Learning a Lesson at the Dinner Table
Like how to eat.
Grant nearly ran himself into an emergency room during a preseason practice recently, because he was trying to keep up with coach Jim Boylen's demanding regimen while at the same dieting drastically in an attempt to lose some weight and body fat.
"I literally felt like I was running cross-eyed," Grant recalled. "I couldn’t see."
Grant had to back out of practice that day a couple of weeks ago, and spent the rest of the workout hunched over a garbage can and slumped in a chair on the sideline. It took hours to feel better again, he said, and the trainers concluded his attempt at ill-advised approach to dieting left him without nearly enough energy to handle the hard workout.
"I've never had an experience like that before," he said.
So while Grant has dropped a few pounds and body-fat percentage points, he's no longer aiming for massive weight loss through what essentially was a starvation diet. He acknowledged he "probably took it a little too seriously" when Boylen told him he needed to lose some weight, and now he's hoping to simply healthily maintain his current weight.
"I just said, 'Screw it. I'm going to eat,'" Grant said. "I'll eat healthy food, but I'm just going to eat, and if need be, I'll work out more. ... I was working out more and eating even less."
And as he discovered, that's not a good combination.
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