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It\u2019s no secret that I\u2019m a big fan of My 600 Lb. Life<\/em>, and I was extremely disappointed when the show seemingly came to a slow, uneventful finish after the conclusion of season 13.\u00a0 Periodically I would Google the show to find out when there was going to be another season, which turned into if there was going to be another season, and all I\u2019d ever find are vague speculations of legal troubles between the production company and TLC and other fans speculating that perhaps Dr. Now was perhaps calling it quits considering he\u2019s 80 years old and should rightfully probably be enjoying retirement without the stress of holding human lives in his fingertips on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n Eventually, my curiosity petered off, lost to the passage of time and finding other things to think about.\u00a0 Recently however, mythical wife brought to my attention that Dr. Now was back on television, albeit no longer called My 600 lb. Life and no longer on TLC.\u00a0 Rechristened The 6,000 lb. Diaries with Dr. Now<\/em>, on Lifetime\/A&E, I came to discover that this show had been on since fucking 2025 and I\u2019m asking myself how in the world did this not hit my radar, we\u2019re over halfway through 2026 and I had no clue that this show even existed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I know that I\u2019m a busy parent, endlessly struggling to keep his head above water and often times miss out on all sorts of crap, but shit goddamn, you\u2019d think one of the numerous algorithms, AI or other big brother-ey crap out there in the world would have brought to my attention the return of Dr. Now to television and made me aware of this last year.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, despite the fact that I have an endless list of television and movies that I want to watch, I shot 6,000 lb. Diaries to the front of the line because I had to see what the fuck Dr. Now was up to now, after all this time.<\/span><\/p>\n First, I love the notion that because of the title of the show, people at A&E\/Lifetime\/TLC\/whoever else is under that giant fucking Disney umbrella had to look for the right ten people to have in the first season, so that they could maintain their claim that the total weight of all subjects combined to be at or over 6,000 lbs.\u00a0 Like there probably had to have been some 590 lb. cruiserweights<\/a> who were on the show\u2019s shortlist of people to be featured on the show, but their diminutive statures risked the entire show\u2019s aggregate weight down to like 5,967 lbs., so they got passed over for Caleb who weighed in at 804 lbs. and guaranteed that the show could definitely be called 6,000 lb. Diaries.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, mythical wife and I dove right in, with high hopes and anticipation for some more juicy trainwreck television, and some classic Dr. Now snipes and savage heat.\u00a0 I was so excited about the season that I didn\u2019t even bother to wait until finishing the entire season to post about it, because as much as I\u2019d love to binge watch anything anymore, with barely two hours of free time a day, shit just ain\u2019t happening.<\/span><\/p>\n So five episodes in, and I\u2019m disappointed to have to say that unfortunately I\u2019m not impressed.\u00a0 Like, at all.\u00a0 There are a lot of changes to the show\u2019s general format, some decent, some not quite so, but the high-level biggest change of the show really is the noticeable reduction of, the man himself, Dr. Nowzaradan (Bariatric Surgeon).\u00a0 And when Dr. Now is on screen, it\u2019s almost as if he or someone else has told him(self) to cool it and tone it down with the zingers and the heat, and viewers are not getting any savage snipes or cold remarks that made him such a legend during My 600.<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, and I\u2019m not saying that I deliberately want to see everyone fail, but every single subject of The 6,000 has been successful, at meeting their initial weight loss goals, getting approved for surgery, and getting said surgery, before dropping some more weight post-op, before the episodes end.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I\u2019m against them finding success, it\u2019s just that every single subject I\u2019ve seen so far are all genuinely decent-to-likeable people who aren\u2019t trainwrecks, aren\u2019t behavioral problems aside from their overeating, and frankly just aren\u2019t the quality of trash television that made My 600 such riveting television.<\/span><\/p>\n I know that says more about my person than anything else, but I\u2019d wager that I\u2019m not the only one feeling this upon watching The 6,000 after being long fans of My 600.\u00a0 Mythical wife said to me that the show has become too wholesome when I\u2019m wanting trainwreck, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m struggling to get into The 6,000 so much.<\/span><\/p>\n Just about everything has changed going from 600 to 6,000.\u00a0 No longer does the show start with the crushingly sad music, where the subjects trudge out of bed, take a shower before eating an entire family\u2019s worth of breakfast by themselves, go see the \u2018doctor in houston\u2019 where Dr. Now gives them the plan, they say they can do it, fail to meet the first weight loss test, get sad or mad, Dr. Now rips into them, they fail again, Dr. Now rips into them again but orders them to get therapy and move to Houston, they move to Houston or not, and the show usually runs out of time before they can get surgery and we never know what happens to them because most people probably aren\u2019t so diehard they\u2019ll wait for the Where Are They Now<\/em> sequels to every subject.<\/span><\/p>\n 6,000 has done away with almost all of that, all the way down to the music and title cards, which are now more positive, sky blue and uplifting.\u00a0 The subjects are bubblier, and are all equipped with personal cams to record \u201cdiaries\u201d which make up a chunk of the show\u2019s viewable content, probably saving A&E a lot of money with fewer camera personnel to have to follow.