Man Outsmarts Late-Night Cake By Ordering Salad, Loses 100 Pounds Instead
KEY POINTS
- •At 16, Dan Petetsky weighed over 300 pounds and struggled with body insecurities in high school.
- •He started college at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and resolved to change his habits.
- •Over several years, Dan lost over 100 pounds by cutting soda, embracing discipline, and persisting despite setbacks.
At 16, Dan Petetsky tiptoed into adulthood weighed down by 300+ pounds and more insecurities than a cat near a cucumber. Standing 5'9" and about 120 pounds overweight, he navigated high school bruised by clinical BMI verdicts but zero emotional pep talks. Enter University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where Dan’s grand plan to avoid becoming an eternal couch potato involved turning soda into water and doing a slow, torturous break-up with late-night snacks — spoiler: his salad orders were just misdirection. Over four years, through failed experiments and secret binge confessions, Dan peeled off 100 pounds and emerged barely recognizable, now walking campus without gasping like a fish out of water and ready to talk more than cafeteria gossip.
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Ordered salad to hide late-night snack crimes but self-ended up dropping 100 pounds. Lettuce be real, that’s commitment.
Trying to sneak in a salad while hiding cake binges is the textbook definition of diet espionage.
He lost 100 pounds but still carrying emotional baggage bigger than a college dorm closet.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/20/2025 | Author: Dan Petetsky
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