but if he is able to quickly lose the weight because he has underlying muscle that needs to be sparked into remembering, then is the empathy really valid?
If he loses 50, 60 even 70 lbs in 6 months, that is a general unrealistic goal for many overweight people. Once the water retention weight drops the first 15 pounds, the weight loss is drastically slowed.
I went from someone that needed well over 3000 calories a day just to maintain my weight to consuming 1200 with moderate exercise and I lost 40 pounds in 6 months. When I went on protein based, low carb (liquid) diet before my surgery in February, I lost another 30 lbs in a month.
and I was 500 pounds to start and 418 when I had my surgery.
He can empathize all he wants but he will never live the struggle that overweight people go through their entire lives... 6 mos. of being fat is not 6-10-30 years