\u00a0 Gone is a lot of filler footage, mostly of their struggles, like inability to move, complaining while traveling, pigging out on fast food in the parking lots of adjacent Walmarts and general bickering with their enablers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The episodes are anywhere from 39-55 minutes, which kind of shows just how bloated My 600 episodes must have gotten with all that filler trash footage.\u00a0 And as I\u2019ve often said, I\u2019ve grown to appreciate shorter episodes as I\u2019ve gotten older and value my time more, but at the same time, I\u2019m missing the trainwreck drama of the old format, even if it meant only watching one 88-98 minute episode a night.<\/span><\/p>\n I feel like holistically everything changed, probably because the old format of My 600 was probably sucking the souls out of everyone<\/a>, from the viewers to Dr. Now himself.\u00a0 It\u2019s like they\u2019re trying to course-correct 13 gradually degrading seasons of My 600 with a faster-paced, more uplifting format, focusing more on the victories and not so much the struggles, and with way less Dr. Now on screen, seeing as how the man is 81, and has probably spent the better part of the last 13 seasons getting beat down by all the failure stories and all the asshole subjects that TLC was probably deliberately hand-picking to get the spiciest television out of their interactions with an exasperated and burnt-out Dr. Now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At the root of it, Dr. Now is still a very real and very legitimate doctor, and it\u2019s probably providing a lot of chicken soup for his personal and professional soul to have his wins and success stories being shown nationally, instead of all his fuck-ups and failures being the only ones that make it onto television, even if the Assanti Brothers and other trainwrecks were some of the most memorable episodes of the My 600 library.<\/span><\/p>\n It seems evident by his on-screen interactions with the subjects of The 6,000; five episodes in, and I haven\u2019t heard a single biting zinger or cutting remark to anyone who\u2019s sitting in Not-Room 5 which is another noticeable format change, having them all sit in a completely different room than where every episode of My 600 was filmed in.\u00a0 He still calls out shortcomings of missing a goal by 6-10 lbs., and is quick to identify who the enablers are<\/a>, but he\u2019s also seemingly calmer, and even apt to show some personality or humor.<\/span><\/p>\n I get it.\u00a0 But I miss the savage Dr. Now, even if it was probably to the benefit of nobody actually in the room.<\/span><\/p>\n Change is inevitable, and when the day is over, change in the direction of wanting to be more positive is not a bad thing, even if it means less entertainment for callous cold hearts like me.\u00a0 However, in the world of television and the game of ratings, I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and make the assumption that The 6,000 lb. Diaries won\u2019t have nearly the success that My 600 lb. Life did, and I don\u2019t really know if I\u2019m going to be in any rush to complete the season of the new show.\u00a0 Disheartening, but that\u2019s the reality of television sometimes.\u00a0 As Eric Bischoff once said, controversy creates cash.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s no secret that I\u2019m a big fan of My 600 Lb. Life, and I was extremely disappointed when the show seemingly came to a slow, uneventful finish after the conclusion of season 13.\u00a0 Periodically I would Google the show to find out when there was going to be another season, which turned into if … Continue reading The 6,000 lb. letdown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,120,83,69,125],"class_list":["post-51439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-fat-people","tag-observations","tag-television","tag-tlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51441,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439\/revisions\/51441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![cruiserweights<\/a> who were on the show\u2019s shortlist of people to be featured on the show, but their diminutive statures risked the entire show\u2019s aggregate weight down to like 5,967 lbs., so they got passed over for Caleb who weighed in at 804 lbs. and guaranteed that the show could definitely be called 6,000 lb. Diaries.<\/span><\/p>\nAnyway, mythical wife and I dove right in, with high hopes and anticipation for some more juicy trainwreck television, and some classic Dr. Now snipes and savage heat.\u00a0 I was so excited about the season that I didn\u2019t even bother to wait until finishing the entire season to post about it, because as much as I\u2019d love to binge watch anything anymore, with barely two hours of free time a day, shit just ain\u2019t happening.<\/span><\/p>\nSo five episodes in, and I\u2019m disappointed to have to say that unfortunately I\u2019m not impressed.\u00a0 Like, at all.\u00a0 There are a lot of changes to the show\u2019s general format, some decent, some not quite so, but the high-level biggest change of the show really is the noticeable reduction of, the man himself, Dr. Nowzaradan (Bariatric Surgeon).\u00a0 And when Dr. Now is on screen, it\u2019s almost as if he or someone else has told him(self) to cool it and tone it down with the zingers and the heat, and viewers are not getting any savage snipes or cold remarks that made him such a legend during My 600.<\/span><\/p>\nAdditionally, and I\u2019m not saying that I deliberately want to see everyone fail, but every single subject of The 6,000 has been successful, at meeting their initial weight loss goals, getting approved for surgery, and getting said surgery, before dropping some more weight post-op, before the episodes end.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I\u2019m against them finding success, it\u2019s just that every single subject I\u2019ve seen so far are all genuinely decent-to-likeable people who aren\u2019t trainwrecks, aren\u2019t behavioral problems aside from their overeating, and frankly just aren\u2019t the quality of trash television that made My 600 such riveting television.