Charlie manuel weight loss
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CLEARWATER, Fla. - Phillies manager Charlie Manuel remembers the night he knew he had to lose weight.
It was early last season, and he was at home, watching a replay of a game.
"I walked to the mound," he recalled in his office here. "I went out to congratulate the guy" for winning. "I was pulling my pants up, and my belly was over my belt. I knew I was heavy, but I didn't know how heavy I was."
Manuel weighed 286 pounds - 125 pounds more than he carried on his 6-foot-4 frame at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista, Va., and about 85 pounds more than his typical weight over his 15-year career as a player.
Though Manuel said some of his players would rib him about his weight, it was no joke. Manuel, now 66, was a type 2 diabetic with a frightening health history. Twenty years ago, he suffered a heart attack and had surgery. Fourteen years ago, at 52, he had another heart attack. Ten years ago, his colon ruptured after a bout with diverticulitis and he underwent four surgeries in less than a year and a half.
Manuel said he had tried quite a few diets, including a juice diet that knocked off 25 pounds in two months, but the weight came back.
"One of the biggest problems I have is I love to eat and I eat a lot," he said.
Manuel typically arrives at the ballpark early. "
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Yahoo!'s Dave Brown caught up with the great Canadian outfielder for the San Diego Padres and WFC Matt Stairs to talk beer, food, names that are also inanimate objects, and all sorts of goofy stuff. Stairs enjoys a good Maritime Beer and some pizza. Sounds like our kind of guy. So how'd he lose all of that weight and get down to 200 (!) lbs?
DB: Is this because of the Nutrisystem cult? Is themajor league lifestyle — the travel, the limited food choices late atnight — conducive to eating healthy?
Matt Stairs: I have to take [the Nutrisystem food] with me.
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DB: Is Charlie Manuel your sponsor?
MS: He got me on it, yeah [laughs]. I wouldn't say he's my sponsor.*They're* my sponsor [pulls open drawer filled with Nutrisystem food].
Stairsy claims the chicken and penne pasta is delicious, but we're skeptical.
The whole Q&A with the Answer Man is off the wall and worth checking out if for nothing more than to learn how Stairs got his new nickname in San Diego.
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