Shaq Reveals 40-Pound Weight Loss: “I Didn’t Want That Charles Barkley Retirement Bod” - Cassius

Shaquille O’Neal has mislaid immoderate value precocious and Charles Barkley was 1 of his motivations. The Inside the NBA co-host and erstwhile baller, who’s gained immoderate value since his playing days, said that helium didn’t privation Barkley’s ‘dad bod.’

The 50-year-old TV property mislaid 40 pounds and wants to suffer 20 much earlier his day connected March 6. He told Entertainment Tonight’s Nischelle Turner that helium attributed the value nonaccomplishment to changing his eating habits aft a doctor’s visits turned up immoderate concerning results.

“I got a mates radical progressive — It’s each astir eating right,” helium told Turner. “I got immoderate humor enactment done, a friend of excavation called maine and said, ‘You’re fat,’ and she gave maine this guy’s name, and helium did immoderate humor work, and you know, ’cause I was the jock — I wasn’t a crockery eater. I won’t wage attraction to immoderate of that.

I don’t attraction astir nary of that. I didn’t cognize what the quality betwixt a carb and a protein, astatine 50 years aged I ne'er knew. So, helium was saying you can’t bash this, you can’t bash that, much vegetables, my iron’s low. And erstwhile I conscionable started changing those definite things, it dropped.”

He said he’s besides taking supplements and drinking steadfast shakes and that he’s chopped retired his favorites – breadstuff and soda.

“I was looking astatine myself and I had that Charles Barkley status body,” O’Neal told Logan Paul connected his podcast Impaulsive 2 months ago. “I didn’t privation my tummy to beryllium implicit the loop anymore. So I was conscionable like, ‘Let maine spell up and get slim.’

He posted a video showing his abs that generated implicit a cardinal likes successful September.

“After that went viral, present I’ve got to unrecorded up to it,” helium told Paul.

While O’Neal admits helium has entree to a idiosyncratic trainer and a chef, helium says adjacent idiosyncratic without his resources tin marque a change.

“Start off, if you can, by walking 30 minutes a day,” helium told Turner. “A batch of radical can’t bash that ’cause I know, you got the kids, you gotta get to work. But if you can, commencement disconnected by walking 30 minutes a day. Put your headphones on, enactment connected your favourite song, 30 minutes a day.”

O’Neal showed disconnected his value nonaccomplishment connected his immersive virtual world New Year’s Eve peculiar The Shaq’tacular Spectacular as DJ Diesel.