Man, i'm about 50lbs overweight, not even 200lbs probs about 180.... and I HAVE health probs! It's not my weight that is giving me health problems is sinus disease, asthma and i've been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue.... I can't even IMAGE how anyone thinks that being BIG or OBESE is positive! Like what???????????? I come from a family where there are or were obese people, my brother is a house prisoner, but OMG it is NOT positive!!!!!!!!!! STOP IT!!!!!!!!! Edit: I also have CPTSD from CA, SA and DV and I'm afraid of being around people physically... and EVERYONE would expect that I am lonely. I'm single over 45 and NEVER had a meaningful relationship.... but I'm not lonely, probably due to CPTSD.
@@kgty1295 Go for it! If you really wanna lose weight, remember that we support you! Health is the most valuable thing considering medical prices are literally insane these days💀Wish you all well in your weight loss journey!
@@s12_22g i don't feel like that's the case. You can have multiple best friends. I think it's pretty common for kids to be really close to their single parents and it's not unhealthy. My mom is one of my best friends and if we were in this situations (God forbid), i would feel similarly. You don't want the ones you care for to die.
@@s12_22g yes, it is sad. I have noticed a big change which happened sometime in the last 30 years. When I was in high school (1990s), if any girl had said “my mom is my best friend,“ that would have been admitting “I can’t find any friends, and that makes me a loser.“ In the meantime, values have changed, homeschooling has increased exponentially, and graduating teenage girls often say that their mom is their best friend.
She would've been 5 ish when her mom tried to commit suicide. How horribly traumatic for a child old enough to remember but still young enough that a parent is generally a HUGE portion of your world. I kind of hope her grandma was playing mom more, but still. I think anyone being present when another person kills themselves would be deeply traumatic, let alone someone close to you, and let alone when you're a child. So messed up.
The more I see these, it's incredibly obvious that weight loss and therapy together are crucial for success. You can't make someone do what they don't want to, and nothing will change until they change their mindset.
I had gastric by-pass at 19yrs old. Never really fixed the mental issue with WHY I am a food addict..Since food is easy and not as big stigma as other addictions, you get lost. You have so many people saying it's not that big of a deal. But when you are an addict your drug of choice is a BIG ISSUE. For me it was food. I had so many complications from the surgery and left with the long term issues as you age. Kept the weight off but have had to heal the mental part. It didn't happen until the food almost killed me due to over eating when physically I shouldn't have been. It needs to be treated with mental health addiction therapy, it's some people's drug of choice!!!
Absolutly. I'm a personal trainer, and I specialize working with obese clients. I always recommend therapy along side training. Can't fix the physical unless you fix the mental.
I know it’s unimaginable to me. I would go insane from not being able to move and knowing that food is causing it. I have the deepest sympathy for her.
That's so traumatizing to see your mom trying to take her life. I feel really bad for the daughter. Sometimes people don't understand that their addiction effect there love ones too. Is sad to watch someone you love dying slowly and you can't help them
I do bulking and cutting cycles. I went from 98 kg to 105 kg recently. I started doing a ton of a cardio ti cut again. I feel the 105 kg on my frame. How are you her size, and you walk up hills just fine.
The worst part is them not wanting to help themselves when they have strong evidence every second of being alive that this path they’re on keeps worsening
Her parents failed her. They shouldn't have used her to dig at each other. She needed as much counseling as her parents. As an adult, she's troubled but she's now responsible for her actions and the damage she has done to her kids and herself. How can anyone defend this?
I don’t know about that. She’s an adult. At some point you need to realize it needs to stop. Plus we don’t know there full story . They said they tried and she didn’t do it .
Someone failed them. Until we societally take responsibility to educate and care about people generational trauma gonna be ruining all progress we capable of.
@@flameron1 right, as an adult, you either want to change and make your life better or you don't. Being the victim is easy, but changing is hard. She was handed all the tools she needed for change numerous times and slapped them away because it was too hard. You can't force her to be better even for herself.
@@lolatank8328 Personally I can't look at the first woman from her shoes. I survived a childhood that even though I had an alcoholic father prone to violence, he was the least of my problems. In my case I got pregnant at 19, took one look at my son and swore I'd do everything to give him the childhood I never had. She looked at her child, then shoved more food in her mouth.
Holy_crap,_ she asked her young daughter to not call for help and what, sit and watch her mom die on the floor? If she had done what she asked that probably would've psychologically crippled her for life. That's so unbelievably selfish. It was selfish enough doing it where her daughter could find her, but to ask her to _assist in her suic*de??_ She knows exactly how childhood trauma caused by parents can ruin a person life, she was pushed to try to _end_ her life because of it. And she had just zero issues almost doing it to her own daughter
Addicts fully understand how their addictions affect the people around them. It's just the very nature of addiction that you feel helpless against the damage you are actively committing. I'm not excusing her actions but the amount that addiction and severe depression fucks up your brain is unparalleled in anyway I can ever explain. I'm just glad she got helped and I wish them both the best
Hey Michelle! I just wanted to say youve helped me so much. i was only 16 when i weighed over 200 lb at 5 feet tall and because of your videos i saw what could be. I was stuck in the fat acceptance movement and youve realy changed my life so thank you so much. I am 18 now, i started my weight loss journey 6 months ago, and im down to nearly 150. Working out is difficult due to anemia but your inspiration has pushed me to work as hard as i can. Im so much happier now and i feel better and all the health risks i had are now gone so thank you so much.
@@dantichri5t Thank you so much! honestly working out and substituting things like outshine popsicles instead of ice cream as well has limiting snacking really helps!
HungryFatChick saying "I'm just living... if you could call this a life" really made me feel so sad for her. It's so easy to judge extremely obese and say "just stop eating so much" but we really have no idea the level of depression, trauma, and dependency on food to feel good... it's just so sad and difficult to wrap my mind around how they must feel to the point that they don't even want to do anything about it. 😢
It is addiction, they hurt and feel so hungry when they don't eat and the more they eat the hungrier they get. Enormous amounts of insulin circulate their bodies which tells the brain to crave for carbs, especially sugary garbage in order to rise the glucose so that the insulin drops, but the minute that the glucose rises the pancreas starts producing more insulin which makes them again hungry and the brains tells them to eat again. It is a vicious circle, only with motivation and a complete 0% carb diet they can get out of it and always stay like that for the rest of their lives otherwise they will relapse
Right if you think about it, with heroin you still can use your body after detoxing which is about a month and PWDS up to a year. But that's like nothing compared to being extremely obese and trying to overcome food addiction. The "withdrawal" of losing all that weight won't happen in a month or a year. It'll be a lifetime struggle and all of the extra skin will almost always be a problem unless they get surgery. So I bet it feels so hopeless that they just keep eating, they don't see a light at the end of the tunnel.
@@WayneJohnson-rh7mf very fair point. I imagine someone in that situation probably feels "bad" physically and mentally most of the time so they're doing whatever it is they know that makes them feel "good".
Oh geez. Iv felt like this so often. I’m not obese but the “ what’s the point “ mentality can kill. Thank you for the reminder to keep pushing Michelle!!
I’ve had the same mind set too. But you’ll have some amazing days, those are your points. I’ve been through a lot but everyday I find something to be grateful for. Wishing you the absolute best in life, I believe in you
Samantha gives me the impression that it doesnt matter what situation she is in, she will always complain and act the victim. The lady desperately needs some serious therapy. She is a whole host of severe mental illness.
Couldn’t agree more! Nothing will change for Samantha until she changes her mindset. Life IS hard but, at a certain point, you have to want things to be better enough that you change. She might’ve lost weight due to the surgery but her negativity & victim mentality are the same. It’s a shame because her daughter, Bella seems a great girl & deserves better from her mom!
Came looking for this comment. She came off as extremely ungrateful to me. Doesn't seem like she wants to actually be happy, but would rather complain... Which strikes me as being way more sad and pathetic than being 900+ lbs
@@robertyeah2259 I never said she was a narcissist. She was unhappy and eating herself into an early grave, and now she lost weight she is still unhappy. I don't think it's a stretch to say the woman needs some therapy. I don't even know why that's such a bad thing to say. Should we be ashamed of therapy now? It's there to help you and she clearly needs some help to get into a positive mindset.
Making a suicide attempt via deliberate OD with your daughter in the house and proceeding to try and convince her not to call 9-1-1 because you just wanna be gone is probably one of the most selfish, scummy thing a parent can do.
I agree in some way, but also, having had a family member who took their life in front of his mom in a really terrible way and having thought about that a lot, I think people who are so desperate that they would do something that awful should be given more compassion and understanding, that they're in a mental place so desperate that they'd go to extreme lengths to end that pain. They're not in their right mind when that overwhelmed by despair.
I've dealt with binge eating disorder all my life. Diagnosed and all. When i was 14 i was 355 lbs and 16 i was around 400+ lbs. I managed to lose alot of weight. Im currently 20 in a week from now but Right now i weigh 289. Im going to make the marines weight requirement which is 215 and after recruit training im gonna be a combat photographer. Life isnt about what you've been thru its how you make a comeback.
As someone who had to “parent” my mother because of her mental issues, it’s probably one of the worst things you could do to your child. I never felt like I had someone to look up to or show me how to cope with my own problems. It’s really hard having a mother who doesn’t know how to be one
Sorry you went through that, I hope things are better and you have support ❤️ this is exactly why I won't have kids, I know 95% of the time I'd be a great mum but I've got way to many issues and it's not fair to bring child into that and traumatise them just cus my brain is pretty broken.
Out of all this morbidity, I am amazed at the amount of abused the human body can take. The fact that the skin can grow to that degree it's simply mindblowing.
Absolutely agreed. It always amazes me when I see bodies like this, just how much the human body can adapt. Plus the fact that Samantha could actually walk with all that weight. I’ve seen many people not even close to as big as her who were completely bedridden.
The thing I love about Michelle is that most of her content is always trying to give people the benefit of the doubt and trying to see the actual picture and side of e everyones story. And that is a major breath of fresh air.
Agreed. She doesn't sugar coat the situation or try to make these things seem good, but she humanizes the struggle by highlighting why people got to where they are and why it's hard for them to change.
