This is a typical meal.
Uh, I had to try the egg rolls.
Beef and cheddar's my favorite.
I love to eat.
I could eat all the time.
I spent about three years in foster care.
Why didn't she want me?
Why? What did I do?
A family member used to tell me
that no one would love me because I was overweight.
- I don't want to be the 25-year-old
who dies of a heart attack.
[Crying]
My dream is to be a mother and to have a child,
and I can't even get pregnant right now
because I'm too overweight.
God, just make it stop.
I need to stop eating.
Let's go! Let's go!
I can't do this.
We don't use "can't."
If you don't change what you're doing,
you're not gonna live much longer.
How bad do you want this?
I want it, but I don't feel good.
This is way too hard.
Leave me alone.
[Retching]
I had a lot of anger for so long,
and I kind of feel bad.
I'm not this big, hiding addict.
I'm not.
Like, I have to do it,
or else I could die.
It's so embarrassing.
I just can't feel normal.
I am addicted to food.
I don't know how to break that cycle.
I don't know how to stop.
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All right, guys, what test are we gonna take tomorrow?
C-R... CRCT math.
So we're gonna review today.
My name is Jill. I'm 34 years old.
I'm a second grade teacher. I love kids.
After we got married,
my husband and I started trying to have a baby
and to get pregnant.
After about six months, nothing was happening,
so I went to my doctor.
My doctor looked at me, straight in the face and says,
"you're too fat."
This is a typical meal.
Uh, I had to try the egg rolls
'cause they were only a cent.
And beef and cheddar's my favorite.
Of course, you've got to have potato cakes
and, um, curly fries.
I can remember in second grade, being the biggest girl,
being made fun of.
Um, wanting to lose weight.
Going home and crying because nothing fit.
This is actually a size 16
which, as you can tell, it's not fitting at all.
I've never been below 200 since ninth grade.
I would go on yo-yo diets, of course.
I tried everything out there.
It just comes right back.
I feel like I have an inner tube right around here.
I mean, it's... it's... it's sad
when you can pull it up like this.
I was 212 pounds the day we got married,
which was the thinnest I've been
since, you know, ninth grade.
My husband doesn't know how much I'm eating.
If he was in the computer room, I'd sneak in here
and act like I'm playing in my closet,
but really I'd be eating.
I don't like the way I look.
I look at myself in the mirror, and I'm like,
"who the heck is that girl?"
As you can tell, it's gotten bad. Really bad.
Jill and I believe this program,
this opportunity, is one of the last resorts
to actually to... to have children.
I'm dying inside.
I mean, I want a baby more than anything in the world,
but I feel hopeless.
I feel like, you know,
when is it finally gonna happen?
When's it finally gonna...
I'm gonna conquer this demon.
My name is Johnny. I'm 19 years old.
Currently I'm a sophomore at eastern Arizona college.
But I didn't do so well my first year
because I didn't really have a goal.
I didn't know what I was gonna do.
I was just in school to be in school.
One more.
My drug of choice is food.
I've dreamt about food. It's always on my mind.
I'll eat at the cafeteria and then come in here
and eat some more.
Food's a comfort.
It's where I turn to when I'm mad,
sad, happy, everything.
Like, every emotion, I'm, like, oh, I'm sad.
Let's go get an ice cream.
I'm happy. Celebrate. Let's go get something.
This is disgusting and humiliating.
It... uh, just...
My mother was 14 years old when she had me.
She was involved in, like, drugs,
gangs, prostitution.
I was about three or four when my mom left me,
and so I spent about three years in foster care
before I got adopted.
John had this fear that there was never enough food,
which was a carryover from living with his mom.
Why didn't she want me?
What did I do that would make her
want to give up on me
and just put me back into the system and all that?
I just...
I'm really ready to lose this.
It's finally time that it comes off,
'cause I can't live like this anymore.
- Welcome. - Thank you.
- I'm Beverly. - I'm Jill. Nice to meet you.
Welcome to Hilton head health.
Well, thank you.
This is your lovely bag,
and it's got a water bottle inside, and a binder.
And Beverly's gonna take you to your villa.
- Okay. - Yes.
- All right. - Welcome.
Coming here to Hilton head health for six months,
we're gonna teach them everything they need to know.
They're gonna be eating what we tell them to eat,
exercising the way we tell them to exercise.
