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I'm thinking that she lost 400 pounds (!) but it wasn't enough, she probably needed to gradually lose another 300 to get to a healthy weight.
The WeTV series featured Lopez talking about her weight struggle, including learning to walk again after shedding 400 pounds. She shared that at one point she had weighed 846 pounds.

Holy shit. >

As a paramedic there are some people I go to and just wince. The logistics of getting these people out of their apartments in a timely manner are exhausting and dangerous for patient and practitioner. If they fall in the wrong place it can take hours to get them out. If they fall down dead in the wrong place there is very little anyone can do. >

Don’t you guys ask a bunch of fireman to help? >

I can only speak for the UK but we have special bariatric teams for cases like this. We can call fire out but that's if any structural stuff needs to happen (taking walls, windows out). However, I've had a couple of cardiac arrests where CPR was unsafe and the time to deconstruct the adjoining wall was going to be a long time. So we had to just leave them to die. Sad but these people are way way down a path before we arrive in their moment of crisis. >

Let’s say you guys take down the wall. Who is going to pay for it? Seems a lot of money will be involved just to transport 1 person out!
I really have high respect for you guys. I think in some cases, you guys save a lot more lives than doctors. >

Well that's why fire only come out when that sorta thing happens. Fire pays for it and yeah it is a lot of work. >

In Canada, when paramedics sent someone to hospital, they need to stay with the patient until the hospital/ER take them in. So they could waiting in ER for hours. Is UK the same? >

Canada's methods of prehospital care are very much aligned with the UK and yes, this hospital turnaround time debacle is one of the reasons why paramedics are striking in the UK. In the worst hit areas, crews are handing over to the night crew, only to have the night crew hand the same patient back to the day shift. >

That is upsetting >

I got out of prehospital a few years ago, I saw the way it was going. Plus there were an influx of kids into the roles, some were really good but most had no life experience and were just a pain in the ass "trauma junkies". I left to do my MSc and now happy in a UTC >

Good for her for losing so much weight. Although she never got to a healthy weight and  I will take a huge liberty to assume her death was weight related, it's still very commendable and inspirational that she was able to lose almost half her body size and was able to be mobile again. So sad for someone who worked so hard to combat mental illness to still succumb to its effects. >

Loosing 400 lb is amazing. If her death is weight-related she deserves respect for trying to correct it rather than blame for having it >

It's wild that people don't understand that losing 400lbs in a single year requires malnutrition, and continuously being malnourished puts you at a higher risk of heart failure.
Weight loss surgery is such a frightening scam.  They get fat people's money, then don't have to give a fuck how many of them die.  And society doesn't care because fat people are seen as less than human.  It's a win-win for for-profit healthcare. >

If someone is 800 pounds they would need to eat what, 12k calories per day to maintain that useless fat? Wouldn't going down to a lower calorie but nutrient rich diet with proper vitamins make sense and make you drop weight quickly? How would that make them malnourished? >

I agree, I’m not sure they know what the word malnourished actually is.
I’ve a family member who used to be pretty big when I was growing up - couldn’t walk properly and whatnot kind of level “big”. Over many years now they’ve managed to get back to a healthy weight and size, genuinely never looking better. 
Slow and steady wins the race and all that, but most people just want to lose weight as quickly as possible, which isn’t really the healthiest way to go about it. >

When you are 800 pounds, it's probably best to get the weight off asap while getting proper amounts of macro and micronutrients, just lowering the calories. At that weight you are looking at death at any time. Its like a constant game of Russian roulette. >

Yeah, the best way to not need to take on extreme weight loss is to take action before it ever gets near there. I doubt I’ll ever have to worry as someone who’s always struggled to put weight on, so I won’t pretend I know what those struggles are like, though I know anyone can do things they normally wouldn’t do due to stress from practically anything (plus whatever other factors such as medical).
The only obese people I judge are those who deny the science regarding their health, and I’m only judging their ignorance to the facts, not the fact they’re whatever weight they are. Like that “comedienne” (can’t remember her name now, was years back - Sofie Hagen or something?) who claimed that Cancer Research UK were spreading lies about how obesity increases your chances of getting cancer, heart disease, joint problems etc. Those people are fucking idiots who hurt everybody. You can be overweight and healthy (see: rugby players) at the end of the day, but not like the obese science deniers pretend they are.
Sorry if I dragged on a bit! >

The obesity proponents are going to be handled the natural way.. obesity is generally going to kill them before they make it out of their 50s. Often 40s and sometimes 30s. >


No information about a possible cause of death was shared..

I’m guessing we all have similar theories >

Precisely what I was thinking.