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.
God bless her. She must feel much better.
FReeper Plutarch makes a VERY convincing case that Huckabee did have bariatric surgery and is lying about it.
The thread is
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1937730/posts