Movies and TvShows featuring "losing-weight" theme.
My 600-lb Life is a reality TV show that follows the lives of individuals struggling with extreme obesity. Viewers witness as they embark on a journey to lose weight and improve their health. The show focuses on the challenges they face, including their physical and emotional struggles, as well as their relationship with food. With the help of renowned surgeon Dr. Nowzaradan, the participants undergo gastric bypass surgery and must commit to a strict diet and exercise program in order to achieve their weight loss goals.
Follow the turbulent journey of Mama June and her family as they navigate through various challenges, including revenge, non-fiction events, an overweight woman, and the pursuit of weight loss.
An industrial worker named Trevor Reznik hasn't slept in a year and begins to doubt his own sanity. He experiences hallucinations and paranoia, and his guilt over a hit and run accident leads him to believe there is a conspiracy against him. As he unravels the mystery, Trevor discovers that his own guilt and insomnia have driven him to madness, creating a separate identity named Ivan. In the end, Trevor turns himself in to the police and finally finds some peace as he falls asleep in his cell.
A miracle happens, Angelica, a student of journalism suddenly loses 50 kilograms overnight.
Check in on the men and women featured in "My 600lb Life." Since the show, have they maintained their weight loss and continued working toward their goals? We get an update on where they are now and what's changed since the show.
Dumplin' is a comedy-drama film about Willowdean Dickson, a plus-size teenager who enters a local beauty pageant as a protest against the stereotypical beauty standards. Inspired by her late aunt, a former beauty queen, Willowdean challenges the norms and embraces her body positivity, inspiring others along the way.
Naoe, a massage therapist, is about to head home for the day when he’s saddled with a rather strange patient. This lovely lady has emerald eyes, pointy ears, and grew up in the forest–everything about her screams “elf,” except for one thing: her bodacious body. It turns out she left her world but loves junk food in this one, and now her obsession has caught up with her. Can Naoe help this lovable elf girl lose the weight–and keep it off?
Sakura Hibiki is a high school girl with a weak constitution who joins a gym to lose weight. However, she becomes fascinated with weightlifting and starts training to build muscle. With the help of her fitness-loving classmate, Machio, and other gym regulars, Sakura embarks on a journey to become stronger physically and mentally.
When a cartoonist is diagnosed with cancer, he undergoes a radical physical transformation as a way to seek revenge on the woman who rejected him. In the process, he finds love and learns valuable life lessons.
After a lawyer accidentally kills a gypsy woman, he is cursed to rapidly lose weight, facing terrifying consequences as he tries to break the curse.
In 'Lying to Be Perfect', a woman named Nola Devlin struggles with her self-image and weight. When an opportunity arises to work at a magazine, she decides to reinvent herself and pretend to be her skinny best friend. As she tries to keep up the facade and navigate the challenges of her new job, Nola learns important lessons about self-acceptance and the importance of true friendship.
Fatso is a heartwarming movie about a man named Dominick who struggles with his weight and self-image. When he decides to go on a diet, he faces many challenges and obstacles, but ultimately learns to embrace himself for who he is. Along the way, he discovers the importance of love and acceptance, both from himself and from others.
In Runway Cop, an undercover cop with a gunshot wound goes undercover as a fashion model to investigate a drug ring. Along the way, he faces various challenges such as spiked drinks, an erection in public, and even a car chase. With the help of a fashion designer and a group of models, he works to bring down the criminals and bring justice to the streets.
Follow the journey of a man who tries to lose weight in 4 easy steps, encountering love, breakup, and hilarious gym moments along the way.
Kae is a fat high school girl who is a 'fujoshi', which is girls who enjoy reading homosexual romance novels. She is dismayed when her favourite character is killed off. She is unwell and refuses to eat. She loses weight. As a side-effect she is thin and suddenly popular at school. Boys begin to pursue her. She has a choice of suitors and can pick a boy of her liking. They are all pretty.
Secret Eaters is a British documentary television series about overeating. It is shown on Channel 4 and presented by Anna Richardson. With their permission, people with eating habit problems are videoed in their home over a week. The subjects do not suspect that private investigators are also following and videoing them elsewhere. At the end of the week, the true amount of what the subjects have eaten is revealed. The subjects are given some days to change their habits, and are brought back, showing considerable weight loss. This drama is intercut with a separate short story where the presenter and food experts test some factor causing overeating.
Forks Over Knives explores the idea that most, if not all, degenerative diseases can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.
Dr Xand van Tulleken, Hala El-Shafie and Stacie Stewart attempt to uncover the secrets behind the most popular and over-used diets on the market today.
High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead.
Obesity has become one of the most overwhelming diseases in our modern society, even now considered to be of epidemic proportions. This documentary film dives into this sensitive, but socially powerful topic and exposes shocking statistics of the fattening of our culture. Kenny Saylors, overweight himself, faces his own fat in his life as he embarks upon a 55 day, Doctor supervised, water fast to see the effects of this ancient practice on our bodies today and to examine if healing properties truly do exist within our own bodies in this extreme method of food restriction.