Posted on 08/17/2016 12:34:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s the Walmart diet!
Modal Trigger Pasquale “Pat” BroccoPhoto: Facebook An Arizona man dropped more than 300 pounds — by walking a mile to Walmart to buy his food every time he got hungry.
“You walk to Walmart three times a day and you end up walking six miles,” said 31-year-old Pasquale “Pat” Brocco, who three years ago, weighed a gargantuan 605 pounds. “It’s amazing because I never walked six miles in my life and I was doing it every day.”
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I’m guessing he was on permanent disability?
So.....is this guy gonna be the “Walmart” Jarrod?
Or terminal license DUI
That’s a clever idea.
I do a trick I made up I call “commercial cleaning”
When I watch the tv, every time a commercial comes on I get up and clean something. Show comes back on...sit back down... commercial...up and clean something. ;)
It doesn’t work with TCM - lol
“– such as throwing out junk food and dairy in favor of vegetables, brown rice, quinoa, steel cut oatmeal and lean meats.”
OK,I give up.
Oatmeal cut by steel is better for you than another kind?
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“An Arizona man dropped more than 300 pounds — by walking a mile to Walmart to buy his food”
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If he is going to Walmart to eat (I don’t know if they have food courts/restaurants), I think I can see where his real problem lies.
"Run, Forrest! Run!"
Give the guy some credit. He saw a problem and came up with an effective way to solve it. He could have sat on his butt and gotten fatter.
I’m picturing a skinny-jeans millennial.
Fat people should not feel ashamed to to go to the gym. Whenever I see a obese person at the gym I think to myself “Good for him!” If I saw the same person eating a load of junk food I would think “Look at that fat slob.”
At least he did something. However, my approach was always, “I kept an appropriate body shape by working for my food.”
I just spent a month in Japan and lost 20 lbs.
Walked around 20,000-30,000 steps a day.
I guess, at the very least, he is an inspiration to other fat slobs who sit around all day, jamming their heads with the wrong kind of food, while blaming their hypothalamus or stress?
Good for this guy. Too many heavy or out-of-shape people think losing weight is some sort of cosmic Rubik’s Cube. Instead, they can benefit greatly from even simple changes - like lots more walking. This guy figured it out.
If you read the story, you’ll find that he bought the food at Walmart then walked back to cook and eat it....
When I watch the tv, every time a commercial comes on I get up and clean something. Show comes back on...sit back down... commercial...up and clean something. ;)
I used to do the same with physical fitness! Every commercial break I would do crunches, pushups, or pullups...alternating through all three. And every fourth commercial break I would "rest" by cleaning or doing some other chore.
It also resulted in a more enjoyable TV viewing experience because I'd get the blood flowing every 10 mins or so and I paid much better attention.
For really-soft, really-fast digested, the ultimate would be "instant oatmeal." Starch breaks down stat, turns into sugar and goes straight to the bloodstream.
It takes a lot longer to get soft enough to eat too. When I was eating it regularly I'd soak it overnight to soften it. Otherwise it's like eating gravel.
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