Fr she comes from a kind, caring place. A place of true empathy since she's struggled as well. Definitely love how she approaches this issue vs other people I've seen.
And she does it all without being transphobic, misogynistic or homophobic. Which is truly a skill, considering how much fat acceptance loves to throw the marginalized communities affected by those beliefs under the bus by using them as shields for criticism.
One thing you aren’t talking about is how addictive “victimhood” is. The way she talks is very telling and clear that she is addicted to being the victim by saying she’s not a person that surgery will help. That there is NOTHING that will save her. She feels comfortable, as hard as it is for us to accept, with being the lost cause. She finds an almost validity in her victimhood. It’s a really sad thing because caring about her and showing her how sorry you feel about her situation actually enables her to keep it up. All her viewers and commentators are aiding her in her destruction which is very similarly to Eugenia Coonie ( However you spell her name.) She needs to take accountability and get offline!!!!
I think the term "learned helplessness" would be better in this case. A lot of people with mental illness, be it depression, personality disorders, etc. show this type of helplessness. There's this fundamental belief that no matter what they do, they won't succeed. No solution anyone could offer could actually work for them personally, because all they do is fail. Trying something new, or trying something over and over again, is scary and staying within your old patterns is comforting. It is very difficult to get out of this mindset. Not to say that you don't have to take accountability, but I felt like describing it as "being addicted to playing the victim" is kind of harsh and probably not entirely fair to their lived experience. This is coming from a person with depression who also experienced "learned helplessness" and first needed to understand what that meant before being able to find a way out.
@@thepearlygates9 I’ve lived with depression for over 20 years and anxiety my whole life. I know what that can do to people. At a certain age though if you aren’t purposely avoiding accountability you will learn from those around you, TV, books, etc….that you need to work on yourself. That something YOU are doing is the root cause of your unhappiness. At some point it becomes a matter of choice. Not saying that circumstances can’t make it even harder but I think we need to stop making excuses for everything. No….you can’t help mental illnesses but you can choose to get help. If you don’t then you are making the choice to stay that way. And I 💯% understand that it costs money but there are resources out there. There are even self help books that can help. It’s HELLA HARD!!!! But we have brains and the ability to reason so we can change things. There are always exceptions but I don’t believe she is one of those. I believe she is choosing to remain “helpless.”
@@SheenaRM I absolutely agree with you. My comment was just meant to say that I would like to phrase it in a more compassionate way as some people might have never heard of the concept of learned helplessness. Knowing what learned helplessness is does not mean that it works or should be used as a perfect excuse not to take accountability, it's supposed to do the opposite and help you realize that it's you who's holding you back, and that it's you who's refusing to accept help. For me it was a lightbulb moment back then when I understood how I chose to remain helpless. That's all really, and I'm on your side lol.
@@thepearlygates9 exactly, i am living the same situation with my husband he is getting fatter by the day but wont eat better and wont exercise and his breathing is heavy, i used to feel bad for him now i just cant, i was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and i had terrible body aches i was sent by my doctor to change my diet and exercise and mind you i wasnt big i am 5'8 and at my biggest i was 165, but that was enough to sent my joints into we are old mode at 30yo, so i changed my diet a little and went to exercise, it make it better, it is paying off i feel great now and look better but him even watching what i went through and how i pulled out of that cant do nothing but complain about how fat he is, criticize me for my reduce food intake meanwhile he eats like 7 or 8 whole breads at once.
@@ms.shineray That’s a tough situation and tbh….many people grow apart because of lifestyle changes. Sometimes there is nothing you can do to make them change. They have to WANT to change first. Good luck though. Hopefully he will find the strength and acknowledge his issues.
One of the reasons I still watch Amber Lynn Reid reaction channels is so that I always remember what I could become if I go back to eating like crap and not exercising ever. 600 pound life is my "well, at least my life isn't this bad," show. I recognize that's more than a bit dehumanizing for them, but it's still how I feel.
This isn't the same thing at all but this gave me flashbacks to this bully in highschool was in my friend group and when I was at the same party as her, she all the sudden went "someone tell me I'm fat and I'm gonna die alone so I don't eat" she was maybe 120 at MOST and kept repeating that until someone came up slapped her and told her she was fat and gonna get fatter if she ate. Looking back no wonder she was so mean to people cause she was mean to herself
i feel bad for her daughter...she will need therapy to deal with what her mother put her through...specifically the scene about her having to tell her mom about hope and her mom is giving up...
Thanks Michelle for being positive and inspiring. I've lost 130 lbs 2 years ago and I've been maintaining for 1 year. Your channel helps me fight and keep on going.
This is actually terrifying because I've been at the give up and die stage in a different way. Like the psychogenic death I don't want to eat sleep or shower kind. Like, rotting away and dying until someone physically moves you into the shower and douses you with cold water kind. It is horrific. It is so sad. I can't imagine what people who are using food to give up and die are going through. Maybe I can. I don't know. I'm inspired to try and seek help myself now. I've been feeling like giving up for so long but I just can't. I have a husband and a chive plant. I can't go yet.
It sounds like you could benefit a lot from working with a mental health professional - I genuinely hope you are doing better today and that you find something positive that helps you
I was in their shoes for a large chunk of my life (20s - early 30s), topping out at about 450 so I can absolutely empathize with their feelings of helplessness. It gets to a point where you're so large and you know the grim reality of being that size and I had figured that even if I did lose the weight it would be far too late, that all that damage was irreversible. I knew I was going to die and it was going to be a very slow and deeply unpleasant death. It was at the point where I didn't bother saving for retirement. To cut a long story short, since early 2020 I've lost over 200 pounds and while I still have more to lose until my goal, I now see it as a matter of 'when' and not 'if.' But what was most illuminating was visiting the doctor and getting a check up to find out that things were fairly...normal. I expected extremely high blood pressure, clogged arteries, diabetes, etc etc. For people who are morbidly obese and feel hopeless and that there's no future, never underestimate the body's ability to heal itself.
For whatever reason tests come back “fairly normal” and that is a death sentence. It made my dad think he was fine until he suddenly died at 450lbs. It’s not fine and if you think being that heavy isn’t a health problem you are lying to yourself to justify staying that way. Lose the weight to save your life- a heart can’t keep pumping when it’s overloaded with weight, test results don’t tell you that part.
F that hater. If no one has told you I'm really proud of you and congratulations on your progress. Many blessings on your journey. Very happy to hear you are safe and healthy!
I'm glad for you! Keep it up! You can do it! It is worth all your efforts! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 Edit: Really! I can’t imagine losing so much weight! You’re incredible!
@Ari NotSorry It was a bit unnecessary, although, it is true. Normal results do not necessarily mean you're out of the woods. It also says nothing about the other health issues which can come with high weight. The ones not often discussed. Things can change in an instant. People do miss that at times, especially, if they're not experiencing the more popular weight related issues like blood pressure or diabetes. People love to say "not yet" or "not me". These basic checks do not mean you're healthy and your weight will not become a problem if left unchecked. You can even be doing everything right, losing weight, and sadly, be out of time. Like the woman who lost so much weight, in the hundreds, and yet died early at 400 some lbs. I think she was like 800 some lbs at her highest.
Even though Sam lost the weight she’s still complaining. You have to change your mind set and thought process as well as your body. I don’t think she would have lost the weight without the show or surgery. Be grateful, get humble. Change your mindset. Counseling for past trauma? Addiction of any kind is so tragic. I wish the best for all who suffer.
After losing 70 lbs over the past year, i recently relapsed in my bed and have binged almost every day for the past month during a stressful period. Thankfully I've only put on a few lbs, but breaking the cycle is the hardest part. Reminding myself where I was/am headed if I continued helped me regain so much willpower. Only 2 days binge free, but I hope I can reach the triple digits again (I am seeing an ed specialist). This video came at the perfect time, thank you Michelle 🙏
You can do this. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for. Even on the days you feel the most down, know you are strong. I know it's easier said than done, but you got this.
@@turtleneck6197 Surprisingly, this video really helped kick me back into gear. I'm 2-ish months binge free again, and I've lost the weight i regained + a few more lbs, so I'm finally at a healthy weight after being obese for years!
i am so proud of you! And always remember when the binge gets you, when you put on much weight in a short period, thats okay but try your best to not waste the hard work! Its okay you just have some more weight to lose again! You got this
I totally understand their struggle. I currently deal with wanting to binge eat, which is AWFUL for me with Type 1 Diabetes. As a teen and my early 20’s, I would purge or skip insulin to make up for the binge. At 25, I was in the middle of a purge and my at the time boyfriend (now husband) told me I really needed help and begged me to seek it because he wasn’t going to stay and watch me destroy myself. The following Monday, I sought help with my current psychologist and she’s helped me deal with my food addiction. I am now at a healthy weight for myself and my A1C (average blood sugar over the span of 3 months) has greatly improved. This is why I believe therapy needs to be more accessible and ED’s need to stop being seen as a teenager’s/young person’s disease.
Samantha's childhood story reminds me of my sister. Our mother had some... issues. I just didn't eat much as a child, so I stayed skinny, and she approved. My younger sister ate more, so my mother would cut her meals short. In other words, she never got to eat her fill. What did she do? Of course, she defensively sneaked food whenever she could, over time she got chubby (never fat, just chubby), and my mother would berate her for it. 30 years later, I'm still skinny, my sister is overweight. Not much, just 5 or 7 kilos, but she always gets very defensive when someone talks about weight. Not her weight, just anybody's weight. She still thinks she has to fight just to be allowed to eat. My mother, meanwhile, credits herself for her timely intervention - if she hadn't cut my sister's meal rations short as a toddler, my sister would be morbidly obese now (that's what my mother believes). I personally believe the opposite. If my sister had had the chance to find a sensible, healthy way of dealing with food, she might be normal-weight.
