeuerblutRM dude is talking about starvation. by eating any amount of protein you will stop the process and body will just be malnourished(dude will be hungry af). If you drink only water after couple of days you will stop feeling hunger, body starts using fat cells to survive. You won't lose much muscle in 1-2 week of doing it and lose like 1 kilo per day. If you using protein might as well get TDEE and cut it by 20% and lose weight gradually to help the skin readjust. Man i've seen some pics of people that lost 100+ pounds fast and that is goddamn nightmare material with the skin touching the ground and everything.
@@bertranwalker Otherwise eggs, that has everything the body needs, except vitamin c but that you can just take a pill for. Yeah he might need quite alot but it has also 0 carbs so the body will use the fat as well, not only ''eating'' the muscle lol if some would think that it would at that weight.
But ppl like this won't and can't change, especially with enablers like that, she should have been convicted to manslaughter imo, guess she got ''lucky'' dying before that. I don't fkn know why they even sign up for the show if this is how they will react, wtf did they think would happen? Dr. Now gonna give them surgery and then say ''goodbye and good luck''? lol
@@FeuerblutRM He could probably survive on fat storage alone. His body will produce ketones for energy and most amino acids can by synthesized from breaking down his adipose tissue
@@FeuerblutRMFor people with enough extra body mass you potentially only really need micronutrients and water. The current record that has been confirmed by medical science is 385 days and the person who achieved this didn't have any serious long term side effects from the fasting other than extra skin.
She might not have pulled the trigger, but she handed him the gun.
she pulled the trigger for him.
He couldn’t even move she definitely pulled that trigger
She didn't give him a gun, she gave him a grenade she pulled the pin from and didn't tell him she pulled the pin, that he should throw it a safe distance soon or what a grenade is.
"He's not adjusting to his new diet." Lady he can't move!! You're the one feeding him oml.. 😂
His voice is higher than mom
I'd argue she killed him 🤷♀
@LeonieJMerry She led him to both of their deaths. He's very immature, and you can tell his mother never let him grow up.
@@anthonyernst999 Yes. Exactly. I'd genuinely blame the mother, yes he was an adult, but obviously stunted and who's fault is that.. Especially since she raised him into this eating habit.
Losing weight really isn’t hard once you get in a routine. It is a lifestyle change but it’s completely doable. Getting to 900# is just pure laziness on his part and enabling to the extreme on the mother’s part. Ridiculous 🙄
My boss is 55 years old. His wife started losing weight and he couldn’t let get her skinny without him. He was 265 and is now under 200 and back to his high school weight. He literally walks miles around our store everyday. It’s never to late to loose weight
That's great that he took her weight loss as motivation for himself instead of trying to sabotage her efforts.
I swear I know I give overweight people a hard time throwing their life and health away just by having a really bad diet but come on dude don’t give up on yourself. If other people are fighting to stay alive and loose weight trying that’s all that matters but I have no remorse for folks that just sit on their behinds all day and eat their day away everyday day and night it’s depressing I know it’s a mental factory but who doesn’t go through addictions? It comes in all forms! Hell I even deal with alcohol addiction…. But that’s just my two cents I’m slowing down drastically I used to drink everyday to literally once a month a beer reward to myself!
My husband is down 30 pounds and I’m down 45. We both cook fresh food at home now, even our own healthy twists on fast food favorites. I never thought I’d be that person. Every time I saw people losing weight I would think “I pray one day I can stick to it like they do”. Never give up, anyone reading this. Much respect to your boss and his wife. It’s difficult at 31, I can only imagine how hard it is being obese at 55. I don’t think my body would have made it.
@@mochimochi7669
This dudes hormones are off...his voice didn't break
My Stepdad is 67 and has lost 25 lbs.
Six months ago, I was 295 lbs. I ate out of depression, the convenience of cheap, unhealthy food and the lack of knowledge that I could change my eating habits with my own willpower and support from friends and family. As I am right at this moment, I weigh 262 lbs. I've only been on keto for a month and a half now. I'm barely saving any money due to the expenses I put into buying the food for my diet, but it's worth it just to be able to look down and see my own feet again. I was uncomfortable for a long time, but I feel like I can finally breathe again. Never give up on your weight loss journey! Be it friends(online/offline), family or partner, support is the biggest motivator. Let me be a friend that needs you to never give up, and never let your body control you.
Good job brother, stay strong, stay dilligent and disciplined. The more you train your body with the power of your mind and prove to yourself that your body is a slave to your mind and not the other way around. Try to fast more too if you find yourself on a budget, or try to eat cheap things like eggs and ground beef and most importantly try to do any sort of movement while fasting/keto. It massively boosts your bodies capabilities to burn fat when you do exercise and fasting/keto together. I believe you will reach your goal. Much love brother
I wish you all the best on your journey! You’re making fantastic progress!!! Keep it up ❤❤
Here a month later to ask how you're holding up! I was having trouble losing weight, then i got super sick and inadvertently lost weight (215 to 185)- im recovering physically, and using the weight i lost as a jumping point to get to my goal weight. Its been easier to get to moving, at least! Might as well try to make a negative into a positive, ya know :D I believe in you to stay healthy and on track to your goals, buddy!
Im wishing you luck in your journey, but allow me to offer a little advice. Keep up with your physician and have them run bloodwork routinely. Keto can be hard on the kidneys and weight can cause type 2 diabetes, which can go away after loss so watch your blood sugars if you can. And of course, water.
He should just count macros. Keto diet is kinda ruff on the body@@Hugh-Man0006
His mom died and then he died shortly after. So sad that he never stood a chance with a mom who enabled him in every way
Damn, that's a sad life.
At some point we have to acknowledge that he’s also a grown man and is as equally responsible for his own predicament. Please do not neglect the fact that he still had agency in that relationship.
