When most people want to lower the weight or reach a lens of fitness, cutting fast food is one of the first things to eliminate, but not for Tom Carroll. The 32-year-old man attributes Chick-Fil-A for losing 132 amazing pounds in 14 months and saved his life.
“Before I was in my healthy trip, I would never have thought of a fast food restaurant as something that would be my engine to lose weight,” he said exclusively. “Fast food was the thing I would turn to because it was fun, easy and delicious,” he said, but now it has completely changed his life for the best.
Carroll’s struggle with weight began as a child, which injured him in different ways, especially with regard to sport.
“I remember as a child who wanted to play for the city’s football team, but there were weight limits depending on the age you had,” he said. “Knowing that I would never make the weight of the team my age, I have never even tried to register.”
He continues: “My brother is a year older than me and was part of the team, and he would always have a hard time gaining weight. I would see how much he was going to try to reach this number and it frightened me never to give chance.”
The situation was still fed when he visited the pediatrician each year and he was told how overweight he was, which triggered adulthood problems.
“This is why I had such aversion to walk on the scale, even when I was not there of the doctor. It was completely embarrassing.”
He was so ashamed that he sometimes hid how he ate his wife. He sneaned when she was sleeping to slip on tacos, burritos and mountain dew. But he was finally fed up, took control of his health and shares his history.
Carroll, who lives in Rhode Island and works in Boston as a digital content producer for a local sports radio station, wrote a test entitled “Chick-Fil-A saved my life. “In detail, he revealed to what extent the experience of the terrifying chest that he thought was a heart attack and the humiliation of looking at himself in photos prompted him to change things, which now inspires others.
At 6 ′ 2 “and 360 pounds, his heaviest, Carroll decided throughout his lifestyle and put himself seriously for his health. He talked about eating this, not that! From his journey and the way he kept the weight.
Why chick-fil-A played a big role
Fast food has played a role in Carroll’s life since he was a child, but it was an unhealthy relationship until he engaged in his weight loss.
“I was always completely aware of the fact that all the fast food that I ate prevented me from being healthy,” he said. When I thought “health foods”, fast food was the most distant thing from my mind. But when he finally clicked for me that this Chick-Fil-A salad was not only healthy, but also fun, easy and delicious, just like the burgers and the tacos that I had eaten with my whole adult life, it immediately changed my perception of what fast food could be. “”
He ate the same salad every day
Carroll has entered a control routine Chick-Fil-A Southwest salad of Chick-A It is 680 calories with 33 grams of protein. He loved the salad so much, it never bored him that he literally ate it every day. To prepare for Sunday, when the chain is closed, he ordered the day before and kept it in the refrigerator until it was ready to eat.
“You can find healthy options in almost all restaurants, and I find that it is particularly easy in a place like Chick-Fil-A, where you can always opt for a grilled chicken version of everything they have,” he explains.
He also made choices concerned with their health in his favorite fast food place.
“Instead of waffle fries – as delicious as they are – you can accompany their cup of fruit or their cauliflower salad. I know that I am probably biased because of my specific trip, but I find it easier to eat healthy at Chick -Fil -A than in any other fast restoration establishment.”
Eating Chick-Fil-Aid helped Carroll stay concentrated
Although the salad of nearly 700 calories was rich in sodium – 1,570 milligrams with 49 grams of fat, it kept it full and focused on its lens.
“I think the most important thing for me with the spicy salad of the Southwest is that it is low in carbohydrates and rich proteins,” he tells us. “I try to consume as little sugar as possible, and obviously, the equal carbohydrates of sugar. Thus, after having found a salad which is super tasty, super copy and also helps to keep me in my goal of sugar little or no sugar, I can see why it was such an effective tool for me to lose weight.”
Keep the weight
Carroll’s journey was not transparent. He went through periods when there was no progress and he was not always completely committed.
Once he ate so much pizza, he had chest pain again, which made him go to the emergency room, according to his test. But his daily routine to eat Chick-Fil-A and meet familiar people in the same restaurant helped him stay on the right track.
“I really believe that the process of going to the restaurant every day and interacting with the community that I developed at my local chick-fil-a is what helped keep the weight,” he explains.
“In addition to the delicious salad, it has become fun for me to go and see the salad and see Silvia and the rest of the convivial faces on the site of Attleboro, in the Mass.
Plan meals around the salad
Carroll generally eats the salad for lunch and provides for the number of calories that it eats the rest of the day.
“In addition to the mental side, having the Chick-Fil-A salad to be the main meal that I build the rest of my diet on the rest of the day was huge,” he shares. “I know that I receive most of my calories with this salad, and that there is enough sodium and fat in there to make me think that I eat something much more exciting than a bowl of vegetables with a cold chicken fillet.”
He adds: “Everything I eat in terms of calories is based on what I have for lunch. It keeps me at a lighter breakfast and a low calculation version of the salad for dinner that I prepare with ingredients from the grocery store.”
Stop the cycle of poor food choices
While Carroll attributes Chick-Fil-A for weight loss and a second chance in life, he also made big changes like drinking, which, according to him, was one of the “best things” he did for his diet.
“Even if I really didn’t drin on the weekend, these beers on Friday and Saturdays have always led me to make horrible food decisions late at night,” he shares. “These pizzas and hot dogs late at night would then feel like shit on Sunday, which would lead to a more unhealthy diet, then I would be in this cycle of bad choices with food until the middle of the week.”
He adds: “As I had a few good days of salads, it was again the weekend and it was time to apologize to eat badly after drinking with friends. Cutting this element of my life completely took this temptation and excuse.”
Gym routine
In addition to changing your state of mind and getting rid of bad eating habits, Carroll hit the gymnasium.
“After losing enough weight in the place where I did not feel like I was dying at the gymnasium, I started to incorporate daily walks on the treadmill to my routine,” he said.
“I am going for an hour, and I add speed and tilt throughout the hour until I am not at level 4 for both. It burns between 450 and 600 calories for me, depending on whether I want to listen to what the treadmill tells me or what my Apple Watch tells me, but I’m not too focused on this exact issue there.”
The most important thing for him was to “sweat well” and to be physically active in a way that was “achievable on a daily basis”.
Carroll says: “I never wanted to be an IG model model publishing gym selfies or trying exercises that could injure me. I was focused on finding something I knew that I could do and that I am enough to burn myself on a healthy path. It is also a great way to put outside and relieve stress.
Overwhelming positive response
Carroll was worried to share his story because he feared that he couldn’t keep the weight. But now that it has been a few months since his transformation that changes his life, he wrote the test, which resonated with the others.
“Almost every day since the publication of the story, someone contacted me to let me know that the test had a positive impact,” he said. “I heard close friends who told me that they had also started to eat the salad every day, and that they started to lose weight.”
He continues: “I have heard of guys to whom I have not spoken for 10 to 15 years who had told me that the test had forced them to make the doctor’s appointment that they pushed because of embarrassment and dads and great and students in the DMS through the hours of work of the hours that have been the subject of the test. Reasons.”
The experience has been enriching and Carroll says: “Whenever someone reaches out, it makes me so happy to hear that another person chooses to be healthy. It is the best.”
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