reality tv is an addiction

If you get a chance to see World's Heaviest Man on TLC, do it. TV schedules have been bloated with shows about morbidly obese people.

This one is quite different because the guy's in Mexico.

This guy starts the show at 1200 pounds. The show covers a year in his life and he drops to 800-ish pounds using the zone diet. His day-to-day life is also quite different from the similarly-super-sized Americans shown on other productions. The focus of the American shows is "feel pity on us because we're so big." And anyone would. How horrible to be trapped in such a body. But the American show is portrayed as a little bit of a freak show.

This documentary is different. It opens with the guy shaving at the start of the day. Hell, as the show progresses, its even hinted at that he's having a sex life. I was listening to the female medical professional explaining in Spanish that he's started having erections in the morning - when anything is dubbed in a documentary they generally let you hear a little bit of the speaker's native language to sort of set the tone. I understood her directly and was very curious to hear how her very frank assessment would be overdubbed! They did it accurately which doesn't always happen.

Gotta go, my other favorite show is on: BRIDEZILLAS!