Heavy D was on weight loss program when he died
According to published reports, rapper Heavy D was on a weight loss program when he died suddenly last week at the age of 44.
The rapper had begun a weight loss plan and kept a regular workout regime, according to EURweb.com.
Tony Wisniewski, the rapper’s trainer at the Ultra Body Fitness gym in Los Angeles, set Heavy up on a fitness plan three months before his death. Wisniewski is the same trainer that helped him lose 150 pounds back in 2008.
Autopsy reports show that Heavy D, real name Dwight Arrington Myers, weighed 344 pounds at the time of his death.
The autopsy was completed on Wednesday, but the coroner’s office declined to release a cause of death until they know the results of toxicology reports, which could take weeks.
According to Heavy D’s cousin, he had a “touch of pneumonia,” after returning from a trip to England a few days before he passed.
“We really do believe obesity makes people do worse with lung diseases,” said Dr. Benjamin Suratt, associate division chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care hospital.
“If Heavy D died of a garden-variety pneumonia,” said Suratt, “it could be that he wasn’t able to fight it off due to his lungs not being able to fully expand and his immune system not having been fully functional.”
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Rest well Heavy Divine
First I would like to say “Thank you Sandra” for the “newpost! YOU DON’T KNOW HOW APPRECIATIVE I AM!
Second……. My heart is still broke w/the passing of Heavy D!
we need to take care of our body it can only do so much
**eats anotehr bowl of oatmeal**
RIP Heavy. Your presence on earth will be missed.
RIP HEAVY D!!!!
Good Morning !
The day we are born we are destined to die. While you are here do some good. “Grandma Said”
Heavy D left his mark.
Heeeey caligirl!
I wanted a new post but not a sad one, I’ll wait
still singing Big daddy 
I’m proud to say! I listened to my son and turned Atlanta Housewivs off light night. My son, said Mommy they are really too negative and you shouldn’t be watching that kind of stuff” I’m so proud of him.
Somebody tell me what happened
he was so nice i had just met him at the BET awards
Heavy-D is LQQKING Quite Dapper in That Pic !!!
The Weight-Loss program doesn’t concern Me (ONE Bit…) But the Weight-LOSS Program and Over-EXERTION for the SOLE PURPOSE “Supposedly” of BEING in Hollyweird Movies is Quite Bothersome Though (To ME…)
IF His WEIGHT was TRULY Getting Out-of-Hand from a LIFE/HEALTH Perspective then A Weight-LOSS program in the Appropriate Moderation DEPENDING on ONE’S Weight & Exercise-HABITS should’ve been ADHERED TO Accordingly IMO
HOLLYWEIRD Isn’t WORTH ONE’S Sanity, Health or LIFE (Just My Opinion…)
BTW I LUV Heavy-D. and I’m TRULY SAD that Dude is No Longer amongst US (He WILL BE Soooooooo MISSED !!!)
Even pregnant, I am doing more and more to make sure my family takes care of themselves. I just ordered some probiotics for us. I have found I can stomach Greek yogurt better than regular yogurt (plus there are reports that regular yogurt is processed). We rarely eat out, we don’t eat processed foods. Mainly have water and milk in the house. Shopping on the outside lanes of the grocery store has saved so much money it is not even funny. Make meal plans is another way to save money as well.
Didn’t see RHOA last night or since the new season started, but Kim tweeted NeNe talking about my kids, she needed to be worried with keeping hers out of jail. WELP!
caligirl says:
I’m proud to say! I listened to my son and turned Atlanta Housewivs off light night. My son, said Mommy they are really too negative and you shouldn’t be watching that kind of stuff” I’m so proud of him.
Somebody tell me what happened
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GM everyone
caligirl says:
I’m proud to say! I listened to my son and turned Atlanta Housewivs off light night. My son, said Mommy they are really too negative and you shouldn’t be watching that kind of stuff” I’m so proud of him.
Somebody tell me what happened
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My 8 year old asked me last week why I watch these ‘Housewives’ shows, because all they do is yell and cuss at each other. I hung my head
that he realized that and immediately turned the tv off.
I sneak and watch it while he’s asleep though.
Kids are WAY smarter than we give them credit for. My two know about folks dying and being killed, I am like where you get this from. Not that we shelter them, but it is still shocking.
@Cali
Recap: NeNe, Cynthia and Kandi went to Miami…it happened to fall on Pride weekend…NeNe said Sheree and Kim are haters…
Kim and Sheree had lunch/dinner and talked about NeNe
Kroy threw Kim a surprise party and everybody was there except NeNe and Cynthia…they all went in on NeNe
At the aftershow NeNe went in on all of them except Cynthia
#helpful
now what’s this about nene looking at a $9M house? like fa real?
wait, nene went in on Kandi too? kandi doesn’t say anything about any of them, from what I remember.
