In my youth I used to have to "make weight" for fights so you naturally start doing the numbers with food about 6-8 weeks out and you become used to gaining and losing weight and have an understanding of the discomfort that's involved. You also become good at eyeballing people for their weight class.
That man in the picture on the phone was a chonk (not being offensive here, he was a big lad). He looks over 90KG to me and a lot of it is muscle (edit: that's 200lbs in freedom units). His biceps and triceps are big. He's a strong man.
The man holding the picture of his former self has been starved. Your body uses fat stores for energy, but it needs more than just energy. You need vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids.
If you're using it in any way, your body will generally hold onto muscle unless there's a shortfall in essential amino acids and at that point it looks at your muscles as reserves.
That is what happened here. He was given so little food that all his fat reserves were used and so little nutrition that his body ate it's muscle to survive.
Look into his eyes. I don't see the eyes of a broken soul, i see optimism and a sane mind. This man also has immense will power.
I really don't know how well i would handle being forced to fight in a war, being held captive or killing any human. I don't know how much of my mind would make it out sane.
this ballistic missile was taken out during heavy lightning and thunder. I didn't even distinguish the explosion from the actual thunder, but it was so "close"="loud", that two of my cats sleeping in the bed with me jumped half a meter in the air lol :D
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