Tom Brady has been promoting his book, The TB12 Method, for several months now. Last week, he did a big promotional blast, about one month after the Super Bowl loss. He did appearances on morning shows and late-night shows, and gave tons of interviews. When he was on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert got him to eat his first-ever strawberry and chug a mug of beer too. But it’s not going to become a regular thing by any stretch of the imagination. Brady sat down for a lengthy People Magazine interview about retirement (he’s not retiring), Gisele (she dresses him) and his diet. Some highlights:
Being dressed by Gisele: “I always love her opinion on things, and if she doesn’t like it, what good is it? I try to wear what I can and hopefully she likes it and if she doesn’t she usually tells me. She’ll look at things and definitely has an opinion, which I love. I think she has always been right on whenever she’s chosen things [for me] that she likes.”
When he retires, he’ll still be on his diet: “It’s possible [I’ll change it but] I think I feel really good. It’s hard for me to think that I’m going to be really unhealthy.” Brady—who avoids white sugar, white flour, MSG, caffeine, fungus, dairy and nightshades—says that maintaining his diet allows him to enjoy an active lifestyle, on and off the field. “I like to be out playing with my kids, traveling, golfing, skiing and playing football and doing a lot of fun things. I think leading a healthy lifestyle really is very helpful in living that type of life.”
He just doesn’t like strawberries: “I just don’t like them. At the end of the day, I just don’t like the taste. I don’t like the smell, the texture or anything. It doesn’t really have to do with my diet, it’s just more of my preference, but somehow it got wrapped into my diet.”
He considers himself mostly vegan: He sticks to a “mostly vegan” diet filled with organic foods about 80 to 90 percent of the time, he says, with only the occasional indulgence. “I have times where we go out and there’s something delicious on the menu like a steak or a cheeseburger and it’s really good. I definitely will indulge in that. It’s not super often. I ask my body to perform at a really high level and I realize that the foods that I put into it are what I’m going to get out of it. And if I want to perform well, I gotta eat really well. That’s really the key to me. When I’m eating something that I know is really unhealthy, the only thing I’ll do is eat less. I won’t just eat the normal amount, I’ll eat maybe half of it. I’ll still eat it because obviously I like some foods that are very unhealthy too, but I just won’t eat as much as I probably used to 15 years ago when I would eat, you know, the entire meal.”
Is anyone else depressed at the thought of staying on a really strict diet for their entire lives? I’m not talking about choosing to be vegan and living that way all your life, and obviously I’m not talking about people with true food allergies. I’m just talking about people who make the choice to just eat quinoa and lettuce forever and ever. It’s one thing to have those kinds of diet limitations for your job, but to do it day in and day out for the rest of your life? Ugh. As for his flat-out hatred of strawberries… I mean, there’s some food like that for me. I can just look at something or smell something and I know I will not even put it in my mouth (that’s what she said). But STRAWBERRIES?? Strawberries are innocent! Strawberries are delicious!
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