They don't have family and friends
enticing them to go out and drink and eat.
And it's gonna be tough for 'em.
- Hey, Jill. - Hi.
We're gonna take your weight today.
- Okay. - Okay?
Are you ready for this? I guess. [Laughs]
The last time I weighed myself, I was at 285.
Maybe 290. But right now, it is about that number.
It's about that number going down.
Get on the scale, huh? Just take a step.
Ugh.
Your starting weight is 305.2 pounds.
I thought it would be a little less than that,
to be honest with you.
Okay.
I didn't think I'd hit 300.
Okay.
I didn't think that was gonna be the number.
It almost felt like someone punched me in the gut.
What the heck have you done, Jill?
I mean, it took all I could
not to just sit there and cry.
And to be honest with you,
I wanted to go eat.
- Okay, you ready? - Yeah.
Okay, here we go.
All right, let's talk a little bit
about emotional eating.
Do you feel like that that's something
that is a issue for you?
- Oh, yeah. [Laughs] - Okay.
Growing up, I have felt that
I was never good enough.
And so, I would then eat.
Would your parents say anything
about you eating food specifically?
I started hiding food so I wouldn't feel guilty.
Jill has admitted to being a closet eater,
and that's something that we will follow up with her
while she's here.
- Hello. - Hey, Johnny.
We're gonna do your weight, okay?
Okay.
I haven't weighed myself in a very long time,
so I have no idea what number is gonna show on the scale.
So I'm gonna have you just step up on the scale.
Your starting weight is 404.6 pounds.
This is intense.
I'm like, that is not me. I'm not that big.
But I've been in big denial.
Are you ready?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
Johnny's gonna be really fun to work with
because he is adopted and so am I,
and I'm hoping to show him
that it doesn't matter so much
what happens in the past.
He gets to decide, you know, what happens next in his life.
Do you feel like you're an emotional eater?
- I am. I know I am. - Okay.
Now, what does that look like for you?
When you feel, like, sad, you eat.
When you feel happy, you eat.
When you feel depressed, like, I don't know.
All that stuff just adds up. It piles up.
I take it out, uh, with food.
I'm nervous, speaking about the diet and everything.
But getting into all the stuff behind the eating
is probably what I'm more nervous about.
All right, ten regular squats
and then ten more of those pulses, all right?
This first week, we will be testing
Johnny and Jill's fitness levels.
We want to see where they are physically.
Down and hold, hold.
Little pulses. Up, down, up.
Down. Weight's in your heels. Up.
Jill and Johnny are partnered,
and I think it's a great way to motivate each other,
and support each other.
One, down. Touch the ground.
Two, down. [Groans]
Three. Come on.
For Johnny,
it's gonna be a real eye-opener for him
because as a young individual,
he might have the attitude that I'm invincible.
I can do this.
And I think it's gonna be more or less
an awakening for him to realize,
"my fitness level is not up to par."
[Groans]
Grab the bench like this.
Two. Hey, watch. Three.
Three. Nice! Four.
It's a little weird being one of the younger ones
at the facility here because
I feel like I should be, like,
doing way above and beyond what they're doing.
All right, guys.
So we're at about a three to a four
on those RPE charts, okay?
Fifteen. Nice work, everybody.
We can do it. Come on.
You okay? Yeah. My legs hurt.
- You okay? - Yeah.
These people are going hard at it,
and I feel like I'm just, like,
I want to quit.
And stop. Walk.
Like, I'm stopping.
I'm like, this is like
the hardest that I've been pushed in my life.
- Come on, push yourself. - Oh, no.
I want to stop.
Coming up on heavy...
If I just ate one of the...
- Put the doughnuts down. - Just one.
I can't do this. We don't use "can't."
I want to stop and I want to quit.
- Do you want this? - Leave me alone.
This is way too hard.
That's a good pace for you. That's perfect.
One, two, three, four.
I'm pushing Jill and Johnny because right now,
I expect a lot more from them
than they expect from themselves.
Now left.
Is it hard? Well, heck yeah, it's hard.
Jill pushes herself.
Like, I always see her working out,
and when I should be next to her, working out,
and I'm like, "good job."
Get off that bench, Johnny.
Johnny hasn't grown up yet.
I have grandkids that act a little bit older than he does.
I can't do these.
