Librarian claims ‘Starbucks diet’ led to 80-pound weight loss

A screen grab of Christine Hall talking to ABC news about her diet.Starbucks executives are likely popping champagne and rubbing their hands together with glee, all thanks to a 66-year-old librarian named Christine Hall. The Virginia woman claims she lost 80 pounds in two years by eating almost exclusively at Starbucks, and is generating the kind of positive publicity for the coffee giant that money simply cannot buy.

Hall realized her weight was out of control when she applied to be a kidney donor and was rejected because, at 5-foot-4 and 190 pounds, she was obese, reports NBC. She began tracking her caloric intake online, and found that eating at Starbucks was convenient because everything was labelled with calorie information.