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“LeBron James has the worst f***ing diet ever”: When Tristan Thompson raved about the Lakers superstar for having desserts with every meal and still dunking on the world’s best players

Amulya Shekhar
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"LeBron James has the worst f***ing diet ever": When Tristan Thompson raved about the Lakers superstar for having desserts with every meal and still dunking on the world's best players

NBA fans were entertained to a ton of ‘Built Different’ ads throughout the bubble last year. Nobody fits this description better than LeBron James.

LeBron seems to have had this world-beating physique for as long as he’s been in the public light. The 36-year-old was this big, strong, and fast even as a junior in high school.

James was bodying forwards left, right and center from his days as a teenage NBA player. But it’s clear that he consciously improved his physique and strength with targeted effort over the years.

The Lakers superstar famously spends over a million dollars every year to keep himself in his prime physical shape. Given all of this expense, one would imagine that James is on a pretty strict diet regime.

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As things turned out, this hasn’t always been the case for James. While we’ve heard stories of him giving up on carbs completely for a period during his 2013-14 season, a latter teammate dispels any notion that James is on a strict diet regime.

“LeBron James has the worst f***ing diet ever”: Tristan Thompson

Tristan Thompson was LeBron’s teammate on the Cleveland Cavaliers for 4 years. The Canadian big man is roughly the same size as James, but Thompson says he could never sustain himself as a professional if he let himself go like LeBron did:

“He has the worst f***ing diet ever. Ask him what he eats for breakfast. He has like five french toast, drowns it in syrup with strawberries and bananas.”

“Then he has like a four-egg omelette and then he goes and just f***ing dunks on somebody. It doesn’t make sense. He eats desserts with every meal.”

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“He’ll come with his one-week diet, vegan crap, but he literally eats like it doesn’t make sense. He’s really a specimen. He eats like s***. One year I tried to eat like he ate and it just didn’t work out.”

“I started gaining weight and said, ‘F*** this’. I mean it works for him. He loves sweets. He eats desserts and French toast. It’s crazy how his body just burns it.”

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Amulya Shekhar

Amulya Shekhar

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Amulya Shekhar is a sports junkie who thrives on the thrills and frills of live sports action across basketball, football (the American variant works too), parkour, adventure sports. He believes sports connect us to our best selves, and he hopes to help people experience sports more holistically.

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