A reality star who once tipped the scales at a whopping 845 pounds has dropped almost two-thirds of his body weight after spending the past four years on an intense exercise and diet plan.
Casey King, 38, underwent bariatric surgery back in 2019, with the procedure helping him with a weight loss journey that eventually saw him shed 600 pounds. Four years later, he has turned his life around and is no longer the morbidly obese man who had to bathe in an outdoor trough because he couldn't physically fit inside a bathtub or shower.
Casey, who has been documenting his progress on social media, is down to 250 pounds and has a goal of losing 25 more. He is also hoping to undergo surgery to remove the excess skin that hangs from his stomach, chest, and arms. When he started filming the show, he was unemployed and living with his father, Danny, who had to wait on him hand and foot.
'I will just eat till I'm dead,' Casey told the camera. 'A normal day for me is to wake up around 12, figure out something I am going to eat immediately, [and then] TV, video games, bed. It's not a lot of activity.'
Not only did he play video games all day, but he also did it in the nude because his clothes didn't fit him.
'It's hot in Georgia, and all my clothing is restricting and tight, so I just sit there naked, free as can be and no one bothers me — door's shut, we're good,' he explained.
The gaming community had become a safe space for him because it allowed him to escape his everyday life.
'I'm accepted in all those virtual reality worlds and the gaming world I'm in,' he said. 'No one sees me. That is my outside. That is my world that I can be the Casey I want to be, but not be judged on my weight.'
The Georgia native appeared on the TLC reality series “Family By the Ton” that same year, where he was filmed naked because all clothes were too tight and restrictive.
“I will just eat till I’m dead,” King stated on the show, “A normal day for me is to wake up around 12, figure out something I am going to eat immediately, [and then] TV, video games, bed. It’s not a lot of activity.”
The whopping weight gain made it hard for him to undertake everyday activities — including bathing. King was forced to get clean in an outdoor trough on his father’s back deck because he was unable to fit into a regular-size shower or bath.
“Because I am a bigger guy with, like, folds and flaps, I have to move around, almost like a pig in a way, and wallow and roll over to get the back of my leg. I have to lift up literal pieces of skin. It’s just a super difficult process,” King claimed.
According to Casey, he had always been a 'big kid,' and he weighed about 300 pounds at the end of high school. After graduation, he started working at a couple of restaurants and would frequently eat at them.
'I was probably around 500 pounds then, and it was just getting too difficult to work, so I quit my job,' he recalled. 'My mom said to live in this house, you have to have a job, so she kicked me out. The only place I had left to go was my father's, so I went there.'
Casey's weight only continued to spiral out of control when he moved in with his dad, who indulged him by getting him his favorite foods.
'Me and my dad would get hibachi delivered, sushi by the barrel. I mean, just anything you wanted to eat, we were getting.'
Casey's prohibited him from doing everyday tasks, including showering. He shared that he had gotten stuck in the shower a couple of times. Once he was left sitting there for about nine hours.
After telling his dad that he was afraid of getting stuck again, Danny bought him a large metal trough, which he placed on their back deck.
'I bathe outside in this trough, currently, because I cannot physically bathe in a sit-down bathtub or a stand-up shower area,' Casey said.
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