
Alan Martin, the North Carolina man who set out to derive the best possible value from Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Pass, has achieved his goal — proving that anything is possible, if only you put your stomach to it. Martin managed to eat 115 total meals in the seven weeks the promotion lasted him, a heaping pile of wilted salad and buttery breadsticks that would have cost him $1,840 had it not been for that nifty pasta pass. The kicker? Dude lost weight. Seriously, he lost four pounds. Is the Olive Garden diet the new Subway diet?