Regardless of age, obesity can bring on a raft of health concerns including diabetes, high blood pressure, shortened life expectancy and limited mobility. But for children and teenagers, those health problems are often compounded by less obvious side effects – teasing, bullying, isolation, and even missing school and staying away from public places to avoid the taunting.

It’s these kinds of stories that many teenagers have reported to doctors at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, home to the ground-breaking and multi-disciplinary SickKids Team Obesity Management Program, more commonly known as STOMP. W5 follows two teens through a radical program to treat their obesity and help them find normal lives.