I'm rooting for this lady- life can be hard and I have a lot of compassion for this lady. I myself am trying to lose weight and get healthy too. It is not easy juggling being a parent/work/ home life/responsibilities/family stuff.
Get away from these people, Karen! They are NOT addressing your sugar/carb addiction properly! From what is being portrayed here, their cold turkey approach is setting you up for failure. Believe me. And taking you on a strenuous hike like that at 2 weeks? No! You deserve to be treated by professionals who treat the disease of obesity in its entirety. I highly suggest contacting a bariatric surgeon and investigating the vertical gastric sleeve procedure. Like you, I had the lap band. I lost weight. I gained weight. I had the band removed after 10 years and then the gastric sleeve with a wonderful bariatric team. I took advantage of all of the support and education they offered. Recovery from obesity is doable. Align yourself with the right people/team who will address the full picture.
@Loulou Bos Uh, she is a failure as a mother because she doesn't control her young DAUGHTER'S type 2 diabetes. Quit feeling sorry for yourself and moaning and whining. We all have our troubles. Get over yourself.
My understanding is that her daughter has type one diabetes. That was duscussed in episode 1. I don't know what you expect from this woman. She was working 2 jobs, caring for a disabled husband, the home, two children, 1 with an autoimmune disorder.
@@lorimav It doesn't matter if it's type 1. You shouldn't have children if you can't take care of them. A blood sugar of 400+ means her daughter is in danger of going blind and having kidney failure. She's too young to take care of it herself, so the mother has to do it Being irresponsible and having children you cannot afford or look after is not an excuse to be more irresponsible. Else society would collapse. You could eat yourself to death if you want. But you can't do that to your diabetic child. What is wrong with you people?
@@ampa4989 Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes, a serious autoimmune disorder, is more difficult than caring for type 2 diabetes. How would she know in advance that her child would have such a disease and perhaps at the time her husband was working and not yet disabled. Did she have a crystal ball? One of my children became autistic. Would I have known that in advance before I conceived her? Caring for her is as much of a challenge as caring for a child with type 1 diabetes, and much more isolating as well, but I have found that I have met that challenge but not without a cost. I have a friend who has a child with type 1 diabetes. She is not employed and has many other children that pitch in to help maintain the house and yet my friend often explains the constant challenges of her daughter's disease that is finally beginning to stabilize. Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes, especially, in the early stages, is almost a full time job in itself. My friend wakes up in the middle of the night to monitor her child's blood sugar. She never gets a full night of sleep anymore. I cannot imagine how she would cope if she were the breadwinner of the family and had to maintain the home as well. i think you need to keep your naive opinions to yourself.
@@lorimav OMG. If you're going to whine and expect people to read all about it, at least use paragraphs. If you're just managing so that some life's misfortune will bring a disaster, such as your child going blind or having a kidney failure, then you shouldn't have had children. Why do people never plan for mishaps like they are somehow special and immune to life's vissicitudes? My mother was widowed as a 25yo with barely any work experience and two children. She herself has an autoimmune disease. But she made it without becoming obese or her kids becoming in danger of losing vital functions. You have disability insurance, some savings, a little foresight, copious intelligence -- whatever you need to get you through the crappy things that happen to all of us. If you didn't plan for life's crappy curve balls and expected everything to just keep being OK-enough for you to live on razor's edge and had children and brought them into your crazy, disastrous way of living, then that is your right. We don't require any special skills or intelligence to become a parent. But that doesn't make you a good mother. I don't care if you're a widow, a single parent, doing three jobs (as my mother did sometimes) or your kid is born with two special needs. If you let your kid go blind or have a kidney failure, you have failed as a parent. None of my type 1 diabetic friends and classmates in school were overweight. Letting your kid get fat while being diabetic isn't helping with the 400+ blood glucose situation. I wouldn't be surprised if that kid isn't diagnosed with Type 2 pretty soon. So quit your whining and keep YOUR opinions to yourself if you don't want o hear mine.
I'm rooting for this lady- life can be hard and I have a lot of compassion for this lady. I myself am trying to lose weight and get healthy too. It is not easy juggling being a parent/work/ home life/responsibilities/family stuff.
There isn't an episode 3? Oh man this was inspiring.
Episode 3 pleat.. this is an inspiration...
