The other three meals are something like a chicken breast, a green vegetable and rice or yams for carbohydrates. It’s increasing meals to eating six times a day every three hours and three of those meals are protein shakes. I haven’t had a drink since we started this program almost a year ago. I was a big beer drinker and those are very empty calories. Another big thing for me was that I enjoyed drinking beer. I was eating a lot of carbs a bagel for breakfast, a sandwich on a hard roll with potato chips for lunch and at dinner, I’d eat potatoes with whatever else I was eating.

He gave me a simple diet to follow and since my diet was so awful, it was pretty easy. He put together a basic program for me to begin with where I was doing cardio two to three times a week and doing weight training with him two to three times a week. WWE.COM: How did you go about losing so much weight?ĬOLE: I’m working with a trainer out of McAllen, Texas, named Jesse Marines (pictured, below). I feel better now at 48 years old than I did at 21 years old.

I was down 65 pounds, but I’ve put on a little weight because we changed my diet and added some calories. WWE.COM: Exactly how much weight have you lost as of today?ĬOLE: I started at 226 pounds with 29.9 percent body fat and as of today, 11 months later, I weigh 169 pounds with 6.5 percent body fat. JBL scales the summits | Watch Cole's WrestleMania debut All of those things combined made me realize that I needed to make some life changes. We got snowed off the mountain at 12,500 feet and even if we didn’t get snowed off, I knew inside that I wasn’t going to be able to finish the climb. I was climbing mountains, and the big mountain that we tried to climb was Grand Teton in Wyoming. All factors came together at once last October getting older, being on television on a weekly basis, my metabolism slowing down, being unhappy when I looked at myself in the mirror and my energy wasn’t what it used to be.

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