We don't say that word. We don't use "can't."
I want to stop and I want to quit.
It's just all in my head, and I gotta fix that.
- Hey, Johnny. - Hey.
- Are you ready for your weigh-in today?
Yeah.
Doing this now a week, I don't know.
I feel like I'm giving it my all,
but these people are like machines here.
All right. 392.
- Nice. - Great job.
How do you feel about that? Good.
I've never lost 12 pounds in a week before,
and so I'm really excited to see the changes
and figure out what I should do next.
- Hi, Jill. - Hello.
- Good to see you. - You too.
- So, you ready for your weigh-in today?
I reckon. I'm a little nervous.
Let's go ahead and do it.
All right, let's see.
Okay. 294.8.
I'm super, super excited that I lost that much.
Exhale, right here.
Inhale.
Up.
Down.
It's gonna happen.
I'm gonna get my dream.
I truly believe that.
As part of the process of taking control,
I like to take a little field trip to a grocery store.
All right.
What I want them to do
is confront the foods that are problematic for them.
- Where's the cookie aisle? - I don't know.
I got cashews.
A big pack.
What I want them to do
is to recognize
how their emotion affects what they select.
Smell them.
So good.
Are you having a good time?
Do you know that these are only...
do you all know that these are only 190 calories?
Like, for one doughnut,
if I just ate one of them.
Put the doughnuts down.
Just one.
Okay.
And then we got these things.
- What are the calories? - Tell her.
170 per serving size.
In this bag, there's nine servings, right?
Yeah.
So I'm not good at math.
But so that would be nine... She is.
1,530 calories.
1,530 calories for this bag.
And I'd be eating more than one of these bags.
Okay.
Then a big variety pack
of peanut butter cups.
- Those are my all-time favorite
in the whole wide world.
These?
Like, you would unwrap them
maybe one at a time?
I'd unwrap four, eat those,
and then I would probably wait an hour
and then eat the rest of them.
- All right. - Hey, it's only 80 calories.
- For one, right? - Yeah.
But you said you were gonna have four
and then another four.
Tell me, uh, how you're feeling right now.
I know, for myself, I'm more likely
to binge eat later on
if I keep denying myself something like this.
I feel like if I could have one,
I would be okay.
It was almost like she's, mm,
a little rationalization going on.
I would love to just sneak...
if I had a backpack, I would have, like,
paid for it and snuck it.
I'm not home right now with my husband and my family
and this would make me feel better.
Part of her is going to say, well,
what's a peanut butter cup?
I think it's going to be a process for her to learn
that might not be the best choice for her
if she really wants to reach her goal.
What I'd like you to do together
is to put them back where you found them, okay?
- We can do it. - Yeah.
- You can do it? - Sure.
- Okay. Good for you. - Okay.
Feel free to say "farewell."
- She told us to say good-bye, and I said, "see ya later."
'Cause I'm nev... I'm not gonna say
that I'm never gonna eat them again.
That... that would be lying.
I might eat it once a week.
You know, reward myself.
That's just reality.
And three. And two.
This time we're gonna hold it up.
We're gonna pulse.
I'm having to come here
and take this time away from my family
to get healthy again.
And I'm trying not to think like that.
I'm trying to just think about working out
and needing to diet.
But I'm missing home.
Okay, guys.
Johnny and Jill both have anger issues.
We entered this boxing session,
and we were gonna talk about anger
and try and do some boxing therapy around that.
Now, who are you mad at?
My mom.
Who are you mad at?
My biological mom.
Why are you mad?
Because.
Why are you mad?
'Cause she abandoned me.
Well, get her.
Come on, take it out. Take it out.
I think Johnny's gonna have to learn
how to deal with his anger issues
toward his biological mother
is order for him to be successful with his weight loss.
Come on, who are you mad at?
I don't feel so good.
Who are you mad at?
I'm mad at you.
Good. Take it out.
Punch it out, punch it out.
I can't. I can't do this.
- Hey, hey, hey. - I don't feel good.
How bad do you want this?
I want it, but I don't feel good.
[Sniffles]
I miss Clint and I miss my family.
I miss... I want to go home.
Leave me alone, please. Do you want this?
I don't feel good. Just leave me alone.
This is too hard.
[Sniffles]
This is way too hard.
Next on heavy...
