I\u2019d like to see them cooking at the ranch. They worked with a dietitian but there was no mention of cooking classes. I\u2019d like to see these folks learn some snazzy new dishes to take home to their skeptical families.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nThe issues raised by \u201cHeavy\u201d are the same ones I struggle with every day in my studio and on this blog. I am passionate about working with obesity and what I saw on this show is that you can give someone every <\/em>opportunity, every <\/em>tool, and they will still fail. We, as a fitness and medical community, have been very good at looking at how and why we become overweight. This show highlights that we still have a long way to go to work with people on how and why to become healthy<\/em>. Pulling someone back from the precipice of morbid obesity is no easy feat. Our medical and fitness community is failing Americans right now. We need to do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat do you think? How hard do you think it is to come back from morbid obesity? Have you been successful doing it? What helped you and what didn\u2019t? I would love to hear your thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I\u2019ve watched four episodes of \u201cHeavy,\u201d A&E\u2019s new entry into the weight-loss reality TV genre, and I have some thoughts \u2026 some of them are bleak, a few are hopeful. The show does a great job of putting a face on obesity and of showing the struggles an individual faces as they make a thousand …<\/p>\n
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