S01.E03: Where Are They Now? Penny and Tara - My 600-lb Life

Dr. Now read Penny for filth the entire episode. I mean he read her like a cheap Harlequin novel, from cover to cover.  I loved it. Let it be known, Dr. Now is not the one. However, at the end it was still good to hear him say that he would be there again to help her if she ever gained some sanity. 

It cracked me up every time the screen flashed, "Penny: Weight Unknown"

I kept waiting for the screen to flash: "Penny, Capacity for Delusion: Unlimited"

Penny kills me, just kills me. There is nothing physically wrong with her, yet according to her, everything is wrong with her so much so that she can't even breath the regular ole oxygen in the air like a normal person. I don't think I have ever seen a more infuriating person on my tv screen. 

Seeing her teeny tiny feet and what looked to be a complete lack of ankles, Penny looks like a human version of the people from the film Wall-E. Her self-imposed immobilization has caused the muscles in her body to atrophy. It would take intense therapy to get her walking again, so she will likely never walk again, because Penny and great effort/intense do not belong in the same sentence. She is not even the biggest person featured on the show and yet she seemed the most doughy, almost as if there weren't any bones in her body.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that she was still trying to sell the cock and bull story of her having lost over 200 lbs since surgery, and yet there I was with my jaw on the ground as she trotted that shit out to the therapist, whom I guarantee she never spoke to again.

So, Penny gets out of bed once every 2 months??? No wonder she can't walk. 

She was bragging about this was the most active she has been in a while. Think about that.  Standing up for less than a minute and sitting down in a wheelchair to be pushed around by her poor downtrodden husband is the most exercise she gets. She was even complaining about being in the chair, since apparently even sitting up to long is too much for her. Jezz Louise. 

In contrast, Tara, despite her unfortunate wardrobe choices, was a treasure. I really loved that she loved herself in the moment. She wasn't waiting to get down to her ideal weight to feel sexy, go out on a date and find love. She was calling herself sexy, going out and getting hers at 300 lbs. I was yelling 'get it girl' during the entirety of her segments.

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