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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
So, I go to the Fox website to read the story about the guy losing 100+ pounds and I’m presented with a giant pop-over ad for... Hood Sour Cream! Irony alert!
He was 17 years old when he started bettering himself and working already as an electrician at construction sites. You comments about “emotional BS” betray the nasty person you are. FR doesn’t need crappy people like you. And yes you are an unhappy person...we can all hear your arteries and your heart hardening at a distance!
What part of teen-ager decides to grow up didn’t you understand? Wish more teens would follow his example!
Perhaps.
But, then again, you must be mentally deficient to make a comment like that in public. He can work to lose weight. You? You will still be retarded.
Now that you’ve added exclamation points, I totally understand.
You got me. I’ll go eat paste now.
Gotta hand it to him.
He wanted to do something, had a goal, set his mind right, and went for it.
When you want something badly enough, you work hard to find a way to succeed.
Too many young folk nowadays don’t understand that simple idea.
Good on ya, kid.
Careful, paste is fattening and full of starch.
I don’t think you do understand nor are capable of understanding....it’s just sad. It’s just sad you’d want to run down a teen-ager and a super patriot...but that’s what sociopaths do.
Look just drop the pretense and go join the libs; as a change agent you aren’t very good!
In case you missed it; you implied you were perfect by your statement.
This isn't worth getting into a pissing contest over. Just own it and move on.
Cyanide would be preferable. In little doses
If he was only 17 when it started, it tells me he was a “fat slob” because his parents over-fed him unhealthy food throughout his childhood. The whole family is probably like that. So to break away from your upbringing and figure it out yourself at such a young age, that’s commendable.
Who pissed in your corn flakes, this morning?
[If he was only 17 when it started, it tells me he was a “fat slob” because his parents over-fed him unhealthy food throughout his childhood.]
Because so few bother to do it? We have the fattest poor people in the world!
When I served the base pay (E-2, after boot camp but before promotion) was $88 per month. For 2020 it is projected to be $1,942.40. That can give him a start out of poverty, if he's responsible with it. He can learn leadership skills and how to actually DO things that need doing so he is employable when his service ends. Not a bad deal.
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?
More than a bit harsh considering the kid is 18. If you want to blame anybody here it is definitely whoever was cooking for him all these years. Mom, presumably.
If he was only 17 when it started, it tells me he was a “fat slob” because his parents over-fed him unhealthy food throughout his childhood.
Exactly. I had a buddy who time and again took me to the nastiest restaurants. He had literally no taste buds because of the garbage fed to him when he was a kid. Eventually, I picked the restaurants and everything was ok. Ha ha.
Why?
1) He emulated what he saw as a kid and was clearly enabled by his parents
2) He saw the problem and put in a lot of hard work and discipline to get where he needed to be
3) What effort is it on your part to tell the kid, if given the chance, "Good work"?
Good idea to lose all that weight but if that’s all he did I can see him having serious trouble in BCT.I just barely made it through (50 years ago next month) and I was my typical 175 when I started.
Yes, that's what I meant.
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