The Wednesday night, March 3 episode of 'My 600-lb Life' titled 'Shannon's Journey' is being branded as one of the most frustrating episodes from the season. Discovery Plus allows users to catch the episodes of this show hours in advance than its television premiere and fans who have caught up with the 85-minute-long episode have taken to Reddit and they don't have a lot of nice things to say about it. First things first, Shannon Lowery from Tuscon Arizona's weight loss journey was chronicled in the episode and at the end of it, she was way too far from her goal weight and Dr. Now didn't qualify her for surgery. He sent her off asking her to keep working towards losing more pounds and maybe if she did lose enough, he would consider approving her for surgery.
Most of the episodes from this season have ended with the patient's not getting the surgery at the end of the dragged-out episodes leaving audiences frustrated and Redditors have been complaining that this episode too turned out to be the same. Even though the recent episode established that Shannon didn't get the surgery, her Facebook account hints that she is about to do so, sooner than expected. More about that in a bit, but before that a quick summary of what went down during the 14-month long weight loss program that she enrolled for with Dr Nowzaradan.
RELATED ARTICLES
Shannon Lowery's efforts to drop weight
After her first weigh-in at Dr Now's clinic, Shannon weighed 748 pounds. She had to stay at the hospital because her body was strained from all the travel and during the two and a half weeks she was at the hospital, Shannon was down by 70 pounds. Upon discharge, she was asked to lose 150 pounds in the next two months however, she couldn't return for her second appointment due to the coronavirus restrictions. But somewhere around September, she did make that 17-hour road journey from Tuscon to Houston once again to meet with the bariatric specialist but she was big to a point where she couldn't fit on the weighing scale.
Shannon had not lost any weight in those months, instead, she had gained back the 70 pounds she had lost and then some. Dr Now warned her to not return to the clinic next time if she hadn't lost enough weight because it was a waste of resources and Shannon was enduring unnecessary stress for nothing. Shannon had left the clinic this time with a renewed determination at losing weight and kept pushing herself to workout and do everything else in her capacity to do so. She even joined the gym and enrolled with a personal trainer for help. Shannon had put in the work and this time she did manage to fit on the scale but unfortunately, she still weighed 698 pounds and Dr Now didn't clear her for surgery.
How much weight has Shannon Lowery lost since appearing on the show?
People who appear on 'My 600-lb Life' generally keep their profiles locked or wipe it clean but Shannon has done no such thing and she's using her account to update her loved ones and friends about her weight loss journey. Shannon has continued to work out with her trainer who she likes a lot and has stuck to a low-calorie diet and even though it's not a lot of weight that she's lost, she's holding herself accountable by posting pictures of her progress from time to time. "This is for my records to keep track and see progress from my workouts. If you can't say something nice don't say it at all thanks," she wrote in the caption of one of her posts. Check out some of the pictures below and head to her account to see the rest.