I know older people who dealt with WWII shortages and have had hoarding issues with food and even plastic containers. Like, a huge kitchen drawer full of plastic containers. I have food issues because of my mom. She only ever cooked so much food and if you were still hungry, sucks to suck. She was constantly bragging about making a six person meal for less than $5. I struggled to find food suitable to bring to school. I wasn't allowed to cook for myself, I was supposed to cook a six person meal, even if I had just got home from an 8 hour shift of physical labour while she..... did not. Now I simply must have a stash of food in case I run out. Your mom screwed up big time. I hope your sister can work through it someday.
Thank you so much for calling out the body “positivity”, health, every size crowd. Body positivity started off with such good intentions back in the 90s, as it was intended to show that people with permanent disfiguration, scars, prosthetics, etc. could all be considered beautiful, and should have their chance in front of the camera. It has somehow now been warped into this extremely dysfunctional mindset - that obesity is beautiful and anyone who tries to lose weight must not love themselves. It’s anti-scientific and anti-hope.
4:00 "They wouldn't let me eat what I wanted." Proceeds to get up to 200 plus pounds by age 13. Yeah, I wonder why. Maybe your dad was actually looking out for your health unlike your mother. That's not toxic, that's called 'parenting'.
It’s hard when a caretaker is abusive and threatening, but actually has some good qualities/parents better in some respects, but then not in others. I had to un-learn and reverse a lot of the contrarian things I did because my dad had at one time been hard on me about it. It’s a hard and emotional pill to swallow to realize that someone who was abusive was actually right about some things in life, and then change your behavior accordingly.
@@AnaGfit23 its just hard to realise that certain ‘pillars’ in your life have actual flaws. i both dislike my parents as people but i’ve been able to forgive them for a lot of things.
@@pixystixwhoreI empathise. I hated my (psychologically abusive) mother for years, until I realised that she didn't _want_ all her four kids to hate her. She wanted us to love her, but had _no idea_ of how to go about it. It's possible to forgive ignorance; impossible to forgive malice.
I had a really bad depressive episode in 2022 and used good to cope. I had lost 50lbs in 2020/2021 and gained 40lbs back over the year. Back down 15.5lbs and hope I never get that heavy again. I was “only” 230lbs at my heaviest and can’t imagine getting up to 3/4/5/6 hundred 😭
I have a family member that is genuinely shocked that ppl think her weight of 400 lb is considered obese… she’s only 5’6 and always been on the bigger side but once she hit 400 she gave up. It’s unfortunate because her parents and siblings enable her.
I had gastric bypass surgery, i lost 100 pounds. My hair fell out too, my gall bladder also got blocked and i didnt know until it burst and i went into septic shock due to a massive infection gathering inside of the gallbladder it was so bad they had to do emergency surgery even though cutting into infected tissue is something they never want to do. Do i regret it? No. Its been almost three years now, my hair is still growing back in, it is a lot thinner than it was but it is slowly growing back in, i just cut it really short, and yeah my gallbladder went mental but it was a small price to pay for getting this enormous weight off of me. Im glad she got the weight off, i hope she continues, but the show looks like it helps people to us viewers but in reality these people are exploited at their rock bottom, also dr now is almost 70 years old, i think his time is done. The show doesnt provide any kind of aftercare or help, they get given a generic diet plan and a telling off, these people are addicts, unless you resolve the issues around why they eat and get professional help to fix their association with food, there is no wonder so many fail.
I feel so bad for her. Like, just better communication about her issues between both parents would've maybe gotten her the help she needed but we can't really blame her parents. Sometimes things just slips through the cracks and some people are just better at hiding or repressing their pain. We can look at cases like this though and do better in the future for our precious people 💜💜💜
Michelle! I've just found out I lost 37 pounds in my first year of weight loss!! I've been moving more while in my home. Keeping the place clean & smelling great. Thanks again for being one of the voices that keep me motivated & without excuses!
Michelle, I’ve been very glad since I found your page. I’m a skinnier person that finally eating better, I used to not eat enough to be at a healthy weight (not anorexic or anything, but I did fight and found it hard to eat anything, even if it was just one meal.) and my boyfriend is the opposite. Ever since I started working out and better and more, he’s wanting to better himself, and I wasn’t so sure on how to do that because I don’t deal with his binging problem. But your videos help me understand binging more, and what I may be able to do to help him get in a habit of slowly getting out of binging. We are at a very slow start for him, but I’m glad we are discussing on how we can start working on that, and I’m happy that I can start understanding his habit so I can support him along the way. Thank you for making your videos entertaining and educational🧡
Michelle, I just wanna say that you are one of the people who inspired me to finally get down to my healthy weight provided by my doctor. I've dropped the sweets not completely, but less than what it used to be. I'm consistently working out, and I'm happy to say 10lbs have left my body. Thank you.
Your videos were a motivation for me to reduce weight after my knee surgery (had a bad fall and had to reduce my weight), now I am still watching to keep my weight stable and never look back.
the way I do it is that I imagine food as enemies in a rpg than I use things like a diet plan as my attacks an spells are like therapy and stuff its strangely good
ahh this video hit me in the feels... i can relate so hard, except instead of food, it's drinking. the weird positivity we put on overindulgence is insanely toxic. it's not quirky, it's not healthy... i cant even remember the moment i went from fun party animal to.....alcoholic. i hope anyone struggling with any addiction, food or otherwise, finds a way out.
Michelle, watching your videos has changed my ENTIRE outlook on 'body positivity'. I can see how toxic and damaging it is to society, after hearing you speak about it. I don't want to give up on losing weight any more, and I don't want my daughter growing up thinking that obesity isn't a bad thing.
Seeing Samantha suffer so much and expressing herself about it really makes me think how fucked the fat activists/body positive movement are. I can already imagine how they'll deny this and most likely even bully people who are in Samantha's situation. Truly heartbreaking.
I had wls and lost plenty of hair, but now (two years later) my hair is thicker and healthier than it was before the surgery. It was very depressing brushing fist fulls of hair and not being able to keep much down for quite a while. But over all i'm glad i made the choice to get the surgery. 100+ lbs lost. Would like to lose 10- 15 more.
Wow I am so devastated for Samantha's daughter. -watched her mom's su*cide attempt and had to grapple with calling for help against her wishes -says her mom is her best friend which like, is cute for someone whose mom is a good role model but obviously not in this situation. As far as I can tell she can't learn a single good thing from her mom besides viewing her as a cautionary tale. -believes her mom's self-exploitation is empowering This poor girl will probably need therapy for the rest of her life to unpack all of this.
I always felt terrible for Sam Mason, it's obvious she was terribly depressed and it was traumatizing her daughter. But I'm glad she lost weight and is doing something to help her heal.
I'm currently overweight and at one point in my life I was saying to myself and anybody who asked me about my weight "We'll all die one day, what's the point of being hungry and tired after a workout when I can just eat what I want and be happy?" I used to be really skinny at 110 lbs for my height and when I started gaining weight I was really happy and the lbs just kept packing on. A friend recently asked me to join her morning workouts as she is overweight too and wants to lose weight and I was like no. But after a beach trip and I saw myself in my bathing suit I was like "No. I don't like how I look and something has got to change " and thus began my weight loss journey.
Good luck! Keep going, you will get there. I get what you mean by the 'hangry' comment, but I for one really hate it when I can't move as easily as I can when I'm close to my normal weight or get out of breath when I take the stairs. And I hate buying new clothes. Having a lower weight within reason is worth it.
For anyone wanting surgery your hair only falls out if you don’t upkeep your nutrients. My mom has the gastric sleeve and takes a lot of collagen, her hair fell out a bit at first but like i think once her body got use to everything it stopped but she still has to take collagen and all her other nutrients. You have to eat very healthy to get all the nutrients
I love your videos Michelle honestly I have been struggling with my weight all my life. However I am doing something about it. This summer I am hitting the gym and I am working on being more conscious about whatever I eat. Just want to say thank you for being honest ❤❤
These kinks are so harmful. People who are “feeders” are abusers. They’re helping someone end themselves. Having an addiction is difficult enough to get over, then add on making your money FROM your addiction and I don’t see how it’s possible. Imagine if someone got paid to take heroine and then having the will to stop. It would be a one in a million person who could manage it. I certainly couldn’t. I’ve had a couple addictions in my life (nowhere near as serious as hard drugs) and it took everything I had and more to conquer it. Barely possible and that’s without me getting paid or public adoration for it. Edit: hungry fat chick is the one fat person is that I feel bad for. She seems sweet and like a pure person who’s in a lot of emotional pain. I really hope she can get help.
I ballooned to 402lbs at my heaviest, my whole family is huge, and I learned to cope with severe childhood trauma (rampant abuse, including sexual) using food. I'm very ashamed of how I ruined my body and I feel like I've missed so much of my life hiding away due to a myriad of mental issues and embarrassment from how I looked. I'm still not at an ideal weight, but I'm not over 400lbs anymore. I'll take it. Baby steps.
while i have never been obese, i have always been slightly overweight. until i learned that there are other things in life that make me happy. not just eating. when i found other outlets for my anger and sadness i learned to gravitate towards those rather than food to make me feel good. Before i knew it, when i was feeling anxious or stressed i had rewired my brain to go for a walk/run rather than reaching towards food and i naturally lost 20 lbs without actually "dieting". I feel like its so important to teach others that we control our brains. our brains do not control us! The same way we can train a pet, we can train ourselves lol.
It’s been a year since I stumbled on your videos, looking for ways to exercise in the house. You really have inspired me to keep moving forward and not go back because cake definitely has a chokehold on me. I was 246 down to 189. Got about 25 more to go... It can be done people. I still eat cake I just don’t eat the whole thing at one time.
My grandfather was far from healthy type 2 diabetes, obese. My mom and I are not. It doesn’t run in families. My mom is thin while I’m more of an average weight.I remember when I was teen we went to Dennys he ordered the grand slam breakfast and was component he wasn’t loosing weight 🙄
She may not be taking the bariatric vitamins a person who had the surgery is supposed to take and that’s why she’s losing her hair. I had the surgery, lost an entire other person, in weight, and didn’t lose my hair. It started thinning when I didn’t take the vitamins for several months, but once I started taking them again, it started growing back (and thicker, curlier and healthier than I think my hair has ever been). My nails aren’t as brittle as they used to be, either. You can either buy the somewhat expensive chewable vitamins, made specifically for bariatric surgery and take about 4 of those a day (depending on the brand, it may be different) or take I believe 6 normal multivitamins a day (throughout the day), along with a vitamin D pill (it might have been 2- I forget). But, in order to get the vitamins and minerals we can’t get from food, due to the smaller size of the stomach and by extension, not having as much stomach acid to break down foods, we have to get those vitamins somehow, or things like hair loss, neuropathy and memory loss can happen, and can be permanent, if we don’t get the vitamins fast enough.
