I wanted to hear Hugh say he saw her as a daughter. I felt that kind of relationship from them, which was special as the loss of his son led to his problems.
Honestly my favourite match-up so far. How she opened up to him, how he made her realise she needs to take care of herself and how she kindly nudged him into realising he was slowly killing himself.
I know! Shame on them. I could never do that to someone at work, or anywhere, for that matter. As with this poor lady, bullying has lifelong consequences. I hope she was finally able to get over that and have a normal life.
I was and still am being bullied at school for being gay (omnisexual) and apparently that's all I am now, just a girl that isn't straight, in their eyes. It's really damaging because I barely know lots of these people and they just try to hurt me.
@@user-yx5pd7yi8o I agree 100%. Many kids were bullied as a child, myself included, I solved it. No sympathy for cry babies and victims. Take control of your life because nobody owes you shit. Entitlement and victimhood are the arena for losers and failures.
Sahar Pournazari it’s a hotdog dipped in batter and fried, usually the hotdog is skewered on a stick so it’s easier to handle, mostly it’s a sort of carnival or fair type food, but you can buy them in stores here in America.
Hugh made me cry. He seems like a good guy. I'm sorry he had to experience so much loss. Hope he gets better and that only good things are to come to him and his family from now on. Bless them all!
I'm forever having to convert lbs to kgs all the time because everyone is talking in lbs in America which is where we get most of our content here in Australia. I'm also having to convert kilojoules to calories.
In America, there's this massive and widespread assumption that eating healthy food is more expensive. Lower income families tend to buy nothing but junk food (the Standard American Diet or SAD), highly processed food, and fast food. What they don't realize is that they could save so much money if they cooked easy food from scratch.
Yeah you'd think you're being a bad host but that really drives the point home, if you wouldn't feed others like that then why are you doing that to yourself?
She really has a serious eating disorder. And she looks so very ill. Her body is literally bending over. And the fact she can only stomach mushy foods is very alarming.
This episode is so interesting because it's almost a mirror of how depression can manifest in people with different cognitions. Some binge eat like Hugh, some turn away from food and lose their appetites like Lindsey. I think the reason they were so sweet to each other and so understanding is that they can both understand the other's mental state.
The girl wanting to out caloric values on the restaurants actually works, at least in my experience I've been to a few restaurants with that system on their menus and as yummy as one thing might sound when you see it's over 1000 calories you kind of just look for an option with less, that just my personal experience
Here in the UK, I believe chain restaurants with 20 or more restaurants must have calorific amounts on their menus. As much I like supporting independents, I love to see the calories on a menu. It's an eye-opener.
In Canada all of the big fast food restaurants (McDonalds, Wendy’s, Birger King, etc.) have to post the calories right on menus. Currently Canada has 8% less obese men and 12% less obese women than in the USA. Not that this is the sole cause of the difference in numbers but still it is interesting.
@@twelvesmylimit I haven't seen calorie information put on the menus when I've been to pizza express or nandos. I think you mean those places MUST publish them *online*, which chain restaurants have done.
I hope the co-workers that bullied Lindsay see this and feel ashamed of themselves. I’m glad this show helped her and Hugh was very supportive and sweet to her. They both did amazing.
I've been watching this show for a good while and the psychology behind it is incredibly interesting. People with a really unhealthy relationship with food and their bodies tend to keep it behind closed doors so to speak, so the question this begs is "would you feel comfortable watching someone else eat your diet?" A lot of the thought behind eating disorders including over eating that it's only hurting them and some even believe they deserve the punishment so being able to see someone else struggle with what your doing to yourself forces someone to take a look at why they think they deserve to be treated like that if they don't want to see someone else be treated like that.
Funny enough, I used this show as a trigger for my ED years ago. Now, I watch it and find myself in the spot of the super skinny. The psychology really changes people, even if you're a viewer! If I felt bad for the super sizer eating five bites of food a day...why do I feel okay doing that to myself? It makes you re-evaluate your own relationship with food and it helped kick my ass into recovery. I honestly wish this show would come back, and I wish they'd also send the super skinny overseas to see how under eating affects people, it's a good way to see both sides of the scale and how maintaining a healthy middle is always better.
I hope Lindsay's workmates are watching this and realising the damage they have done to this poor woman and to society. No one benefits from that mindset.
Something similar with Thalidomide...it was never given in the States, tho they KNEW your kid wouldn't have limbs if she took ONE pill on leg day (no joke) A lady who hosted Romper Room had an abortion because she took ONE pill that would cause horrendous damage.
Aw that's sad :( Honestly I'm a binge/comfort eater and I watch this show to make me feel less guilty.... cause it explores the psychology behind our food issues and treats the people with dignity
Such an interesting concept for a show. You would think the bigger person would be the more “unhealthy” person but sometimes it’s the thinner person more unhealthy.
