How Quinton Spain got DOWN to 348 pounds
April 4, 2011 by Mike CasazzaThe former skill position star from Southern Virginia put in a lot of work with weights and with his will after he got with a nutritionist … and doesn’t that sound like a peach of a job?
See, last August, before that redshirt season, Spain showed up showed up with 370 pounds rather amply over his 6-foot, 5-inch frame. He was so big then that when he smiled his dimples had dimples.
The man didn’t have a waist. He had a circumference.
“I was at home. I wasn’t working out. All I did was eat,” he said after practice on Friday.
And you can imagine, there wasn’t any orders for “small fries” with that triple Whopper.
The Mountaineers were somewhat aghast when they saw him, weigh in at more than double the weight of running back Tavon Austin, so they turned a nutritionist on him.
“I talked to my nutrition lady and she told me I had to work out more and eat less,” he said. “She told me no fried food. Eat lite. Don’t drink soda and juice, drink water and milk.”
It was a good thing that didn’t get out or the stock in Coke and Minute Maid would have crashed immediately.
Spain wanted to play, though, and was diligent in his effort to lose weight.
“It was hard to adjust to at first, but if I want to play I have to do it,” he said.