Posted on 08/29/2019 3:14:46 AM PDT by gattaca
A young man in Las Vegas has lost more than 100 pounds since the beginning of the year, intent on gaining entry into the Army.
Luis Enrique Pinto Jr., 18, lost 113 pounds over a seven-month period in order to meet the branch's weight requirement, dropping from 317 pounds to 204.
"That's a human -- he lost the equivalent of a human in seven months," said his recruiter, Staff Sgt. Philip Long.
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Good for him.
That is a lot of frijoles.
God bless him.
“I pretty much use my old shirts for blankets at this point,” Pinto said.
That’s just awesome, good for him. Good looking young man, too.
God bless him. Amen.
With the diet they force feed them in the military he’ll need a lot of luck not to gain it all back.
I lost zero pounds when enlisting because I wasn’t a fat slob.
Why congratulate someone for doing what they should never of have to have done?
Congratulatins on being perfect. Why don’t you just go sit on a mountaintop and bask in the glow of your own awesomeness?
The rest of us can recognize the young man for being motivated to get his shit together, and doing it.
Have a nice day.
Neither did I. In fact I gained muscle weight but that doesn’t make us better or perfect. I give the kid kudos for being determined and working toward a goal until he succeeded.
The kid had the absolute CORRECT attitude to do this. You are a classless ass for belittling his achievement.
Who said anything about perfect?
Life isn’t binary.
Not being a fat slob is an achievement?
Your standards are low.
Wow! You actaully managed to type a word with two syllables. That’s truly an amazing feat! Next time, try organizing them into a complete sentence. You’ll need a subject, an object, and a verb to tie them together.
I wish you the best of luck in your efforts.
Like the previous guy said; you should go to some mountaintop and bask in your own glory, we are not fit to be near your perfection.
That’s determination and dedication to achieving a goal. Congratulations to him for reaching it. That couldn’t have been easy to do.
At least you recognize your betters.
Sociopath alert....FR doesn’t need crap posters like you. A youngster finds himself overweight, decides to grow up, loses weight that would have killed him pre-maturely so that he could join the army so that he can defend the folks like you and your freedom to call him a “fat slob”.
You know, bitterness and unkindness of spirit also hastens hardening of the arteries.
He finds himself overweight? What a pantload of emotional BS.
I’m not bitter or unkind. “Clapping” for doing what you’re supposed to do is weak.
He’s going to be a lean, mean, fighting machine.
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