My 600 Pound Life

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I'm really worried that I will end up on that show. I weigh over 200 pounds (like 250-ish) and kinda just stay there. Like I'm stuck. I don't really eat a whole lot. I usually live off of yogurt, green tea, fruits, veggies, non-fried fish, eggs etc...

Now, sometimes I will have a small burger, a soda, a steak (grilled) and ice cream or a cupcake but I make sure that the portion is small enough (and I mean tiny like, the burger is slider sized) and in school people were concerned that I didn't eat a lot. I'm also active during the day and now that I have my treadmill again, I can do my treadmill work out and need a yoga mat because I do yoga.

Will I end up on My 600 Pound Life if I keep on like this?

doubtful.

I measure out portions with a scale before cooking. Works great on things like pancake mix, which is hard to measure via volume.

My guess is that your odds are about the same as winning a million in the lottery, or reaching the summit of Mount Everest. Six hundred is a small, exclusive, and extreme club to join.

I'd talk to a doctor if you get worried about weight. If you're eating well and exercising, it's not a slider-sized burger that's going to do you in.

Keep in mind that running a calorie deficit (which you need to do to lose weight) for too long will put your body into starvation mode, making it fight tooth and nail to keep everything you do eat stuck to your body somewhere.

Find out what your body fat %/lean mass is, and then calculate your base metabolism. Add in any exercise and other physical activity to get what you're burning each day, then subtract about 500 calories, and try to stick to that number. At least once a week, go about 500 cal *over* that number. That gives you about a 3k deficit (~1lb) per week.

Add in resistance training to your exercise. Don't just do cardio. Adding muscle mass will raise your base metabolism. When you start doing resistance training keep in mind that you might stop losing weight for a bit (because you're adding muscle), but you're probably still losing fat - so don't get discouraged.

You have no reason to be concerned. To get on that show you'd have to double your weight and then some, and with the diet and lifestyle you described, it wouldn't make sense for you to double in size.

If you're experiencing unexplained weight gain or you feel like you should be losing more weight than you currently are considering your food and lifestyle, you might want to talk to a doctor to make sure there are no contributing medical issues. Some medications cause weight-gain, so if you're taking medication it might be worth researching to see if weight gain is one of the side-effects.

Nobody knows the answer, unless they are psychic

Some of these people have been bedbound for years and eat far more than you do and can do virtually nothing but eat. You don't seem to be in that kind of danger.

Some diseases and drugs have weight gain or loss as a side effect

Everyone could get fat or skinny

You listed the foods you eat, but you did not list amounts

Amounts matter

If you weigh 250 and haven't lost much weight with diet and exercise, you may have a pituitary tumor or a disorder. I suggest you go see a doctor about this and perhaps maybe discuss getting an MRI. As far as the possibility of you weighing 600, you're still 350 lbs lighter than that. And there's still a good chance you will not reach that weight. However, depending your height, you are considered extremely overweight or obese. Another thing to note is that the people on My 600 Pound Life are compulsive eaters. In other words, they eat when they're hungry and when they're not hungry.