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Hector Garcia Jr. uses a continuous positive airway pressure machine to sleep in October 2014. When he lost weight, Hector no longer needed the machine, but as his breathing became more labored and his weight neared 600 pounds again in recent months, he resumed use of it. "Because I was lonely, because I was mistreated, I turned to food for comfort," Hector said of his lifelong relationship with food.