But imagine if instead he had started overeating and gotten really fat instead.
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It does not turn on whether Mr Portillo can really trim the fat he says he has found in the running costs of government, welfare fraud and so on.
They are the first to defend the rights and privileges of boards to award fat-cat salaries, bonuses and pension rights to the select few but they are the first to attack policies that are put in place to merely defend the rights of those that really make those fat cats purr!
It's that we don't really mind ripping off huge fat-cat corporations, which would probably do the same to us given half the chance.
The fat cells here are really active, producing toxic substances that cause damage which can lead to heart disease.
"For most of human history, people didn't have enough to eat, so fat was something you really needed to seek out, " says Marcia Pelchat, a food psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
Testosterone appears to be getting blamed for lots of stuff these days, first aggression (which has now been linked to estrogen too), then abdominal fat (which is really caused by cortisol) and now its linked to been not happy.
"The tortilla is really going to absorb a lot of fat, " he said.
Fat Land has taken off with a loud bang that just keeps on repeating, which makes it sound like what happens to you after eating at McDonald's but really says something about the world that Fat Land both reflects and provokes.
But the lower butterfat is the most important thing: absent the overpowering fat, the flavors of ingredients really shine through, especially with fruits and nuts.
Even with across-the-board cuts, agencies can surely find enough fat not to cut the things they really need.
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The two stories seem unrelated but are actually tightly linked, and together raise the age-old question: If people are too lazy (or busy) to walk from the car to the burger counter, does it really matter if the fries have a little less fat?
She dislikes really sweet or bitter foods and the slimy texture of fat on meat.
For years, heart experts were focused on low-fat diets, but "we've really shifted our focus to thinking about other components, " Dr. Jackson said.
Could it really have been rented out to Hollywood moguls, Democratic fat cats and the delicate mayor of San Francisco, who complained that it was lumpy?
It looks like pure fat, but it isn't, really, just mainly, and when served in the split shank bone (as at places like the Knickerbocker or Prune in New York City), one portion will keep you in a state of sensory-specific satiety for a week.
"I had really got out of shape, got a lot of body fat and was heading down a disastrous course of diabetes and heart disease, " he says.
"We haven't had much business, but we're in a concrete building, so we're really fine, " said James Thrasher, whose father owns the Fat Elvis Diner.
"We haven't had much business, but we're in a concrete building, so we're really fine, " said James Thrasher, whose father owns the Fat Elvis Diner in Oklahoma City.
"Young people anywhere from 20 to 40 to 50 really should probably take this to heart and try to lower the fat in their diet, " said Grace Petot of Case Western Reserve University.
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"When it was doing really well at No. 1 with Millionaire, it kind of got fat and happy, " she recalls.
If you see a fellow fat chick out and about and you think her dress is really rad, tell her.
So yeah, I mean, Fat Freddy's, for me, is the perfect band, really, because all of those sounds that are current in Wellington get reflected in the music of our group.
They involve ginning up microbes to do things that we really need doing such as making clean fuel, sucking up carbon dioxide, cleaning fat out of our arteries, giving us a lot more immunity to nasty bacteria and viruses and helping us make plastics and chemicals more efficiently and cheaply.
Quaker Chewy Wholesome low-fat granola bars--PepsiCo calls them a "sensible snack"--aren't really that wholesome.
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