He put the food in his mouth
So sad not finding "fat ppl jokes" nowadays on YT....ppl afraid of being reported 😢
They're both going straight to hell after they died 100%
The way Buff says "That thing said oh cap" has me in tears! 🤣🤣
Shouldve been OCrap
Not going to lie when I first glanced at it I swear it said "oh crap" hahaha
@@savannahsherry2778Me too lol
Oh crap, the machine gave up
Seriously, just looking at him Dr Now probably knew he was O-cap already, yet I appreciate the psychology behind trying to intervene in a subtle manner.
I always try to remember this is the opposite of Anorexia. Compulsive over eating is still and eating disorder. No doctor would tell a severely, severely underweight person to go away and put on 100lbs with no help or support whatsoever.
Well yes and no. A lot of of these people cannot afford the intensive therapy and medical treatment they require. In my country Australia, there are few services for people with anorexia so they end up at home with family doing their best.
Even before I looked at you channel, it seemed to me that you must be obese. Hopefully you can get it together and lose weight.
Just so happens that one is born from gluttony. Barely a comparison to make man.
Odd enough, it's not exactly the opposite. Overweight people can get anorexia I think it's rare but still has happened I'd have to do more research for exact cases
@@Steely420 Maybe go do said research before commenting it then?
At my heaviest, I weighed 630 pounds, and when I tell you everything hurts horrifically bad, I mean it. It was constant agony while waiting to die. I now weigh 220 pounds as of today, and hate thinking back to just how big I was. I was not an addicted eater, but instead suffer from a rare brain malformation, and the steroids needed to keep me alive then was also causing me to gain weight rapidly. The debilitating headaches I would suffer from would cause me to aspirate vomit into my lungs and end up with a terrible infection, coughing up blood and barely able to breathe. I spent most days either in the Emergency Room or admitted to the hospital being pumped with antibiotics and steroids. At that size, life was nearly impossible. You can hardly do anything on your own, and the care needed around the clock is demeaning and demanding, never mind the psychological issues and depression that comes with being morbidly obese. If anyone is looking to better their health and lose weight , try and make small changes that you can stick to instead of starting and failing a popular crash diet...
Congrats on the weight loss, I know how incredibly hard it can be!
@@msdeviantdizzy thank you kindly!
Thank you for sharing that, Jake. It sounds like you are in a better place right now and I sincerely hope that is the case. Congratulations on a significant weight loss. I’m guessing it wasn’t easy.
@@SquirrelWizard22 Thank you graciously for your kind words. It was anything but easy, but I much prefer the size I'm at now compared to before. It's hard to fathom just how limiting and debilitating being that obsese brings with it. You can not even put your own socks on when that big, and it ruined my mental health for a long time. Thankfully I have a good support system I'm incredibly grateful for. My main point to posting was to say that the pain is very real at the size, and every little movement hurts.
I have multiple sclerosis and so what I'm having exacerbation I have to take steroids and you could easily gain 20 lbs in a week
"This is so unfair" as he's being lifted into an ambulance by an entire football team. You can't help someone who doesn't want it. 🤦♂️
Caseoh’s son 😭
I think it's completely fair. He was a lazy glutton, never contributed to society, never had any discipline in his life. Natural selection allowed the consequences of his actions to unfold.
Completely disagree.
That’s like blaming a child for not being able to do multiplications when they’ve never been taught math. He can’t fix what he doesn’t understand.
@@anson.meadows How does blud not understand that needing to go to the hospital souly because of his size isnt good 😭
@@thehobbist5544 His perception and established comfort zone were corrupt. He realized there’s a problem but he didn’t have enough understanding on what that problem really entailed and what he needed to do to beat it…trapped in a loop. It’s culture and education. His mother killed him by fostering and allowing an unhealthy cycle. His agency wasn’t there. People like to believe it’s that simple but it’s not. This is why the military breaks you down, stripping you of your insecurities and problematic comfort zones, then builds you up to have new eyes, skills, and confidence.
His mom was such an enabler. I almost feel like she was a feeder
I believe that involves receiving sexual gratification from it, which I sure hope she isn’t from her son.
no, i believe she IS a feeder, letting someone get to 900+ lbs is just pure insanity, definitely a feeder..
Made her feel uncomfortable putting him on a diet but she was comfortable watching her son grow to that size. Disgusting. She failed him and it cost him his life.
@Alex.CulkinThey're both guilty. She failed as a mother, and he failed to see why he was so big, and never made an attempt to lose weight. That is on him. The fault of the mother is her enabling him.
I envy him
@Alex.Culkin it's literally impossible for to her not to have
as his mother she either let it happen or did something to make it happen, the fact they both reached that size shows she didnt try (or didnt do enough) to stop it
@@diosmiomangoGoodness, what is there to envy? He died before he made it to thirty and was physically unable to have his own life.
Of course you're doing this episode, because i chose to eat chips instead of workout..... nicely played Ken lol
LMAO fr enjoy those chips while u watch this
He's just keeping you honest
LMAO!!!
The one day I make the best cake I ever had in my life and ate half of it yesterday and am sick as hell today 😂
You’ll get i tomorrow. Moderation is A OK.
Imagine going to the doctor and they tell you "You might be the heaviest person alive right now." Jesus.
Dr. Now doesn’t sugar coat it. Probably cuz they’d try and eat it too.
Ill never allow myself to get this far gone. Whenever i pig out on food i think about ken and buff laughing at me for being on this show
Good motivator lol
Some people break legs or get in car accidents, and are immobile. For some people they don’t choose to just gain that much weight
@@MaKillahyou can't gain this much unless you overeat a lot. Don't be that idiot that makes excuses for other idiots. Don't be that person
@@MaKillah you get to 900 pounds by breaking your legs?
It doesn't matter how immobile you are, you don't get to 600lb or more unless you have an unhealthy relationship with food, period.
I've met a lot of crippled people that are stick thin. It's just calories in vs out. If you're less active, eat less. Even if it means you feel a little rumbly in your tumbly now and again. It won't kill you to feel hungry.
