Here's the thing
Despite all the rhetoric, I don't believe he is yet at the point where the switch has flipped and he can emulate that guy.
I think most of us who are lifters / dieters know the switch pretty well and it means very little to us to switch it on and cut the bullshit out of diet and work out harder, but most fat people have never turned that switch on once and actually said "my desire to no longer be fat is larger than my desire to not experience discomfort as a result of effort".
I still don't see it with him, much as I would love to see it. That being said, it must be really hard to do something like that when you're so physically fucked up that your body no longer will permit you to move enough to get your heart rate going.