15 Grotesque Foods Heavy D Ate Before He Lost Over 100 Pounds

Almost every man on this channel had his body priced by somebody else. Heavy D priced his own. The Overweight Lover was his line, printed on his own record in 1987, before a single journalist could get there ahead of him. Then he danced better than anyone expected a three hundred pound man to dance, and kept doing it for twenty years. This is a countdown of fifteen things Dwight Myers actually ate, from the ackee and saltfish of a Jamaican kitchen in Mount Vernon, through twenty years of tour buses and studio sessions, to the part nobody talks about: he quietly put it all down and lost more than a hundred pounds. It ends with the pot his mother left covered on the stove before her night shift, for six children to help themselves. ABOUT WICKED APPETITES Welcome to Wicked Appetites. Pull up a chair. 🍴 Hollywood's golden-age legends lived big, and they ate even bigger. Behind the glamour, the tuxedos and the sold-out shows were plates you'd never find on a menu today: jellied meats, questionable casseroles, 3 a.m. diner feasts and "health foods" that were anything but. On this channel we dig into the strange, shocking and downright grotesque things that stars, crooners and icons of retro America really ate. Some of it will make you hungry. Most of it won't. NOTE This video is an independent work of documentary commentary and historical research. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or authorised by the estate of Dwight Myers, Uptown Records, Universal Music Group, or any other rights holder. All trademarks referred to remain the property of their respective owners. Portions of the narration and imagery in this video were produced using AI tools. Historical claims are drawn from published interviews, coroner reporting and contemporary press coverage. Where sources disagree or an account is uncertain, the narration says so rather than filling the gap.