Matt Damon LOST 60 POUNDS by running 13 miles a day and eating a chicken breast for every meal

He used to run the occasional 5 miler in Cambridge and was friends with Cambridge Rindge and Latin track guys from late 80s.

I he actually ran 13 miles a day it would have been a bigger part of the article, rather than his dumb chicken diet and taco recipe. People who run 13 miles a day love to talk about RUNNING not cooking!

Larry David wrote:

I Am Sam wrote:

From seeing him running in movies, he certainly has a weird running style....just a side observation

All the comments idolize his running form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bgAp-4wt4

Nothing makes a runner look slower than black clunky shoes and long shorts. Also Damon does not breathe while running.

A lot of non runners refer to “13 Miles a day” as “on a day that they run, it’s 13 Miles”.

Terms like weekly mileage aren’t really spoken about outside of the running community.

Eminem is legit. Dude ran a 1:54 in high school.

UA Runner wrote:

Eminem made a claim like that once as well, doing something like 10~17 miles per day on the treadmill at a pretty fast pace.

Trevelyan Harper wrote:

A lot of non runners refer to “13 Miles a day” as “on a day that they run, it’s 13 Miles”.

Terms like weekly mileage aren’t really spoken about outside of the running community.

Exactly. I have been asked how far I run a day countless times. I gave up explaining that it varies.

As other have said, Damon was embellishing it by saying "about 13 miles a day."

Why would he run on chicken breast? Why not trail, track or a treadmill?

He did not run 13 miles a day nor did he solely eat chicken breast. This article is complete BS.

On Insid On Inside the Actors Studio, Damon said that the regimen consisted of six and a half miles of running in the morning and again at night, a diet of chicken breast, egg whites, and one plain baked potato per day, and a large amount of coffee and cigarettes.e the Actors Studio, Damon said that the regimen consisted of six and a half miles of running in the morning and again at night, a diet of chicken breast, egg whites, and one plain baked potato per day, and a large amount of coffee and cigarettes.

The smoking seems like the toughest part of this routine. Doing that while running 2 hours/day seems tough but maybe that just means the running pace is even slower.

Just googling around, I saw articles that vary the estimates of what he did:

* he ran as between 12 - 16 miles a day

* he lost between 40 - 60 lbs

* he either ate only chicken, only chicken and potatoes, or chicken, potatoes, and egg whites

* he regretted the weight loss or he didn't regret the weight loss, and

* he suffered medical problems from the weight loss or he was fine.

Overall, we'll probably never know what he did other than that he ran some, restricted his diet, and lost a noticeable amount of weight.

Rumor has it he also walked 5 miles to and from school, uphill both ways!

Word on the streat wrote:

Rumor has it he also walked 5 miles to and from school, uphill both ways!

I walked that route to school as well, but our's was snow filled.

The Bourne Inexplicability wrote:

Larry David wrote:

All the comments idolize his running form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bgAp-4wt4

Nothing makes a runner look slower than black clunky shoes and long shorts. Also Damon does not breathe while running.

lols a flail a$$ heel striker!

gregmacd wrote:

Overall, we'll probably never know what he did other than that he ran some, restricted his diet, and.............. lost a noticeable amount of weight.

amazing, huh?! That guy has the secret. I am starting a cult called the Matt Damon Chicken Run Diet/Fitness regimen. It will be all the rage. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, will be ripped and shredded.

HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?!?! (Oh, wait. Apples are verboten on this regimen)

HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM CHICKEN BREASTS?? any way you got 'em, that's how.

When did Matt Damon ever say he ran 13 miles at one time every day? Do you have any concept of how much easier it is to run 5 miles in the a.m. then 5 in the afternoon and then 3 in the evening? Hell, he might have run the same 1 mile loop every hour for 13 hours a day. Hollywood actors have ridiculous amounts of time to train for this type of stuff.

Damon's brother has raced Ironman triathlon before...so I'm sure Damon is quite an athlete.

could be overage exaggerating , maybe is thinking kilometers, who knows.

Please stop listening to BS like this, it does not pertain to most people and is unhealthy

Matt is quite familiar with running. That is why we asked him to narrate our Boston Marathon Documentary. You have all seen it, haven't you?

Tom

ps. If we made a film about eating, we wouldn't ask...

LOL...

There's no way Damon ran 13 miles a day

This dude probably would walk it in at a local 5K turkey trot

Sorry - just seems like a tall tale