Mike Pompeo loses 41 kg and looks forward to 2024, but his diet is controversial

“I read a lot on the subject, I had my theories about eating less and exercising more, and that’s what I did.” Thus the former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, explains how he managed to lose 41 kilos in the last six months without any help from nutritionists and personal trainers but only by drastically changing his eating habits. And the newfound, much more telegenic physical shape of the former Trump administration’s 58-year-old hawk, who has been a regular Fox News commentator since leaving Washington, is renewing rumors of his serious plans for a Republican nomination for White House in 2024. But, in the meantime, his diet is being discussed, with some American media expressing doubts that the former secretary of state, and former director of the CIA, could really have lost so much weight in such a short time. without the help of specialists. “I stopped eating carbohydrates and tried to eat smaller portions,” explained the Republican of Italian origin, interviewed by Fox News Digital about his miraculous diet, explaining that even now that he has reached the ideal weight he intends to continue following this regimen. “I know if I were to go back to what I’ve been doing for the past six, seven years then my weight would go back too,” he added. But these explanations do not convince the nutrition and fitness experts consulted by the Kansas City Star, the state newspaper that Pompeo represented in Congress. “Such a weight loss in six months is not credible, especially at his age,” said an expert quoted by the newspaper. his former boss Donald Trump, who wasn’t much of a fitness enthusiast. Among other aspiring presidential candidates, Republican Mike Huckabee in recent years went on a drastic diet after he broke a chair at a meeting and was diagnosed with diabetes. Another Republican, the former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie has lost weight in recent years, also in view of a possible race to the White House, 45 kilos, but later admitted that he had undergone gastric bypass surgery. In more recent times, and on the opposite political front, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is a fervent supporter of a vegan diet that has allowed him to solve a diabetes problem.