I doubt she takes the vitamins. She's not exactly someone who takes care of herself or even knows how. She looks sicker to me in her face after the weight loss. She's still as depressed as ever. Very sad. I wonder if she has other health issues that aren't being addressed? I know from experience that when something is really wrong medically people think fixing that one thing means everything's ok. It's not. for me I still have a couple of bad health issues that I don't know how to get addressed. I know these hopeless feelings they have.
Her comments section is so poignant and so tragic- so many people are genuinely begging her to save herself. And is she ignoring it? She KEEPS making mukbang videos. With ALR, she makes excuses, lies, etc, but over here you have this genuinely good but overwhelmingly sad person. I understand feeling alone and overwhelmed, but sooo many people are here for her and it hurts.
Another reason the body positivity community breaks my heart; they tell you that you are beautiful and perfect and healthy as you pack on the pounds . The second you start suffering because of these pounds they abandon you. Its horrible!
Sam and candy really show addiction comes in many forms - people who experience trauma and don’t get any support, usually avoid painful emotions and feel empty as a result. You then try and fill that emptiness with alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex or FOOD. Food is the cheapest and most accessible “fix” out there, so of course it’s a choice for a LOT of people. If you’re experiencing addiction my heart goes out to you, being clean is not easy and often feels much worse before it feels better, but learning healthy coping mechanisms to replace the addiction will improve your life exponentially! I really hope these women find something that works for them and can heal from their pasts ❤
Hi Michelle! Just want to say that I love your channel. I’m a new subscriber and have been listening to your videos while I do the SkiErg. I have a neurological disorder that impairs my lower mobility and suffered a severe foot and ankle injury after a fall in January. It was frustrating because last year I had made big gains in my mobility - though I never lost any weight. On April 23, 2023 I decided that there were no more excuses. There are plenty of exercises I can do from a seated position. Impaired mobility - whether it’s from an injury or from a neurological disorder - doesn’t stop me from making better food choices and counting my calories. Happy to say I’m 4.8 pounds down. Thank you for being real. ❤
Keep going you got this! I do sit down exercises when I can't get motivated to get up from my chair (depression). There's plenty of videos on RUclips for it!
I like how you’ve been adding yourself when you talk about people with binge eating disorder. I think it’s a way to remind people that you’ve been there, but that you can learn a different approach. When you keep it in the present instead of ‘I used to have binge eating disorder’, it reminds people that the struggle doesn’t go away when you lose the weight. And it makes you more “relatable “ (starting to hate that word). Just gives you a kinder vibe, even though I personally liked when your thoughts offended me. But I haven’t gone anywhere, so stick with this approach, it fits you and is effective. Just wanted to give you some props.
Hi Michelle, I just wanted to say I've been watching your videos for a while and I was always a person that ate a lot of food and was fat I had bariatric surgery I had the gastric sleeve. I lost a lot of weight and went down to about 110, but I'm at 135 now but I have no muscle and I was constantly telling myself I need to be skinny I need to be skinny in order to be happy. Yesterday I went to the gym with my fiance and I started to change my mindset. I went to a machine to do pull ups and I was able to look at the muscle definition in my arms and it got me excited for working out. Building muscle to be stronger and to be able to see some defined lines and not worry about my strength or my abilities is my new goal. I no longer think I need to be skinny I need to be skinny. I am now thinking I need to be strong. You have been an incredible positive influence in my life thank you.
You’ve inspired me to go on a weight loss journey. I’m only like 10 pounds heavier than I want to be but struggle with over eating sometimes. I downloaded an app to track my calories and my exercises and it really helps I’m down to 124 pounds wanting to get to 118 pounds and I’ve been consistently exercising and eating better than I used to. Very proud of myself I’m excited to see how I look in a few months
When I clicked on your video, my first thought was that you have a very pleasant voice! Now, after staying for the whole video, I also want to compliment you on your respectful attitude to the people you're discussing and their situations. You're realistic about it and don't sugarcoat anything, but you don't insult them and you give them the benefit of the doubt. That's a real breath of fresh air.
I have lupus and I struggle with taking showers some days due to fatigue and what it takes to do it and I’m only 135. I cannot even imagine or comprehend 800. My goodness.
Michelle, i just want to thank you for opening my eyes to so much so people having different opinions than me. I used to be very left, and then during COVID i became very right because i saw through it right away. Now I've realized that it is not good to be all in on either side. I'm pretty much right in the middle now. I credit a lot of that on you talking about different things from a more central perspective. I'm a Christian wife with kids and I've realized that just because that life has made me incredibly happy, that doesn't mean that life is for everyone.
I'm sure sam is feeling ten times better and keeps it up the real body positivity will come her way of it hasn't already with the real heartfelt comments of healthy change. And candy just posted a new mukbang for the lovely mc rib. I hope she can't get her head unstuck but you can hear the pain in her voice when she talks English she tries to pull it off and sound like everything's ok.
Check out the last upload! Junk Food babies
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Sorry if this crosses any lines, but are you having success with any of your family members taking better physical care of themselves?
@Michellemcd543 your personality is my favorite part of these videos.
Thanks sweetheart..
I love your videos ❤
I think nickacado is losing weight
Man, i'm about 50lbs overweight, not even 200lbs probs about 180.... and I HAVE health probs! It's not my weight that is giving me health problems is sinus disease, asthma and i've been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue.... I can't even IMAGE how anyone thinks that being BIG or OBESE is positive! Like what???????????? I come from a family where there are or were obese people, my brother is a house prisoner, but OMG it is NOT positive!!!!!!!!!! STOP IT!!!!!!!!! Edit: I also have CPTSD from CA, SA and DV and I'm afraid of being around people physically... and EVERYONE would expect that I am lonely. I'm single over 45 and NEVER had a meaningful relationship.... but I'm not lonely, probably due to CPTSD.
Losing 400lbs and still being in the 500’s is insane.
if i lost 100 pounds, i’d be bones in a coffin
@@pixystixwhore same
@@pixystixwhoreif I lost 100 pounds I’d be skinny 170 is the goal😭
@@kgty1295 Go for it! If you really wanna lose weight, remember that we support you! Health is the most valuable thing considering medical prices are literally insane these days💀Wish you all well in your weight loss journey!
@@pixystixwhore fr 😭😭
Bella brought me to tears. “ she didn’t want to live but it would’ve broken me. My mom is my best friend.”
@@s12_22g and the mom following her dads footsteps.
@@s12_22g i don't feel like that's the case. You can have multiple best friends. I think it's pretty common for kids to be really close to their single parents and it's not unhealthy. My mom is one of my best friends and if we were in this situations (God forbid), i would feel similarly. You don't want the ones you care for to die.
@@s12_22g yes, it is sad. I have noticed a big change which happened sometime in the last 30 years. When I was in high school (1990s), if any girl had said “my mom is my best friend,“ that would have been admitting “I can’t find any friends, and that makes me a loser.“ In the meantime, values have changed, homeschooling has increased exponentially, and graduating teenage girls often say that their mom is their best friend.
@decimusvitae yes she is more mature!
She would've been 5 ish when her mom tried to commit suicide. How horribly traumatic for a child old enough to remember but still young enough that a parent is generally a HUGE portion of your world. I kind of hope her grandma was playing mom more, but still. I think anyone being present when another person kills themselves would be deeply traumatic, let alone someone close to you, and let alone when you're a child. So messed up.
The more I see these, it's incredibly obvious that weight loss and therapy together are crucial for success. You can't make someone do what they don't want to, and nothing will change until they change their mindset.
True. It’s all in the mindset.
I agree, heal the trauma that helped start the addiction.
That was actually one of the earlier criticisms of "My 600lb Life" and im happy they changed it accordingly and now include therapy.
I had gastric by-pass at 19yrs old. Never really fixed the mental issue with WHY I am a food addict..Since food is easy and not as big stigma as other addictions, you get lost. You have so many people saying it's not that big of a deal. But when you are an addict your drug of choice is a BIG ISSUE. For me it was food. I had so many complications from the surgery and left with the long term issues as you age. Kept the weight off but have had to heal the mental part. It didn't happen until the food almost killed me due to over eating when physically I shouldn't have been. It needs to be treated with mental health addiction therapy, it's some people's drug of choice!!!
Absolutly. I'm a personal trainer, and I specialize working with obese clients. I always recommend therapy along side training. Can't fix the physical unless you fix the mental.
The first woman weighed 6 times as much as me at her highest. How her skeleton and organs can even support the weight at all is unimaginable to me
I know it’s unimaginable to me. I would go insane from not being able to move and knowing that food is causing it. I have the deepest sympathy for her.
That's what I don't understand. I don't see how the body can even function at that weight.
@@kirnpuyea I was amazed she was still able to get up and take some steps and even at least wash her hair on her own
Here I am 40 lb overweight and my knees are killing me. I cannot even imagine
These people could probably be Olympic athletes if they were healthy
That's so traumatizing to see your mom trying to take her life. I feel really bad for the daughter. Sometimes people don't understand that their addiction effect there love ones too. Is sad to watch someone you love dying slowly and you can't help them
I do bulking and cutting cycles. I went from 98 kg to 105 kg recently. I started doing a ton of a cardio ti cut again. I feel the 105 kg on my frame. How are you her size, and you walk up hills just fine.
I can’t imagine doing that knowing that I would leave my poor daughter behind!