That mother killed her son, but died before she got to see the consequences of her actions. How sad.
I've lost 40lbs and I'm hitting a point in my weight loss journey where it's hard to keep going with the restricted calorie diet. Episodes like this encourage me to keep going lol
I'm proud of you, and you should be too 🫂🫂
That mother should be charged with child endangerment. Yeah he’s 26 now but this started at home as a child. Worst mother ever. Disgusting.
She's long dead now
@@ArinyaXoriGMVs He's dead too.
2019, yeah he dead already
They're both gone now
Im not religious
But i hope they're okay if there is something after you pass away
@MateoMPM Imma be honest, if her intentions weren't good, I'm questioning whether she's in heaven or not.
I work in healthcare. (Emergency Department) and I can promise you, morbidly obese patients use up incredible resources for one person. It’s not just detrimental to themselves, but these patients continuously come in and hurt staff from having to move them (and throwing out our backs) and having to make CRAZY special accommodations for scans. Thousands for dollars goes into the care of massively obese patients than you would think.
Oh and 99% of them are demanding and expect compliance from staff 100% of the time or we’re fatphobic. (and ofc not just looking out for ourselves and our safety) I can’t.
I wonder if it would make a difference for some of these patients if they’re made aware that their decisions to gorge on food is not only hurting themselves, their friends, and their family, but also the healthcare workers who are forced to assist them?
Imagine knowing you’re responsible for someone needing spinal surgery, all because of your overwhelming mass
I have been retired for a little while now. But at the hospital I worked at we didn't keep the bariatric beds in house. We had to call one of the companies to deliver the bed. Plus we needed the bed scale to get a weight. Most of the patients wouldn't help with their personal care either. You're so right about the resources.
I’m gonna guess no… As I’ve gotten to the point, I will tell them “I cannot perform that maneuver or I will hurt myself” and I am met with complete shock and anger most of the time. Unfortunately, I’m not willing to get hurt to prove my point LOL otherwise, they just don’t seem to get it
I had a patient the other day demand to be wheeled to the bathroom. In a huge gurney. Bc she didn’t wanna walk. Turns out, after telling her no…she grew legs and found a way to walk herself. When I say I CANT, I seriously mean it😂
You could be a little bit nicer. You are in healthcare, with that you need a bit of tact. I understand where you are coming from, but you’re kinda coming off as insensitive in these comments.
Depending what kind of "accident" he's talking about... Extremely obese patients have increased intrabdominal pressure which can push down so hard on the bladder that people experience incontinence, so they feel it then it just... Happens.
its gross but thanks for sharing, ive been wondering why so many obese people seem to have these issues
I had BED (binge eating disorder) I got help, took 3 years of therapy specific to the disorder. Went to a nutritionist who specializes in EDs, went to a nutrition group for people with EDs, Took ED personal therapy, and ED group therapy. The goal isn’t directly to lose weight, it’s to treat the disorder, but losing weight is a byproduct of treating the disorder. I lost 100lbs and I walk 2.5-3 miles every day with my dog and am able to dress how I want with pride and no self consciousness. I’ve never felt better or been more happy. It’s never too late to change- but you have to put in the work.
Good for you! Now that's putting in the work.
Way to go dude I’ve struggled with BED it’s a beast of a demon, not fun. Congratulations
Congratulations for overcoming your eating disorder. That's an incredible achievement 💜
I know we don't know each other, but I'm SOOO proud of you and you should be proud of yourself too! 🥰
How did you deal with finding the right person to ask for help? Like did you tell your main doctor "I'm experiencing this. This isn't normal and I need help." Or did you have to try to book the appointment without a referral?
"That scale said O CAP bro", I nearly choked on my apple, you know it's bad when the scale says "Mf aint real"
bro be careful with apples so many people died choking with them
@@Vanya_Ale31 And figs
FR I haven’t laughed that hard in a minute 😂😂
I love how u just had to include u were eating an apple. Pompous ass 😂
I also hit my largest weight this year too. 5’7” at 368 lbs in January. I also decided enough was enough so I’ve been on a deficit since then and am down to 315 💪🏻 currently my goal is 250 but I’ll be excited to be under 300 since I haven’t been that light since high school. Keep up the good work Ken!!
Update: I’m almost under 300, few days ago got to 301 🥳🥳
Contacts 🎉🎉🎉 I don’t know you but I’m proud of you!!
@@dandandaniel1 Congratulations! So proud!!! Keep up the hard work!!
That sounds very similar to me.
Congrats on the weight loss, that’s a big accomplishment! Wish you the best going forward
The mother was the problem. The admission to rehabilitation was the only option.
She’s a hypocrite
I'm baffled as to why they wouldn't send him to rehabilitation. If anyone needed it, it was him.
@@christinamarie6703They couldn't keep him there forever. He needed to just not be around her
To be fair, telling him to eat 800 calories at home is setting him up for failure. If he actually ate 2,500 calories a day he would have rapid weight loss at that weight
I was looking for this comment! I'm surprised he said 800...he's always said 1,200 at the very least.
It’s like locking a crackhead in a room with nothing but crack in it
@@Kitty666EmoGothhe prob told him 800 bc his health is so bad and he needs to lose weight quickly
@@megalou6567I mean sure but it’s not sustainable or realistic. The dude was never gonna be able to cut down that much with consistency even if he had iron willpower. Even when I was 110 lbs and disordered 800 a day was insanely difficult to maintain for more than 2 days. It triggers binge urges if anything.
@@astralsheepu7379 well staying the size he is isn’t sustainable either . This was a matter of life or death at that moment
Nurse here. This man has an addiction. He is not going to make logical decisions. He is physically and emotionally dependent on food. Addiction logic is not logical.
I watched this episode last night!!! I think his mom was a big factor in him not being able to lose weight. It's incredible how people can be this big. Biggest person they ever had on the show!
