My 600-lb Life
| My 600-lb Life | |
|---|---|
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 38 |
My 600-lb Life is a reality television series currently airing on TLC. Each episode follows a year in the life of a morbidly obese person (who starts the episode weighing around 600 lbs) and their attempts to reduce their weight to a healthy level, usually with the assistance of gastric bypass surgery performed by Houston-area surgeon Younan Nowzaradan.
This series was originally a 5-part miniseries involving 4 morbidly obese patients. Because of its popularity, new episodes were filmed including a "Where Are They Now?" retrospective in Season 4.
In the first season, patients were filmed over a period of 7 years from 2004 to 2011. Starting with the second season, patients were filmed for only 1 year.
As of September 4, 2016, all but one of the patients involved in this series are still alive despite their potentially life-threatening condition of morbid obesity. Henry Foots, who was featured in season 1, died of an illness unrelated to his weight loss surgery in 2013.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | Network | ||||
| 1 | 6 | February 1, 2012 | March 26, 2012 | TLC | ||
| 2 | 8 | January 7, 2014 | February 25, 2014 | |||
| 3 | 14 | January 7, 2015 | April 8, 2015 | |||
| 4 | 10 | January 6, 2016 | May 18, 2016[1] | |||