‘Eat a Lot Less’: 2021 PGA Championship Winner Phil Mickelson Explains His Diet Plan

Over the weekend, legendary golfer Phil Mickelson ended his eight-year Main drought to win the 2021 PGA Championship. After many wrote him off, the 50-year-old had a stunning and historic win at Kiawah Island.

Mickelson grew to become the oldest Main champion with this win, breaking Julius Boros‘ earlier report. Many golfers compete even at 50, however successful a Main is an insane achievement. And one of the essential causes Mickelson is ready to compete in opposition to gamers half his age, is his food regimen.

Lefty’s food regimen plan is named the espresso and water quick. The main goal behind the food regimen is to eat much less of all the things. It includes three-day fasts every month, and typically Mickelson goes as much as six days in a month too. After his remaining spherical, he additionally fasts for 36 hours straight as soon as every week. “It offers my physique an opportunity to reset,” he defined.

Throughout these days of the quick he consumes simply water and a particular espresso mix that his efficiency coach Dave Phillips got here up with. These are the substances for that particular mix:

• 350-450 grams of espresso (Ethiopian beans)
• Two to 3 tbsp. MCT or XCT oil
• Massive scoop flavourless collagen protein powder
• Sprint of Himalayan pink sea salt
• Small glass of almond milk
• 200 mg L-Theanine
• One tbsp. Manuka honey
• One tsp. cinnamon

Phil Mickelson on how he needed to sacrifice

This food regimen can be the explanation behind his spectacular weight reduction. He began taking a extra critical method in the direction of weight reduction following his psoriatic arthritis analysis a decade in the past.

Mickelson defined how meals was his largest sacrifice and that helped him rather a lot. He mentioned, “I’ve acquired to eat rather a lot much less and I’ve acquired to eat higher. I simply can’t eat as a lot and I’ve to let my physique sort of get well. Nevertheless it’s additionally been a blessing for me as a result of I really feel higher and I don’t have irritation and I get up feeling good. It’s been a sacrifice value making.”

Again in September 2020, simply earlier than the US Open, Mickelson shared a comparability image. The primary image was from 2006 and one might see how a lot work he has put in to look “completely different” as he says. So regardless of turning 51 in just some weeks, Mickelson’s health has ensured he has much more golf left in his tank.

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