They both died... she fed him to death
It’s a sad story. When his mom passed he got even worse
I’m thinking that he can’t get food unless she feeds him. So she could have stopped giving him so much. And if he called the police or something because she wasn’t feeding him, she can bring up the doctor’s orders
what episode is this?
Yeah, in a case like this, there's always an enabler or something wrong in their mental state or their environment. Anyone with sane mind would someday stopped and think to change before falling deeper or getting worse and would have the necessary drive to push through in order to get better. Something like this won't happen overnight.
I remember this story. So incredibly sad. His MOTHER was to blame for his downfall. She died and then he died shortly after. He didnt really have a chance
That is really sad, 😢 at least they are together.
So she really did kill him in the end. Terrible.
@@Chris-b7z2hAre they? The mom didn't really have the best intentions.
Yes, the mom had a big role to play in it because when he asked for those foods, she should’ve said no you are on a 800 Aurier diet. I cannot get you that and if he throws a little hissy fit, then she needs to deal with it. But it is also, I hate to say it on him it is a disorder, but you have to have the willpower and the power to say in your head that you want to change. Obviously he did not want to change and I hate to say it ended his life. I have a friend who is 400 and something pounds. I always tell her she is beautiful the way she is, but I worry about her health. I worry about the health aspect of her being that weight not the looks and she is losing weight because she has to or else she’s gonna get worse And her health is going to get worse She’s lost like I think 60 pounds now because she had to have the willpower she had to be the one to change like I said, of course the Mom is to blame she was severely enabling him but I’m sorry we all can’t just put the blame on the mother
I was stress eating for a large portion of my life. I ended up at my highest weight of 280. When I met my significant other, I finally felt happy with myself and happy to be with him and starting eating less and less due to just that feeling of happiness. I didn't have that need to eat to make myself feel better. In a matter of a couple of months, I easily dropped 80 pounds, then shed off another 50. I'm now sitting comfortably at a 150, though you can still see the signs of where I was overweight (the loose skin and stretch marks). Despite that, I view it as a good sign of progress and a constant reminder to not let myself get that way again. Some people need those reminders because yes, your body does goes numb from all that weight. I can't feel my feet at all anymore, and that's the price I paid.
Did you ever get checked for diabetes as a possible cause of the foot numbness?
Regardless, that is amazing!
That scale said “GET OFF!” 😂
The scale was like "One at a time! One at a time!"
RED LINE! He red lined the scale! 😱😂
"I can't breathe"
The scale even malfunctioned, it didn’t display the “n;”
*NO CAP*
It was so confused instead of o crap it was o cap 😂😂😂😂
I have this relative that will eat a whole ice cream cake in one sitting. Drink a can of condensed milk like it's water, etc. I'm not getting involved anymore, and now her enabler says I'm "inhuman" for denying her "the only thing that gives her joy". I am not involved in her diet at all, but anything less than applause is perceived as "abuse".
It's honestly sad, it always seems like enablers like that don't have any boundaries in handing the people they're supposed to be KEEPING ALIVE. I'm very sorry for your family, it's a real shame...but just like any addiction, until they themselves want to change AND theyre able to get away from their enablers environment, theyll never get better.
Don’t blame you one bit for not wanting to get involved in that nonsense.
Condensed milk??? What😂😂😂I've never heard of that
@@taylorbechstein1681 You probably know it by another name. It's milk with less water, more fat, a TON of sugar. Almost a can of caramel.
@@taylorbechstein1681 it's a common baking ingredient, it has less water content. You can also get sweetened condensed milk.
30.000 calories/day?
During battle of Stalingrad, people in the city had around 600 calories/day + severe winter, no heating, diseases everywhere, constant bombing and death for 6 months.
what has that to do with this video??
@@dinkelberg2769 Self-pity
“My 600 pound life”
Weighs more than 600 pounds.
He would probably feel much better if he was at 600 vs 919.
Maybe in 2012 when the show started that was impressive. It was supposed to be shock entertainment and a wake up call. Not a challenge for people to go "Six Hundred? Hold my celery."
Just gotta flip over the 6
Majority of the patients weigh way more than 600 pounds or sometimes just below.
comes with 50% more!
the fact he alone; is almost as heavy as both amy and tammy, at their heaviest, combined weights….. i just have no words
5:21 He might have compressed nerves that cause problems with incontinence, but also if he’s eating that much every day, his digestive system is bound to be very, very unhealthy and that can cause issues. Imagine overeating that much, and the strain it puts on your stomach, pancreas, intestines, and everything else, but then also take into account the fact that when you overeat even to a more normal extent, it can make you sick because your body can’t handle that much food and it will expel stomach contents somehow to resolve the problem. He might also have pancreatitis, which can be caused by an excess of heavy, fatty foods, and sometimes chronic pancreatitis can cause bowel problems, but it can also just give you uncontrollable diarrhea. But also if you’re sick to your stomach at that size when you can’t walk or move on your own, accidents happen since you can’t just go to the bathroom.
As a former extremely obese person... this is a mental health issue... and ironically, losing the weight helped this issue... it's like everything is interlocking...
It would be nice if therapy was part of the treatment, since obesity is the symptom of a bigger problem. Doctors tend to look at obesity as the problem that will solve everything else if it's gone. The mental health issues will still be there, though.
I’m struggling with it right now I have been my whole life since I’ve been abused I’m praying for change 😢
That’s not ironic, it’s common sense
Poor mental health and whatever bad coping mechanisms each person develops to deal with those issues are always going to be interlocked.
My sibling is still denying that their weight is connected to all their health issues even though they can’t walk across a room without getting out of breath. It’s hard to see them continue on a path of self destruction and meanwhile hide behind the body positivity movement as an excuse to not change.
To put this into perspective this guy weighs more than an adult male grizzly bear
That's sick
Insane
8:40 “May I have something to eat?”
