Dexter Pittman Weight Loss: Dexter Pittman’s amazing weight loss story!

Pittman was a 3 year starter at B. F. Terry High School, where he averaged 15 points and 8.5 rebounds per game over his career. In his senior season, he was named the Most Valuable Player for District 24-4A. He verbally committed to the University of Texas in October 2005, over scholarship offers from Texas A&M and Arizona State. He was ranked as the 16th best center prospect out of high school, as well as one of the top 150 high school players in the nation. (Wiki)

Pittman, the overweight basketball player picked Texas over schools such as Kansas and Florida State because of a recruiting pitch by Wright, which was untrue. “I showed Dexter some before-and-after pictures of two different players who kind of looked alike,” Wright said. “I was going to tell him they weren’t the same person, but he was so into it, I just couldn’t tell him.”

Added Pittman, “I wasn’t really going to come here to Texas, but Coach Todd showed me pictures of guys he worked with who had a weight problem like I did. I thought, ‘I want my body to look like that. That’s the only way I will be able to make money is if I lose the weight.’ ”

Wright started his weight loss program on Pittman from day one and he cleared his lie as well. Pittman worked out up to five times a day, and slowly turned his sloppy tummy into a washboard six pack ab.

“He changed my life,” said Pittman, who calls Wright one of his best friends. “I didn’t really think I would be at this point in my life, but he sped everything up for me.”

He was 365 before and he is 295 now and a body fat ratio of 41.6 percent to 13.8 since June 2006. Take a look at his regime:

• Breakfast (one cup of oatmeal)

• Run one hour on a treadmill at different speeds, simulating game action, at intervals of 10 to 12 minutes

• Walk/recover; eat one-half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

• Lunges to work on leg strength

• Abdominal exercises and back strengthening with pulleys, medicine balls and dumbbells

• Attend classes; lunch (chicken sandwich and vegetables)

• Cardio workout simulating footwork needed in a game.

• Basketball practice; energy shake before practice and another energy shake every hour of practice to maintain glycogen.

• Recovery shake after practice; another cardio workout simulating footwork needed in a game.

• Dinner (modest portion of pasta or fish)

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