Under fire. The fans are calling 1000 sister pounds star tammy slaton after he shared a photo drinking a carbonated drink less than a year after undergoing bariatric surgery.
“LOL diet sodie ambassador [sic]the 36-year-old reality star captioned a selfie of herself with a bottle of Diet Coke that was shared via Instagram on Thursday, May 18.
Tammy’s social media followers were quick to flood the comments section with warnings about the effects carbonation can have on someone who’s had gastric bypass surgery.
“It’s not good, stop drinking those things you made with so much sugar to go back and drink things like this, it’s not good, please make better choices. [sic]”wrote a fan. “Don’t carbonation make you pop? It makes me. I had a gastric sleeve in 2012,” added another.
Another fan chimed in, writing: “Tammy! With gastric bypass surgery, you are not supposed to drink any soft drinks at all. The carbonation will expand your stomach girl! [sic]”
After a long weight loss journey, Tammy reached her goal weight of 534.7 pounds to qualify for bariatric surgery and underwent the procedure in the summer of 2022.
“When I got on the scale and saw the scale was 534.7, I stopped breathing for a second,” the TLC personality told the cameras during a February 2023 episode. “I’m like 14 pounds under my goal weight. over 700. That’s a big drop.”
That same month, Tammy opened up about her weight loss journey, telling her us weekly, “The process of getting approval for the surgery was not easy. I broke my butt.”
“I was starving most of the time and my hard work paid off,” he said, adding that he had to relearn “how much food” his body could safely consume after surgery.
The Kentucky native, who previously weighed over 700 pounds, suffered a series of health problems before being approved for surgery, including a near-death experience that left her in a medically induced coma in November 2021.
“I don’t remember any of that, nothing. I completely passed out,” she recalled during the January 17 episode. “I woke up a week later in the hospital, on life support. I dont remember anything.
He had a tracheostomy done at the hospital, which creates a hole in his throat to insert a breathing tube. The breathing tube was administered so that she could receive emergency respiratory assistance at any time. Tammy spent months recovering at a food addiction rehab center in Ohio before being released in February.
“I am better day by day. I’m supposed to be out of the hospital in a couple of days,” he shared with his fans via TikTok at the time. “I’m going to another nursing rehab to get my strength back and lose more weight.”
The YouTube star has since had her tracheostomy removed and has been seen walking around without the use of her motorized wheelchair in recent weeks.