Immediately after he said that, I got an ad for Little Caesars.😂
TH-cam got some humor
You didn't put in a body fat percentage. The calculator probably thought you were analyzing 2 professional wrestlers.
You missing a number lol it’s more 3-4
Conjoined triplets that are actually body builders, capable of deadlifting a truck. They eat 4,000 cal in protein shakes, milk and chicken breast. They weight 300lbs each of unadulterated gorilla-like muscle.
@@caitchri2426 honestly I think a lot of people are not aware that super bulked up men do eat a lot of carbs. Body builders tend to eat less carbs, but even they do bulking season that has a loooot of carbs. Its just that they use those carbs on their workout sessions and to maintain their muscles which expends 4000 calories instead of only expending 2500 calories a day with a more sedentary lifestyle. So saying they only eat chicken and protein shakes is a bit disingenuous.
It defaulted to 15% body fat. FIFTEEN. Imagine being 600lb and 15%bf
@@Koselill I totally hear you. My gorilla triplets are human, they enjoy milkshakes on vacation. And their Italian grandma makes them pasta dishes constantly. They only go all-protein before a big competition.
This poor guy. He was so young and had his whole life ahead of him. I can't imagine being in that state at 26. I am also surprised they didn't keep him in the hospital
No joke watching these episodes with you guys has inspired me to loose almost 30 lbs in 6 months. Diet change is vital. Thanks guys. ❤❤
Dr. Now: is he on any diet?
Me, watching this on my phone: yeah, a see-food diet, he sees food and eats it.
Dane: HE'S ON A SEE-FOOD DIET. HE SEES FOOD, HE EATS IT
Same!
You connected on that one, the braincells found each other
Same !!
How about: He eats like a bird----All day!
same 😂
I just turned 46 and I wake up like, "What's gonna hurt today?" I swear. 😒
You are 46 and this man child is 26. He did it to himself, you didn’t do anything wrong
@feedsyoutube Oh, I concur! Just commenting when Ken said if he sleeps wrong his back hurts. Lol It seems as though it's true about hitting 40 and your body starts acting up lol
Yikes. There's things you can do! Please don't take this as normal for you! 46 is very young 💜
I started going downhill but sixty has done me in. Anyone who reads this it is never too late to make changes. I am trying let’s all be in this together!!!
I'm 47 I feel u
2:30 he's on all the diets all at the same time
As someone still trying to lose a bit more weight, this dude's easiest strategy would be to tell him, "If you want something to eat, you need to get up and get it yourself." The strain would keep him from getting up too often, and the calorie burn from even that level of activity would be substantial.
The problem was his mom feeding him. He was immobile due to his weight, so his mom was enabling him.
@@moder4228 How did you decide I meant 'unaided?' He has a wheel chair, and at this weight he might have a problem using a walker, but even the effort of getting into the friggin wheel chair and wheeling himself would be SOMETHING.
@@moder4228 'True but still.' If that doesn't sum up the modern age, I don't know what does.
This is one of the few times where I think his mother is mostly to blame. He broke his ankle at age 16 and has been bed bound ever since. He has a few episodes about him and it becomes clear his mom is purposely overfeeding and enabling him. Dr. Now even called adult protective services on her at one point, though nothing reallu came of it. After she passed away he had zero life or survival skills of his own. He passed shortly after her.
Is Adult Protective Services a real thing?
Both are just as guilty as each other. The mother is guilty of enabling him, but as far as I can tell, he isn't mentally disabled. He failed to realise why he was obese, and never made an attempt to lose the weight until it was too late.
@TheNinthGenerarion yes. It's in place for vulnerable adults who may be at risk of abuse from family members or care givers. TheUK has similar. Ours is called adult social services.
@@TheNinthGeneration1are you for real? Ever heard of elder abuse?!? 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Yes@@TheNinthGeneration1
I struggle maintaining my weight and you showing the TDEE calculator was an eye opener. Thank you
His toxic mother is a feeder who wanted him big so he’ll keep needing her to take care of him.
That mother is a loser. I couldn’t imagine my mother over feeding me so I have to depend on her all my life 😞
I’m sure Dr. Now has been doing this for so long, he’s just sick of dealing with these people. He must be sick of the lies and excuses, the total refusal of accountability. That’s why he’s so harsh with them.
It's hard to feel bad for these people and i don't even work with them. I'm sure his sympathy is worn out at this point. U can't help someone who doesn't wanna help themselves
And he should be harsh. These folks need it
He used to be more soft with them in earlier seasons, but he was always a tough love kinda guy. I could never have him as my doctor cuz Im too sensitive 😂In the newer seasons he seems to snap at everyone a lot quicker though and its a bit exhausting to watch.
Sadly he passed as well. RIP Sean we saw u trying after your mom passed. Now you are w/her RIP
The 1,400 pound man was actually able to loose a lot of the weight. I can't remember the specific number, but it's considered the largest amount of weight lost by a single person.
I felt incredibly sad for Sean. His mom was the biggest contributor to him not being able to loose the weight. If he'd been able to get away from her, he'd have had a much better chance.
Yep he lost like 950 pounds but sadly gained a lot after
@@kickstartfoxy4943 sadly not surprising
The conversation about you two hitting your peak kinda woke me a up a bit, and watching this series is more than enough motivation for me to lose my weight, thanks for the amazing content
Man, thanks for mentioning Nizoral. I have been cursed with a very bad kind of dandruff for like 20 years of my life, and you mentioning the shampoo I never knew existed finally helped me! You're a legend, love you
That lumber jack man is FINE
Thats what i said. I feel bad for him too
Ikr😫
260 has been my pinnacle. I’ve been on weight watchers for a month now and I’ve lost 12 pounds so far! 🎉 Trying to get down to 200 at 6’3”
260’s my worst as well. I’m 6’4” so I’m not that obese but I’m still a fat ass. Still hovering around 250/55 but losing weight’s not the biggest priority right now. I hope you get under 200z
That's great! You can do it! I'm also on a weight loss jorney. My goal is to lose 40 lbs.
