My 600-lb Life

My 600-lb Life
Created by	Jonathan Nowzaradan
Starring	Younan Nowzaradan, MD
Composers	Britton Beisenherz, David Hamburger
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	12
No. of episodes	145 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Jack Tarantino Cameo Wallace Ron Bowman Jeff Keels Graham Davidson Tom Mireles Jonathan Nowzaradan
Producers	Leslie Appleyard Amy Yerrington Dawn Cooper Johnson
Production locations	Houston, Texas
Cinematography	Taylor Rudd
Editors	Shrader Thomas Jennifer Kovacs Gareth Dawson John Gehrke Knox Hughes
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	45 minutes (seasons 1-4, excluding advertisements) 85 minutes (season 5-present, excluding advertisements)
Production company	Megalomedia
Original release
Network	TLC
Release	February 1, 2012 (2012-02-01) – present
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My 600-lb Life is an American reality television series that has aired on the TLC television network since 2012. Each episode follows a year in the life of morbidly obese individuals, who usually begin the episode weighing at least 600 pounds (270 kg), and documents their attempts to reduce their weight to a healthy level. Update episodes, called "Where Are They Now?", feature one or more previous patients, picking up a year or more after their original episodes aired.

Patients are placed under the care of Houston surgeon Younan Nowzaradan (often referred to as "Dr. Now"), who first has them attempt losing weight on their own by following a strict diet, and then depending on the patient's progress may offer gastric bypass surgery or sleeve gastrectomy to further assist in weight loss.^[1]