An Replace on Her Progress

In Season 8, Episode 9 of My 600-lb Life, which aired on Feb. 26, 2020, viewers are launched to Seana Collins, a 23-year-old Kansas Metropolis native whose weight is at 660 kilos. “Every single day of my life feels prefer it’s tougher than the final and like issues hold getting worse for me due to my measurement,” she says upon introduction, including that she does not “need to look this manner” and feels “like [she’s] trapped more often than not due to how arduous it’s to maneuver and get round.”

Now, a number of years after filming, viewers are given a glimpse additional into Seana’s journey. In Season 9, Episode 5 of My 600-lb Life: The place Are They Now?, which aired on June 5, 2024, we see Seana make main progress solely to relapse throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and fall again into her unhealthy consuming habits. So, how is Seana doing now? Preserve studying for every thing it’s worthwhile to learn about her progress on the present.

Seana feels “like a monster simply strolling round” and hates her physique “greater than something in the entire world.” She is perhaps one of many youngest circumstances we have seen on the present, and she or he explains that a variety of her early weight acquire got here from the truth that she was raised in an abusive dwelling.

“I’ve had a very arduous life,” she says, “and I really feel prefer it’s simply been chaos since I used to be born.” Her dad would abuse Seana mentally and bodily, and she or he got here to show to meals for consolation from an early age. “Consuming made me really feel like I used to be going to be OK, like nothing bought worse,” she says.

At 8 years previous, Seana weighed greater than 150 kilos, at 10, she had placed on one other 100 kilos and weighed greater than 250 kilos. “Youngsters began making enjoyable of me for a way huge I used to be,” she says of not having pals. “My perspective was that I had meals as my pal and did not want anybody else,” Seana shares.

By the point she reached highschool, Seana weighed 400 kilos and the teasing bought so dangerous at college that she determined to drop out on the age of 16. However having nothing to do at dwelling led to a melancholy spiral, and shortly her mom dedicated her to a psychological hospital.

For the next yr, by Seana’s account, all she did was eat meals. However she additionally invited a person she met on-line to maneuver in together with her, and thru his dependency, Seana too turned hooked on meth. “It was a downward spiral till my mother got here and bought me,” she recollects. Seana checked herself right into a psychological hospital as soon as once more, and after her launch, continued consuming to manage.

So, by the point we meet her, Seana’s state of affairs is dire. Her mom takes her all the way down to Houston, the place Dr. Now could be based mostly and he basically predicts upon their first assembly what we see unfold over the subsequent hour and a half on display screen. “My concern about Seana proper now,” he says, “is that she does not appear too motivated to start out turning her life round.”

It is truthfully spectacular how Dr. Now can determine the sufferers that may find yourself shedding pounds from those that will not within the first few seconds of assembly them, and it is particularly wild as a result of everybody enters his workplace speaking the discuss and saying all the suitable issues.

Anyway, again to Seana. As Dr. Now predicts and regardless of the phrases that come out of her mouth, Seana is not dedicated to turning her life round. As seasoned viewers know, Dr. Now requires his sufferers to show their dedication to him by shedding pounds on their very own within the first few months of remedy — and solely then does he give the inexperienced gentle for gastric bypass surgical procedure. In brief: Seana by no means does.

On the weight check-in required across the two-month mark, Seana simply bails. “I used to be too scared to go,” she says. Why? As a result of she has misplaced Dr. Now’s weight-reduction plan printout and “was too frightened of what he would say” to ask for one more.

Dr. Now, as you may think about, is not blissful when she lastly does arrive a couple of months later. As an alternative of shedding 40 kilos monthly, she has misplaced just one pound.

Seana misses her six-month appointment as effectively, and Dr. Now decides that she must fly all the way down to Houston as a result of her weight is clearly not shedding itself. That is the primary time we see Seana lose any weight — she drops 35 kilos. “I’ve by no means misplaced that sort of weight earlier than,” she confesses with pleasure. At this level, viewers are led to assume that she would possibly simply have one of the best character arc and plot twist of the season.

However that is sadly not the case. Seana begins remedy, at Dr. Now’s suggestion, however that results in her reverting to previous coping mechanisms (binge consuming) to take care of the matters that remedy is mentioning. By month 10, she had solely misplaced 25 kilos and by month 12, she had placed on extra weight. Dr. Now decides to launch her from his program however provides her the choice to return in six months if she will be able to begin making some progress.

In her My 600-lb Life: The place Are They Now? episode, we see Seana a yr and one month after her preliminary go to with Dr. Now making important progress. Not solely is she exercising and swimming, but additionally reducing her parts in half and maintaining with remedy with Dr. Paradise. Three months later, after proving to Dr. Now that she may lose 50 kilos, he approves her for surgical procedure. However the pleasure is short-lived.

Nowadays, Seana retains a really low profile, with no signal of her on social media. Subsequently, we do not know if she ever misplaced the 300 kilos she strived to do away with or if she ever underwent weight reduction surgical procedure. You see, with COVID-19 hitting proper on the time when Seana was making probably the most progress, she wasn’t capable of bear surgical procedure two months after getting permitted.

Two years and 7 months after beginning Dr. Now’s program, Seana’s weight spiked and she or he weighed extra (730 kilos) than she did when she first met him. Two months later, she shared that she has been depressed since being denied surgical procedure. Whereas Seana admits that she is not certain that she has it in her to proceed with Dr. Now’s program, we’re hoping she was capable of flip issues round for the higher.

Stream previous episodes of My 600-lb Life and My 600-lb Life: The place Are They Now? on TLC.