My 600-lb Life : Watching ericas story

Her sister is an *beep* Ya your sister is obese but she is still you're sister.

Agreed, And She's Not Exactly Thin, SMH !!!

As the episode continues I hate her sister even more. It must take a lot of work to be that miserable of a person

She has dealt with Erica a long time she's 44. Sister said the weight, hoarding and irrational thinking is a sign of mental illness. Erica needed an intervention decades ago. She may have burned out sister.

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Erica needed an intervention decades ago. She may have burned out sister

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I thought that too. She tried to strong arm her brother and I think the sister got tired of her attitude too.

There's something off about Erica. She's trying to come off as sincere, but I'm not buying all of it. There has to be a reason why her sister is treating her the way she is.

Erica obviously has problems, and I can see how it would be hard to deal with her, but sister Molly is absolutely horrible to her and certainly doesn't help make the situation any better. The snotty, negative comments never stop flowing from her mouth.

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I agree she seemed a little off. But she had a lot of emotional/mental issues and that was obvious. Her whole family seemed to have some kind of issues.

Her sister was a flat out piece of Sh*t!! Regardless of her sisters past or their relationship, she should have supported her better. She just seemed so fake.

I'm changing my opinion because I watched the program again and I kept waiting for an explanation as to why Erica's sister was being so evil towards her and nothing was explained. Even if the sister was fed up with Erica, there was no reason at all for her to be so mean to her. When Erica was beaming because she lost weight, she had such a sweet smile on her face, like a child, then her idiot sister had to ruin the moment by saying she should have lost more. The sister is an a-hole and she is being ripped a new one on TLC's Facebook page.

Another looser it seems.

Who's paying for all those plane tickets?

Erica and her brother and sister are emotionally flat. They don't seem to express much emotion happy, sad whatever. And they don't seem to have much empathy. There's also a lot of passive aggression. I wonder what that's all about?

So true, both siblings have no emotional depth. They seem to just exist except when they are grumbling. I wonder why too.

At first I thought the same, but after watching her try to guilt trip her brother with him choosing her life or his livelihood, I'm thinking she's been a pain in their butts for years.

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At first I thought the same, but after watching her try to guilt trip her brother with him choosing her life or his livelihood, I'm thinking she's been a pain in their butts for years.

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I thought the issue they may have with her is the issue many of us have with those on this show. Erica has apparently lived off of assistance for years with free rent, free food, free everything, while they had to work and struggle. I also got that impression they were fed up with her being a pain in their butt for years.

True. She can't fathom how he will choose his livelihood and working over her needs. She clearly has assistance coming in, she hasn't had to support anyone..she just can't wrap her mind around why he didn't just jump at her requests.

Yes!! I just posted this! They have spent almost half their lives being taken care of, essentially waited on hand and foot. It's about them 24/7. What they need, not what anyone else needs.

Erica saying they "made" her buy an entire row on the plane, as if we should pity her. She doesn't get or care that anyone else in that row would be totally uncomfortable and inconvenienced sitting next to her?

True, like you said what they need, not what anyone else needs! Almost like arrested development. They still think like greedy kids as adults. I

While watching, I thought this, too:: Damn, her family is HARSH!! Then I realized they've been dealing with Erica's bs for a *lifetime* and have heard her empty promises to change repeatedly. No, they didn't come off great on camera, but she needed people to stand up TO her. I don't know that I'd ever be able to be so 'cold' to a family member, no matter what, but I can't fault them. Erica brought it all on herself.

I feel like that whole family needs therapy. It's a shame Erica was the only one that got it.


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Erica's sister is just a miserable person. I don't know why, but her bad attitude is not purely about being fed up with Erica, even if we don't know the full dynamic. The sister is a bitch even when things are going well.

I was trying to figure it out, too. I can totally understand a daughter/son being resentful against an obese mother (ie, if the mother forced them to take care of them when young, etc.) But a sister? I mean it sounded like the dad was cruel to Erica, maybe Molly was taking off of him. Or maybe their mother enabled Erica so the siblings were jealous/resentful. I couldn't understand what Erica would have done to them to warrant so much hate (from Molly mostly). Yes, I get it if Erica had given false hope about getting better before and never did, that'd make them not sympathetic. But Molly seemed to get some sort of pleasure out of being mean to her. It's like she felt she had the right to treat Erica with zero respect and be as mean to her as she wanted.because she was obese?

If Erica is depressed, having ZERO support system and instead only people shooting you down and discouraging youreally isn't going to help. Not that they had to wait on her hand and foot, but at least be kind. Or at least DON'T be so UNkind lol

Erica's family is why we have friends. We can't pick our family but we can pick our friends.

I hate too sound cruel, but I'm 30 min into her episode and I'm feeling zero sympathy. I think I'm just tired of hearing the woe as me tales. So many in the show act like victims, and require family to wait on them hand and foot. Her sister is very come, but as others have said, how long has she dealt with Erica?

Hearing Erica say "and they made me buy a whole row of 3 seats".ummm, yeah!! Is she kidding? Of course she needs a whole row, how the eff would she expect anyone to be able to sit by her comfortably? That statement right there is what drives me nuts about this show. So many of the people have spent so long unable to care for themselves, it's as if they have this built in sense of entitlement. It's all about them, all the time.

ITA! The arrogant sense of entitlement is what I find so frustrating about so many of the people on this show. Some of them have been taken care of their entire lives by family and our tax dollars! I know some have worked but not all of them. They've been totally enabled to eat themselves to weigh 600 pounds! I feel bad for them having to fight those demons but we all have to fight demons don't we?

Yeah. She was hard to pin down. She didn't seem to get that these things were for her own good, like when the dietitian threw away the food. She's like "I can still get some!" okay but, you're trying to lose weight is the point.

