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Young people work with their families so that they can all lose weight and improve their health and fitness.
At 22 stones, 16-year-old Evie feels ashamed to walk down the street with her family, who've a combined weight of over 60 stone. She blames mum Kirstie for overfeeding her, but can they along with stepdad Ash, reach a healthier weight?
14-year-old Libby weighs north of 22 stone, and believes her mum is embarrassed by her size, which pushes Libby toward comfort eating. Libby now wants to turn her life around.
Sol began comfort eating after he came out as gay and his mother Rachael pulled away. Now he is embarking on a strict diet with his mother to help them mend their relationship.
18-year-old Charlotte is overweight, but is even more concerned about her dad's size. Together with her mum and sister, they embrace a new diet that could turn their lives around.
Josh believes his overeating is out of boredom, but also to escape his parents' arguing. With their son in constant pain and unable to even tie his shoes, the family has agreed to a wholesale lifestyle change.
18-year-old Ellie began stress-eating after her parents split, and is now a 17-stone recluse. She and her mother Paula go on a make-or-break diet-and-exercise plan in the hopes of mending both their health and their relationship.
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Telling powerful stories in hourlong episodes, TLC follows medical journeys of morbidly obese people as they attempt to save their own lives. The featured individuals - each weighing more than 600 pounds confront lifelong emotional and physical struggles as they make the courageous decision to undergo high-risk gastric bypass surgery. In addition to drastically changing their appearances, they hope to reclaim their independence, mend relationships with friends and family, and renew their feelings of self-worth.
Fat Friends is an ITV drama created by Kay Mellor, broadcast from 12 October 2000 to 24 March 2005. It follows a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. It examines people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four cast members—Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith, and Alison Steadman—went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.
Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.
