Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he’s been working out and eating healthier since leaving the Trump administration. He lost 90 pounds in 6 months as a result of his healthy lifestyle changes. Throughout 2021, people noticed Pompeo looking significantly slimmer. Former Secretary of State and Kansas Congressman could run for President in 2024.
Losing weight has been a “lifetime struggle” for Pompeo, but it has become extremely complicated since his election to Congress in 2010. He explained to the Post that his weight loss journey truly began in June 2021, when he stepped on the scale and comprehended he was moving towards 300 pounds. “Today is the day,” Pompeo recalls telling his wife Susan. Then, Pompeo said, “I started exercising, not every day, but nearly every day, and eating right, and the weight just started to come off.”
There was no trainer, there was no dietitian
Operating in government, particularly in a prime responsibility like secretary of state, Mike Pompeo said, encompassed lengthy workdays and travel days fuelled by a lot of food, particularly cheeseburgers. “I tried to get down there five, six times a week and stay at it for a half-hour or so. And that was nothing scientific. There was no trainer, there was no dietitian. It was just me,” Pompeo told the Post.
“You can ask anybody on my team, they knew exactly what I was going to do: cheeseburger from room service. I went back to the room and kept working, and ate my cheeseburgers. That was my pattern of life,” he said about his routine during the days when he was traveling abroad. “When you work and eat, you just keep working and you just keep eating,” Pompeo claimed that his weight loss was accomplished without the use of fad diets, expensive personal training, or strenuous workout regimens.Â
