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How did Artie lose all that weight? Down to 230 pounds.
The incredible shrinking Artie Lange reported this week that his weight is down somewhere “in the 230s.â€Â The talented but tormented co-host of The Howard Stern Show’s weight topped out around 300 pounds last year during a self-destructive tailspin that included wild eating and drinking binges and abuse of both heroin and Subutex, a drug designed to ease heroin withdrawals.
Six months ago, it looked like Artie Lange was on the express train to a Chris Farley style end. Now, with a new, hot girlfriend he found in a New Jersey tanning salon and a newfound interest in jet skiing, Artie Lange seems to be back from the dead.
Yes, jet-skiing. On Monday morning’s broadcast of The Howard Stern Show, Artie Lange attributed part of his weight loss to his new addiction to jet-skiing. Apparently, it’s not as crazy as it sounds. Jet skiing for an hour is reported to burn 460 calories for a person weighing 145 pounds, and even more for a heftier comedian-type rider.
Artie Lange says to lose another 30 pounds to get down to his goal weight of 200, he plans to “get serious†with regular trips to the gym.