Good for him!
He went on 1000 calories a day. I sat down with a calorie book and looked up the calories for each type of food we ate for dinner....he ate the same thing we did, but in amounts a lot less...I had it figured even to how many tablespoons of gravy he could have with his potatoes...I fixed his dinner plate and set it in front of him.
Some vegetables he loved he could have a cup of at certain times...and he stuck to what he was allowed...sometimes I would cheat a little a he got a small slice of chocolate cake...never had to stop eating something he liked entirely..
He could sit down to a spaghetti dinner and eat a 1/2 of loaf of bread at a meal....loved to eat, but when he decided to lose weight had great will power...
May he rest in peace, passed on 20 years ago...