So I should have been in bed earlier last night, but I was hooked on watching TLC. There was a show on called “650 lb Virgin”. I was absolutely in shock throughout the entire show. For those of you who haven’t seen it, it’s about a guy named David Smith who weighed 650 pounds. He sat on the couch every day shoveling down high calorie junk food. He never left his house, he couldn’t walk more than 500 feet and he couldn’t fit in a car. He had no friends and suffered from depression and loneliness He admitted that the reason he was big w
as not only part genetics, but he was molested by his best friend when he was 7 years old. After that he looked to food for comfort and never left his house. It was downhill from then on. Kids bullied him at school throwing whatever they could at him; he couldn’t make even one friend. He ended up dropping out of high school at age 17 because he couldn’t take it anymore. His mother then died from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
A personal trainer heard about his struggles with weight and life as a whole and decided to help him. He started by holding his hands and helping him use the couch to do squats, simply standing up and sitting down. After a lot of practicing with his help he had him use two gallons of water, one in each hand and he would sit up and press the jugs above his head then sit down again. After that he had him crawling upstairs on his own. He weighed so much that he burned calories at a very fast pace. He started eating healthier and in smaller portions. Within 26 months, the 32 year old lost 410 lbs, an average of 15 lbs a month. What amazed me the most about this story is he did it naturally, with out any surgeries. After he lost all the weight however, a plastic surgeon’s attention was caught by his story. He offered him free surgery to remove the skin, which added up to 30 lbs. He was then offered more free dental surgery to fix his teeth, which were stained from soda; and free facial surgery.
His personal trainer Chris Powell is now his best friend and roommate; he really turned his life around. David is now a personal trainer, his dream is to help obese people like he used to be to turn their lives around. David is now a healthy and toned guy, he looks very attractive! He still has fears of rejection and still suffers from severe shyness around girls. The show concentrates on how he turned his life around and how he is in search of his first girlfriend and possible wife, hence the name of the show. I suggest that you watch this show if you get a chance, it’s on TLC it should be airing a lot through out the month. It’s amazing!
as not only part genetics, but he was molested by his best friend when he was 7 years old. After that he looked to food for comfort and never left his house. It was downhill from then on. Kids bullied him at school throwing whatever they could at him; he couldn’t make even one friend. He ended up dropping out of high school at age 17 because he couldn’t take it anymore. His mother then died from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.A personal trainer heard about his struggles with weight and life as a whole and decided to help him. He started by holding his hands and helping him use the couch to do squats, simply standing up and sitting down. After a lot of practicing with his help he had him use two gallons of water, one in each hand and he would sit up and press the jugs above his head then sit down again. After that he had him crawling upstairs on his own. He weighed so much that he burned calories at a very fast pace. He started eating healthier and in smaller portions. Within 26 months, the 32 year old lost 410 lbs, an average of 15 lbs a month. What amazed me the most about this story is he did it naturally, with out any surgeries. After he lost all the weight however, a plastic surgeon’s attention was caught by his story. He offered him free surgery to remove the skin, which added up to 30 lbs. He was then offered more free dental surgery to fix his teeth, which were stained from soda; and free facial surgery.
His personal trainer Chris Powell is now his best friend and roommate; he really turned his life around. David is now a personal trainer, his dream is to help obese people like he used to be to turn their lives around. David is now a healthy and toned guy, he looks very attractive! He still has fears of rejection and still suffers from severe shyness around girls. The show concentrates on how he turned his life around and how he is in search of his first girlfriend and possible wife, hence the name of the show. I suggest that you watch this show if you get a chance, it’s on TLC it should be airing a lot through out the month. It’s amazing!
wow, that's a pretty amazing story. I just watched the 20/20 interview on youtube and it really amazed me how dedicated both Chris and David had to have been to make this happen, great story all around. It's such a heart warming story in the sense that he got all those free surgeries and dental work because of his story, he is a completely transformed person.
ReplyDeleteHe really is.. It is a very touching story, I may have teared up a little bit :-/
ReplyDeleteGreat post Erin seeing how much obesity if effecting our country today. I know of a very similar story of a kid who is two year younger then me (22) back home. He was obese in high school and always got picked on just like this guy and was forced to drop out of school. A year after dropping out for some reason he got thinking about losing weight and did so. He is now a cut up professional body builder working for gold gym and I talked to him a little bit over the summer and he said he wants to help people who are going through what he went through.
ReplyDeleteI think this topic is pretty amazing. I myself have never seen that show, but can say that I am shocked to hear how well this guy did with losing weight. With obesity being such a growing problem in the US today people need to understand they can lose the weight in other ways than just surgery. Some are just so lazy and unmotivated that they turn to surgery first without weighing the other healthier options. I think it was great how now he has a best friend and lost all that weight on his own. I think it's great and hope he continues to do well in the future.
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