Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl

New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia reported to spring training Monday in Tampa telling everyone who would listen about his off-season weight loss, which the 6-foot-7 ace said totaled 25 pounds. How’d he do it?

It’s def. not what you would think…find out after the jump…

No more Cap’n Crunch.

“I used to eat that stuff by the box,” he said.

Sugar is the second leading ingredient in Cap’n Crunch — roughly 40 percent of the content, depending on the variety. Assuming that Sabathia actually ate a whole box every day as he claimed, nixing the Cap’n Crunch would’ve saved him from consuming more than 2,000 calories and nearly a full cup of sugar a day.

Despite Sabathia’s size –- he’s listed at 290 pounds and admits he has played well above that -– he has been very durable, but he needed surgery this winter to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. Weighing more than 300 pounds might not have been the primary cause of the injury, but the stress of carrying that weight could have contributed to it.

After surgery, Sabathia aggressively rehabbed his knee. He changed his diet, ridding it of the sugary kids’ cereal he so craved. He did his usual weight training and added a double dose of cardio each day. And in the three and a half months since the Yankees season ended, he lost 25 pounds.

WRITTEN BY Adam Watson & FULL STORY HERE