He doesn't even feel hungry, because why would he? He's surviving off his massive fat stores. Literal starvation is portrayed as preferable and healthier than fatness. He starts exercising, gaining strength and endurance. Despite literally only taking in water for months on end, the MC's health improves with each day because - ta-da! - he is finally losing weight. This scenario is a fatphobe's fantasy of what fatness is like and how weight-loss works for fat people. Over the course of five months of starvation he loses hundreds of pounds, regains his mobility and is able to leave his home to find food. The general plot is that a super-fat bed-bound man is left to fend for himself after a plague (?) ends civilization as we know it. This is truly one of the most horrific books I've ever read. Trauma and torture porn for people who hate fat folk.
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