Shaquille O’Neal reveals he has lost 55 pounds and now weighs 25 stone – but the NBA star wants to lose even more weight: ‘I was getting chubby and couldn’t even walk up the stairs’

Shaquille O’Neal has revealed he lost weight over the summer, down to 351 pounds, though the basketball star insists his journey to getting fit isn’t quite done.

The Los Angeles Lakers legend told it Entertainment tonight that he’s lost a whopping 55 pounds lately, which is just six pounds more than when he won his first NBA championship with Kobe Bryant in 2000.

“I’ll probably get between 315 and 330,” said Shaq, adding that he sets “crazy goals” for himself while also mocking his NBA colleague on TNT, Charles Barkley, whom he calls “fat.”

“I got chubby and couldn’t even climb the stairs. I didn’t like the way I looked in the mirror. I thought, ‘I’m going to lose 20,’ and then I tried to lose 20,” Shaq continued.

The 51-year-old is also going through a drastic diet change, joking that he currently has a ‘little pack of 4.9’ but that his ultimate goal is to get ‘a pack of eight’.

O’Neal showed off his recent weight loss while posing for a photo with LSU coach Kim Mulkey

In December, Shaq revealed that he wanted to make his health a priority and had lost 40 pounds at the time, with a desire to lose more weight after getting some revealing blood work back, leading to him wanting to be skinnier next time. a few years.

“I got a few people involved, it’s all about good food,” Shaq said AND at the time. “I had some blood work done, 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, and you know, because I was the athlete — I was not a salad eater. I’m not going to pay attention to that. I don’t care at all.’

‘At the age of fifty I didn’t know the difference between a taxi and a protein, I never did. So he said you can’t do this, you can’t do that, more veggies, my iron is running low. And once I started changing those certain things, it fell away.

Shaq estimates he’s “almost 75 percent” in “ninja mode,” or being fit, though he believes some of the supplements he used and the shakes he drank may have contributed to his weight gain in the past.

O’Neal now weighs just 6 pounds more than when he won his first NBA title with the LA Lakers

Shaq got into the best shape of his life in his first season with Miami when he weighed in at 315 pounds

After winning his first NBA championship 23 years ago, Shaq weighed 375 pounds when the Lakers won a second consecutive title in 2001 — 30 pounds more than the year before.

He weighed 395 pounds when the Lakers completed a three-peat in 2002.

Shaq got himself back into the best shape of his life after being traded to the Miami Heat in 2004. At the time, he weighed in at 315 pounds as he helped the Heat win their first NBA championship in franchise history in 2006.

The 15-time All-Star recently showed off his weight loss by posing on Saturday for a photo with Louisiana State University (LSU) women’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey, who won the NCAA championship this year.

Shaq attended LSU from 1989 to 1992.