The worst part is them not wanting to help themselves when they have strong evidence every second of being alive that this path they’re on keeps worsening
@@Skoopyghost she’s stronger than you dude, without that fat the musculature underneath could probably squat 500lb
@@Maki-00 her daughter is probably heavily traumatised for life because of the way Samantha has raised her :/
Her parents failed her. They shouldn't have used her to dig at each other. She needed as much counseling as her parents. As an adult, she's troubled but she's now responsible for her actions and the damage she has done to her kids and herself. How can anyone defend this?
I don’t know about that. She’s an adult. At some point you need to realize it needs to stop. Plus we don’t know there full story . They said they tried and she didn’t do it .
Someone failed them. Until we societally take responsibility to educate and care about people generational trauma gonna be ruining all progress we capable of.
@@flameron1 you look at this adult from your shoes not from their. It’s a part of the problem
@@flameron1 right, as an adult, you either want to change and make your life better or you don't. Being the victim is easy, but changing is hard. She was handed all the tools she needed for change numerous times and slapped them away because it was too hard. You can't force her to be better even for herself.
@@lolatank8328 Personally I can't look at the first woman from her shoes. I survived a childhood that even though I had an alcoholic father prone to violence, he was the least of my problems.
In my case I got pregnant at 19, took one look at my son and swore I'd do everything to give him the childhood I never had.
She looked at her child, then shoved more food in her mouth.
Holy_crap,_ she asked her young daughter to not call for help and what, sit and watch her mom die on the floor? If she had done what she asked that probably would've psychologically crippled her for life. That's so unbelievably selfish. It was selfish enough doing it where her daughter could find her, but to ask her to _assist in her suic*de??_ She knows exactly how childhood trauma caused by parents can ruin a person life, she was pushed to try to _end_ her life because of it. And she had just zero issues almost doing it to her own daughter
Addicts fully understand how their addictions affect the people around them. It's just the very nature of addiction that you feel helpless against the damage you are actively committing. I'm not excusing her actions but the amount that addiction and severe depression fucks up your brain is unparalleled in anyway I can ever explain. I'm just glad she got helped and I wish them both the best
@@idkwhybut... you can't make excuses for bad behaviour. What she did was really bad
@@Sarah.jimale I don't know if it's an excuse but an explanation of what's going on...
@@agravery223 explanation of being a horrible person.
@@Sarah.jimale They literally said "I'm not excusing her actions"...
Hey Michelle! I just wanted to say youve helped me so much. i was only 16 when i weighed over 200 lb at 5 feet tall and because of your videos i saw what could be. I was stuck in the fat acceptance movement and youve realy changed my life so thank you so much. I am 18 now, i started my weight loss journey 6 months ago, and im down to nearly 150. Working out is difficult due to anemia but your inspiration has pushed me to work as hard as i can. Im so much happier now and i feel better and all the health risks i had are now gone so thank you so much.
That's a lot of weight in 6 months! You're absolutely acing it :-)
@@dantichri5t Thank you so much! honestly working out and substituting things like outshine popsicles instead of ice cream as well has limiting snacking really helps!
Congratulations thats a huge achievement! 🎉❤
Congratulations!!! That's so amazing and I'm so happy you're focusing on your health. Keep it up!!
I feel like health at every size and body positivity is really toxic especially for teenagers who are already not comfortable with their bodies
HungryFatChick saying "I'm just living... if you could call this a life" really made me feel so sad for her. It's so easy to judge extremely obese and say "just stop eating so much" but we really have no idea the level of depression, trauma, and dependency on food to feel good... it's just so sad and difficult to wrap my mind around how they must feel to the point that they don't even want to do anything about it. 😢
It is addiction, they hurt and feel so hungry when they don't eat and the more they eat the hungrier they get. Enormous amounts of insulin circulate their bodies which tells the brain to crave for carbs, especially sugary garbage in order to rise the glucose so that the insulin drops, but the minute that the glucose rises the pancreas starts producing more insulin which makes them again hungry and the brains tells them to eat again. It is a vicious circle, only with motivation and a complete 0% carb diet they can get out of it and always stay like that for the rest of their lives otherwise they will relapse
Right if you think about it, with heroin you still can use your body after detoxing which is about a month and PWDS up to a year. But that's like nothing compared to being extremely obese and trying to overcome food addiction. The "withdrawal" of losing all that weight won't happen in a month or a year. It'll be a lifetime struggle and all of the extra skin will almost always be a problem unless they get surgery. So I bet it feels so hopeless that they just keep eating, they don't see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Who said you supposed to feel good all the time?
@@WayneJohnson-rh7mf very fair point. I imagine someone in that situation probably feels "bad" physically and mentally most of the time so they're doing whatever it is they know that makes them feel "good".
@@Chamomile369this.
Oh geez. Iv felt like this so often. I’m not obese but the “ what’s the point “ mentality can kill. Thank you for the reminder to keep pushing Michelle!!
You got this! I've also fallen prey in the past to the "what's the point" mindset. It gets better and you get stronger, I promise.
I’ve had the same mind set too. But you’ll have some amazing days, those are your points. I’ve been through a lot but everyday I find something to be grateful for. Wishing you the absolute best in life, I believe in you
Excuses excuses excuses. 😴
Samantha gives me the impression that it doesnt matter what situation she is in, she will always complain and act the victim. The lady desperately needs some serious therapy. She is a whole host of severe mental illness.
Couldn’t agree more! Nothing will change for Samantha until she changes her mindset. Life IS hard but, at a certain point, you have to want things to be better enough that you change. She might’ve lost weight due to the surgery but her negativity & victim mentality are the same. It’s a shame because her daughter, Bella seems a great girl & deserves better from her mom!
Came looking for this comment. She came off as extremely ungrateful to me. Doesn't seem like she wants to actually be happy, but would rather complain... Which strikes me as being way more sad and pathetic than being 900+ lbs
Anyone thats ready to diagnosis someone elses mental problems.. probably has a slew of their own they should be more concerned about.
I agree, she seems to be bitter and would certainly benefit from changing her mindset.
@@robertyeah2259 I never said she was a narcissist. She was unhappy and eating herself into an early grave, and now she lost weight she is still unhappy. I don't think it's a stretch to say the woman needs some therapy. I don't even know why that's such a bad thing to say. Should we be ashamed of therapy now? It's there to help you and she clearly needs some help to get into a positive mindset.
Making a suicide attempt via deliberate OD with your daughter in the house and proceeding to try and convince her not to call 9-1-1 because you just wanna be gone is probably one of the most selfish, scummy thing a parent can do.
I agree in some way, but also, having had a family member who took their life in front of his mom in a really terrible way and having thought about that a lot, I think people who are so desperate that they would do something that awful should be given more compassion and understanding, that they're in a mental place so desperate that they'd go to extreme lengths to end that pain. They're not in their right mind when that overwhelmed by despair.
I've dealt with binge eating disorder all my life. Diagnosed and all. When i was 14 i was 355 lbs and 16 i was around 400+ lbs. I managed to lose alot of weight. Im currently 20 in a week from now but Right now i weigh 289. Im going to make the marines weight requirement which is 215 and after recruit training im gonna be a combat photographer. Life isnt about what you've been thru its how you make a comeback.
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Good for you - I wish you every success!
Proud of you. Keep going.
If you've been fat all your life, you wont make it in the marines. Lmfao
never give up!!!
I always felt bad for HungryFatChick. I feel like deep down she does want to change but doesn't know how or think she can
It sounds like a heroin addiction or meth addiction. That's so sad.
She really doesn't deserve what she's going through. I hate that she's suffering because she seems like such a sweet kind person with a lot of trauma.
Ya think Nick caused some of this?
@Synthetic Teapot she abandoned her now grown kids with their grandmother.
They want nothing to do with her.
@@slurp447the only blame is herself she’s the one inhaling All that food nick wasn’t forcing her she did it herself
As someone who had to “parent” my mother because of her mental issues, it’s probably one of the worst things you could do to your child. I never felt like I had someone to look up to or show me how to cope with my own problems. It’s really hard having a mother who doesn’t know how to be one
Sorry you went through that, I hope things are better and you have support ❤️ this is exactly why I won't have kids, I know 95% of the time I'd be a great mum but I've got way to many issues and it's not fair to bring child into that and traumatise them just cus my brain is pretty broken.
Same
Out of all this morbidity, I am amazed at the amount of abused the human body can take. The fact that the skin can grow to that degree it's simply mindblowing.
Absolutely agreed. It always amazes me when I see bodies like this, just how much the human body can adapt. Plus the fact that Samantha could actually walk with all that weight. I’ve seen many people not even close to as big as her who were completely bedridden.
I used to be over 250 lbs overweight. I’ve lost most of it and life is so much easier is crazy. Sometimes it literally feels like I’m floating.
Ever saw a pregnant woman ;)
Michelle is an inspiration. I love her style and sense of humour.
She inpired me out of my sugar addiction and exercize more
Lost 10kg and counting
@@EstherHulst-Artist that's awesome!
Something i learned as an alcoholic/addict is you can't help someone who won't help themselves. One has to take the actions and want to change
The thing I love about Michelle is that most of her content is always trying to give people the benefit of the doubt and trying to see the actual picture and side of e everyones story. And that is a major breath of fresh air.
Agreed. She doesn't sugar coat the situation or try to make these things seem good, but she humanizes the struggle by highlighting why people got to where they are and why it's hard for them to change.
Fr she comes from a kind, caring place. A place of true empathy since she's struggled as well. Definitely love how she approaches this issue vs other people I've seen.
And she does it all without being transphobic, misogynistic or homophobic. Which is truly a skill, considering how much fat acceptance loves to throw the marginalized communities affected by those beliefs under the bus by using them as shields for criticism.
One thing you aren’t talking about is how addictive “victimhood” is. The way she talks is very telling and clear that she is addicted to being the victim by saying she’s not a person that surgery will help. That there is NOTHING that will save her. She feels comfortable, as hard as it is for us to accept, with being the lost cause. She finds an almost validity in her victimhood. It’s a really sad thing because caring about her and showing her how sorry you feel about her situation actually enables her to keep it up. All her viewers and commentators are aiding her in her destruction which is very similarly to Eugenia Coonie ( However you spell her name.) She needs to take accountability and get offline!!!!
