Rhode Island man lost 132 pounds by eating Chick-fil-A every day for more than a year

A Rhode Island man credited Chick-fil-A for saving his life as he shed 132 pounds eating the popular fast-food chain’s Spicy Southwest Salad for lunch every day for over a year.

Tom Carroll, a 6′ 2” digital content producer for a local radio station in Boston, started the journey in July 2023 when he stepped on a scale after a wedding in Syracuse and weighed in at 360 pounds.

“I had never seen it so high,” Carroll wrote in an essay called “Chick-fil-A Saved My Life.” But if I’m being completely honest with myself, it had probably been higher at various points that summer. I never would have known, because that was the first time I had stepped on a scale since the fall of 2019.

Before that, the 34-year-old said the last time he stepped on a scale was at a doctor’s office when a nurse implied he had health problems.

“The nurse at my new doctor’s office told me I was 346 pounds,” Carroll wrote. “‘That’s good eatin’!’ I joked with her.”