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Was He Able to Get the Surgery?

How is Isaac from 'My 600-lb Life' doing now? Learn what the TLC big name is doing these days, together with whether he was able to drop the weight.

Michelle Stein - Author

Those who have tuned into My 600-lb Life know the TLC collection features morbidly overweight people as they seek to assist of Dr. Younan Nowzaradan (aka Dr. Now) on a journey to utterly change into their lives. While some of his patients finally end up dropping loads of kilos with the lend a hand of bariatric surgery, others struggle to drop any important quantity of weight. Naturally, audience have wondered: How is Isaac Martinez doing now?

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Meet Isaac Martinez from 'My 600-lb Life.'

Isaac, who was 23 at the time of filming his episode of My 600-lb Life, is from Hutchins, Texas. He lives with his folks and siblings, and is helping maintain his mother, who has most cancers.

"Isaac helped raise his siblings after his mom suffered a debilitating stroke when he was 10," the synopsis for "Isaac's Journey" reads. "While learning to cook for his family, he began comfort-eating. Now to avoid eating himself to death, Isaac must learn to take care of himself for a change."

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At the beginning of his My 600-lb Life episode, much of Isaac's day revolved around meals — and he was so massive that he was having issue acting easy duties.

"My life has become such a struggle. Because of my size, everything is hard," he stated. "And I'm so big now, even simple tasks like getting dressed can be a big chore for me, and I have to have help sometimes ... Every day it gets harder to move and harder to breathe."

At his initial weigh-in with Dr. Now, Isaac tipped the scales at 661 kilos. Dr. Now tasked him with shedding eighty pounds over the next two months — excluding he was only able to lose Forty pounds. Isaac was then supposed to drop One hundred kilos extra over the following two months. Frustratingly, he most effective lost 10 pounds at that follow-up appointment.

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Dr. Now then helped arrange Issac with a therapist (which appeared to assist him), and he additionally set a objective for eighty pounds extra in weight loss; Isaac lost 34 kilos that time.

After that, Dr. Now sought after Isaac to lose an additional 50 kilos, and he lost 39 pounds. Dr. Now after all licensed him for weight loss surgery at that point, on the condition that he endured to stick with it and dropped 30 more pounds.

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How is Isaac from 'My 600-lb Life' doing now?

By the end of Isaac's My 600-lb Life episode, Dr. Now acknowledged all the arduous work he had put into shedding over A hundred kilos.

"I am proud of Isaac for making the progress he has made over the past year," Dr. Now mentioned. "He lost 122 pounds in total in that time. Even though it has taken him longer than it should have, I know it wasn't easy for him to do with his situation and home dynamic with everyone."

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Dr. Now added, "So what I have seen from him at this point, I feel confident that he will meet this next goal so that we can move ahead with his weight loss surgery in a couple months. And that he's going to be able to do well in the long run."

Dr. Now additionally pointed out that Isaac still had a lot of paintings to do and that, ultimately, he wanted to lose every other 350 pounds to reach his purpose weight.

"I'm very excited, and I know I can get to the next goal now," Isaac mentioned on the show.

Frustratingly, the episode ended earlier than audience came upon whether he was able to get the surgery and lose much more weight.

If you're interested by how Issac is doing now, his Facebook page is, sadly, non-public — excluding a cover photo from 2016. (We weren't able to find any other public social media accounts for him or his family members right away following his episode of My 600-lb Life, both.) But we will stay you posted with updates if this changes!

Watch new episodes of My 600-lb Life Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on TLC.

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