Posted on 08/10/2015 9:25:48 AM PDT by dennisw
At age 60 and weighing 130, the once-rotund Sharpton is almost underweight, and he says he's never hungry. His 'secret': Less food, more exercise.
He hasn’t had any sweets in years. He hasn’t had dinner in years, either.
Call it “the Al Sharpton Diet,” but this once-rotund reverend has dropped from 305 pounds to exactly 129.6 pounds. The precise weight was recorded this week on Sharpton’s bedroom scale at 5 a.m., when the man of the (much less) cloth begins his day.
Sharpton has shed 60% of his much-mocked weight — and he did it without surgery, diet pills or a single Weight Watchers meeting.
“I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn’t take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat,” Sharpton recalled. “That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.”
That incident with his daughter happened nearly 15 years ago, when she was 12. But it wasn’t until more recently that Sharpton devised his strategy to drop the pounds — just stop eating.
That’s only a minor simplification.
Around six years ago, Sharpton cut out red meat. A year later, he did away with chicken — no small feat for a guy who ate fried fowl three times a day (with grits and eggs for breakfast and on a sandwich in the afternoon, plus a half-chicken for dinner).
Eventually he cut out so much food that he was subsisting on a single lunchtime salad (albeit with one perk: a chopped egg). That’s when the weight really started coming off, at a rate of about 2 pounds a week. And as he got thinner, he found he missed food less and less.
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So his diet secret is “don’t eat anything”. Well, that’ll do it!
Good for him. Let’s encourage him to lose another 175 pounds.
I would not be surprised to find out if his real weight loss program is crack.
The no food diet works ... for about a week when the onslaught of hunger grabs you and even if there's nothin' in the fridge ... you go and GET somethin' ... fatty ... it just is what it is
The only statistically guaranteed way to increase longevity is to under-eat or be on a near starvation diet.
As such, Al Sharpton will be causing mayhem in America’s inner cities for decades longer
He looks horrible/ill now
Going without an evening meal is an excellent way to lose weight.
He is a despicable human being.
And he is as much of a reverend as I am the Pope.
He should apply the same lessons to the welfare state.
He looks like a Pez dispenser.
I don`t know, the ‘rock star’ diet?
Lose more weight Al. Maybe you’ll blow away. Not soon enough though.
Ten to one he has had an intestinal bypass and does not want anyone to know about it.
A good laxative would finish him off!
Ive been as high as 315 - it was a hassle - I lost 63# and looked cancerous....akin to a skinny Santa...sorry, my love for gnocchi wins....
He looks like he has HIV to me.
Or the AIDS. He does not look right.
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