He looked quite a bit thinner in the face when sitting down, but when he was up celebrating, he is still pretty fat.
My wife thought he looked heavier...
It only restrics the size of the food that can pass through, which means if you are a patient glutton who masticates and drinks plenty of water while you are masticating you can effectively bypass the restriction.
I know this from personal experience.
That and i wanted to use the term “Masticate” which means chew a few times because it is a funny sounding term that sounds like something else a previous surgeon general endorsed.