After an sudden flip of occasions, Syreeta moved to Largo, Fla. and put her weight reduction journey on maintain. How is she doing now?
Many individuals on TLC’s My 600-Lb Life are coping with long-standing trauma and Syreeta Covington from Season 11, Episode 2, which aired on Feb. 22, 2023, isn’t any completely different. She endured abuse and neglect as a toddler, and far of that led to her over-eating habits. In flip, that put her on the trail to gaining weight, which is not conducive to residing a wholesome life-style.
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When viewers have been first launched to Syreeta, she and her husband Lawrence have been residing in Columbus, Ohio. At her first weigh-in with Dr. Now, she weighed 603 kilos. A yr and two months after her preliminary go to, an sudden occasion occurred, requiring Syreeta to place her weight reduction objectives on maintain. This is what occurred after she appeared on My 600-lb Life and what she’s doing now.
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The place is Syreeta Covington from ‘My 600-Lb Life’ now?
Almost two years after making her debut on My 600-lb Life, Syreeta and her husband moved to Largo, Fla, though it is not clear if the couple remains to be residing there. Whereas Syreeta’s social media accounts are set to personal, her husband’s Instagram is not. He sometimes gives us with a glimpse into how she’s doing at present. A put up from July 2023 captures a beaming Syreeta trying happier and more healthy.
Though we do not know the way a lot weight Syreeta has misplaced in whole since showing on the present, viewers returned to her story in Season 9, Episode 4 of My 600-lb Life: The place Are They Now?, which aired on Might 22, 2024.
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The episode reveals that whereas Syreeta had solely misplaced 70 kilos a yr and 10 months after being launched to viewers, she had develop into extra lively. She bought a job and sought assist from a private coach. However a yr and two months after assembly with Dr. Now for the primary time, she realized she was pregnant, which made it tough for her to take care of the weight-reduction plan and train regime the physician had prescribed.
Though Syreeta needed to put her weight reduction plans on maintain whereas she carried her child lady, and even relocated to Florida to acquire care from high-risk being pregnant specialists, she suffered an unlucky loss only a few months later.
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After conceiving, Syreeta misplaced her child greater than midway by means of her being pregnant.
Almost six months into her being pregnant, Syreeta realized that her daughter’s kidneys did not type. The newborn did not survive and was delivered as a nonetheless delivery. As tough because it was for Syreeta to remain constructive after bearing such a loss, she was nonetheless decided to get more healthy.
She returned to Dr. Now’s workplace and was suggested to maneuver to Houston and lose 60 kilos to be able to qualify for weight reduction surgical procedure. Since Syreeta retains her non-public life beneath wraps, we do not know if she relocated or met that concentrate on weight objective.
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In ‘My 600-b Life,’ Syreeta defined why she developed unhealthy consuming habits.
Syreeta defined in her My 600-Lb Life episode that she was “raised by lots of people” from the time she was a toddler. Throughout her time in foster care, Syreeta says she was abused sexually, mentally, and bodily by the point she was eight years previous. As a result of not one of the adults who handed by means of Syreeta’s life have been outfitted to correctly assist her, she ultimately discovered herself in women’ properties after which in juvenile detention.
After she met her delivery mom and that relationship went south quick, Syreeta needed to come to phrases with the likelihood that she and her mom weren’t meant to have a relationship.
“So after that, I simply made my peace with loving the sensation I bought from meals,” she explains within the episode.
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Syreeta’s husband was her main caregiver on ‘My 600-Lb Life.’
Syreeta as soon as labored as a hairstylist, however on the present, she was all however bedridden on account of her measurement. In consequence, her husband cared for her. And, though Syreeta may barely convey herself to belief Dr. Now, she was snug along with her husband caring for her. He simply wished what’s finest for her.
In My 600-lb Life: The place Are They Now? Season 9, we see Syreeta again at work, though remotely, indicating her efforts to regain management of her life. Hopefully, Syreeta can proceed to beat her belief points and obtain additional weight reduction, finally qualifying for surgical procedure if she hasn’t already undergone it.
Watch My 600-Lb Life: The place Are They Now? on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. EST on TLC.