Mum's man-friend has been gaining a lot of weight for the past year through overeating, and now has a huge distended belly, so a few weeks ago, he decided that he was going on a diet. Today was a fairly typical day, and he had a small salad for dinner. As usual, he announced that he was full before finishing the salad, and he then proceeded to scoff most of a packet of shortbread, consuming about 800Kcal of it in a single sitting, which is rather a lot for a 66 year old sedentary pensioner. Yesterday, his dessert consisted of a similar quantity of carrot cake, and the day before, it was a trifle. His other dietary staples are buttered toast, tins of baked beans and spaghetti, scrambled eggs, Mars Bars, scones and apple tarts. His entire fruit intake is in the form of apple tarts, trifles, rasins in scones, tomato sauce in tins of baked beans and other similar incidental encounters.