CBS Boston – A man from Lincoln, Rhode Island says eating at Chick-fil-A every day helped him lose 132 pounds after a series of health scares left him searching for new ways to lose weight.
Pizza and beer took a toll
Tom Carroll says he was always a bigger guy.
“When I stepped on the scale, it said 346 pounds,” he said. “I liked being the big guy that had a good time, that could go out and eat pizza whenever, and go have a beer and not think about it.”
At 32 years old, all of that pizza and beer was starting to catch up to him.
“I knew I was really big, and I didn’t want to go to a doctor and have them tell me you’re really big, and be embarrassed by that,” he said.
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Chick-fil-A menu held the answer
Carroll found the way to his weight-loss journey on the menu at his local Chick-fil-A over the state line in South Attleboro, Massachusetts.
“We stumbled onto this awesome salad at Chick-fil-A,” he said. “And I thought to myself, if I could just have this salad every, single day, I’ll be OK with eating salad all the time.”
A few weeks later, amid some health problems, Carroll stepped on a scale.
“I knew I was really big, and I didn’t want to go to a doctor and have them tell me you’re really big, and be embarrassed by that,” he said.
“I just lost 60 pounds,” he said.
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The only changes he made were giving up alcohol and eating that salad every day.
After months of eating Chick-fil-A salads and not drinking alcohol, Carroll’s blood pressure was down to a healthy level, his blood sugar improved and he felt better …