But she seemed so alone. She looked genuinely happy when she'd lose weight and then her sister would be there smirking and shrugging, only able to muster out "too bad it wasn't more!" wtf lol

Anyway I try not to throw stones. I've never been overweight, nor had addiction, but honestly if I didn't "watch" myself I could easily see myself becoming someone who just holes up and stays in bed all day in the dark, unable to motivate themselves to work or socialize or do much of anything. Maybe I'm depressed, I don't know, butjust sayin, I could see it happening. And who's to say it won't ever, one day I might be like that. Sooo yeah. Maybe I just mean, I know what it's like to feel trapped inside a black cloud and lacking the motivation to get out of it, even though you know it's "wrong." If I had physical 500 pounds on top of that black cloud, pssht, forget it, toaster-in-the-bathtub-time! I'd be completely hopeless

I'm only half way through the show so far so I haven't yet seen the parts where Molly is running down any progress. It sounds like you have a good grasp on your tendencies and that's why I doubt you'll find yourself in a tragic situation like Erica's! You weren't mean at all in your post, in fact you were quite kind and generous! I wish you the best!

I'm really disappointed that they're taking these message boards away! I've enjoyed reading the comments on IMDB for years! I don't use FB or Twitter but I'm obviously going to have to change that in order to find comments in the future. Are most people making comments on the Twitter page of shows now or do you know? Thanks in advance for any information! Have a good night!

Molly is exactly what Erica needed.

Lets start from the beginning So Erica had 40+ years of bad eating habits and then she expected that Molly will drop everything and move to Houston with her for a whole year? Seriously?

And it looks like Erica made promises before about losing weight, since Molly did say at one point that Erica never followed through anything in her life so Molly doesn't think that Erica will actually follow up with a plan this time either.

I'm only 60 min into this episode, but right now its the part where Molly threw away all junk food and Erica is whining how upset she is. Then Erica ordered crappy food again, which dietitian threw away and here is Erica all upset again stating how she can just "order more". So I don't blame Molly at all for not wanting to do anything with Erica - I wouldn't either.

And then the statement "I'm so upset that everybody else can eat junk food, but I can't". HELLOOOOOOOOO everybody else is not 600 lbs.

During this first hour Molly is not a bitch. Erica is a bitch and she's bringing down everybody else to her level.

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I can't believe so many people are bitching about Erica's sister. I don't blame her sister at all for being the way she is. Erica did this to herself, and whined the whole time like a child. She just wanted everybody to put aside their lives and take care of her and continue to enable her. No, you don't do that to a drug addict. Food is her drug.

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Sorry, but just because the sister was fed up, it gave her no right to be downright cruel. She was verbally abusive and an all around a-hole. I would have told her fat, ugly ass off.

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She just wanted everybody to put aside their lives and take care of her and continue to enable her. No, you don't do that to a drug addict. Food is her drug.

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I agree with you that Erica did this to herself and has no one to blame but herself but something about the way the sister talked to her. It was all very passive aggressive.

Passive aggressive and mean. If there was more history to their story, TLC should have made that known because I saw nothing that helped me understand why her sister was so cruel to her.

Molly should've been aggressive and mean earlier to her. Maybe then Erica wouldn't get to 660 lbs.

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When I die, I want to be buried face down. That way whoever doesn't like me can kiss my ass.

Molly wasn't being mean to her because she cared, she was being mean to her because she's a nasty jerk.

Molly was being nasty jerk because she's tired of Erica's half-baked ideas. Molly made it clear that she didn't want to be involved in Erica's life. Erica still continued to call her.

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When I die, I want to be buried face down. That way whoever doesn't like me can kiss my ass.

Watching the Supersized episode right now.

"You have no sense of personal responsibility."

Dr. Now's one comment sums up this episode pretty well. All I've seen so far is a woman who doesn't want to help herself demanding that everyone help her.

Karma has a good point. I really wish we had gotten a much bigger picture of the family dynamics.

I know many feel Molly was just over the top crueland yes, she was very meanbut I'm trying to see it from her POV. We're probably talking about YEARS of Erica expecting her family to take care of her, and to feed her addiction. We've seen what happens when they attempt to help, and stop buying her junk. She lashes out, and then finds another way to kill herself. If I spent years hearing my sibling beg and plead for help, only for that sibling to then fight me when I offer it, I'd probably grow increasingly more resentful of that sibling too.



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I kept thinking throughout the entire episode that most of the people on this show have someone who enables them and buys them food or takes them to the nearest McDonald's. And I was glad to see that Erica's family didn't indulge her. With that being said . . . I think her sister was a horrible b!tch. I can understand that she was tired of hearing the excuses, but she could have been a little bit nicer. She really came across on TV as being very uncaring.

I guess I am in the minority here. Although I do think the siblings could have shown a little more empathy towards Erica, I can completely understand why they are they way they are. Dealing with someone who has any medical issue, be it physical, mental, emotional; can be very draining on those closest to them, especially when for years they have been trying to help the situation to no avail because the person with the issue doesn't want to change and wants to blame everyone else around them and b!tches, whines, whatever to get their way. Erica kept pressuring her sister to take her to Houston, the sister finally broke down but Erica wasn't happy because her sister and later her brother would not give up their lives for her. She was mad her family and the nutritionist got rid of the bad food in the home and immediately ordered more. After years of her treating them that way, how are they supposed to feel? I know their frustrations having to deal with a family member and after countless times of trying to help, only to be talked down to or worse, you can get to the point of saying, forget it. Again, it is just my opinion and having to deal with someone similar to Erica (and many of those on this program) I get where they are coming from.

Nicely said.

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When I die, I want to be buried face down. That way whoever doesn't like me can kiss my ass.