Man loves his food and music

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By ALISON GENDAR and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Tipping the scales at a relatively svelte 300 pounds, Larry McConneghey was once a talented disco dancer :o who earned the nickname "Conceited." But that was a few years ago, before McConneghey ballooned to 800 pounds and retreated to a bed in his family's fifth-floor Washington Heights apartment. He was carried out of the building to an ambulance yesterday after he called 911 to complain about shortness of breath.

Neighbors said McConneghey was a well-known figure for blasting :lol: '70s-era disco classics in the building where he lived with his girlfriend and several relatives. But lately the music had died down, replaced by the occasional sound of him yelling on the phone.

"I haven't seen him in about two years," said neighbor Chip Kyle.

McConneghey got some encouraging words from Eleodoro (Tiny) Villafane, an overweight East Village man who nearly died in a fall in 2001.

Villafane, who weighed 840 pounds, is now down to 375. He wants to meet McConneghey to tell him he can do the same thing. "I want him to understand he's not by himself," said Villafane. "If I can do it, he can do it."

With Ralph Ortega
Originally published on June 10, 2004

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