@@I-must-scream thanks, down 20 as of today
Dr. Now is a great doctor. Straight to the point always lol
I cannot believe they didn't put him in a rehab facility with the physical condition of his mother. This is so sad.
They did in the where are they now and he lost like 500 pounds but the moment he was sent home he gained it all and more
LMAOOOO the super calm “no he didn’t…” DANE.
Stuff like this always makes me amazed at how much the body can withstand.
It’s hard to feel bad for this family. The mother is a big factor in his demise in the end, especially with the fact that she admitted she wasn’t comfortable giving him a lower diet, even though she was told it’s to save his life not to starve him.
oCAP had me laghin my ass off 😂 probably the machine dying from the weight screamin "oh crap!"
His mom didn’t want him to be independent. She was absolutely the culprit and over fed him so he wouldn’t leave.
my husband's daughter got a life long injury in her back at 22 as a nurse student because a morbidly obese patient fell on her. i'm a bit biased with my dislike for people who let themselves get this far.
I'm almost 300 ( health reasons cysts on my ovaries cystic ovarian syndrome I think it called) I refuse to become like these people and I eat a really good diet I probably eat less then 1000 calories a day because sometimes I'm not hungry but because of the syndrome I have like a beer belly ( for a 25 year old it's not great) I walk my dog all the time and do stuff and are active I also have autism and I would hate to hurt someone. I know I am obese but I refuse to become a problem for others ( autism social anxiety and panic attacks not included because well I push though or try to I'm working on it)
@@lunine I feel for you and the medical and psychological problems you are dealing with, and wish you well. The thing is though, try to be more honest with yourself. Even with PCOS, you wouldn't be nearly 300 lbs on a daily diet of 1000 calories or less. You burn more calories a day just existing, without any physical activity.
@@lunineThat's not fat from eating too much, so you're not in the same class as the people on this show. You're in the class that if the medical staff don't want to deal with you, they should figure out how to help you. You're doing everything you can on your end. Ball's in their court now, as far as I'm concerned.
@@SpookyscarySaygehard work is a nightmare for pots what you mean?? 😂
My cousin is a manager at a hospital, he’s not supposed to even touch patients.
The fattiest needed him and all the security guys to lift them.
He hurt his back, and has never been the same since.
He has no respect for fat people. He knows there is no reason to be over 300lbs if you are 6’5”
My all tine heaviest was 250lbs... I cannot even imagine how difficult and painful it must be to weight over 500lbs.
Let alone half a ton
i thought 920lb was a nightmare but when they said there was some guy name John in the 1900s that weighed 1400lb i was like no way thats possible
20-30k calories a day is wild. That's like 10-15 days of eating for me.
15-20 days for me
How do you eat that much, thats like 20 big mac meals a day
it is simply amazing and horrible that someone can actually end up like this guy. i used to be a drug addict (11 years H free, now) and the amount of self-hate it takes to get to the point i was at and the point this guy is at is honestly heartbreaking. i hate to see stuff like this but i watch it to remind myself how truly blessed i am to no longer feel like this.
As a very overweight person from a family of such who grew up through the 90s and early 00s (so not the best diet times), who still struggles to get below the 260lb mark at my lowest, I do NOT understand how a human can even eat enough to get to 800 let alone 900-1400lbs?! The amount of food that needs to be eaten just to do that... I'm shuddering in terror, that's so much food I would out-and-out call mom's life-time treatment almost ab*se-like. I mean, the food has to have been pushed on him in such absurd quantities for so long I can only imagine its been an entire lifetime of no activity and horrifically large meals to get there. My mind is boggled... O_o
aaaaand they've both since passed, so that's not so great. What a tragedy~ :(
People really don't understand that binge eating disorder is a real thing. People have empathy for anorexics but not for people with other eating disorders.
Perhaps it is because these "disorders" can be managed via discipline, which the "sufferers" lack.
@@danthemankhan why are you putting it in quotes? As an ED survivor, EDs are incredibly complex disorders, and there's much more to treating them besides discipline. It takes years of intensive therapy, rehab, refeeding, etc. to treat eating disorders. It's a diagnosable DISORDER my dude, that's literally the whole point. Open a DSM-5. Google is free. Don't judge what you don't understand.
@@annalupton9284 The supposed disorders that involve overeating are the ones that merely require discipline. The ones where a person can't keep food in their stomach without regurgitating it involuntarily are different, and may require medical treatment.
@@danthemankhanimagine food is heroin and your an addict. Now imagine a world where...
You need heroin every day to live - but not too much
Heroin is affordable & widely available 24/7 or even via delivery
Advertisements for heroin everywhere
Using heroin is a 3 times a day event
You get offered it on a regular basis. You are confronted by it and have to say NO to it multiple times a day every day.
You're absolutely right. You don't get to that size without having a severe eating disorder and trauma.
This poor kid.... His mother literally fed him to death
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive Hard to do when you've been raised that way and treated like a child your whole life. He may have been 26, but he was definitely still a child. A child that, from an early age was misled by his mother. Poor dude never stood a chance.
That’s a grown ahh man. My parents used to over feed me as a kid. I was 275 pounds until I took my life into my own hands as an adult and lost 85 pounds
So, back in October of 2023, I was 385 pounds. After watching 600 pound life along the ways with this channel, I've lost down to 301. I don't plan on stopping my weight loss, and looking at these people's lives and how difficult they seem made me realized I should change before it became too late. Thanks for the inspiration Ken and Buff!
Edit: Should mention, 1000 pound sisters and the Cinnamon Toast Ken videos surrounding it helped a lot too.
