After years of being bed-ridden and swelling up to around 900 lbs., Sean Milliken is attempting to finally lose weight to save his life. Along with his mother Renee, Sean is moving to Houston in the hopes that he will qualify for weight loss surgery. But while Sean knows this may be his last hope, he's afraid of the risks. "I'm not 100 percent certain this is the right decision to make," Sean, 25, says in this exclusive clip from My 600-lb Life. "I am extremely nervous about this trip. It's going to take anywhere from 30 to 40 hours to drive there. I'm very worried about that. If I fall, we won't be near the hospital for people to pick me up." "Sean's worried about leaving everything he's ever known, but it's worth the risk," Renee, 56, says. "He needs to experience life. That's what I hope comes out of all this." Sean explains that his weight gain started because of a rough relationship with his father, who used to yell in his face and back Sean into a corner.

So I would eat. And suddenly I felt a lot better," Sean says. "In that moment, nothing else mattered." Renee says she would use food to make Sean feel better about his father. "I probably overcompensated in a lot of ways," she says. "I couldn't go to the store without bringing him home a treat." And she had her own issues with food to contend with.Weight Loss Quantum Physics "I have an eating disorder myself," Renee explains. Dyson Vacuum Cleaners Old Models"And it's hard to fix in someone else what's wrong with you."Air Conditioning Units For 2 000 Sq. Ft. House She divorced from Sean's father when he was ten, and already past 150 lbs. But it didn't help his weight. "I realized it wasn't healthy for Sean to stay around his father," Renee says.

"But the divorce really had a hard affect on Sean, it really bothered him." "I felt like it was my fault, I felt like my family had fallen apart because of me," Sean says. "So I kept going to food to deal with those feelings. I would get out of school and my mom would be at work, so I would just come home and go straight to the fridge. I'd eat everything and anything I could get my hands on. I started gaining probably 50 lbs. a year, and by the time I was in high school I was over 400 lbs." RELATED VIDEO: From a Size 52 to 30: One Transgender Woman's Inspiring Weight-Loss Journey Then, in his senior year of high school, Sean fell down the stairs and tore a ligament in his leg, leaving him bedridden and unable to finish out the year. In the eight years since then, Sean has barely left his bed. Their attempt to move is the first time he's stood up in years. "I'm leaving everything I know to save my life," Sean says. "This is by far the biggest risk my mom and I have ever taken."

"And I'm scared that I'm beyond help at this point, and no matter what I do or what help I get, I'm still going to be dead soon." TLC's My 600-lb Life airs Wednesday nights at 9/8c. The 'Girl in the Box' Speaks: How I Survived Being Held Captive for 7 Years The Munsters Butch Patrick Marries Leila Murray – See the PhotosPrince William Takes the Wheel with Princess Kate as the Royal Family Heads to Church Child Survivor of 9/11 Finds Her Way Back After Struggling with PTSD: 'There Is Life and Hope Out There' Hillary Clinton Has Been Diagnosed with PneumoniaA Harvard-based startup built by former Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson employees is launching an app and health coach tool geared toward women in its newest initiative to disrupt the weight loss market. Gain Life, launched by Sean Eldridge and Dr. John Peters and self-funded to date, builds on the duo’s prior experience at Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson’s weight loss division and Weight Watchers, offering not just nutrition and exercise advice, but a therapy aspect unique in the market.

The program is focused on behavioral change, and is encouraged through activities in the app and the interaction of a live health coaches. “Most of the programs out there are focused on the tactical – nutrition and activity,” said Eldridge, the startup's CEO. “We think a missing element is the battle between the ears — the mindset. So we create mindset-focused programs that have nutrition and activity guidance as part of them, but it’s mindset first for behavior change.” The program also differs from other weight-loss services in that it is often offered to users through employers or insurers, who subsidize some of the cost. To date, approximately a dozen companies have partnered with Gain Life to offer the programs. to offer the program at a discount. Users can also log onto the website for PowerUp or ManUp for direct access. The company launched a program geared to men, ManUp, in January 2014. Last month, the company broadened its offerings to one focused on women.

PowerUp is similar to ManUp in many ways, giving users a customized nutrition and activity plan combined with access to a health coach and broader community of users. Yet the app features language that differs greatly between the genders — men with a sports-themed app and women with one focused on health and wellness. The program’s “mindset” aspect also differs, with the online activities and coaches asking different questions to encourage users to stick to the weight loss program. Executives said they wanted to explore weight loss for men before wading into the waters for women, largely because men don’t have many weight loss programs despite suffering from higher rates of obesity. Users pay $99 for the first four months for access to the app and peer network as well as a wellness coach. In subsequent months, users can pay $5 a month to use the web and mobile applications, $18 a month to also communicate with coaches through the app's messaging function, and $33 a month to also video conference with their coach.