A Rhode Island man accredited Chick-Fil-a for saving his life as he spilled 132 pounds eating the popular southwest salad of the fast food chain for lunch every day for more than a year.
Tom Carroll, a 6 ‘2 “digital producer for a local radio station in Boston, began the trip in July 2023 when he stepped on a scale after a wedding in Syracuse and weighed 360 pounds.
“I had never seen him so high,” Carroll wrote in an essay called “Chick-Fil-A saved my life.” But if I’m being completely honest with myself, I had probably been higher at several points that summer. I would never have known, because that was the first time I had stepped on a scale since the fall of 2019.
Before that, the 34 -year -old man said that the last time he stepped on a scale was in a doctor’s office when a nurse meant that he had health problems.
“The nurse in my new doctor’s office told me that I was 346 pounds,” Carroll wrote. “‘That’s well eating!’ I joked with her. “
“Until it is,” the nurse supposedly replied.
“I didn’t ask for a clarification, obviously, I had died internally in the impact as soon as it said,” Carroll confessed.
The creative producer did not want to see a doctor again after that shameful visit in 2019, so he decided to make changes in the diet.
However, it was not all on the Chick-Fil-A route to Black Friday 2023, when he thought he was having a heart attack while he had leftovers of thanksgiving with his wife and friends.
“I had never felt something like that before, and I hope you never feel something like that again,” Carroll wrote. “This was as close as I felt until death.”
According to today, Carrol’s daily lunch consists of mixed vegetables, tomatoes, roasted corn, black beans, chiles, red peppers, cheese and grilled chicken.
The food amounts to 680 calories and includes strips of tortillas, pepitas and a creamy sauce dressing.
“It was horrible,” Carroll told The Outlet about his weight before the change of food. “Going up and down stairs was a problem … sitting on an airplane and putting a seat belt was an absolute challenge. Finding clothes that fit and feel good when you dress was not fun.”
The content creator would recreate the dish at home for dinner and ask for multiple salads when the restaurant was closed on Sunday.
“This has been Pilar’s food for me every day and it is what I attribute most of my success,” Carroll wrote.
Carroll’s only other meals would be yogurt and fruit for breakfast if they did not jump them.
He made other changes in the lifestyle in addition to his new diet, such as going to the gym and cutting sports drinks and soft drinks.
The sports fan even stopped drinking alcohol because, apart from calories, he wanted to eat more junk food.
In December 2023, Carroll was able to drop his weight by just under 300 pounds and then shrugged at 228 pounds in July 2024.
The media professional has not recovered any weight.