I had a lot of anger for so long,
but it's crazy to know
the stuff that they did for me.
It's not a big deal.
I'm not this big, hiding addict.
There's not a problem.
If there wasn't a problem, you wouldn't have it.
The workouts are tough.
- No. - I'm not gonna lie.
Come on, a bit more.
This is like the hardest I've been pushed in my life.
Oh, my God.
[Groans]
Hike your chest. You gotta...
that shirt has gotta touch the tire.
- [Exhales] - Come on.
The shirt has got to touch the... there we go.
Come on. There you go. Good.
I've seen changes in the fact
that I'm not hungry, really.
I can do things longer.
I don't know. I just seem to be getting stronger.
If we're going for perfection,
we will always be disappointed.
I'm learning a lot about portion size,
calorie counting.
I'm still craving candy.
Good job. Keep it up.
And doughnuts.
- [Groans] - Eight.
- Good. - Nine.
- Good. - Ten. Two more.
Two more. 11. Help.
12.
That is teamwork.
Good job for encouraging.
Good job for sticking with that.
When I hit the bed at night,
I don't toss and turn anymore.
I go right to sleep.
Laura.
Good morning, Johnny.
It's the halfway mark,
and going into the weigh-in,
I'm feeling confident.
Step on when you're ready.
- 360.8. - Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
And you are down 43.8 pounds total.
- Whoo! - Ow! [Laughs]
Good job.
I had a lot of doubts coming here,
but with the weight that I've lost now,
I can see that it's definitely going in the right direction.
And so if I keep it up, it's gonna be
where I want it to be.
- Hey, Jill. - Hello.
- How's 262.8.Ng? St- yep. Up.
- So a 3.4 pound loss. - Yep.
I've got to lose five pounds a week
in order to reach my goal,
which is to have a baby.
I wanted more. I don't understand.
I worked hard, and I thought I would do more.
I feel like I've disappointed my family and myself.
[Sniffles]
"Happy anniversary, Jill. I love you, Clint."
Today's our anniversary.
Um, I've been married four years today.
I'm gonna have a good day even though I miss him.
Thank you for my fruit today.
Oh, you're welcome.
I remember our wedding day, and it was amazing.
We got married on the beach,
and, um, it was just the best day ever.
"You're still the one..." uhh! Clint!
[Crying]
"I hope you're as happy as you make me feel,
because you're everything that I could ever hope for."
Aw! I love you too, honey.
I love you too.
And it's hard because I want to be with him on this day.
- I have some crazy news. - Crazy news. Okay.
Last night I just went online
and I typed in my biological family's last name
and where they're from and, uh,
I ended up finding a phone number within five minutes.
So I go and I call and I asked for my brother Chris,
and I was like, "is Chris there?"
And he was like, "yeah, this is him."
And I was like, "hey, this is... this is John."
He freaked out, and he's like,
"grandma, it's John-John."
I don't know.
Just hearing all of them get so excited,
like, it sent chill bumpdown my arms
and, like, it was just an amazing feeling.
He ends up handing the phone to jp,
and he answered a lot of questions that I had.
He... I don't know.
It was crazy to know that my biological family,
who I haven't talked to in so many years,
cared about me, loved me, missed me.
It was pretty awesome.
And for the longest time,
I kind of felt, like, abandoned, you know?
Like, kind of just, like, threw... thrown away.
And he cleared up a lot of things.
Like, he told me how it was like
one of the hardest things that he ever had to do.
But he's like, "I knew that there was this lady
"that wanted to adopt you, and I knew that she
"would provide for you and that she would
"give you a life that you wouldn't be able to have
if you stayed with us."
All those things that I never even really knew about...
I had a lot of anger for so long,
and I kind of feel bad,
but man, it's... it's crazy to know
the stuff that they did for me.
That's really, really cool.
I think a big factor of why I overate was, um,
because I felt kind of abandoned
and all these feelings that I felt,
I felt anger towards my biological mom
and because of that, I, like, would eat.
Man, when I came here, I expected to lose weight.
I did not expect that all this stuff would happen.
This is like, literally,
this is like a life-changing experience.
Something's been brought to my attention.
What?
That you're hiding food again.
I'm not hiding it so that, um,
that nobody knows.
So are you aware that, I mean,
you're not supposed to be doing that
while you're here at the facility?