Omg her daughter is so adorable! ❤
Good job Karen!!! So happy to see your progress. Keep it up girl😘😘😘
Episode 3 ?
Go Karen… wishing you all the best. You are one strong woman 💪
Great. Sometimes, music is a little bit annoying and shadows the voices
Would love to see how she is doing! (What is it with the music?)
Go Karen 💖👍🏽🎈🙏🏽🙏🏽
Go Karen! You’re amazing.
Get away from these people, Karen! They are NOT addressing your sugar/carb addiction properly! From what is being portrayed here, their cold turkey approach is setting you up for failure. Believe me. And taking you on a strenuous hike like that at 2 weeks? No!
You deserve to be treated by professionals who treat the disease of obesity in its entirety.
I highly suggest contacting a bariatric surgeon and investigating the vertical gastric sleeve procedure.
Like you, I had the lap band. I lost weight. I gained weight.
I had the band removed after 10 years and then the gastric sleeve with a wonderful bariatric team. I took advantage of all of the support and education they offered. Recovery from obesity is doable. Align yourself with the right people/team who will address the full picture.
Horrible music
Three hundred eighty-three blood glucose. She is failing as a mother.
@Loulou Bos
Uh, she is a failure as a mother because she doesn't control her young DAUGHTER'S type 2 diabetes.
Quit feeling sorry for yourself and moaning and whining. We all have our troubles. Get over yourself.
My understanding is that her daughter has type one diabetes. That was duscussed in episode 1. I don't know what you expect from this woman. She was working 2 jobs, caring for a disabled husband, the home, two children, 1 with an autoimmune disorder.
@@lorimav
It doesn't matter if it's type 1. You shouldn't have children if you can't take care of them. A blood sugar of 400+ means her daughter is in danger of going blind and having kidney failure. She's too young to take care of it herself, so the mother has to do it
Being irresponsible and having children you cannot afford or look after is not an excuse to be more irresponsible. Else society would collapse. You could eat yourself to death if you want. But you can't do that to your diabetic child. What is wrong with you people?
@@ampa4989 Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes, a serious autoimmune disorder, is more difficult than caring for type 2 diabetes. How would she know in advance that her child would have such a disease and perhaps at the time her husband was working and not yet disabled. Did she have a crystal ball? One of my children became autistic. Would I have known that in advance before I conceived her? Caring for her is as much of a challenge as caring for a child with type 1 diabetes, and much more isolating as well, but I have found that I have met that challenge but not without a cost. I have a friend who has a child with type 1 diabetes. She is not employed and has many other children that pitch in to help maintain the house and yet my friend often explains the constant challenges of her daughter's disease that is finally beginning to stabilize. Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes, especially, in the early stages, is almost a full time job in itself. My friend wakes up in the middle of the night to monitor her child's blood sugar. She never gets a full night of sleep anymore. I cannot imagine how she would cope if she were the breadwinner of the family and had to maintain the home as well. i think you need to keep your naive opinions to yourself.
@@lorimav
OMG. If you're going to whine and expect people to read all about it, at least use paragraphs.
If you're just managing so that some life's misfortune will bring a disaster, such as your child going blind or having a kidney failure, then you shouldn't have had children.
Why do people never plan for mishaps like they are somehow special and immune to life's vissicitudes? My mother was widowed as a 25yo with barely any work experience and two children. She herself has an autoimmune disease. But she made it without becoming obese or her kids becoming in danger of losing vital functions.
You have disability insurance, some savings, a little foresight, copious intelligence -- whatever you need to get you through the crappy things that happen to all of us.
If you didn't plan for life's crappy curve balls and expected everything to just keep being OK-enough for you to live on razor's edge and had children and brought them into your crazy, disastrous way of living, then that is your right. We don't require any special skills or intelligence to become a parent. But that doesn't make you a good mother.
I don't care if you're a widow, a single parent, doing three jobs (as my mother did sometimes) or your kid is born with two special needs. If you let your kid go blind or have a kidney failure, you have failed as a parent. None of my type 1 diabetic friends and classmates in school were overweight. Letting your kid get fat while being diabetic isn't helping with the 400+ blood glucose situation. I wouldn't be surprised if that kid isn't diagnosed with Type 2 pretty soon.
So quit your whining and keep YOUR opinions to yourself if you don't want o hear mine.