u/Sad_Mistake_3227

They haven’t really addressed this (except for Chris talking about how he has to quit before his surgery), but I definitely keep seeing cigarette smoke in the background. I’m only on season 3 (they are just going on their family vacation), but it’s definitely the elephant in the room.

Also, I cannot with Tammy. She is infuriating. I’ve never watched someone who made me so angry. And all of her enablers are right up there too.

I’m curious to anyone that watched (still watch? Not sure if they still post it) their YouTube videos—-did they edit their videos at all or did they just post the hot mess raw footage as they shot it?

I’m only in the 2nd season, so I know I’m in for it. But now I can’t stop.

I just started watching the show a few days ago. I had a sleeve gastrectomy at the end of April and am already down 60 lbs—although I weighed much less to start than either sister. And of course now, I can’t turn away from this train wreck. Excited to catch up!

One of the saddest things I’ve seen so far is how awful their mom is. Surrounding Amy’s “wedding”, the diet, surgery, etc…. How she immediately wanted to go out and call her mom to share her good news—and the mom couldn’t muster anything positive to say. And then when she was in pre-op crying for her “mommy”. It’s so sad that clearly none of them got any of the love and validation that they so clearly craved (as any child would).

I’m also shocked at how little prep was required for them to have surgery. Maybe they just didn’t show all of it, but I had to do significantly more to show it—multiple psych evaluations and clearance, monthly meetings with a dietician for 3 months, a support group, bloodwork, upper GI study, pre-clearance from my primary care doctor, EKG, 2-hour pre-op class and more. And then lots of that post-op as well.