After his athletic career, basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal fell out of shape. He has since lost a lot of weight.
Shaquille O’Neal (51) has been working on his fitness for quite a while. In late 2021, Shaq reported that Shaq had gained significant weight during the pandemic, weighing nearly 400 pounds at one point. The US basketball legend has meanwhile lost a lot of weight. O’Neal recently weighed himself and weighed almost 160 kilograms, he now says.
“I got chubby”
“I got chubby and couldn’t even walk up the stairs,” explains the basketball giant. Shaquille O’Neal didn’t like what he saw in the mirror. As a result, the former athlete changed his eating habits in particular.
Talked about his weight at the end of December 2022 and says: “It’s all about the right diet.” At that point he had already lost around 18 kilos. “A friend called me and said, ‘You’re fat,’ and she gave me the name of a guy who did some blood tests,” he recalled. He gave him instructions, encouraged him to eat more vegetables and classified his iron level as too low. “As soon as I started changing those certain things, it tumbled [das Gewicht]”explained the 51-year-old.
But Shaquille O’Neal has not yet reached his target weight. He wants to land at around 143 to 150 kilos. That would even make him lighter than his first NBA championship, which he won in 2000 with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Source: Stern
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