Miss you Heavy! If it wasn’t for you , I would have never invested in my black shear pocka dot shirt and shiny black patent leather shoes early back in the 90′s. You made big light skinned dudes popular in the ninetys. Great music and videos. True Life!
Cynthia is so far up NeNe’s azz it’s pathetic. It is evident that she is somehow benefiting from that friendship. NeNe knew she couldn’t afford that $9M house she was looking at and I’m glad Kandi said something to her azz about it.
And how the hell is NeNe gonna go in on Kandi about her thighs when she looks like a damn bear! Lawd, don’t get me started on last night’s show.
pointhimout says:
wait, nene went in on Kandi too? kandi doesn’t say anything about any of them, from what I remember.
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Kandi did say something about NeNe and her ‘new money’ during the show, just not to her.
@Point on the aftershow NeNe said Kandi plays both sides so it wasn’t too bad…but she went all the way left on Sheree and Kim…I’m sure the 9mil house thing was just for the show…let’s be real, these women have a story line to maintain and hers is fronting about riches we know she doesn’t have
lady_cn says:
Cynthia is so far up NeNe’s azz it’s pathetic. It is evident that she is somehow benefiting from that friendship. NeNe knew she couldn’t afford that $9M house she was looking at and I’m glad Kandi said something to her azz about it.
And how the hell is NeNe gonna go in on Kandi about her thighs when she looks like a damn bear! Lawd, don’t get me started on last night’s show.
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Today will be the day SR doesn’t post the episode, watch. I wanna see it. If she’s looking in atlanta, hell a $2M house will give her everything she could want. Nene is new money; I agree with that comment. Saying “i’m rich, who does that? People new to having money, that’s who.
NaijaGal says:
@Point on the aftershow NeNe said Kandi plays both sides so it wasn’t too bad…but she went all the way left on Sheree and Kim…I’m sure the 9mil house thing was just for the show…let’s be real, these women have a story line to maintain and hers is fronting about riches we know she doesn’t have
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I thought it was hilarious the way Nene was describing the girls on the after show when they played “Atlanta” or “Manlanta” (i.e. “oh thats manly arm sheree”; “oh thats them thick, baseball legs on sheree”)
I don’t really care for the RHOA BUT I am guilty for having a pleasure for BGC….WATCHING THE 2ND PART OF THE REUNION TONIGHT!
AWWWW Heavy D!!!!!!!
got nuttin but luv fo ya baby 
RIP
@JMO I was dying…and I completely adore NeNe, she is who she is…and did you catch how she flipped it about the “I’m rich” statement? She said only ignorant folks would assume she was talking about money when she said she was rich…she means rich in every sense of her life, i.e. rich in health, rich in happiness…only NeNe would flip it like that…but on the real, it’s a shame how the drag queens had more feminine bodies than Sheree
pointhimout says:
Today will be the day SR doesn’t post the episode, watch. I wanna see it. If she’s looking in atlanta, hell a $2M house will give her everything she could want. Nene is new money; I agree with that comment. Saying “i’m rich, who does that? People new to having money, that’s who.
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The house was in Miami but we all know the truth
… Nene just looked dumb taking a tour of that house
By the way, I find it a bit disturbing that she keeps yelling “hi, haters”. Isn’t she too grown for that?
@Tatted when I watched it I liked the skinny black girl…seems like no one really messed with her
NaijaGal says:
@JMO I was dying…and I completely adore NeNe, she is who she is…and did you catch how she flipped it about the “I’m rich” statement? She said only ignorant folks would assume she was talking about money when she said she was rich…she means rich in every sense of her life, i.e. rich in health, rich in happiness…only NeNe would flip it like that…but on the real, it’s a shame how the drag queens had more feminine bodies than Sheree
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#hepful Thanks :happya: NaijaGal
Recap: NeNe, Cynthia and Kandi went to Miami…it happened to fall on Pride weekend…NeNe said Sheree and Kim are haters…
Kim and Sheree had lunch/dinner and talked about NeNe
Kroy threw Kim a surprise party and everybody was there except NeNe and Cynthia…they all went in on NeNe
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Pride Week-end for menes or gilrsz (SIDE-EYE)?
next she’ll get tshirst that say that: hi haters.
Don’t forget Hip Hop Common Law Marriage comes on tonight.
@Cali pride for women…it was completely coincidental (so they said)
@Lovezoe
at common law marriage….but I’ll be watching cause I like Chrissy
what is BGC?
We all gonna die one day. All of us is gonna take that walk.
He didn’t look 344lbs. That’s cray…44 is too young to go. This is very sad.
NeNe didn’t talk abt Kims kids she just said Kim has 3 baby daddies and NeNe has 2 and has always said such. Kims tweet was funny though.
NeNe was hiliarous on watch what happens she really makes for great TV
People drop dead in the gym when its your time its your time. I am all for taking care of your temple but you really never know.
NeNe said she is rich in spirit/health and the pockets on twitter and this am on Rickey she said being rich is diff for diff people and ppl assume its always abt money