Steven Assanti (My 600-LB Life)

[UsandThem]

https://www.newsweek.com/steven-assanti-wife-who-stephanie-my-pound-life-update-1433456

I finally just go around to the new episode (Steven and Justin: The Final Chapter) about him (and his brother and dad) that aired a a week ago, and saw that he had gotten married. The whole family is a train wrecks TBH, although Steven is by far the worst.

So he met her online from Texas, got kicked out of the weight loss program for testing positive for opiates....again), and she moved him into her house in Iowa and married him (all within 2 months).

The only thing I could think was she hopes that this will land her and him some kind of new reality show focused on them.

Seriously, what else could it be?

 

[brianmanahan]

 

[Iron Woode]

I don't like watching shows like that as they make me feel sad and depressed for the person.

 

[UsandThem]

I don't like watching shows like that as they make me feel sad and depressed for the person.

You won't feel sorry for Steven.

He is quite possibly one of the worst people I've ever seen on TV. He abused nurses and doctors, lied and tried to get his home health nurse fired/arrested by claiming the TV she let him use (because he didn't have one) was his. In short, he is 100% a POS.

 

[shortylickens]

I've watched a heck of a lotta documentaries on fat people and the majority of them start depressed and end up eating cuz they dont know what else to do and they are afraid of drugs.
There is a consistent cure for almost all of them and thats dealing with the depression and self-esteem issues first then the eating habits seem to be easily correctable.
As for the above asshole I guess its something else.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Never watched it but I have heard of this piece of shit.

 

[pcgeek11]

I watched it and was disgusted by entire family.

This girl that married him must have some agenda too as I can't see why anyone in their right mind would have anything to do with this guy.

 

[LikeLinus]

OP, you are the problem (along with most people). Anyone who watches this crap is giving them more viewership and ratings. They are only after the money involved in this "reality" show. It is all scripted bullsh!t and I cannot believe anyone here would be watching this junk. They all act their mean part in order to create "drama". It's a tried and true method to hook idiots in to watching.

 

[snoopy7548]

I can't really understand how someone gets to 600lb. It's like driving towards a cliff at 5mph and still going over.

 

[UsandThem]

I can't really understand how someone gets to 600lb. It's like driving towards a cliff at 5mph and still going over.

Yeah, it's crazy watching some of these people.

From watching the show over the years, these people seem to simply get addicted to food and can't stop......kind of like alcoholics or drug addicts who end up dying from it because they can't/don't stop.

There have been a couple people on the show who started out over 800 lbs, with one I believe over 900.

 

[zinfamous]

Is chubby chaser the proper term for this degree of fatty fetish?


....a grease trap, maybe?

 

[UsandThem]

Is chubby chaser the proper term for this degree of fatty fetish?

I have no idea what we are allowed to say anymore.

I think the new PC accepted description of 600 LB people is now "curvy", so maybe they are now called "curvy chasers"?

 

[Muadib]

My wife got me addicted to the TLC 600lb show. I will watch this. Not today, but soon.

 

[snoopy7548]

My wife got me addicted to the TLC 600lb show. I will watch this. Not today, but soon.

She's just desensitizing you to it; watch her food intake, man.

 

[Muadib]

She's just desensitizing you to it; watch her food intake, man.

Call me a chubby chaser if you want. She was on a diet before the pandemic. Was doing good too, lost 40 pounds. Unfortunately she gave it up. I’m just trying to get her to maintain for now.

 

[skull]

I can't really understand how someone gets to 600lb. It's like driving towards a cliff at 5mph and still going over.

I hit 205lbs once using food to cope with withdrawling from heroin. Felt disgusting couldn't do had to quit and it wasn't easy I got used to my desserts and snacks after every single meal plus was still dealing with the whole quitting heroin thing too. Despite that no way I was going to keep going so yeah I have no idea how you cross that and just keep going. Its been years stayed around 185ish finally started exercising and such back to my junkie weight of 160 with more muscle.

 

[Kaido]

I hit 205lbs once using food to cope with withdrawling from heroin. Felt disgusting couldn't do had to quit and it wasn't easy I got used to my desserts and snacks after every single meal plus was still dealing with the whole quitting heroin thing too. Despite that no way I was going to keep going so yeah I have no idea how you cross that and just keep going. Its been years stayed around 185ish finally started exercising and such back to my junkie weight of 160 with more muscle.

