Artie Lange too skinny to fish? Comedian down to 230 pounds

   HowardStern.com

The incredible shrinking Artie Lange reported this week that his weight is down somewhere “in the 230s.”  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.

What a RELIEF!  The Artie Lange self-destructive death spiral has inexplicably reversed itself in mid-air!

There is that small matter of last month’s fender bender DUI  and “careless driving“ charges.  Lange is scheduled to appear in a New Jersey municipal court to answer the charges later this month.  He has been vague in his discussion of the case on The Howard Stern Show, but has repeatedly stated that the only substance he was on during the July 10th accident was the antidepressant Lexapro.

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