<\/span><\/p>\nI know that says more about my person than anything else, but I\u2019d wager that I\u2019m not the only one feeling this upon watching The 6,000 after being long fans of My 600.\u00a0 Mythical wife said to me that the show has become too wholesome when I\u2019m wanting trainwreck, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m struggling to get into The 6,000 so much.<\/span><\/p>\nJust about everything has changed going from 600 to 6,000.\u00a0 No longer does the show start with the crushingly sad music, where the subjects trudge out of bed, take a shower before eating an entire family\u2019s worth of breakfast by themselves, go see the \u2018doctor in houston\u2019 where Dr. Now gives them the plan, they say they can do it, fail to meet the first weight loss test, get sad or mad, Dr. Now rips into them, they fail again, Dr. Now rips into them again but orders them to get therapy and move to Houston, they move to Houston or not, and the show usually runs out of time before they can get surgery and we never know what happens to them because most people probably aren\u2019t so diehard they\u2019ll wait for the Where Are They Now<\/em> sequels to every subject.<\/span><\/p>\n6,000 has done away with almost all of that, all the way down to the music and title cards, which are now more positive, sky blue and uplifting.\u00a0 The subjects are bubblier, and are all equipped with personal cams to record \u201cdiaries\u201d which make up a chunk of the show\u2019s viewable content, probably saving A&E a lot of money with fewer camera personnel to have to follow.\u00a0 Gone is a lot of filler footage, mostly of their struggles, like inability to move, complaining while traveling, pigging out on fast food in the parking lots of adjacent Walmarts and general bickering with their enablers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe episodes are anywhere from 39-55 minutes, which kind of shows just how bloated My 600 episodes must have gotten with all that filler trash footage.\u00a0 And as I\u2019ve often said, I\u2019ve grown to appreciate shorter episodes as I\u2019ve gotten older and value my time more, but at the same time, I\u2019m missing the trainwreck drama of the old format, even if it meant only watching one 88-98 minute episode a night.<\/span><\/p>\nI feel like holistically everything changed, probably because the old format of My 600 was probably sucking the souls out of everyone<\/a>, from the viewers to Dr. Now himself.\u00a0 It\u2019s like they\u2019re trying to course-correct 13 gradually degrading seasons of My 600 with a faster-paced, more uplifting format, focusing more on the victories and not so much the struggles, and with way less Dr. Now on screen, seeing as how the man is 81, and has probably spent the better part of the last 13 seasons getting beat down by all the failure stories and all the asshole subjects that TLC was probably deliberately hand-picking to get the spiciest television out of their interactions with an exasperated and burnt-out Dr. Now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAt the root of it, Dr. Now is still a very real and very legitimate doctor, and it\u2019s probably providing a lot of chicken soup for his personal and professional soul to have his wins and success stories being shown nationally, instead of all his fuck-ups and failures being the only ones that make it onto television, even if the Assanti Brothers and other trainwrecks were some of the most memorable episodes of the My 600 library.<\/span><\/p>\nIt seems evident by his on-screen interactions with the subjects of The 6,000; five episodes in, and I haven\u2019t heard a single biting zinger or cutting remark to anyone who\u2019s sitting in Not-Room 5 which is another noticeable format change, having them all sit in a completely different room than where every episode of My 600 was filmed in.\u00a0 He still calls out shortcomings of missing a goal by 6-10 lbs., and is quick to identify who the enablers are<\/a>, but he\u2019s also seemingly calmer, and even apt to show some personality or humor.<\/span><\/p>\nI get it.\u00a0 But I miss the savage Dr. Now, even if it was probably to the benefit of nobody actually in the room.<\/span><\/p>\nChange is inevitable, and 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![identify who the enablers are<\/a>, but he\u2019s also seemingly calmer, and even apt to show some personality or humor.<\/span><\/p>\nI get it.\u00a0 But I miss the savage Dr. Now, even if it was probably to the benefit of nobody actually in the room.<\/span><\/p>\nChange is inevitable, and when the day is over, change in the direction of wanting to be more positive is not a bad thing, even if it means less entertainment for callous cold hearts like me.\u00a0 However, in the world of television and the game of ratings, I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and make the assumption that The 6,000 lb. Diaries won\u2019t have nearly the success that My 600 lb. Life did, and I don\u2019t really know if I\u2019m going to be in any rush to complete the season of the new show.\u00a0 Disheartening, but that\u2019s the reality of television sometimes.\u00a0 As Eric Bischoff once said, controversy creates cash.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s no secret that I\u2019m a big fan of My 600 Lb. Life, and I was extremely disappointed when the show seemingly came to a slow, uneventful finish after the conclusion of season 13.\u00a0 Periodically I would Google the show to find out when there was going to be another season, which turned into if … Continue reading The 6,000 lb. letdown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,120,83,69,125],"class_list":["post-51439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-fat-people","tag-observations","tag-television","tag-tlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51441,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51439\/revisions\/51441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/ih1.redbubble.net\/image.3175937892.2672\/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg\"){kind=link}