@@Regarded69 Everyone is entitled to their own opinion!! 🙄 Stop playing like you are a BOSS of anything, truth is as well that all of us could be extremely overweight if we eat all the Supermarket food in just a week, I watch programs about fat people and as much as they eat in a day I eat it in TWO WEEKS.!! 🙄 There's no excuse to eat that much and be fat, and I am sure nobody is happy if they are at such a weight.!! 🙄🤔 Have you ever watched Supersize VS Superskinny??? Or My 600 pounds life?? Or Extreme Makeover - Weight loss edition?? 🙄🤔☺️ Go watch those and STOP talking like you are above me!! 🙄 I said what I said all being informed!! Being excessively overweight is NOT a good thing!!!!!! 🤔😒🤨
Yea, you just keep teeling that to yourself till you burst. This show is about disorderde eating and what might come of it. The truth is 99.999% of the time underweight is million times more healthier (not to mention easier to fix)!
It sickens me when grown adults bully their colleges in the work place. Bullying is rife in our NHS. I comforted my mother multiple times when she was in tears caused by her despicable colleagues when she worked at an NHS Trust.
I'm so sorry that happened to your mom. Why didn't she report those people? There have been a few instances of workplace bullying here in America. A couple of workers sued the company and won a very large settlement. I work for a large law firm in downtown Houston and I tell you, that kind of crap wouldn't be tolerated by my boss or the managing partners. Wish someone would have taken up for your mom. That is very sad.
"The whole point of this country is, If you want to eat garbage , balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can. You are free to do so, to me that's beautiful" -Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation
The woman appears to have anorexia. Maybe she is having some type of pain when eating hard food. Taiwana looks much older than her 48 years. So sad. :( The super skinnies always seem to have the hardest time participating in the challenge.
Being on both sides on different occasions of having to stop eating what I want, and forcing myself to eat, I can say that forcing mysef to eat was torture. So I can totally understand how the skinny side might struggle more than the other side.
That poor bulimic girl - I went through 25 years of intermittent bulimia as well as anorexia - with the anorexia you gain a certain amount of twisted pride from not eating, with bulimia the disgust is all-consuming. The thrill of preparing the binge and the revulsion of purging it - I still have scars on my knuckles from where my teeth would cut my hand when it was shoved down my throat. It can be overcome, but you have to be utterly determined. I fight doubly hard so my awful habits and negative mindset are not passed on to my children.
I'm trying to recover. I'm eating so much... I am overweight, and restricted for a while to.lose weight. Luckily I told someone, but I'm just so hungry.... I don't wanna gain the weight back, it's scary
Guys, ive finished off like 8 bowls of chili and I'm still not full, it feels like I ate nothing. WHAT IS THIS (totally worth it, but I'm just jsebrjehhwbrjrbejeb crazy rn)
*doctors perform extremely challenging surgery, removing a woman's limb from her body due to her obsession with consuming food* woman: gOd hAs GiVeN mE a sEcOnD cHaNcE.
It's more complex than that ....the human brain doesn't always work like the movies. I was your all-american athlete growing up; then saw severe trauma in combat in Iraq. I had no idea PTSD would turn me to drugs and booze...everything I was against (sober one year now with treatment and therapy)! The brain is far more complex than black and white....and gives us no reason why we do the things we do. I might suggest that old indian saying 'walk a mile in their shoes' before passing judgement.
No need to be disrespectful to her, she probably has thanked the doctors several times and does believe they are the reason she’s still here. Maybe she just believes that the reason that the surgery worked and the doctors were able to save her was due to God, because surgery doesn’t always work. Everyone has different beliefs and you don’t have to agree but there’s no need to be disrespectful.
I can relate to Lindsay. I’m dealing with anorexia nervosa. My work had a potluck and my boss kept harassing me to eat food I didn’t want. I was so upset. Forced me to stay and watch me eat. I just wanted to sit with my friends and eat the dessert square that honestly took me a lot to eat. It’s not “helping”. It makes me feel embarrassed and like I don’t have control over what I eat. I’m already in treatment and therapy for this disorder.
Your boss sucks for putting that pressure on you. I'm glad you aren't in denial about your eating, but pressure/staring while eating is more triggering than eating. I'm just over ten years into recovery and I still cover my mouth/face while eating and have friends who joke about how much or little I eat, and they have no idea how hard those "jokes" hit hard.
I also have an eating disorder. Thankfully, I’m vegan and vegan food here is pretty hard to find. This means work events, my coworkers and managers have stopped asking me about my food. I never ask them to special-order me anything, and I show up and act social, so they don’t say anything about the food. Maybe you aren’t vegan, so you can say you’re on a specific eating plan. If anyone presses you, you can say it’s personal or even religious. People tend to stop when you bring up religion.
I love that they sent the guy to the US to get a wake up call about what can happen to him, but he ends up loving the bbq and donuts so much, "God bless America"!!!!
I live in Australia and I don’t know about other states but our state requires nutrition information for any type of food that is sold to be visable and easy to read and it does help to an extent
About the only thing at the restraints ive work at theres a calorie amount but the twist is it depends on which sides you get or if you get bread or a double order of something so.
It sometimes comes from a false-sense of superiority, but there are a lot of concerns with the US, and as Doctor Christian has found, many people are in denial in the US about why things are so bad for them. Of course, this is true of many, but the USA is such a big nation, it becomes more apparent.
