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If he really were eating 20,000 calories a day, most of it must have been poohed straight out lest he die from heat exhaustion. 20,000 Calories = 84 * 10^6 J = 1000 watts, night and day. An Olympic athlete can burn that for a few seconds before collapsing in a pool of sweat. And factor in that fat people have a large volume/surface area, which makes losing heat inefficient, and that large bodies tend to have slower metabolisms than less massive ones and... it doesn't stack up.
Forgot to factor in that he wasn't burning those 20,000/day calories if he was laying them down as fat. So he was either not in a state of weight equilibrium (laying down fat to the tune of 2 litres/day) or was pooing them straight out.
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