Are you familiar with macros? I wrote up a basic tutorial here if not:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/d0rxv6/_/ezebxg9

I've been tubby a couple times in my life. The first time, because I got married, started eating home-cooked food all the time, and got a desk job. The second time was because eating plain chicken & broccoli just wasn't sustainable long-term. Now I do meal-prep + IIFYM & get to eat dessert every single day and still be pretty healthy & stay in pretty good shape! Finding the right explanation of how things worked & then setting up a meal-prep support system to enable me to take advantage of that knowledge is what did the trick for me!

 

[brianmanahan]

I have no idea what we are allowed to say anymore.

I think the new PC accepted description of 600 LB people is now "curvy", so maybe they are now called "curvy chasers"?

i thought it was yuge

 

[skull]

Are you familiar with macros? I wrote up a basic tutorial here if not:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/d0rxv6/_/ezebxg9

I've been tubby a couple times in my life. The first time, because I got married, started eating home-cooked food all the time, and got a desk job. The second time was because eating plain chicken & broccoli just wasn't sustainable long-term. Now I do meal-prep + IIFYM & get to eat dessert every single day and still be pretty healthy & stay in pretty good shape! Finding the right explanation of how things worked & then setting up a meal-prep support system to enable me to take advantage of that knowledge is what did the trick for me!

I don't track macros explicitly but aim for 100- 120 grams of protein a day and go easy on carbs, very little bread and pasta, eat muesli for breakfast every morning but still leave room in my calories for a sweet snack before bed. Stil got that sweet tooth, I was chubby my whole childhood. Football 7th grade weight limit was 155lbs and I'd have to skip breakfast and go weigh in before the games. Now I'm basically the weight I was in 7th grade, just taller.

 

[purbeast0]

I don't like watching shows like that as they make me feel sad and depressed for the person.

I don't feel sorry for them at all. I'm only disgusted by them. You don't get that big overnight. It's a life style that gets you that way and there isn't one person on this planet that is older than 12 that doesn't know what foods are good and bad for you.

I do feel sorry for fat children though, but typically it's because their parents are also fat. But once you get a little older and are on your own for sure, you know what is good and what isn't and if you want to lose weight, you can do it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm 400lb. I used to be 330-350lb for nearly, maybe 7, maybe 10 years, then somehow, I bumped up. Now "maintaining" at 400lb, approx. Eating mostly one meal a day, too.

I'm 6'4", so most people that I reveal my weight to, don't believe it. I don't look "obviously huge". I'm kind of sumo-built, but not really, as I age, my arms are more flab than muscle now.

Edit: I can still move around quite well, thankfully, since my place is kind of a "PC parts hoarder palace", and I have to hop and skip over "piles" to get around my place, at times, between clean-ups. Kind of like a 400lb mountain goat, LOL.

Anyways, I'm also on meds that cause weight gain, and when I bumped from 330lb to 400lb, was roughly around when my meds got bumped up too. I don't think that it was all me.

I do wish that I weighed less, at times. I go through car seats sometimes a bit too quickly. (*Not child car seats, I'm talking about the seats that are bolted to the frame of the vehicle. I seem to need to get them replaced every few years.)

Edit: Believe it or not, I was actually relatively thin, or at least, a "healthy weight", in HS and in my 20s. I wasn't "huge" back then. I had some serious emotional setbacks, that gave me .... some disabilities, as well as weight gain.

 

[purbeast0]

I'm 400lb. I used to be 330-350lb for nearly, maybe 7, maybe 10 years, then somehow, I bumped up. Now "maintaining" at 400lb, approx. Eating mostly one meal a day, too.

I'm 6'4", so most people that I reveal my weight to, don't believe it. I don't look "obviously huge". I'm kind of sumo-built, but not really, as I age, my arms are more flab than muscle now.

No offense but if you are 6'4 @ 400lbs, you most likely do look "obviously huge" and you are just in denial.

NFL line men are like 300 - 330lbs and like your height and taller and they look huge but in a husky manner. 70lbs more is going to be extremely noticeable.

 

[skull]

At 6'4" just 330 puts you severely obese on a bmi chart its only 5" taller than me and I'd be big with just another 75lbs. How do you gain that kind of weight eating once a day? Is it like an entire pizza at once? Snack all day on top of it? Drink pop all day?