I think the term "learned helplessness" would be better in this case. A lot of people with mental illness, be it depression, personality disorders, etc. show this type of helplessness. There's this fundamental belief that no matter what they do, they won't succeed. No solution anyone could offer could actually work for them personally, because all they do is fail. Trying something new, or trying something over and over again, is scary and staying within your old patterns is comforting. It is very difficult to get out of this mindset. Not to say that you don't have to take accountability, but I felt like describing it as "being addicted to playing the victim" is kind of harsh and probably not entirely fair to their lived experience. This is coming from a person with depression who also experienced "learned helplessness" and first needed to understand what that meant before being able to find a way out.
@@thepearlygates9 I’ve lived with depression for over 20 years and anxiety my whole life. I know what that can do to people. At a certain age though if you aren’t purposely avoiding accountability you will learn from those around you, TV, books, etc….that you need to work on yourself. That something YOU are doing is the root cause of your unhappiness. At some point it becomes a matter of choice. Not saying that circumstances can’t make it even harder but I think we need to stop making excuses for everything. No….you can’t help mental illnesses but you can choose to get help. If you don’t then you are making the choice to stay that way. And I 💯% understand that it costs money but there are resources out there. There are even self help books that can help.
It’s HELLA HARD!!!! But we have brains and the ability to reason so we can change things. There are always exceptions but I don’t believe she is one of those. I believe she is choosing to remain “helpless.”
@@SheenaRM I absolutely agree with you. My comment was just meant to say that I would like to phrase it in a more compassionate way as some people might have never heard of the concept of learned helplessness. Knowing what learned helplessness is does not mean that it works or should be used as a perfect excuse not to take accountability, it's supposed to do the opposite and help you realize that it's you who's holding you back, and that it's you who's refusing to accept help. For me it was a lightbulb moment back then when I understood how I chose to remain helpless. That's all really, and I'm on your side lol.
@@thepearlygates9 exactly, i am living the same situation with my husband he is getting fatter by the day but wont eat better and wont exercise and his breathing is heavy, i used to feel bad for him now i just cant, i was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and i had terrible body aches i was sent by my doctor to change my diet and exercise and mind you i wasnt big i am 5'8 and at my biggest i was 165, but that was enough to sent my joints into we are old mode at 30yo, so i changed my diet a little and went to exercise, it make it better, it is paying off i feel great now and look better but him even watching what i went through and how i pulled out of that cant do nothing but complain about how fat he is, criticize me for my reduce food intake meanwhile he eats like 7 or 8 whole breads at once.
@@ms.shineray That’s a tough situation and tbh….many people grow apart because of lifestyle changes. Sometimes there is nothing you can do to make them change. They have to WANT to change first. Good luck though. Hopefully he will find the strength and acknowledge his issues.
When I was younger I would literally put my 600 lb life on if I was thinking about binging lol
One of the reasons I still watch Amber Lynn Reid reaction channels is so that I always remember what I could become if I go back to eating like crap and not exercising ever. 600 pound life is my "well, at least my life isn't this bad," show. I recognize that's more than a bit dehumanizing for them, but it's still how I feel.
This isn't the same thing at all but this gave me flashbacks to this bully in highschool was in my friend group and when I was at the same party as her, she all the sudden went "someone tell me I'm fat and I'm gonna die alone so I don't eat" she was maybe 120 at MOST and kept repeating that until someone came up slapped her and told her she was fat and gonna get fatter if she ate. Looking back no wonder she was so mean to people cause she was mean to herself
I put them on at the gym for when the fatigue hits, gets me over the wall.
I put the fat activist reactions and my 600lb life on when I'm working out as motivation lmao
i feel bad for her daughter...she will need therapy to deal with what her mother put her through...specifically the scene about her having to tell her mom about hope and her mom is giving up...
New Michelle video drops while I'm on the treadmill? 😎 Let's go
Me eating a bowl of cereal and cookies: mmmhhh yes health is important
Me fishing inside my Mac Donald’s bag for my McGriddle: 👀 - “Wait no, I’m actually healthy, I swear! You caught me at a bad time….hahaha
@@Paia_art I'm fixing my moms convertible top on her old car.
I'm at the gym too, bicycling after a good upper body workout.😁👍 Yay for Michelle Morning Motivation!
I'm eating a pile of mini quiche lmao 😂
Thanks Michelle for being positive and inspiring. I've lost 130 lbs 2 years ago and I've been maintaining for 1 year. Your channel helps me fight and keep on going.
I know we have never met and never will, but genuinely, I'm really proud of you.
That's amazing and very inspiring. Good for you!
So proud of you!!!🎉🎉🎉
This story is really breaking my heart. Poor Bella seeing her mom that way. I feel so bad for everyone in these situations.
This is actually terrifying because I've been at the give up and die stage in a different way. Like the psychogenic death I don't want to eat sleep or shower kind. Like, rotting away and dying until someone physically moves you into the shower and douses you with cold water kind. It is horrific. It is so sad. I can't imagine what people who are using food to give up and die are going through. Maybe I can. I don't know. I'm inspired to try and seek help myself now. I've been feeling like giving up for so long but I just can't. I have a husband and a chive plant. I can't go yet.
It sounds like you could benefit a lot from working with a mental health professional - I genuinely hope you are doing better today and that you find something positive that helps you
I was in their shoes for a large chunk of my life (20s - early 30s), topping out at about 450 so I can absolutely empathize with their feelings of helplessness. It gets to a point where you're so large and you know the grim reality of being that size and I had figured that even if I did lose the weight it would be far too late, that all that damage was irreversible. I knew I was going to die and it was going to be a very slow and deeply unpleasant death. It was at the point where I didn't bother saving for retirement. To cut a long story short, since early 2020 I've lost over 200 pounds and while I still have more to lose until my goal, I now see it as a matter of 'when' and not 'if.' But what was most illuminating was visiting the doctor and getting a check up to find out that things were fairly...normal. I expected extremely high blood pressure, clogged arteries, diabetes, etc etc. For people who are morbidly obese and feel hopeless and that there's no future, never underestimate the body's ability to heal itself.
For whatever reason tests come back “fairly normal” and that is a death sentence. It made my dad think he was fine until he suddenly died at 450lbs. It’s not fine and if you think being that heavy isn’t a health problem you are lying to yourself to justify staying that way. Lose the weight to save your life- a heart can’t keep pumping when it’s overloaded with weight, test results don’t tell you that part.
F that hater. If no one has told you I'm really proud of you and congratulations on your progress. Many blessings on your journey. Very happy to hear you are safe and healthy!
@@eyork916you are so unnecessary right now she's talkin about herself not your dad. Get a therapist and leave people alone. thanks.
I'm glad for you! Keep it up! You can do it! It is worth all your efforts! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
Edit: Really! I can’t imagine losing so much weight! You’re incredible!
@Ari NotSorry It was a bit unnecessary, although, it is true. Normal results do not necessarily mean you're out of the woods. It also says nothing about the other health issues which can come with high weight. The ones not often discussed. Things can change in an instant. People do miss that at times, especially, if they're not experiencing the more popular weight related issues like blood pressure or diabetes. People love to say "not yet" or "not me".
These basic checks do not mean you're healthy and your weight will not become a problem if left unchecked. You can even be doing everything right, losing weight, and sadly, be out of time. Like the woman who lost so much weight, in the hundreds, and yet died early at 400 some lbs. I think she was like 800 some lbs at her highest.
"It's easier to stay addicted to something when it makes you money"
*Me, broke, looking at my Lego collection* 👀
Same. Lol
Omg this is geniunly the most relatable thing I have ever read
I'm shocked she could still walk at 900+ lbs
That’s a marvel and impressive
As a 260 pound male athlete I absolutely could not move with 700lbs on my back. She could have been an elite athlete.
@@champnotchicken4318😂
I thought my 350 lbs deadlift was impressive...900lbs, holy shit.
she had lived with her weight since childhood, so her body probably adapted to carrying unnecessary weight
Even though Sam lost the weight she’s still complaining. You have to change your mind set and thought process as well as your body. I don’t think she would have lost the weight without the show or surgery. Be grateful, get humble. Change your mindset. Counseling for past trauma? Addiction of any kind is so tragic. I wish the best for all who suffer.
After losing 70 lbs over the past year, i recently relapsed in my bed and have binged almost every day for the past month during a stressful period. Thankfully I've only put on a few lbs, but breaking the cycle is the hardest part. Reminding myself where I was/am headed if I continued helped me regain so much willpower. Only 2 days binge free, but I hope I can reach the triple digits again (I am seeing an ed specialist).
This video came at the perfect time, thank you Michelle 🙏
You can do this. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for. Even on the days you feel the most down, know you are strong. I know it's easier said than done, but you got this.
don't give up ❤ you did it once so you can do it again! have a great day
How are u doing now? Im curious
@@turtleneck6197 Surprisingly, this video really helped kick me back into gear. I'm 2-ish months binge free again, and I've lost the weight i regained + a few more lbs, so I'm finally at a healthy weight after being obese for years!
i am so proud of you! And always remember when the binge gets you, when you put on much weight in a short period, thats okay but try your best to not waste the hard work! Its okay you just have some more weight to lose again! You got this
I totally understand their struggle. I currently deal with wanting to binge eat, which is AWFUL for me with Type 1 Diabetes. As a teen and my early 20’s, I would purge or skip insulin to make up for the binge.
At 25, I was in the middle of a purge and my at the time boyfriend (now husband) told me I really needed help and begged me to seek it because he wasn’t going to stay and watch me destroy myself.
The following Monday, I sought help with my current psychologist and she’s helped me deal with my food addiction. I am now at a healthy weight for myself and my A1C (average blood sugar over the span of 3 months) has greatly improved.
This is why I believe therapy needs to be more accessible and ED’s need to stop being seen as a teenager’s/young person’s disease.
glad you found help and are doing better! diabulimia is the deadliest ED out there :(
Samantha's childhood story reminds me of my sister. Our mother had some... issues. I just didn't eat much as a child, so I stayed skinny, and she approved. My younger sister ate more, so my mother would cut her meals short. In other words, she never got to eat her fill. What did she do? Of course, she defensively sneaked food whenever she could, over time she got chubby (never fat, just chubby), and my mother would berate her for it.