Me: *sees 919 pounds*
Also me: *pushes Thai curry away* I think that’s enough for today…
I made sure to visit you today because it's my birthday! Thank you so much for the well wishes 🙂 This was an apt birthday video for me because i've been overweight since i was born. It's a complicated thing when you have health conditions. I appreciate both of you because, while y'all do find humor, y'all are also empathetic and/or sympathetic towards large people and i can tell you really are rooting for them. If you ever wonder why some of these ppl behave the way they do i can probably tell you. I'm really glad for your happy birthday. My world is small but watching y'all makes it a bit brighter.
Happy birthday! My birthday is tomorrow 🥰
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a lovely day! 🎉🎂🎈
Happy Birthday 🎉 Hope you have a great day 🎁
we didn’t feel comfortable following the advice of a renowned medical professional. okay. genius.
Mom really asked the doc what he should be eating. Well mom, if you just look at the diet plan that doc GAVE TO YOU.
I recommend you check out some of his follow up videos, he goes on a complete rollercoaster! It's sad to see someone get like this because his mum enabled him so much and didn't teach him any life skills.
15:18 Ken's reaction to the mom saying "good" kills me 😂
Bullshit expression
Checked up on him. Apparently, he lost 400 lbs. But then his mother died, and he started eating again and gained 300 lbs before his death, so he was maybe close to 800 lbs again. His death is listed as a heart attack due to infection. I wonder if he popped his staples (if that's the type of surgery he got) and got the infection due to that.
According to a quick search,
Numerous complications from an infection, he passed away in February 2019 due to cardiac arrest. Apparently he lost around 400 pounds though, according to Bing.
at least he died fighting
@@jessilynallendilla5433 I see no logic here. A death from being fat is worse than a death from trying to lose weight? A death is a death and I don't see anyone winning here. The irony is that it's the infection from trying to lose weight that killed him. His mom died, so he would've lost weight naturally because he would have to get food himself.
@@jessilynallendilla5433 Let's hope he actually tried his best. Looks like his lifestyle still lead to his death though. No activity and all that overeating led to a very weak heart, so when he lost the weight and actually could move, his heart couldn't take the extra work. The fact that he wasn't talked to earlier is astounding, or maybe he just didn't listen before the show... But his life ended as it was going to. All of his and his mother's decisions led to what happened. Just a simple case of cause and effect. A concept that people just don't seem to understand anymore it seems... How sad.
tbh going from 6,000 calorie maintaining to 800 calories for a diet does not seem like a setup for success. That's like going from a normal diet to one apple slice.
I have health issues and if im even a few pounds overweight i feel awful, you cant tell me no "healthy at any size" nonsense
The reason why food addiction is so hard is because you need it to survive its so easy to feel like its the end of the world when your only source of happiness is food
I deeply empathize with that.
I'm a drug addict but I have had to be on opiates since I was a toddler due to disability. I cannot function without it.
It's really hard to have to face your addiction multiple times a day and say no to the side wants you to abuse it. And I applaud the people who do it with food. Because food is EVERYWHERE too. You can't just put it away and not face it.
The happiness addiction.
Baffles me people this big think theyll starve to death. A dude this size, LITERALLY wont starve to death for likely months lmao.
Just a quick reminder, it could _always_ suck more
Count your blessings
I almost hate to say thats why I appreciate these programs. I wouldn't wish this anyone, but considering they are already recording it 🍿
@@demgphix my thoughts exactly!! Great minds and all...
I hate that saying because it invalidates and minimizes your own struggles. Yeah, of course other people have it worse. But what's that got to do with me? We're all on our own journey, with our own struggles.
@@GmmBeast it's about cultivating humility and charity. Struggles suck but yeah _we all_ have them...what makes one so special anyway?? Life is too short to be all "woe is me" all the time
I hit my biggest weight at the end of last year too. I was 253 my new year resolution was to to drop some and since then I've dropped 30 pounds. You know I'm not going nuts with it but I dropped some calories and picked up some working out and it's made a big difference. Also these videos from you and Dane keep me feeling better about myself. Thank you! I couldn't actually stomach a full episode of my 600lbs life but your commentary is what helps.
15:40 "What should he be eating? Protein??"
IT DOESN'T MATTER. JUST, LESS!!! 😂
As a person with Cystic Fibrosis, 2500 calories per day is what I'm supposed to eat every day at minimum, and I am underweight. That is nearly twice as much than what some men need and is hard enough to eat by itself for me. I don't understand how the hell anyone can eat 20K+ per day. That's insane. Especially if all you do every day is exist.
ETA: I meant 2500 calories on top of what the average male my age needs while also living a relatively sedentary lifestyle. As in additional calories. My bad.
Most men need minimum 2000 calories dependent on height and activity level…
2500 is 25% more than an average man's daily minimum. If you are more active or bigger, or both you need more. I am on about 6000 a day as a collegiate wrestler and am still loosing weight.
@nicholasneyhart396 how much do you weigh? I gave up wrestling in highschool
@@shararm 252lbs right now.
Do you have much of an appetite though? My friends brother has CF and he used to hardly ever feel like eating. Now he's on new meds though he's been eating everything in sight.
"oops I've had a little accident" he was probably expecting a fart and got a little more than he bargained for
Horrifying
As a wise man once said, we've all gambled on a fart and lost.
*I should add, I just get on the treadmill during breakfast and during supper. Then it counters the calories I'm eating.*
*I WISH that was the way it worked.*
Why did it look like the heaviest man ever who was just over 1000 lbs could walk and this guy can’t even sit up properly
Because that guy had no choice, he had to be somewhat active. Back in the olden days. He probably had some sort of gland issue that made him weigh so much.
Muscle weighs more than fat. The heaviest guy had both muscle and fat on his body. This guy was all fat. He's missing several hundred pounds of muscle.
