Eddie McGuire opens up about his dramatic weight loss
Media personality Eddie McGuire has lost a dramatic 20kg in a matter of weeks by following a strict Chinese herb diet.
The Collingwood president will showcase his transformation when he makes a return to the AFL Footy Show this Thursday.
The 52-year-old followed the 101 Wellbeing Program by Dr Shuquan Liu, which was the same diet Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull used several years ago.
In the first two weeks, Eddie followed the diet plan of replacing meals with three cups of herb tonic.
Eddie explained that in the third week, he was able to incorporate half a cucumber and a 50g serve of chicken into his daily meal plan.
The results of the diet were immediate with Eddie shedding 15kg in the first weeks, but he admitted to the Herald Sun that the program was “extreme”.
He explained that he had let himself go throughout the past decade and he was left unimpressed with how he looked.
“I have probably been the classic case of the person who has put on one and a half kilos a year for the past 10 years and suddenly you look out the window one day and you see a fat bloke looking back at you and you realise it is a mirror,” he said.
Eddie claimed that he experienced no negative side effects whilst on the diet.
“It has taken all the heat out of my body, I feel great, I did not feel tired at any stage, and did not actually even feel hungry, believe it or not.”
He has continued to drop weight since finishing the diet and has now lost a total of 20kg, despite going on holidays where he says he “ate for Australia”.
“The next stage for me is to get myself physically fit again and keep the discipline up and make sure I don’t plonk it (the weight) back on,” he said.