Charlie manuel weight loss
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Charlie Manuel has a message for anyone looking to lose weight.
“If you don’t have good health it makes it hard to do anything, to work,” said the Phillies manager.
He knows the good that a little diet and exercise can do to make someone feel better.
Charlie tipped the scales at 286 pounds last winter before going on a Nutrisystem diet and exercise routine.
More than 55 pounds lost later Manuel has a newfound energy and he hopes that his physical fitness will extend on to the baseball diamond in the coming season, he said from his off-season home in Florida. He also hopes that his weight loss story might help others lose weight.
“If I can do it, anyone can do it,” he said.
Manuel explained why his current diet worked for him.
Manuel needed everything to be laid out for him since he lives in the tempting food world of the clubhouse.
“There is food everywhere in a Major League clubhouse -- candy bars, snack, meals,” he said.
After years of eating plenty of junk unmonitored that contributed to Manuel’s Type-2 diabetes worsening, the skipper decided he needed a change. He began eating on the program and actually quickly dropped a lot of weight, he said.
But, he wanted to keep that weight off -- no easy task while on the road. Manuel, though, was dedicated to keeping it o
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Charlie Manuel has learned a few things from losing -- he learned that he felt better, he could do more on the field and that he was even more popular than ever.
No, Charlie wasn’t losing games; he was losing weight -- lots of it.
Seriously -- it’s pretty tough to imagine that the guy who brought Philadelphia its first championship in a generation could be any more popular, but he is thanks to his new diet.
“I had a checkup… and the nurse was asking me about it,” said Manuel from his off-season home in Florida.
The nurse saw that Charlie was doing ads for Nutrisystem and wanted to know more.
She wasn’t alone. He gets asked often about losing and how he is keeping off the pounds.
“People are very talkative,” said Manuel with a laugh. “People who have seen the ad always want to talk to me.”
Charlie is more beloved than ever even if he is smaller than before.
Charlie became a weight-loss celeb after he threw his weight behind Nutrisystem. He picked the Horsham, Pa.-based company after he asked around to see what diet would work best for a diabetic -- Manuel has type-2 diabetes.
“It was organized and really easy,” he said.
Manuel will arrive at Clearwater for Spring Training weighing in just around 230 pounds -- an amazing 56 pounds lighter than he we