One problem was that Marla was cheating on her diet and refusing to get up and walk. She still craved the fried chicken she used to make from her bed.
Though it had been almost a year since her bypass surgery when the follow-up episode aired, Marla couldn’t stand up.
“A couple of months ago, I was kind of depressed because things weren’t going as I thought they would go, but it is getting better,” she said. “I’m getting stronger.”
Sierra McCants
Marla’s biggest goal was to get up and walk, then to remove excess skin.
Marla McCants – incredible transformation
“I came to Texas so I can get my life back and be here for my grandkids, but I still don’t feel like I am able to be in their lives like I should. So I can’t wait to get that surgery done,” she said in the follow-up episode.
“I still have cravings, miss fried chicken,” she added. “I was trying to find a way that I can eat that. I tried using olive oil, but it doesn’t taste the same, and just eating meat is a little frustrating.
‘”All I can say is that I am human. You don’t have to starve yourself; you just have to make better choices.”
Sierra had helped her mom with everything over the years. Then, one year after her mother’s gastric bypass surgery, she felt that she wanted to move on with her life and not be a caretaker for Marla.
Marla, of course, didn’t want her daughter acting as her caretaker either.
“I feel frustrated because if she can just get up and walk, that would be a major step for me,” Sierra said.
“I know right then and there—boom—I could just take off with my life.”
“A couple of months ago, I would have said it was frustrating sitting in this bed watching people come and go, but use that as fuel now because soon I will be out there,” Marla explained.
“I am going to the doctor’s soon, and I am hoping he will give me the go-ahead to get skin surgery.”
Claims of faking the production
Even though it seemed like Marla McCants was a hopeless case, there’s more to her than meets the eye.
In a YouTube interview with Rickey Smiley, she claimed that the production company was actually faking things and used unethical behavior in order to make the program more dramatic than it actually was.
“Like, the scene where I was in the hospital. And I wouldn’t get up. You all don’t know why I didn’t get it up. First of all, they put it out there a year ahead, when actually it was only one month after I had the gastric bypass,” Marla explained.
“I had lost seventy pounds the first month. I had my surgery February 13th of 2015; that episode aired March of 2015. So I had just lost seventy pounds. I was malnourished, I was in the hospital, and he wanted me to get up? Seriously? I’m bleeding on the bed and you want me to get up?”
Marla McCants
So how is Marla McCants doing today? Well, safe to say that she turned her whole life around – and she looks absolutely amazing!
This is Marla McCants today
In 2019, Marla appeared on the Sister Circle, where she revealed her true new self. In fact, she’s lost a staggering 580 pounds. Yes, you read that right!
“I never want to go back to that place,” McCants said on the show. “The way I was treated. I never want to go back there. It’s lonely.”
Even though Marla has won the biggest fight of her life, many people are still fighting. According to Marla, it’s important not to judge those people, as she knows how it feels to be like them.
”I firstly want to get out there that food is an addiction. I’m always going to have that mindset. I struggled with it,” she said.
”The way I was treated…you never want to go back there. You should never judge a book by it’s cover. Everybody has a story, everybody has roots that they have to get to.
“For those people [who think it’s gross with people on the show], they are just ignorant,” she added. ”You can overcome your struggles and fears, you can do what I did.”
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Through her Facebook page, Marla shares many photos of herself and her family. We couldn’t be any happier for her
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