*Retired NBA star Shaquille O’Neal has shed 40 pounds and he’s on a mission to lose more weight before his 51st birthday in March.
“I got a couple people involved,” Shaq told Entertainment Tonight about his weight loss journey. “It’s all about eating right. A friend of mine called me and said, ‘You’re fat,’ and she gave me this guy’s name, and he did some blood work,” he added.
“I didn’t know what the difference between a carb and a protein; I never knew. So, he was saying you can’t do this, you can’t do that, more vegetables, my iron’s low. And once I just started changing those certain things, it dropped,” O’Neal continued.
Shaq wants to lose 20 more pounds so he can do “an underwear ad with my sons,” he said.
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“Imma get real chiseled up,” Shaq said.
“I want to be known as the Black Mark Wahlberg,” O’Neal joked.
When O’Neal appeared on Logan Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast, he compared his body type to Charles Barkley’s “retirement body.”
“I didn’t want my stomach to be over the belt anymore. So I was just like, ‘Let me go ahead and get slim.’ After that went viral, now I’ve got to live up to it,” said Shaq about a video of him shirtless and flaunting his abs — see clip below.
In November 2021, he told Men’s Journal that “an hour a day will keep the Charles Barkley belly away.”
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