# C.C. Sabbathia lost weight by swearing off cereal **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 15, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514 "2011-02-15T23:23:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/1 "2011-02-15T23:23:15Z")
Sabbathia claims he lost 20 lbs by cutting down on Cap n’ Cruch, and everyone is taking this at face value? :rolleyes: Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/2 "2011-02-15T23:30:43Z")
That’s ~75 boxes of cereal. He says he’d eat one per sitting. Meh, 5 a week for a summer=25 pounds. Doesn’t shock me in the least. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/3 "2011-02-15T23:32:49Z")
I’d probably lose 10 if I gave up peanut butter. … mmmmmm, peanut butter… ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/4 "2011-02-15T23:41:28Z")
Sweetened cereals are incredibly high in sugar. Cutting them from your diet is similar to swearing off of candy bars. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/5 "2011-02-15T23:43:46Z")
But for the last several years, guys have come to Spring Training 15 lbs lighter, and what has most people concluded? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/6 "2011-02-15T23:55:37Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > But for the last several years, guys have come to Spring Training 15 lbs lighter, and what has most people concluded? They all lost 15 pounds of muscle though. Losing 25 pounds of fat when you’re 100 pounds overweight isn’t a big deal. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/7 "2011-02-16T01:06:31Z")
He just switched to Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/8 "2011-02-16T01:09:01Z")
I lost a little bit more than that switching from regular to diet soda. Sugar can really do a number on your weight. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/9 "2011-02-16T01:13:05Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > But for the last several years, guys have come to Spring Training 15 lbs lighter, and what has most people concluded? You’re suggesting Sabathia was on steroids because he lost some of his gut? ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/10 "2011-02-16T01:39:54Z")
I’ve lost 18 pounds by removing grains, starches and sugars from my diet. In two months. I have no doubt that a guy as big as C.C. Sabathia could lose 20 pounds just from getting rid of Cap’n Crunch. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/11 "2011-02-16T01:41:28Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > You’re suggesting Sabathia was on steroids because he lost some of his gut? Marley, I seriously doubt I’m the only person who’s suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/12 "2011-02-16T02:11:05Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Marley, I seriously doubt I’m the only person who’s suspicious. You’re totally right [this](http://oneseasonnation.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2008/12/sb-sabathia-r.jpg) guy had to have lost a ton of muscle mass. It’s not like he had excess fat to shed. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/13 "2011-02-16T02:59:25Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Marley, I seriously doubt I’m the only person who’s suspicious. Your suspicion doesn’t make any freaking sense. Guys like Pudge Rodriguez and Giambi raised eyebrows because they showed up at training camp having lost a significant amount of muscle mass, not because they’d just lost some weight. Surely you have seen fat baseball players before. [This is the only current picture I can find of Sabathia.](http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/slimmer-sabathia-noncommittal-about-contract/) Does he look like he’s lost a lot of muscle, or does he just look lighter? People are laughing about the Cap’n Crunch thing because it’s pretty funny, but Sabathia never said he lost 25 pounds just by giving up Cap’n Crunch. The Times says he stopped eating cereal and cut out sports drinks and soda and worked out twice a day. If a 300-pound man stops eating a box of cereal a day and begins exercising twice a day, I don’t think it’s crazy to think he could lose 25 pounds over a period of months. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/14 "2011-02-16T14:27:59Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Marley, I seriously doubt I’m the only person who’s suspicious. Your suspicion is absurd. (Actually, most of your steroid-related suspicions have been absurd.) When you’re 100 lbs. overweight, do you realize how ridiculously easy it is to lose 20 lbs. over the course of a month or two? I have no doubt most of it was water weight combined with actually paying attention to diet. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/15 "2011-02-16T14:36:07Z")
Nobody’s getting the obvious joke here? C. C. = Cap’n Crunch. I think CC was taking a bit of ribbing at himself with the “cereal killer” comment. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/16 "2011-02-16T15:22:05Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Marley, I seriously doubt I’m the only person who’s suspicious. Let me see if I can explain this to you. SABATHIA WAS FAT. I hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/17 "2011-02-16T16:16:39Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Marley, I seriously doubt I’m the only person who’s suspicious. Which is more likely? [ol] [li]Although he was never discussed as a possible juicer, Sabathia was on steroids, and kept using them in 2007-09, even as lots of guys were being publically named and shamed for using, and when Sabathia was under a guaranteed contract. He has quit now for some undisclosed reason, despite being under no suspicion, when steroids are a dead issue and when he is going into the last year of a contract.[/li] [li]Under his Yankees contract, Sabathia got fat and lazy. Now, going into the last year of his deal, he wants to have a good season so he can score big in free agency next year.[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/18 "2011-02-16T16:18:52Z")
You forgot to add that Sabathia quit juicing while he was rehabbing from knee surgery. He’s not actually in the last year of his contract, but he can opt out this year and try to get more than the $23 million a year he’s getting right now. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/19 "2011-02-16T16:20:59Z")
I’m guessing he got fat on (fermented) cereal (grains). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514/20 "2011-02-16T16:27:03Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Sabbathia claims he lost 20 lbs by cutting down on Cap n’ Cruch, and everyone is taking this at face value? :rolleyes: Seriously? Yes, but I read further where he said he was eating a box a day as others have mentioned. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c-c-sabbathia-lost-weight-by-swearing-off-cereal/571514.md?page=2)