I was thinking that. My dad doesn't eat anywhere near as bad as him, but I would love for him to weigh as little a Hugh, which sounds crazy but is true.
unrelated to all of this, but that quick clip of the little Scottish town looked so nice! it looks so quaint and pretty 💕 (im south african so nowhere here that i know of looks like that)
I'm eating strawberry popsicle? Anyone else? I wonder why they don't try leeches or maggots more often for infections? They only eat what's already dead. Very effective.
Oh man, I am on that stage in my weight loss where I am gaining muscles and weight by consequence and it is messing me up. I KNOW I am losing fat content and gaining muscles, but the scale is scaring me. I gained 10 lbs and I can see the muscles in my arms more and more so I just need to ignore the scale which is hard to do. This show just reminds me why I am losing that fat.
If you use a tape measure its better than weighing. Youll see youre losing inches and that helps keep you motivated. Im overweight and ive been working out and gained weight- even tho ive definitely lost fat. So i started this so i dont get discouraged and its helped so much
It's been nearly eleven years since this show was first aired, regardless of successful weight loss/gain, I really wish the people starring in this show to be well and happy.
When the Scottish music came I burst out laughters like bruh 😂. Also does Hugh have room for adoption? Hugh can you please adopt me even just for a day? If not I can always adopt you! You’re just amazing! 😭
Lindsay's story is rather sad , I can relate . I was once 11 stone at 5.9ft. I was in the hospital after a seizure and a nurse made fun of my weight . After that I went on extremes diets and lost 3 stone within the year . It made me malnourished and now im 8 stone unable to gain and suffer health problems as a result of one persons bullying . People don't realise how easy it is to give somebody a complex !
It always makes me laugh when they say “tuck in.” Because I live in USA, and we say “dig in.” And “Tuck in” is something you do to a child who is going to bed. Anyone else agree! 😂😂😂
Ha ha. True. In America, we say to our kids at bedtime, "I'll be up in a minute to tuck you in." And then at dinner, someone will say, "Okay everybody, dig in!" I'm still trying to figure out what that drink "squash" is. LOL
@@ElizabethF2222 it’s like an almost syrupy juice, made with fruit for flavour. When you drink it, you add a lot of water to dilute it. Drinking it on its own would be horrible lol
These two people are awesome! From Hugh being so encouraging and understanding, to Lindsey doing the same. When she told Hugh to do a twirl! That was so cute :)
I understand Hugh’s overweight story, because what can you do in that situation when the 2 people in your life who really matters and you love dies in the same year so quickly
Challenge for those who are suggesting to eat off a strangers plate, next time you are at a shopping centre food court rather then buying a meal for your self, wait for someone to leave their partially eaten meal who you do not know, then go up and eat their leftovers.
@@DaPeasant Yeah, really. It's so unsanitary. I'm sure Lynsey is a lovely person, but I don't want to swap mouth germs with her by eating her leftovers that she's poked her fork into.
Hugh isn't as big as the rest, he just has a big belly and can still walk. He's still unhealthy, but he's nit so bad when you compare him to the other supersizes and americans
For anyone curious, a corn dog is similar to a battered sausage but has a couple key differences. First, cornmeal is used in the batter. This gives it a fluffier texture and slightly sweeter taste. Second, corn dogs are almost always served on a stick. While they can be eaten as-is, many people add a sauce, such as mustard or ketchup. The US has also created a breakfast version that is sold as a frozen product to heat at home: the inside is a breakfast sausage and is wrapped in a pancake batter. Some versions include chocolate chips in the pancake.
whenever I see these people I just want them to know that they are lovely people (they are almost always huge sweethearts) I hope everyone continues to pursue what’s in their best interest ❣️ take care of yourself angels
Well, I understand. There were times in my life where I was hopelessly addicted to various drugs. I of course understood that it was ruining my life and wanted nothing more than to be free before, during and after popping those pills. Our overlords are destroying us with too much of everything.
I'm confused - are you impressed by the fact that she had a kid at 35? Cos my mom had me at 38-39 and I'm completely fine (no degenerative conditions, no down syndrome or anything like that)
i love this series because it doesnt make the participants look like fools, that are free to laugh at, but as people who might have had bad things happen to them which lead to them making bad choices. It shows how easy it for things to go wrong either way and i really appreciate that! Thank you!
I honestly think putting calories on foods in restaurents is a good idea but I just laughed so bad went she went around restaurents just asking waiters to add that XD
Idk, blaming fast food places/ calorically dense restaurants is pretty stupid. It's an individuals decision to make healthier choices. I live a healthy lifestyle now, and I still ociasionally eat out.
This is a really lovely episode. I feel bad for Hugh, his food choices (food type) aren't that bad in comparison to some of the others, but there really is a problem with the portion sizes. And poor Lindsay, her work colleagues were horrible :/
True! Remember the episode with Danni and the Scottish girl, Vicki? She said that the "mid morning snack" was an "invention by some oversized person." LOL Snacks are usually useless junk anyway.
