Posted on 05/10/2022 12:30:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
PHIL MICKELSON has looked remarkably trim in recent times - a far cry from his former self.
The 51-year-old rolled back the years to win the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island last summer and capture his sixth major.
'Lefty' cut a rather portly figure in the mid-2000s - as he has personally acknowledged - but has cleaned up his diet with remarkable results.
After piling on a few too many pounds, the American has put considerable effort into streamlining his physique in recent years.
A diagnosis for psoriatic arthritis in 2010 is partly credited with alerting Mickelson of his need to change.
And he is now fully invested in a six-day fasting routine, during which he subsists on only water and a special coffee blend.
The mixture features Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee, almond milk, cinnamon and coconut MCT oil.
Mickelson has become a huge advocate for 'Coffee For Wellness', which he talks up regularly on social media, after teaming up with performance consultant Dave Phillips.
Despite being at the top of his game in the mid-2000s, the golfer began to feel his body and his performances decline.
He previously stated: "I wasn’t playing well and I wasn’t feeling good about myself.
"I wasn’t recovering as fast as I wanted to after the rounds and I was feeling tired and not focused towards the end of the round.
"I felt that the first step in getting that back was getting in better shape — getting lighter, and what I’ve noticed is that I’ve recovered faster."
But the diet plan is not exclusively a weight loss technique, with Mickelson feeling the overwhelming 'wellness' benefits too.
He remarked in 2019: "I didn't fast to lose weight. I fasted to heal."
Mickelson is looking as good as he ever has out on course and he has acknowledged that such a change was vital if he was ever going to recover his best form.
And the results also showed as he stormed to victory at Kiawah Island.
Mickelson was named in the field for the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills later this month.
He is scheduled to defend his trophy despite a year of controversy around his support for a rival Saudi Arabian-backed league.
In one Twitter video endorsing the plan last year, Mickelson said: "I haven’t felt good about myself and the way I’ve been playing, and so I haven’t done anything or wanted to be in public.
"The last 10 days I’ve done what I call a hard reset – a change to try to make things better.
"I don’t know if it’s going to help me play better or not, but I’m willing to do whatever it takes to try to get my best back."
Also in 2019, he noted: "I’m going to continue to make it a lifestyle change.
Fasting, if you look at it, it’s a hard reset, but the body gets rid of the bad stuff and covets the good stuff.
"I’m going to continue to eat better, eat less, work out more, just stay committed to it.
"It won’t be as drastic or quick, but I would anticipate over the next one to two years I would continue to tick down a little bit [in weight]."
Performance consultant Phillips has described the fasting routine as fairly common among athletes.
He said: "It’s not a drastic as everybody thinks it is.
"In the performance space, there are a lot of athletes that do this kind of thing.
"Fasting, if you look at it, it’s a hard reset, but the body gets rid of the bad stuff and covets the good stuff.
"The body goes into flight or fight. Sometimes you need to do that."
I thought maybe gambling away $40 million ate at him.
Eating fat doesn’t make you fat. It is the carbohydrates in milk, sugars, starches etc. If you are eating starches, you MUST balance them with fiber.
I still haven’t gotten used to Mike Pompeo’s face change.
Eating fat doesn’t make you fat. It is the carbohydrates in milk, sugars, starches etc. If you are eating starches, you MUST balance them with fiber.
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This is actually true, but very hard for most people to conceptualize.
When you learn that fat is created by metabolizing blood sugar in the presence of insulin, and that fat (lipids) in the blood is actually not stored in the cells as fat, it blows your mind.
Diets and fads don’t work... Common sense, exercise and moderation do.
I always love the Big Mac, large fries and half gallon diet soda crowd...
Isn’t coffee supposed to kill ya?
i do the same
good for energy boost too
😂😂
Fasting is a wonderful thing for your health. Most of your hunger or need to eat is simply habit. Hard to comprehend but true.
You won’t die or suffer if you don’t eat on a regular basis. After the third day, I’ve found hunger pains go away. So does pooping. Hunger habit pains will sometimes be present but a glass of water will take care of that.
Personaly, I lose about one pound a day on average, some days nothing at all and I have a strenious lifestyle. It won’t affect your work or your workouts either. I had no problem running six miles a day other than an occasional lightheadedness which was banished by a short rest.
Hunger- the actual hunger will return on your bodies schedule, usually around fourty odd days or so.
BYW, the world record for fasting is a little over a year—look it up.
TM
You are referring to Angus Barbieri - 382 days?
If you fast, your body releases a lot more growth hormone.
Greg Norman is cut from his extensive workout of choking?
Has anyone tried apple cider vinegar? I’ve started it during Lent and it seems to be working, along with 18hr fasts.
If you plan to lose $40 million, lose it in a casino where you get comp meals. You might be poor again, but you won’t be hungry.
I tried apple cider vinegar once and I wanted to die.
You aren’t supposed to drink it straight. Put a shot in a pint of water.
Nobody told me! I’ll try that next time.
That particular coffee is supposedly using beans that have ‘passed through’ a special feline animals alimentary tract.
Yes. He’s the one I should have referenced by name. Of course, to fast for a year it should be mentioned that he was severely obese to begin with.
TM
I wear linen dress pants and jackets, with teal or pink t-shirts.
I have Human League, Pat Benatar, and Flock of Seagulls on loop…
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