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July 21, 2015 08:38 PM by Lisa Princ
One thing that we’ve all learned from watching shows such as Extreme Weight Loss or The Biggest Loser, is that part of getting healthy is not just dropping pounds, but dropping the emotional baggage that causes bad eating habits. And tonight on Extreme Weight Loss, one woman learned this the hard way, when she realized that not every door can stay open, and sometimes, it’s best to simply close the door.
Extreme Weight Loss returned tonight with Tiffany, aka Pearls, a 36-year-old mother to an autistic teen boy, who also happens to a big advocate for autism. But while it was obvious that Pearls, who got that nickname from wearing pearl jewelry all of the time (to take away from her weight), is a great mom who is doing something wonderful not only for her own son, but for other autistic children, deep down inside she was dying.
Pearls struggled with an eating disorder all of her life, but at this time, she was at her heaviest, weighing in at almost 300 pounds. Eating disorder? Oh, cue Heidi Powell for this one, because after all, that is her specialty. Chris stayed in the background for a lot of this week’s episode, well, except for when Heidi hit her first goal, and he was forced to do a high heel run. Oh, but Chris didn’t just don high heels for his run, he was complete with lipstick as well. It was pretty funny to watch such a fit man at the back of the crowd during that run.
Pearls was one of the first contestants that we’ve seen in a while that seemed to have no struggle what so ever with the workouts or adjusting to her new eating habits. But as she was dropping weight like crazy, she was still struggling emotionally. You see, for 7 years she was in an abusive marriage, but had a stepson whom she grew to love as her own, and when she divorced, she was told she could no longer see him. Since it was killing her inside, Heidi had Pearls call up her ex so that she arrange a meeting with her stepson.
Too bad her ex turned out to be quite the creep. Although he initially told Pearls that she could see her stepson one last time, he backed out at the last minute and stopped answering her calls. That’s when Heidi took matters into her own hands and called him herself. Being a complete jackass, the ex told Heidi that he thought it would be best if Pearls did not see his son at all.
Pearls took the news hard at first, but she quickly realized that she needed to close the door completely on that part of her past and move forward with her son. And she did just that as she ended up dropped 50% of her original body weight, weighing in at 147 pounds for her final weigh in. I sure hope her ex was eating his heart out when he saw the episode, because she looked like one hot momma!
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