Shaquille O’Neal has lost weight
Former basketball star could no longer climb stairs
Shaquille O’Neal works on his fitness.
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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. reported at the end of 2021 Men’s Health magazine said Shaq had gained significant weight during the pandemic and at one point weighed the equivalent of 400 pounds. The US basketball legend has meanwhile lost a lot of weight. O’Neal recently weighed himself and weighed almost 160 kilograms, he now says in conversation with “Entertainment Tonight”.
“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.
Already at the end of December 2022 had O’Neal with “Entertainment Tonight” talked about his weight and says: “It’s all about eating right.” 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.