Anyone watch this show, not sure what channel its on but i record and watch it, and i have to tell you the young lady Tanisha on there is just soo motivational!! mean she never gives up, shes back home now and is literly surrounded be fattening food,plus fast food. nothing is in her control as far as whats in the house and what her family cooks goes. yet she just keeps going and keeps looking at the bigger picture. i love that dedication! i want that dedication!!! and yet i know i can HAVE that dedication!!! i mean its my choice and i choice today to have it..and tomorrow on so forth!!
I just think she is such a beautiful and awesome person and was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on it if you watch the show.
YES! I am in love with that show! I tune in every week. I totally agree about Tanisha...I'd kill for her dedication/motivation. And she has such an amazing attitude about the whole thing. I'd be crabby as you-know-what if my family were eating Taco Bell and I had to resist. It really is inspiring.
Also, the previews for next week show Emily after summer camp...she looks so good!!! I was so motivated after I saw her in the previews. Overall, a very inspirational show. Glad to know someone else enjoys it!
I watch that show also. It's an interesting perspective to see kids losing weight since their parents and family add on a whole new challenge.
Tanisha, wow, I want to give her a hug. She is just amazing. I really feel for her too because she is so determined to take charge and put forth the effort to lose weight, but her family doesn't seem supportive at all. In fact, the few times they've shown her mother, I just want to shake her. Allowing your child to get 450+lbs, medical issues aside, is child abuse in my opinion. And then she just acts borderline apathetic about her daughter's life or death situation.
Scott (I think that's his name): This kid drives me nuts. His mom needs to stop babying him so he can man up and take some responsibility for himself.
Emily: She's really young, isn't she? Like 11? For her age, she's done awesome with being away from home and losing weight. I hope that her parents will help her maintain when she's at home though.
I just don't get some of the parents on that show, they frustrate me. Many of them are overweight themselves, and yet they act like this school is going to magically "fix" their children. They'll pay thousands of dollars, their kids will come back after losing weight, and life/eating can continue as normal. It seems like they are only semi-supportive, at best, of trying to keep their kids on plan.
Oh, I absolutely LOVE that show, too. It really adds a whole new layer onto things to have to deal with not being in charge of the buying/cooking food, doesn't it?
I so agree about the parents!!! I feel like smacking Tamisha's mother, it's just unbelievable that girl is able to have such determination when that is what she's surrounded with. Her sisters seem supportive, but her mom needs to get her act together.
And Scotty's mom, OMG! She just creeps me out the way she's always rubbing him, and then when he was getting dressed up for his graduation she was zipping his fly for him. For crying out loud, cut the cord lady. I also loved how when they went out to eat before his gallbladder surgery she takes a very obese 14 year old kid to a chinese buffet before his GALLBLADDER surgery. Does the kid even stand a chance?? And then just shaking her head and bawling because she doesn't know how to help him. Shameful.
What a frustrating, but rewarding at times, job those counselors have, to try to help those kids deal with their weight issues while dealing with totally dysfunctional family dynamics in a lot of cases.
I want to kill Emily's parents...what a bunch of jerks. Tanisha is inspiring. I was so happy when she had to carry her weight around the cafeteria at the end of the school year. I think it is great that she went home and lost weight, despite the obstacles.
I've been following it too. Love the show. Tanisha is awesome!
Scotty annoys me, and his mother, *swoon*!
I do think the kids will probably have a hard time when they get home though. Doesn't seem like the families are very on board with a good support system and changing the lifestyle at home. They want a miracle cure for their kid, without taking any responsibility.
@ MedChick87 her attitude sums it all up, shes not even mad at her family well rather her mom, she is defiantly someone to look up too and learn from.
yeah i saw emily she looked awesome!!
@ mkendrick where Tanisha mom is concerned i just feel sad for her (not sympathetic but sad) you know i think she is just plain blind, you would have to be.i can see she loves her daughter, hopefully when she sees the tape it will hit her like a ton of bricks, you know when you see yourself doing stuff unhealthy/abusive/in denial. whatever the case may be seeing /hearing yourself doing it can be a real eye opener and i hope that is what happens in this case. and if that doesn't happen i hope that Tanishas example will get to her!
as far as Scott goes i agree his mom needs to cut those apron strings, im having a hard time myself with this. i have a 14 year old and i have been struggling trying to find that line where i need to back up or not. i don't coddle though i tend to be way to hard on my son i need to start cutting him a little slack and let him make some of his own choices because he needs to learn now BEFORE hes 18.
a lot of the parents seem to be enablers or don't want to seem to do thier part in helping the kids with food, my oldest has a slight weight problem, nothing like the kids on tv but he has always been very little then he was on meds for awhile and after we took him off he gained like 20 pounds in 2 months , we thought it would even itself out but he seems to be an emotional eater now, and i have caught him hiding food, what i try to do as a mother is to NOT talk about diets or anything like that. i tell my 2 oldest its about eating fruits and veggies and basically good foods and not stuffing yourself (that's a big one i try to teach) i have taught them our bodys need water more than anything else so soda and juices are every once in a while at our house. and more then anything my 2 oldest are at that awkward stage so i tell them their body is still changing and growing so as long as they do the above things there is nothing to ever worry about your body will settle at where it needs to be!
@ shannonmb uhhhh yeahhhh the pants thing kinda disturbed me as well, if i even attempted to do that to my 14 year old he would be like MOM WHAT ARE YOU DOING then he would shoo me away like i got this mom!!! now i know in Scotts case he couldn't see, and my son has asked me to help him in the past when he wasn't capable , nothing to intimate, one time when he wasn't cleaning his body well enough he was getting a sore in a private area and wanted me to check it out i know i know tmi, but even then he was like 10 or so now that he is 14 yeah no he would look at me like i was crazy i don't even think the (boy iv cleaned your butt from day 1) talk would make a difference especially on national tv!!
@ fattymcfatty ditto on tanisha, i might do that when i get to goal
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I love that show! I cry every time I watch it especially the parts about Tanisha! Talk about a child who is overcoming real obstacles! It breaks my heart when kids don't have parents they can rely on! She is an amazing girl!
I agree - the show makes me want to slap Scotty and his mother silly! I have a feeling even when she watches the tape she won't get it!
I just started watching the new season and I think it's a pretty cool show! I'd heard of Wellspring Academy before and I think it's inspiring to see these kids try to change their lives and become healthy; and Tanisha has captured my heart....she's so sweet and so motivated!
Although, PT Coach John T has kind of captured my heart too.... ;-)
I love Tanisha as well. She has so many obstacles and through it all has such a great attitude and way of looking at things.
One thing that bothered me while watching last evening was the way the counselor told the one girl that she needed to lose 357 lbs. to get to a normal weight for a 15 y/o girl. I realize that is true, but doesn't it seem like they could have given her an interim goal of 50-100 lbs.? It would just seem like laying it all out that way could backfire and make this poor girl feel as though that amount of weight would be insurmountable.
I don't know. I just felt so bad for her when I saw the look on her face. I think she started at 511. Honestly, I truly don't understand how anyone gets that large in 15 short years. It is unbelievable and makes me cry too feeling so bad for these kids.
Thats a good show, I'm also inspired by Tanisha. Her face is really starting to show. When she first came her eyes were just little slits in her face but now you can see her eyes and her face is taking shape. And Scotty - yeah. No hope for that kid. His mom had the band or something but you can see they are still eating junk. Last week he was talking like he was already done yet he still weighs over 300 lbs.
Maybe the parents would benefit from some nutrition classes and having a dietician come to their home. Seriously you don't know how to help your kid? Stop feeding them crap and cook once in a while!
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