I'm not hiding it from anyone,
but I'm... I'm gonna have... yeah, I have peanut butter.
Heck, yeah, I had peanut butter in my room
'cause I needed the peanut butter.
I guess we're... we're concerned.
You don't need to be concerned.
Because of this hiding mentality still.
But I'm not hiding it.
I mean, I'm exercising
three and four hours a day now.
I mean, I'm hungry at nighttime.
And I eat fruit. I do what I'm supposed to do.
But every now and then, you daggone right,
I'm gonna have some peanut butter.
Well, everything here at Hilton head health
is laid out for you.
The chefs prepare everything specifically for each person,
and if you can't stick to a plan here at Hilton head health,
you're not gonna stick to a plan once you go home.
Here you go.
I don't apologize for eating.
You don't have to apologize.
I'm not. I did nothing wrong.
- The...The concern is... - There shouldn't be.
The hiding.
There shouldn't be. There's no conce.
There's no hiding.
Okay, 'cause I just saw you dig in your closet.
There's not a problem.
If there wasn't a problem, you wouldn't have it, honey.
I'm sorry.
I'm not this big hiding addict.
I'm not. I didn't hide it at my house.
I hid it in my car, and I ate it on the way there.
You don't see a correlation?
No, I don't. I don't. I'm fine.
I-I know that when I get home,
I won't do this.
All I'm asking is to be up front.
But you don't... you're not seeing it.
You're seeing it as me hiding food
because I don't want to get caught.
- That's exactly right. - Okay.
But that's not the case.
I'm putting it in my room because,
see, they won't let us have it.
That's why.
I didn't feel like I hid it.
If I were to hide food, it would be cakes
and cookies and doughnuts and my trigger foods.
And peanut butter's not a trigger food.
One of the first things Jill admitted when she came here
was that peanut butter cups
were a real trigger food for her.
And now we find that she's hiding peanut butter
in her closet?
You know, that's a real slippery slope.
It's not a big deal.
It's effing peanut butter.
Uhh! Let me just go.
Let me go to the principal's office
and get it over with, but it's friggin' peanut butter.
God bless!
It's just peanut butter!
Next on heavy...
- So I have the chocolate-covered cashews,
the trail mix, peanut butter pretzels.
Yeah, I have a food addiction.
I know I'm addicted to sweets.
I am proud to present to you
your very own Johnny Lindstrom.
[Cheers and applause]
Come on.
No, really, we're counting one.
I have one month left here,
and I'm eight pounds away
from the smallest I've ever been as an adult.
In total, you've lost 85 pounds.
Yeah, that works. Nice.
To have lost 85 pounds, to me,
is almost unreal.
Whoo! How are we doing?
I'm hoping to hit 199 or 198,
where Dr. Michelieve had wanted me to be
to get pregnant.
298.4. That's amazing.
I haven't been this small in a really, really long time.
You just broke into the 290s.
- That's crazy. Oh, my God. - That is crazy.
That's just... Aah!
You're gonna do your chicken dish
and you're gonna do your shrimp dishes.
It's time for Jill and Johnny
to start focusing on what's gonna happen
when they get back in their regular environment.
Bam!
The cooking lesson was great.
I want to get a job working at a restaurant or something.
Hey. Hey, what's up?
- How are you? - Good. How are you?
Good.
Did you have a good workout today?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
I'm writing a letter to my parents,
talking about my plans for the future.
And I wanted to talk to Jessica about it.
It starts, "dear mom, I want to start
"by saying I love you and appreciate everything
"that you and dad have done for me.
"I want to show you that I am working hard
"on my plans for the future.
"I know it's gonna take a lot of hard work
"and determination, but I am truly ready
"to achieve my goals.
"I'm planning to apply at Johnson & wales university
"for culinary nutrition.
"I'm really excited about the culinary internship
"in food science.
"So these are what I have planned for the future,
"and I hope you and dad will be there
"to support me 100%.
"You guys have been amazing parents to me
"and I'm thankful and grateful
"for everything that you've done.
Love, John."
Is it good? That's great.
I really can't believe how far he's come as a person.
I mean, not even just the weight loss.
It's, you know, the confidence that he has.
Um, what he's looking into doing.
He's really taken it into his own hands
and I'm extremely proud.
I can't really put it into words.
- Hello. - Hey, Jill, how are you?
