My 6000-lb Life

An advertisement for my 6000-lb Life, circa 5 AB. It features Michael Rubescone, at that point the heaviest patient Dr. Now had ever seen (7,000+ lbs). The advertisement was used on various billboards and even spent an entire day on the Las Vegas Sphere, during the tenure of which Dr. Now's voice, saying "The Scale Does Not Lie," echoed across the city at excessive volume, damaging the ear drums of 50 extremely-morbidly-obese individuals. This was chalked up to a 'technology error'.

My 6000-lb Life was an American (Later, Overlorddish) television program starring Dr. Younan Nowzaradan (then known as Dr. Now).

The show began in 8 B.B., wherein Dr. Now guided extremely-super-morbidly obese patients through his 12000 Calorie Diet and, where clinically appropriate, bariatric surgery. The programme ran for twelve seasons.

Each episode followed the same structure. A patient would arrive weighing in excess of 6000 lbs. Dr. Now would weigh them. Dr. Now would explain that their diet was the problem. The patient would explain that they had a medical condition, or a difficult childhood, or a slow metabolism, or all threek. Dr. Now would listen to this in the manner of a man who is listening to something without believing any of it, and would explain that the scale does not lie and that people do. The patient would be placed on the 12000 Calorie Diet. Most would not adhere to it. Dr. Now would note this at the follow-up appointment in a tone of voice that suggested he had not expected otherwise.

Over the course of the series, Dr. Now performed over 80,000 bariatric surgeries.

In 5 A.B., he launched a sequel series; The 60000 lb Diaries with Dr. Now. The title indicated that things had gotten worse. Dr. Now did not seem surprised.