FReeper Plutarch made a VERY strong case recently that Huckabee’s weight loss nearly identically resembles that of someone who has had bariatric surgery (stomach stapling) though Huckabee has written a book purporting that he lost all that weight through diet and exercise alone.
Not that there’s anything wrong, per se, with bariatric surgery, but writing a book fraudulently claiming to have achieved enormous weight loss thru good ole fashioned diet and exercise when actually the weight loss was first and foremost the effect of surgical intervention is unethical and dishonest, and it shows VERY POOR JUDGMENT. See:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1937730/posts
Such weight loss is not impossible. A woman I know, 4’11’’ tall went from 315 to 160 in a year and a half when “Jesus told me to lose weight.” She has had no surgery. She changed her eating habits and got a treadmill which she righteously uses.