- I'm good. How about you? - Doing all right, thanks.
It's Jill's last week here,
and we're talking about the progress she's made
in terms of hiding food.
Well, they brought me what they found.
Let's take a look.
Okay.
So, the chocolate-covered cashews.
And the trail mix
with chocolate-covered something in there.
And then peanut butter pretzels.
You know, what's going on with that?
I wanted... I wanted something sweet.
I did. Okay.
And so I did it. I went and got it.
Okay, all right.
I mean, just because I eat that,
doesn't mean I'm gonna go back to 305 pounds.
I mean, it doesn't.
The reason that I'm bringing it up with you
is to help you take a look at it
so that you can keep working on it.
No. And you're right. Maybe I di... I did turn to food.
I was trying to numb it,
I guess going to my old ways again, you know?
- Yeah. - [Sniffles]
Yeah, I have a food addiction.
I realize that now.
I know I'm addicted to sweets
and I'm addicted to things.
Yeah, yeah.
For the first five months,
Jill really was adamant about the fact
that she didn't have a problem with the peanut butter
and the chocolate, and that she wasn't hiding the food,
uh, because it was a problem for her.
The fact that she's acknowledged that she is a food addict
and that she's finally said this during her last week here
is a really big step.
I'm wondering if there's maybe some work for you to do
on this notion of how to comfort
without the food,
and that's gonna be important to help you succeed.
I'm not a bad person.
No, you're not a bad person.
So I just got a call today that I got accepted
into Johnson & wales university.
- Ah! - I got accepted.
- How exciting! - [Laughs]
- How was that so fast? - I don't know.
That's what everyone's saying.
I've actually, like, figured out my life.
I've figured out what I'm gonna do with the rest of my life.
I'm gonna have a degree in culinary nutrition,
and I'm excited to see where this all leads to.
When I first got here, I was floored
at how much I weighed.
- Good morning. - Hey, girl.
- Are you ready for your final weigh-in?
I am.
I'm going into my last weigh-in.
I'm nervous, I'm excited, I'm anxious.
All right. Here we go.
Jill, your starting weight is 305.2 pounds.
- Nice. - [Laughs]
So 209.8.
And let's figure out your final.
We'll round it off and say 96.
- 96. There you go. - [Laughs]
Walking out of here, I weigh 209 pounds.
You know, I've lost over 30% of my body weight,
so I'm pretty proud of myself.
I'm proud of what I've done.
- Going into my final weigh-in,
I feel a bit nervous,
but I know that I'm gonna continue
to lose weight when I get back home,
so this technically won't be my final weigh-in.
- Hey, Johnny. - Hello, hello.
- How's it going? - Last weigh-in.
I'm gonna do it right. Here we go.
Johnny, your starting weight
is 404.6 pounds.
All right. 266.4.
- That's awesome. - That is excellent.
It's just incredible to see how my life has changed
and how I've actually, like, figured out my life.
This is the new me, and I know that
this is the new life that I'm gonna live
and I'm excited for it.
This is the shirt that I came in with.
Like, I have a picture, too.
And then, look at this.
- O-m-g.
These clothes I will keep as a reminder
just to be able to show people,
but I'm not going back to that.
Wow. And these pants.
[Laughs]
I don't remember these people
that I met, like, six months ago.
Like, they're nowhere.
Like, I don't remember them at all.
That's really cool.
When I first got here six months ago,
people were telling me, "it's half a year."
And I was like, "oh, it'll go by fast."
But it just seems like I got here yesterday.
See you, buddy. See ya.
I'm gonna miss you.
I'm so excited to be able to go home
and show my friends and family what I've done,
and I'm a bit nervous at the same time
because I'm gonna be seeing and talking
to my biological family,
who I haven't talked to in, like,
since I was, like, four or five.
But I think that this is a cool way
to start out our new relationship.
Next on heavy...
I'm really excited.
I'm... I'm super excited.
I'm ready to do this.
The fact that both of my families are here
is something really important to me.
[Crowd cheering]
Hello! [Laughing]
I'm at my salon and, uh, Tiffany
is gonna be, uh, coloring my hair.
It's gotten a little gray.
- I want you glam, you know. - Yeah.
- Glam looking, like. - Oh, definitely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, I'm super excited.
