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Maryland's Ralph Friedgen sees Nutrisystem commercial ("Pizza! Pot Roast! Burgers! Real Food for Real Guys!"), thinks having five meals a day delivered to his door is awesome. Accidentally loses 105 pounds in the process.

Slimmer Ralph Friedgen finding new energy for Maryland Terrapins - ESPN

Friedgen 105 pounds lighter for 2009
Associated Press

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- There's less of Ralph Friedgen on the Maryland sideline these days, thanks to a diet that has enabled the Terrapins' head football coach to drop a whopping 105 pounds.

Friedgen won't say how much he weighed before he began the diet in October, but this much is certain: He was well over 300 pounds and not in a very healthy place.

"A couple of years back I looked into doing lap band surgery, and then a week away I decided not to do it because it would limit what I could eat and how I could eat it," Friedgen said Monday. "But the doctors had told me when things start going bad, being overweight, they're going to go bad fast."

Friedgen knew it was time to get rid of the two extra chins and the massive belly that was making it difficult for him to walk without losing his breath. So he began a diet that provided him with five packaged meals a day and healthy snacks.

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