False Things You Can Stop Believing About My 600 Lb Life

Patients on the TLC show My 600-lb Life put their whole lives on display in hopes of losing a considerable amount of weight, but there are still plenty of false things that people believe about them. Some viewers are dismissive of overweight people and assume they're just lazy, but the show has reinforced time and again that there are plenty of causes of extreme weight gain, including genetics and childhood trauma.