@@danthemankhantrue that, even if you were rich, in those days it would have been much much harder to reach that much weight because they didn't have as much processed easy to access suger and saturated fat filled food like us nowdays. I also agree with the gland issue comment because usually eyes popping like those are an indicator for a thyroid issue but I have to admit im doing only an educated guess at that point as there should be alot more signs to check 1st
Wheat bread, leaner meat, fruit sugar smoothies, 1x healthily made candy and yes - it does matter. Splurge smart. SKIP. SODA. A. LOT.
It's amazing how much soda can screw you over. I REALLY need to cutback on it and drink way more water. Water does wonders from what I've seen.
Angus Barbieri was an obese man who fasted eating only vitamins and water for over a year and lost all his weight with little to no health complications. so being worried about caloric intake when you are obese is completely unwarranted
true. there have been studys who had ppl not eating a single calorie over a timespan of 1 year and more. all supervised by medical staff and with vitamins and everything u need suplemented. they lost nearly exactly the amount of weigt calculated before. so if ppl say i just cant loose weigt its always makes me wanne slam the head against a wall.
I'd argue fasting would have been better than 800 cals daily. Starvation studies during war era showed that this is way worse on the body than no food.
Not so fast. There are a lot of factors to it and just using one anecdotal piece of evidence does NOT prove your point.
Add protein and veggies. Thats the diet he recommends.
Fasting 24/7 is a horrible way to lose weight. You need to change your *mindset and eating habits* or the weight will just pile back on.
His mom is half the reason he's in this state. She should be ashamed of herself
how do they even have enough money to afford this amount of food, bro I crap my pants everytime I gotta buy food cause this sh*t so freaking expensive, I can't imagine SITTING ON YOUR BED 24/7 AND STILL EATING 20-30k calories a day like wtf
is the government giving them more money than I make for them to do nothing?
Ken and Dane, I just want you both to know how appreciated you guys are. My heaviest was 315 pounds, and I am down to right at 200 now. You hurt SO MUCH when you carry that much weight on your body. I know both of you expressed some frustration with your weight, but it is possible to lose it! Remember you are doing it for yourself and your loved ones. Thanks for always making quality content - I can't wait until my birthday shout out in October! :)
I wonder if being so sedentary has caused nerve issues, making him harder to feel when something happens. My mom was 450 and there were plenty of times she didn't make it to the bathroom, she'd just walk around with a washcloth between her legs. That even continued after her bariatric surgery due to how much pain she had from carrying that much weight for so many years.
Damn Ken, that sweater looks nice on you. That pale yellow with your dark hair and tattoos looks great.
I…didn’t even know a human COULD weigh a literal ton.
A ton is 2,000 pounds. So far no human has weighed a literal ton. I'm sure one of these guys will get there within the next decade.
@@11rossboss oh whoops 😬 I thought it was 1,000
@@ryanalexandra12971 ton is 1000 kilos so around 2 thousand pounds
@@yofukashidayo Weird info I just learned there are two slightly different conversions when it comes to the unit of "Ton". There is a short ton (what United States and Canada uses). The short ton is exactly 2,000 pounds or around 907 kg. Then there is the long ton (used by Britain). The long Ton is 2,240 pounds or 1,016.05 kg. Seems rather confusing to me but the more you know!
@@11rossboss huh, that's definitely confusing but it makes sense for short ton being 2000 pounds, but long ton being 1,016 kilos is just weird.. Would've expected it to be exactly 1,000 kilos.
I hope people like this boost the confidence of some people who think they're "Fat" and refuse to eat. Because this is super sad. It sucks we live in a world of extremes. Many are extremely fat, extremely Skinny or extremely buff to the point where it becomes unhealthy
Its not "many" its just a vocal minority that gets a voice bcs they are basically a modern version of a freaks circus.
The world doesnt have that many insanely obese people. But they do exist. Enough that a show like this can exist. Its just that "many" isnt the right word for it.
Unfortunately, for a lot of people who are on the opposite end of the spectrum this type of show isn't a confidence boost, more like horror porn. I'm mostly recovered from my ED issues (I still have days where I struggle, and admittedly having health issues that crashed my weight dangerously low and having to have constant weight checks and goals has actually helped keep me at a healthier, if still slightly under ideal weight), and I enjoy M6PL reacts videos. But I have to be mindful of how much I watch, who I watch, and my own mental space. When I recognize that first little ear worm of "oh god, I could be just like those people" I know I need to take a break from it for a while. A lot of low weight EDs have a huge component of fear around gaining any weight, and that fear normally takes the form of "any kind of weight gain will lead me to be fat/obese/morbidly obese". Even when I first started trying to gain weight back around 2 years ago I really struggled with the idea. And a lot of it was my brain thinking that the smaller weight was safer and better. There is a huge control component too, where your brain can't control everything, but controlling your weight is an easy and safe option even when it isn't. Watching M6PL shows what happens when people refuse to get that control back over what they eat in excess, so to someone with a low weight ED it becomes "if I relax even just a little bit, THAT is what MY BRAIN will lead me too, so I must control it all the time" even though in reality it takes a long time and conditioning/deconditioning for someone to gain that amount of weight (by that I mean that even the average person isn't going to ever spiral to 500+ lbs because your body physically says "STOP!" after a point. Your body deconditions to even allow someone to eat 10k+ calories a day without help from super calorie dense foods)
Yeah its super unhealthy... For me I watch this show because I think its interesting. Im overweight but I know I'll never be their weight, so its not to scare me not to eat... I decided to lose weight to fit into clothes better, not because I watched this show and went "omg if I keep eating I'll be 600lbs!! 😱" and the amount of people that say they use this show as motivation to not eat or lose weight is DISTURBING. I can guarantee most of those people have never crossed 300lbs... Getting complacent and just eating calorie dense foods can easily lead someone into the 200's, but to cross 300 your relationship with food has to be disturbed in some way that you should probably explore in a therapists office.. People who get to 600lbs have very serious trauma that they're controlling with food instead of therapy, just like severe drug addicts.