30 years later, I'm still skinny, my sister is overweight. Not much, just 5 or 7 kilos, but she always gets very defensive when someone talks about weight. Not her weight, just anybody's weight. She still thinks she has to fight just to be allowed to eat. My mother, meanwhile, credits herself for her timely intervention - if she hadn't cut my sister's meal rations short as a toddler, my sister would be morbidly obese now (that's what my mother believes). I personally believe the opposite. If my sister had had the chance to find a sensible, healthy way of dealing with food, she might be normal-weight.
I know older people who dealt with WWII shortages and have had hoarding issues with food and even plastic containers. Like, a huge kitchen drawer full of plastic containers.
I have food issues because of my mom. She only ever cooked so much food and if you were still hungry, sucks to suck. She was constantly bragging about making a six person meal for less than $5. I struggled to find food suitable to bring to school. I wasn't allowed to cook for myself, I was supposed to cook a six person meal, even if I had just got home from an 8 hour shift of physical labour while she..... did not. Now I simply must have a stash of food in case I run out.
Your mom screwed up big time. I hope your sister can work through it someday.
Longtime Viewer and Subscriber here. Appreciate all that you do for us, Michelle. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for being here!!!
Thank you so much for calling out the body “positivity”, health, every size crowd. Body positivity started off with such good intentions back in the 90s, as it was intended to show that people with permanent disfiguration, scars, prosthetics, etc. could all be considered beautiful, and should have their chance in front of the camera. It has somehow now been warped into this extremely dysfunctional mindset - that obesity is beautiful and anyone who tries to lose weight must not love themselves. It’s anti-scientific and anti-hope.
"Food makes me happy" but they don't look happy, they have sad lives.
4:00 "They wouldn't let me eat what I wanted."
Proceeds to get up to 200 plus pounds by age 13.
Yeah, I wonder why. Maybe your dad was actually looking out for your health unlike your mother. That's not toxic, that's called 'parenting'.
Agreed. Her dad was abusive, but her mum was neglectful.
It’s hard when a caretaker is abusive and threatening, but actually has some good qualities/parents better in some respects, but then not in others.
I had to un-learn and reverse a lot of the contrarian things I did because my dad had at one time been hard on me about it. It’s a hard and emotional pill to swallow to realize that someone who was abusive was actually right about some things in life, and then change your behavior accordingly.
@@AnaGfit23 its just hard to realise that certain ‘pillars’ in your life have actual flaws. i both dislike my parents as people but i’ve been able to forgive them for a lot of things.
@@pixystixwhoreI empathise. I hated my (psychologically abusive) mother for years, until I realised that she didn't _want_ all her four kids to hate her. She wanted us to love her, but had _no idea_ of how to go about it. It's possible to forgive ignorance; impossible to forgive malice.
I had a really bad depressive episode in 2022 and used good to cope. I had lost 50lbs in 2020/2021 and gained 40lbs back over the year. Back down 15.5lbs and hope I never get that heavy again. I was “only” 230lbs at my heaviest and can’t imagine getting up to 3/4/5/6 hundred 😭
@Little Light you’ve got this! I believe in you ❤️❤️❤️💪🏻
I have a family member that is genuinely shocked that ppl think her weight of 400 lb is considered obese… she’s only 5’6 and always been on the bigger side but once she hit 400 she gave up. It’s unfortunate because her parents and siblings enable her.
Any addiction is hard to kick and this is absolutely so sad😢
I love your no nonsense approach. Stop with the excuses please and be accountable for YOURSELF! Keep posting.
I had gastric bypass surgery, i lost 100 pounds.
My hair fell out too, my gall bladder also got blocked and i didnt know until it burst and i went into septic shock due to a massive infection gathering inside of the gallbladder it was so bad they had to do emergency surgery even though cutting into infected tissue is something they never want to do.
Do i regret it? No. Its been almost three years now, my hair is still growing back in, it is a lot thinner than it was but it is slowly growing back in, i just cut it really short, and yeah my gallbladder went mental but it was a small price to pay for getting this enormous weight off of me.
Im glad she got the weight off, i hope she continues, but the show looks like it helps people to us viewers but in reality these people are exploited at their rock bottom, also dr now is almost 70 years old, i think his time is done. The show doesnt provide any kind of aftercare or help, they get given a generic diet plan and a telling off, these people are addicts, unless you resolve the issues around why they eat and get professional help to fix their association with food, there is no wonder so many fail.
Dr now patients do now get psych therapy to help them deal with their addiction to food.
I feel so bad for her. Like, just better communication about her issues between both parents would've maybe gotten her the help she needed but we can't really blame her parents. Sometimes things just slips through the cracks and some people are just better at hiding or repressing their pain. We can look at cases like this though and do better in the future for our precious people 💜💜💜
Michelle! I've just found out I lost 37 pounds in my first year of weight loss!! I've been moving more while in my home. Keeping the place clean & smelling great. Thanks again for being one of the voices that keep me motivated & without excuses!
Michelle, I’ve been very glad since I found your page. I’m a skinnier person that finally eating better, I used to not eat enough to be at a healthy weight (not anorexic or anything, but I did fight and found it hard to eat anything, even if it was just one meal.) and my boyfriend is the opposite. Ever since I started working out and better and more, he’s wanting to better himself, and I wasn’t so sure on how to do that because I don’t deal with his binging problem. But your videos help me understand binging more, and what I may be able to do to help him get in a habit of slowly getting out of binging. We are at a very slow start for him, but I’m glad we are discussing on how we can start working on that, and I’m happy that I can start understanding his habit so I can support him along the way. Thank you for making your videos entertaining and educational🧡
Honestly Michelle is the best thing to watch when things start feeling a bit too much, love the fitspo so much! ❤❤❤
i feel so so horrible for hungryfatchick. she seems so incredibly sweet and i’ve always hoped she’d get help. it doesn’t look like she will though :(
She abandoned her children when they were young and they want nothing to do with her
Every time I wanna give up on my weight loss, better eating, and exercise, I watch your videos❤ 😊
People don't say this to you enough, but your voice is so gorgeous ♡
Michelle, I just wanna say that you are one of the people who inspired me to finally get down to my healthy weight provided by my doctor. I've dropped the sweets not completely, but less than what it used to be. I'm consistently working out, and I'm happy to say 10lbs have left my body. Thank you.
Your videos were a motivation for me to reduce weight after my knee surgery (had a bad fall and had to reduce my weight), now I am still watching to keep my weight stable and never look back.
the way I do it is that I imagine food as enemies in a rpg than I use things like a diet plan as my attacks an spells are like therapy and stuff its strangely good
Wtf this is insanely useful lol
ahh this video hit me in the feels... i can relate so hard, except instead of food, it's drinking. the weird positivity we put on overindulgence is insanely toxic. it's not quirky, it's not healthy... i cant even remember the moment i went from fun party animal to.....alcoholic.
i hope anyone struggling with any addiction, food or otherwise, finds a way out.
Naltrexone, trust me it'll change your life. I'm an alcoholic, makes me Binge eat. I'm good with food but the alcoholism fu#$s it up for me.
Hey, you showing Nicocado just reminded me of how he lost a ton of weight. Would you be interested in making a short video about that???
Much love 💜💜💜
Oh wow! Did he really?
SHE NEEDS TO PIN THIS
He put it all back on in a hot minute, where y’all been?
@@Becalavellehe didn't
Michelle, watching your videos has changed my ENTIRE outlook on 'body positivity'. I can see how toxic and damaging it is to society, after hearing you speak about it. I don't want to give up on losing weight any more, and I don't want my daughter growing up thinking that obesity isn't a bad thing.
Get it girl!! 💪🏼
Thank you Michelleeee ! Your content makes my day and is extremely well done!
Could you imagine the trama her daughter would have if she listened to her mother and not called 911 smh
I just finished watching the previous upload! Girl, you are on a video upload frezy! I feel excited to watch this one too ❤
Seeing Samantha suffer so much and expressing herself about it really makes me think how fucked the fat activists/body positive movement are. I can already imagine how they'll deny this and most likely even bully people who are in Samantha's situation.
Truly heartbreaking.
I had wls and lost plenty of hair, but now (two years later) my hair is thicker and healthier than it was before the surgery. It was very depressing brushing fist fulls of hair and not being able to keep much down for quite a while. But over all i'm glad i made the choice to get the surgery. 100+ lbs lost. Would like to lose 10- 15 more.
Everyone wants to lose 10-15 more 😂
Wow I am so devastated for Samantha's daughter.
-watched her mom's su*cide attempt and had to grapple with calling for help against her wishes
-says her mom is her best friend which like, is cute for someone whose mom is a good role model but obviously not in this situation. As far as I can tell she can't learn a single good thing from her mom besides viewing her as a cautionary tale.
-believes her mom's self-exploitation is empowering
This poor girl will probably need therapy for the rest of her life to unpack all of this.
MICHELLE!!!!! I’m so happy it’s my birthday and I get to watch a new video. Funny you’re talking abt cake at the beginning 😂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Happy Birthday, Maddy!!!❤❤❤
I always felt terrible for Sam Mason, it's obvious she was terribly depressed and it was traumatizing her daughter. But I'm glad she lost weight and is doing something to help her heal.
Love your editing! And the red shirt is cute! Is it a Ross special? Because if so, I definitely need to go on a shopping spree there! 👀
Yessss it is Ross!!!! Thank you ♥️
I'm currently overweight and at one point in my life I was saying to myself and anybody who asked me about my weight "We'll all die one day, what's the point of being hungry and tired after a workout when I can just eat what I want and be happy?" I used to be really skinny at 110 lbs for my height and when I started gaining weight I was really happy and the lbs just kept packing on. A friend recently asked me to join her morning workouts as she is overweight too and wants to lose weight and I was like no. But after a beach trip and I saw myself in my bathing suit I was like "No. I don't like how I look and something has got to change " and thus began my weight loss journey.
