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.
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.
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 …
