Larry Myers Jr. was featured in a Season 10 episode of ‘My 600-lb Life’. Sadly, he passed away on June 13, 2023. He was 49 years old. What happened?
Most patients on My 600-lb Life appear on the show because they’ve lived their entire lives dangerously overweight and they finally want to take the right steps to get healthy enough to undergo bariatric surgery. In the Jan. 26, 2022 episode, Larry Myers was in a slightly different position.
It’s revealed at the start of the Season 10 episode that his current weight was unknown. But what also sets him apart from other cast members of the show is that he already had weight-loss surgery once before. In 2015, Larry underwent surgery and lost more than 600 pounds. Sadly, he gained a lot of the weight back. Determined to change his life, Larry tried once again to get his weight under control. Sadly, on June 13, 2023, Larry passed away, bringing his life story to an end.
What happened to Larry?
Larry wanted to fix his relationship with food on ‘My 600-lb Life.’
Part of Larry’s storyline in his episode of My 600-lb Life revolved around how he saw food. He described sharp shooting pains in his body from his weight and the strain it put on his legs. He couldn’t stand on his feet for more than four minutes at a time. And, Larry admitted in the episode, he knew he used food as a “medicine” to help him ignore the pain.
“The relationship that I have with food, I know that it’s not normal,” Larry said. “I eat to comfort myself. When I’m cooking, it’s the only time I’m happy, besides when I’m eating. So it’s the time that I like to sing and I sing gospel. Because the rest of the time, when I’m not eating, most of my thoughts are morbidly depressing.”
Before Larry gained weight back after his first bariatric surgery, he was actually a motivational speaker. He spoke out about his weight loss and encouraged others to follow his path.
In 2015, he shared a lengthy post on TLC’s Facebook page in which he said others could do what he did if they tried hard enough. It was inspiring. But after he lost his sister, Larry fell into a depression and turned to food once again. He gained several hundred pounds of weight back.