This day is gonna be, I don't know, crazy, so...
now, is your class gonna be there?
- Yes. Oh, yes. - What grade is it?
- Second grade. - Okay.
It's time to fly, basically,
and so I'm ready.
I'm ready to do this.
Holy crap.
That looks so good.
[Laughs]
When people see me for the first time,
it's gonna be exciting and, you know,
I feel good already,
so to kind of match that with my look,
so it'll be even better.
[Cheering]
This afternoon, we'll head to my school,
um, where I teach, and I get to see all my kids
and my teacher friends and my family
and most importantly, Clint.
And are we about ready for her to come in?
[Cheering]
All right.
I can't wait to see her and hug her
and tell her how much I love her.
[Chanting]
Hello!
[Cheering]
Hi there!
[Cheering]
I think she's wonderful.
She looks great.
What do you think?
[Laughs]
[Cheering]
I've lost 100 pounds.
[Cheering]
I'm so excited about everybody that's come
and been here, and, um,
I just can't... I really can't wait
just to get back to work.
[Cheering]
I literally didn't think that I would get
this much weight off in this time.
I did it.
Hey, dad. Hiya, baby.
Ooh, you look so good.
You look so good. Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Jill looks amazing.
Jill's put in a lot of hard work
over the last six months, and it shows.
Hey. Hey.
- How are you? - I'm good. How are you?
Good.
This is the smallest that he has ever seen me.
What do you think? You look good.
- Aw, thank you. - Wow. Unbelievable.
- Six months. - Yeah. Wow.
I believe what Jill has learned from this
is just a complete and total lifestyle change
that will affect both of us.
When I was overweight, I didn't enjoy life.
I was miserable.
And now I can enjoy life.
I can enjoy Clint.
I can enjoy, you know, teaching again.
And not being tired.
And... and we can just have fun.
And so that's what I'm looking forward to.
Now is the time that I enjoy life,
this new healthy life that I have for myself.
[Piano music]
♪ ♪
So are you excited to see your family?
I don't know. It's gonna be a crazy moment.
Uh, my nerves.
I wasn't really, like, starting to get nervous
or anything and... but now it's like...
now it's hitting you.
It's like... it's like almost here, you know?
There's no hiding it now. Here I am.
Yeah.
I'm really excited and really anxious
to see my family, and hopefully,
they're impressed and excited about my change
and all the hard work that I did.
- There you go. - Nice.
- [Laughs] - Wow.
I feel like I look thinner.
Tonight's, like, the night where the new...
my new life is gonna begin.
I was 404 pounds, and now I'm 266 pounds.
I've lost 137 pounds altogether.
[Glass clinking]
Excuse me.
If I could have your attention
for just a few minutes.
My name is Jessica Lynn.
I work with Hilton head health,
and I am very pleased and proud
to present to you your very own Johnny Lindstrom.
[Cheers and applause]
Whoa.
[Cheers and applause]
I'm glad you all are here.
Thank you.
This is very different for me.
You know, usually I don't see guests
once they leave, but being here
and actually seeing Johnny come in
and blow away his friends and family
was really amazing.
Johnny, you're so different.
Johnny, I didn't even know it was you when you came out.
The reaction was awesome.
Like, I got chills when I came out,
and when I saw all the people that were there
and the support and just looking around
and just scanning.
Like, there were so many people there.
So it was really cool.
What are you, like, 220?
You can wear my clothes now. Yep.
I really had a lot to process.
John had called home and wanted to quit.
But he did stick it out,
and that's a credit to John.
And we're proud of him for that.
Oh, you look great.
He looks good. He looks happy.
He looks younger.
[Overlapping chatter]
Can I get a hug?
[Laughs]
[Laughter]
- See, looky here. - [Laughs]
The fact that both of my families are here
is something really important to me
because we haven't seen them in such a long time.
I raised John his first five years of his life,
and I never thought this day would come.
It's really good to see a happy ending.
He's come to terms with the really rough parts of his life.
He's been angry and mad, but now he knows
that all these people are behind him.
He's gonna do fine, 'cause I think he's lost
100 pounds of anger.
If someone told me
that all this would have happened,
that I found my biological family,
that they came, that, you know,
that we were all together,
that I lost the weight that I lost,
I wouldn't have believed them.
This is gonna be a huge change in my life.
[Piano music]
♪ ♪
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