Lonnie and John.
I think it'll be worth it for both of us to get this help.
And we just have to face the music now.
This is so stressful.
I've gained a little bit of weight since last time I weighed.
Yeah, It's your turn.
For.
It's been a while since I've had my weight checked.
So it's quite a it's a big number.
Yeah.
It's been two months since my surgery and I'm finally fully recovered.
And having all that skin gone feels amazing.
And tonight, me and Amber are going on a date to celebrate recovery.
Whenever I was £600.
It really put a crimp in our relationship because she was my caretaker.
But that's not how it is anymore.
Hi. Are you about ready to go?
Yes. Are you ready?
No. I just got to change shirt and put my shoes on.
Let's rock and roll.
Yes. Fun day.
Before. I was just barely getting by.
Now I get to think about the life I actually want, and it's overwhelming.
But tonight, I just want to be in the moment and enjoy every second of it.
Hi, guys. How are you? Hey, how are you?
You got to. Yeah.
I'm very proud of John and his progress and what he's done.
John, Losing the weight that he did is really changed our life.
It's made a big difference in our family.
I'm so proud of John's accomplishments, and I am really looking forward to the future.
Your hair looks good today.
Thank you.
We all got dressed up together.
I wore matching colors.
No.
Get you out of that match.
How about me?
I love you, too.
All right, you grab that, Caleb.
The fishing poles and tackle box.
You can grab that and I'll grab this.
All right, Let's go fishing.
Yep. Fishing time today.
I'm going fishing with Caleb.
And I'm excited about it.
And I think he is, too, because we've been fishing together.
But not like this.
Caleb gets me all the motivation.
If it would have just been me and Amber, I don't think I would ever done this.
My whole life is transformed.
And now the biggest thing for me is going to be building memories with my family.
The whole time I've known Caleb, he's known me as someone who can barely get around.
And now I have a chance to change all that.
I do feel like I'm making up for lost time.
I got to make up for lost time.
He's not going to be a kid forever.
All right. You're good. Go.
Go.
Here. Why don't you just.
Well, this is cool.
I don't want to sit over there.
It's hot.
Yeah. Sit in the shade for a minute.
Same goes for me and Amber.
She has sacrificed a lot just to be together with me.
Because the whole first part of being together, she had to care for me like a
handicapped person.
And now it's my chance to say thank you to her.
That was a lot of fun. This makes me want a boat.
Amber was there when I was at my worst, and I'm not at my best yet, but I'm getting
there. Excited?
Yeah.
Pretty good right now.
That's what I was thinking.
Today was very fun.
I'm really proud of my dad for losing all that weight.
It's changed my life a lot.
Being able to do stuff with him right there.
Leave it. Don't reel it in unless you gotta buy it.
Bodie was not something he could do when he was £600, so it makes me feel good that he's
feeling great now.
We did not catch any fish.
It was very windy.
Today. I'm excited because Richard is surprising me and taking me on a date.
And I love being surprised, especially by Richard.
Richard did tell me it's going to be sort of like a picnic.
Going on a damn picnic.
Fat people don't go on picnics.
You don't sit on the ground. It's insane.
You can't get up.
So, you know, like, it's just.
Oh, everything's just awesome.
And I'm excited in general because there's a big part of me that would have never thought
I would have been able to experience this kind of thing.
Dating is something I haven't done.
So every time I go on a date, it's a whole new damn experience.
Hello. Look really cute.
Thank you. So things are really looking up for me and for John, too.
He's doing great.
For a little while I felt guilty because I was doing so well and he seemed to be
struggling still a little bit, But he's doing real well now, too.
And I know he's happy for me starting a life like this with Richard because he told me so.
My family knows I've been waiting for this for so long and I've worked so hard to get
here that I'm not letting anything slow me down.
I'm excited.
I've never been on a I've never been on a I've never been on any kind of date like
this. It's just cool.
Are we here? Is this it? We're here.
Oh, it's so cold.
Ha!
Oh, my God.
It's so cute.
Oh, look how cute it is.
It's all like. Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh. Oh, my gosh.
I'm too tall. Oh.
Oh, my God.
My inspiration for this day was I've actually seen, you know, in movies and such,
you know, people go on picnic days.
I was like, Well, that's something I never done, you know, before and thought it would
be something, you know, some fun and something new for the both of us.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Me and Richard have plans for the future.
And with a partner like him, I feel like I can do so much.
Oh, look, it's all just so pretty.
The support I feel from him is just amazing.
We want to travel.
There's so many places to see and so much fun to be had.
I'm going to be staying within the boundaries of what I'm supposed to put in my
body because I'm living my best life now.
And a big part of that is going to be living in my best body.
Did you imagine a couple of years ago that you'd.
Be, you know, sitting on the ground having a picnic?
You know, honestly kind of thought that I would like for real.
I kind of thought that I didn't think I deserved someone who loved me.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
Thank you.
How are you doing? Hey, how are y'all doing?
All right? Fine. How are.
You? Lani. I'm Lani.
Nice to meet you. Lani.
I'm John. John.
Nice to.
Meet you. Today, John and I are headed to the race track to drive a race car has always
been one of John's biggest dreams.
So I had a friend get us in so I could take John to, like, do this, like, dream like
thing. This is.
Lonnie. Lonnie?
Yes, sir. Nice to meet you.
Lonnie, this is John. John.
Nice to meet you, John.
You all have a good time.
Thank you. Thank you.
Not a problem. We appreciate you letting us use your racetrack.
Okay. Well, your dreams have been to climb through the window of a race car.
We got this dream for you.
You have to.
Keep it under.
Wide open.
All right. I think you could wear that one there.
And you can wear this one here.
All right, We'll get you all in that.
And you can kind of put it.
Like over his coveralls.
Put it over your it might go over your clothes that you got on.
You guys look pretty skinny.
I appreciate that.
I like being called skinny.
Don't get out of that line, okay?
Otherwise you're going to spin out.
Okay. Well, I'm not going to.
I'm really not going to go very fast.
He's gonna drive about ten miles an hour.
Well, he.
Said.
Growing up, me and John didn't get along very well.
I know we've always loved each other, but a lot of times I never thought I'd be able to
have this relationship with my brother.
Now we really appreciate each other and enjoy each other, and I'm super grateful for
that.
He can die slowly, very, very slowly.
He was getting it around that racetrack.
Holy cow.
We were going to die and we were going to be miserable.
And now we just thriving in this crazy ass world.
We're thriving.
We've worked our asses off for three years.
It was good to see him just like, so agile and being able to climb into cars and jump
out of cars.
I grew up going to dirt track races as a kid, and this by far has been one of the best days
of my life. Before I was in a chair in a scooter.
I couldn't even walk from the car to the middle of the racetrack.