Good luck! Keep going, you will get there. I get what you mean by the 'hangry' comment, but I for one really hate it when I can't move as easily as I can when I'm close to my normal weight or get out of breath when I take the stairs. And I hate buying new clothes. Having a lower weight within reason is worth it.
For anyone wanting surgery your hair only falls out if you don’t upkeep your nutrients. My mom has the gastric sleeve and takes a lot of collagen, her hair fell out a bit at first but like i think once her body got use to everything it stopped but she still has to take collagen and all her other nutrients. You have to eat very healthy to get all the nutrients
I love your videos Michelle honestly I have been struggling with my weight all my life. However I am doing something about it. This summer I am hitting the gym and I am working on being more conscious about whatever I eat. Just want to say thank you for being honest ❤❤
These kinks are so harmful. People who are “feeders” are abusers. They’re helping someone end themselves. Having an addiction is difficult enough to get over, then add on making your money FROM your addiction and I don’t see how it’s possible. Imagine if someone got paid to take heroine and then having the will to stop. It would be a one in a million person who could manage it. I certainly couldn’t. I’ve had a couple addictions in my life (nowhere near as serious as hard drugs) and it took everything I had and more to conquer it. Barely possible and that’s without me getting paid or public adoration for it.
Edit: hungry fat chick is the one fat person is that I feel bad for. She seems sweet and like a pure person who’s in a lot of emotional pain. I really hope she can get help.
I just love your content. Such a brilliant antidote to all the HAES nonsense.
I ballooned to 402lbs at my heaviest, my whole family is huge, and I learned to cope with severe childhood trauma (rampant abuse, including sexual) using food. I'm very ashamed of how I ruined my body and I feel like I've missed so much of my life hiding away due to a myriad of mental issues and embarrassment from how I looked.
I'm still not at an ideal weight, but I'm not over 400lbs anymore. I'll take it. Baby steps.
You've got this!
I love this new format you've got going. Thank you for inspiring me!
while i have never been obese, i have always been slightly overweight. until i learned that there are other things in life that make me happy. not just eating. when i found other outlets for my anger and sadness i learned to gravitate towards those rather than food to make me feel good. Before i knew it, when i was feeling anxious or stressed i had rewired my brain to go for a walk/run rather than reaching towards food and i naturally lost 20 lbs without actually "dieting". I feel like its so important to teach others that we control our brains. our brains do not control us! The same way we can train a pet, we can train ourselves lol.
This is so sad😢 to get to almost 1000 lbs is insane! I didn’t think our bones could carry that much weight around. 😮
It’s been a year since I stumbled on your videos, looking for ways to exercise in the house. You really have inspired me to keep moving forward and not go back because cake definitely has a chokehold on me. I was 246 down to 189. Got about 25 more to go... It can be done people. I still eat cake I just don’t eat the whole thing at one time.
It's truly amazing how much the human body can withstand.
My grandfather was far from healthy type 2 diabetes, obese. My mom and I are not. It doesn’t run in families. My mom is thin while I’m more of an average weight.I remember when I was teen we went to Dennys he ordered the grand slam breakfast and was component he wasn’t loosing weight 🙄
Babe wake up! Michelle dropped another banger video!
She may not be taking the bariatric vitamins a person who had the surgery is supposed to take and that’s why she’s losing her hair. I had the surgery, lost an entire other person, in weight, and didn’t lose my hair. It started thinning when I didn’t take the vitamins for several months, but once I started taking them again, it started growing back (and thicker, curlier and healthier than I think my hair has ever been). My nails aren’t as brittle as they used to be, either. You can either buy the somewhat expensive chewable vitamins, made specifically for bariatric surgery and take about 4 of those a day (depending on the brand, it may be different) or take I believe 6 normal multivitamins a day (throughout the day), along with a vitamin D pill (it might have been 2- I forget). But, in order to get the vitamins and minerals we can’t get from food, due to the smaller size of the stomach and by extension, not having as much stomach acid to break down foods, we have to get those vitamins somehow, or things like hair loss, neuropathy and memory loss can happen, and can be permanent, if we don’t get the vitamins fast enough.
I doubt she takes the vitamins. She's not exactly someone who takes care of herself or even knows how. She looks sicker to me in her face after the weight loss. She's still as depressed as ever. Very sad. I wonder if she has other health issues that aren't being addressed? I know from experience that when something is really wrong medically people think fixing that one thing means everything's ok. It's not. for me I still have a couple of bad health issues that I don't know how to get addressed. I know these hopeless feelings they have.
Her comments section is so poignant and so tragic- so many people are genuinely begging her to save herself. And is she ignoring it? She KEEPS making mukbang videos. With ALR, she makes excuses, lies, etc, but over here you have this genuinely good but overwhelmingly sad person. I understand feeling alone and overwhelmed, but sooo many people are here for her and it hurts.
As an European it's always so scary to hear someone saying they weigh like 130 ibs or something because i always think about kilos xD
Same 😅
Michelle you are just so awesome! I love your thought process. Thanks for the videos and keep being you!
Another reason the body positivity community breaks my heart; they tell you that you are beautiful and perfect and healthy as you pack on the pounds . The second you start suffering because of these pounds they abandon you. Its horrible!
Sam and candy really show addiction comes in many forms - people who experience trauma and don’t get any support, usually avoid painful emotions and feel empty as a result. You then try and fill that emptiness with alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex or FOOD. Food is the cheapest and most accessible “fix” out there, so of course it’s a choice for a LOT of people.
If you’re experiencing addiction my heart goes out to you, being clean is not easy and often feels much worse before it feels better, but learning healthy coping mechanisms to replace the addiction will improve your life exponentially! I really hope these women find something that works for them and can heal from their pasts ❤
Hi Michelle! Just want to say that I love your channel.
I’m a new subscriber and have been listening to your videos while I do the SkiErg. I have a neurological disorder that impairs my lower mobility and suffered a severe foot and ankle injury after a fall in January. It was frustrating because last year I had made big gains in my mobility - though I never lost any weight.
On April 23, 2023 I decided that there were no more excuses. There are plenty of exercises I can do from a seated position. Impaired mobility - whether it’s from an injury or from a neurological disorder - doesn’t stop me from making better food choices and counting my calories.
Happy to say I’m 4.8 pounds down. Thank you for being real. ❤
Keep going you got this! I do sit down exercises when I can't get motivated to get up from my chair (depression). There's plenty of videos on RUclips for it!
200 lbs at ten years old is insane. Like I can't even picture it
I really like how you retell their story but give them the dignity they deserve.
I like how you’ve been adding yourself when you talk about people with binge eating disorder. I think it’s a way to remind people that you’ve been there, but that you can learn a different approach. When you keep it in the present instead of ‘I used to have binge eating disorder’, it reminds people that the struggle doesn’t go away when you lose the weight. And it makes you more “relatable “ (starting to hate that word). Just gives you a kinder vibe, even though I personally liked when your thoughts offended me. But I haven’t gone anywhere, so stick with this approach, it fits you and is effective. Just wanted to give you some props.
It's still present tense for me. Down 50lbs, no longer pre-diabetic, but if I go to a buffet.... so, I avoid those.
@@silververnallbells191hey I’m proud even though we don’t know each other I am proud.
Hi Michelle, I just wanted to say I've been watching your videos for a while and I was always a person that ate a lot of food and was fat I had bariatric surgery I had the gastric sleeve. I lost a lot of weight and went down to about 110, but I'm at 135 now but I have no muscle and I was constantly telling myself I need to be skinny I need to be skinny in order to be happy. Yesterday I went to the gym with my fiance and I started to change my mindset. I went to a machine to do pull ups and I was able to look at the muscle definition in my arms and it got me excited for working out. Building muscle to be stronger and to be able to see some defined lines and not worry about my strength or my abilities is my new goal. I no longer think I need to be skinny I need to be skinny. I am now thinking I need to be strong. You have been an incredible positive influence in my life thank you.
You’ve inspired me to go on a weight loss journey. I’m only like 10 pounds heavier than I want to be but struggle with over eating sometimes. I downloaded an app to track my calories and my exercises and it really helps I’m down to 124 pounds wanting to get to 118 pounds and I’ve been consistently exercising and eating better than I used to. Very proud of myself I’m excited to see how I look in a few months
Sounds unhealthy to me, you’re on a slippery ED slope
@@BecalavelleI mean 118 pounds is okay depends if she's tall or short
When I clicked on your video, my first thought was that you have a very pleasant voice! Now, after staying for the whole video, I also want to compliment you on your respectful attitude to the people you're discussing and their situations. You're realistic about it and don't sugarcoat anything, but you don't insult them and you give them the benefit of the doubt. That's a real breath of fresh air.
Such a great point: at some stage you stop consuming the food and the food begins to consume you.
My heart hurts so much for Candy, she seems like a genuinely lovely person who has just given up😥 Thanks for the video Michelle, have a lovely week❤️
I was just looking for a Samantha update last night! She is one of my favorites from the show.
10:57 the anime descriptions is well done 😅 but startled me 😳🫨🥹🤣
I have lupus and I struggle with taking showers some days due to fatigue and what it takes to do it and I’m only 135.
I cannot even imagine or comprehend 800. My goodness.
Michelle, i just want to thank you for opening my eyes to so much so people having different opinions than me. I used to be very left, and then during COVID i became very right because i saw through it right away. Now I've realized that it is not good to be all in on either side. I'm pretty much right in the middle now. I credit a lot of that on you talking about different things from a more central perspective. I'm a Christian wife with kids and I've realized that just because that life has made me incredibly happy, that doesn't mean that life is for everyone.
Early!!! Been watching a lot of your older content in between uploads. Love you Queen❤
Thank you so much!!! ♥️
I am entirely convinced Michelle could fold me in half and not even break a sweat.
Great content. Liked and subscribed!
I'm sure sam is feeling ten times better and keeps it up the real body positivity will come her way of it hasn't already with the real heartfelt comments of healthy change. And candy just posted a new mukbang for the lovely mc rib. I hope she can't get her head unstuck but you can hear the pain in her voice when she talks English she tries to pull it off and sound like everything's ok.