Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has lost 90 pounds since leaving the post of Secretary of State and, in an interview with The New York Post, he revealed how he did it and why.

It all started on June 14, 2021, when Pompeo stepped on the scale and saw he was just pounds away from 300 for the first time in his life.

The next morning, he recalled, he woke up and told his wife, Susan, “Today is the day.”

“I started exercising, not every day, but nearly every day, and eating right and the weight just started to come off,” Pompeo told The New York Post.

He said he invested in a home gym in his basement with some dumbbells and an elliptical machine. “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 now tries to exercise “nearly every day” using an elliptical machine and weights.

To finally get healthy, he told The Post, he had to be in the right frame of mind.

“For me it’s about getting it right and being sufficiently disciplined,” he said, a process he applied to all of the high-pressure positions he’s held in government but not to his own health until this year.