STOP LYING IN WEIGHT
Post-shamed Rangel reveals diet secrets
If he can do it, we can do it! US Rep. Ch harlie Rangel — who admits th hat seeing an unflattering photo of himself on The P Post’s front page led him too shape up— says he dropped 35 pounds by always eating breakfast, drinking lots ofwater, and loading upu on smoothies. The 84yearold 8 Harlem Democrat revealed the sk kinny on his twoyear weight loss, saying his meals involve hav ving oatmeal for br reakfast, salad for lu unch and a fruit or r veggie smoothies for dinner.
“The thing is no ot to eat before youu go to bed, and it helpsh when you aren n’t hungry when youu go to bed. There’s nobody who has an appetite for food after drinking a smoothie,” said Rangel. “You can last forever after drinkin a smoothie — you can s sit down to the most delic cious meal and not be hungr ry,” he said, adding that the drinks remind him of oldfashioned malted milkshakes. “I feel terrific,” he beamed. But the pol couldn’t stomach revealing his actual weight. He only said he started his diet in early 2012.
To keep the pounds off, Rangel also walks from his office to meetings in Washington, DC. In New York, he usually walks a mile or two each day and recently tried a spinning class.
His “Rangel Resolution Recipe eBook” includes lowfat dishes, such as “winter root veggie home fries,” “Thai coconut shrimp curry” and his wife’s “Alma’s crab cakes.”
Rangel credited The Post with getting him on the thin and narrow after a frontpage photo showed him letting it all hang out in 2008. The story revealed Rangel’s tax woes on his Dominican retreat — and featured a photo of the belly-bulging pol sprawled out napping on a beach chair.
The fear that another photographer would catch him chowing down on junk food somewhere helped kickstart his weight loss, he said.
“It’s fun. I’m enjoying it, and the truth of the matter is, the more I talk about it, the less temptation I have to get my damn pastrami sandwich,” he said.
But he admitted, “When I walk into Katz’s [ Delicatessen] and tell them I don’t want anything to eat, the whole place moans.”