Collingwood president Eddie McGuire reveals the secret behind his sudden weight loss

MEDIA heavyweight Eddie McGuire has revealed the secret behind his startling and sudden weight loss after losing 15kgs in just three weeks.

A Gray day for Collingwood Collingwood President Eddie McGuire speaks at club luncheon at the MCG yesterday. Picture: George Salpigtidis

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MEDIA heavyweight Eddie McGuire has shed 15kg in just three weeks ... by not eating.

McGuire started the intensive diet program based on Chinese herbs last month describing it as “extreme”.

For the first two weeks he drank three cups of herb tonic a day in place of meals.

In the third week he was able to introduce half a cucumber and a meagre 50g serve of chicken into his daily meal plan.

McGuire’s new slimline look has been noticed.

“Every fat bloke in Melbourne has rung me about it,” he laughed.

Eddie McGuire in March 2017. Picture: Julie Kiriacoudis

Eddie McGuire at the MCG yesterday. Picture: Alex Coppel.

“When you get to my age (52) you get home at night, you are tired, you have been going since 4.30am in the morning and you think `I will train tonight’ and then suddenly you want to see your boys and your wife, or the kids need support with their homework, or they want to have a kick of the footy, and invariably you just run out of time,” McGuire said.

“And I have probably been the classic case of the person who has put on one and a half kilos a year for the past ten 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.”

McGuire chose the 101 Wellbeing Program by Dr Shuquan Liu, the same as used by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull several years ago, as part of a health overhaul.

By week three of his diet program Eddie McGuire was allowed to eat half a cucumber each morning. Picture: Twitter

Eddie says the challenge is to maintain his new weight. Picture: Wayne Ludbey

McGuire admitted the first part of the program was “pretty intense.”

“You are provided with these Chinese herbs, about half a cup, you get to drink three of them a day, and some water, and a couple of cups of tea and that is it,” he said.

“I did not eat for two weeks, and in the third week I was allowed to have half a cucumber before 1pm and 50 grams of chicken, which in the past would not have got stuck in my teeth.

“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.”

The extent of McGuire’s transformation was best illustrated on Friday night where he was seen hosting an episode of Millionaire Hot Seat recorded several weeks ago on Channel 9 at 5pm and then a matter of hours later was live in the Fox Footy studio debating the football issues of the week.

McGuire said the challenge was now to maintain his new weight.

“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.”

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