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How This Las Vegas-Based Magician Lost 105 Pounds With Plant-Based Foods

Posted on April 14, 2016 By 4 Comments on How This Las Vegas-Based Magician Lost 105 Pounds With Plant-Based Foods

Sometimes it takes a shocking experience to make someone reconsider his or her diet habits. That’s what happened to this Las Vegas-based magician. His doctor told him he needed to drop dramatically weight. And in case the master illusionist, Penn Jillette, made it possible to drop his weight from 330 to 225 pounds, he could even resign to any medicament he was currently taking for good. Definitely, this was something what made him excited to face this challenge. His story should convince anyone that a diet change is the key to many, if not, any health issue one might be facing.

“Even master illusionist Penn Jillette couldn’t magically make his weight disappear – but he was able to drop from 330 to 225 lbs. by making a drastic change in his eating habits.

The 6’7” entertainer decided to get healthy after his high blood pressure landed him in the hospital.

“I was on six very powerful meds to bring the blood pressure down,” Jillette, 60, tells PEOPLE. “My doctor said I needed to get my weight down, and if I brought it down 30 or 40 lbs. it would be a little easier to control. And then he said something in passing that completely blew my mind – he said, ‘If you got down to 230, you probably wouldn’t need any of the meds.’ ”

The Wizard Wars judge decided to do just that, spending December through March on an “extreme low-calorie program” in which he consumed about 1,000 calories daily and was able to lose an average of 0.9 lbs. a day.

Since reaching his goal weight on his birthday, March 5, Jillette has stopped restricting the amounts he eats, and instead follows Dr. Fuhrman’s Nutritarian diet – this means he consumes no animal products, no processed grains, and no added sugar or salt.

“I eat unbelievable amounts of food but just very, very, very healthy food,” says the magician.

His typical daily diet consists of an “enormous salad” with vinegar as dressing for lunch (he doesn’t usually eat breakfast) and a dinner consisting of 3 lbs. of greens and three servings of black or brown rice with a vegetable stew, along with lots of fruits for dessert (his favorite is “an enormous amount of blueberries with plain cocoa powder”) and vegetables with vinegar or Tabasco sauce as a snack.

“I could probably have a steak or a doughnut every couple of weeks, but I just haven’t felt like it,” says Jillette. “When you’re feeling as bad as I felt, and you go to feeling as good as I feel, the temptation to go back to doing what you were doing when you felt bad is not very great.”

Although he wasn’t exercising during his extreme weight-loss phase, he now exercises every other day, doing the “scientific 7-minute workout” along with weight lifting, juggling and 10-mile tricycle rides.

“Now it’s really fun to exercise,” he says. “The only hard part of exercise is keeping it hard enough to be hard.”

Dropping the weight has come with many more pluses than dropping 10 pant sizes (from a 44 to a soon-to-be 34).

“I have so much energy and I feel so good,” says Jillette. “I’m just plain happier.”

It’s something his two children with his wife Emily, 49 – Moxie CrimeFighter, 9, and Zolten Penn, 8 – have definitely noticed.

“My relationship with my children has always been wonderful – I always spend a lot of time with them, but now they know that I’m a lot more energetic,” says the Las Vegas-based performer. “They notice that and like that.”

However, there is one downside.

“It’s really expensive because the suits on the Penn & Teller Show cost a s—ton, and so we had to get all new suits!”

Source: greatideas.people.com!

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Comments (4) on “How This Las Vegas-Based Magician Lost 105 Pounds With Plant-Based Foods”

  1. Colleen Athey says:
    April 14, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    Jediah Downey holy$#%&!@*look who it is lol

    Reply
  2. Ray del Sol says:
    April 14, 2016 at 9:29 pm

    If only he would stop having contempt for animal rights activists, then I might be able to like this guy.

    Reply
  3. Jediah Downey says:
    April 14, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Love that meme even more

    Reply
  4. Heidi Smith Cochran says:
    April 15, 2016 at 5:14 pm

    He inspired me and I’ve lost over 50 pounds!! I’m maintaining my plant based life style and I love it!

    Reply

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