Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed that he lost 90 lbs. in six months by eating healthy and exercising regularly. However, the 58-year-old, dismissing reports about him running for President, added that his transformation has nothing to do with the 2024 elections. 

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Pompeo, in an interview with The New York Post, said he hit a tipping point in June 2021 after stepping on the scale and seeing his weight had crept close to 300 lbs. ‘for the first time in my life’.

It was the next morning when he woke up and told his wife, Susan that ‘Today is the day’, 

The former CIA chief then revealed that he set up a home gym in his basement with dumbbells and an elliptical.

“I started exercising, not every day, but nearly every day, and eating right and the weight just started to come off,” he said.

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“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 dietician. It was just me.”

Pompeo describes losing weight as a lifetime struggle, adding that the key is being sufficiently disciplined. 

Pompeo, a former Kansas Congressman, had started gaining weight when he was first elected to public office in 2010. He has since served as the CIA chief and Secretary of State under Donald Trump. 

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“He isn’t the first person who goes into politics and, because of the demands of the job, gained weight. He’s traveling all over the world, flying 13, 14 hours at different places, different time zones,” Pompeo’s West Point classmate David Urban told the Post.

“It’s incredibly difficult to keep any type of routine, let alone an exercise regimen. You kind of put yourself behind the job.”

Pompeo dismissed the rumours linking his weight loss to the Presidential elections of 2024. 

“The truth is, I’m really getting ready for 2044 and hoping I’ll be around in 2054,” he said.