For a man of thirty who'd always been a scrawny, shy runt like the one in the "before" pictures, he'd been doing all right.
He had always been a small, thin man, but doing all right.
mnli hypothesis: He had always been a small, thin man, but doing all right. premise: For a man of thirty who'd always been a scrawny, shy runt like the one in the "before" pictures, he'd been doing all right.