Guess What, Chris Matthews: Chris Christie’s Losing Weight
- Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:43pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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TRENTON, N.J. (The Blaze/AP) — Chris Christie’s weight has become, for some, a big issue. But that could be shrinking, in more than one way.
After MSNBC Chris Matthews bloviated about the New Jersey governor’s weight on Friday (and has done so before), it’s been revealed that Christie has cut more than the state budget his first year in office: The heavyset head-of-state has also dropped a few notches in his belt.
Exactly how much he‘s lost he’s isn’t saying, but his suits have been getting noticeably baggy.
“I’m not going to put any numbers on it because you just set yourself up for failure,” the 48-year-old Republican said.
Christie credits his recent weight loss to working with a trainer three mornings a week – Wednesday, Friday and Saturday – and eating better.
He started working with a trainer in June 2009, but for the past year says he has been more consistent.
“What I‘ve done over the last 10 months is I’ve just watched what I eat, work out, and slowly but surely I’m taking the weight off,” he said.
The governor has long struggled with his weight, which he says he started putting on after high school when he stopped playing organized sports.
He’s tried dozens of diets over the years with varying success.
He lost 40 pounds on a bet in 1997 while he was a county freeholder, but gained it back. From 2002-2003, while serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, he lost 50 pounds on the Atkins diet but it didn’t stay off.
His weight came up during his 2009 campaign against Democrat incumbent Jon Corzine, who ran an ad accusing Christie of “throwing his weight around” to get out of traffic citations while he was U.S. attorney.
The ads included unflattering images of Christie struggling to exit an SUV. In contrast, Corzine was running 5K and 10K races nearly every weekend toward the end of the campaign.
Christie confronted the ads head on, telling Corzine to “man up and say I’m fat.”
In November, former Fox News Contributor Marc Lamont Hill infamously said Christie could never be president because “He does not have the body type to win a national election”:
Christie said that more than anything else, the motivation to lose weight is his four children, who range in age from 7 to 17 years old.
“I’m motivated by the fact that the job is pretty stressful at times and I have four kids, so I need to be around for them,” Christie said. “I don’t want to be in a situation where, as I get older, my health is really at risk.”
Christie’s weight has also made him extremely relatable to people, and extremely self-deprecating.
During a radio interview this fall, he likened his weight loss to “throwing a couple deck chairs off of the Titanic.”
At town hall meetings, he often jokes about how he wasn’t elected for his good looks but for his fiscal discipline.
Other politicians have struggled with weight in the spotlight of the governor’s office, with mixed results.
After being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and having an antique chair collapse beneath his weight during a cabinet meeting, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee lost 110 pounds while in office. He went on to run several marathons and wrote about his efforts in his 2005 book, “Stop Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork.”
He’s put some weight back on recently, and blames a foot injury.
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has spoken about his failed attempts at using the Atkins diet.
And former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell lost about 60 pounds in the months before he recently left office, mostly by watching his diet and eating out less. So far he’s kept it off and weighs around 200 pounds.
“You just have to cut consumption. Once you eat that first hors-d’oeuvre, you’re cooked,” he said.
Rendell called Christie’s weight a “political plus.”
“Gov. Christie uses his weight to his advantage,” Rendell said. “He talks about it and people relate.”






















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blazebird
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:59pmDoes Marc Lamont Hill ever get tired of being wrong? Christie could gain 40 more pounds and clean Obamas clock. I’d pay to see that debate!!
Report Post »Docroxall
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:48pmChristie is losing weight, and Matthews is getting DUMBER (I really didn’t think that was possible).
Report Post »blazebird
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 9:02pmMatthews is a bottom feeder.
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:43pmIt doesn’t matter to a imbecilic ******* like Matthews what Chris Christie weighs. If Chris Christie was trim and fit, the dimwit left would find something else non-substantive to pick on. They’re bullies!
The only reason I‘d want to see Chris Christie lose weight is for his own benefit and that of his family’s.
Report Post »Brontefan
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:37pmRight. . . our first lady is really concerned about obesity! It’s time people began to focus on some of the real issues—like deficit, our porous southern border, the dangerous drug cartels there, our Prez who spends like a drunken sailor, and the unions that will destroy our country–just like they destroyed our steel industry.
Report Post »SublimeOne
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 9:32pm@Brontefan
Report Post »Hey! I was a drunken sailor. Even I couldn’t spend like O does. I eventually ran out of money. O doesn‘t think he’s ever going to run out of money!!!!
pwatkins
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:29pmHey TXPEDRN, they wrote the candidate in to run in Alaska and couldn’t even spell her name, Chris Christie should be an easy write in, all we have to remember is “tie” and the bigmouth leg tingling Matthews will help remind us of the rest bc he is shooting off his stupidity constantly during election.
Report Post »Buck_Ofama
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:14pmI wish Christie would tell Chrissy “Balloon Head” Matthews to “man up and call him fat”. And then stomp him if he did. I’d pay to see that.
Report Post »txpedrn
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:59pmI wish we could just write him in in 2012. I would love to see him clean house in Washington. He could sit on Nancy Pelosi for all I care!
Report Post »fixer
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:57pmchristy is fat and mathews is stupid…christy can lose weight but stupid is forever.
Report Post »ladyda
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:49pmChris M. really has room to talk! Since he enjoys making fun of people, I will just have to state the fact that I see him as a physically unattractive man. What a honker, and that snarkey attitutde….yuck! And oh, I understand he is a liberal too…..that is a MAJOR turn off. :)
Remember Matthews…..Christie can lose weight….But you can’t easily fix ugly, especially when its both on the inside as well as the outside!
Keep it up Christie! Go man go! Hope you can keep it up and keep it off!
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:06pmExactly, Christie can loose weight, Mathews will allways be an idiot.
Report Post »sweet37
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:45pmFat, short, skinny, crossed eyes, one legged, stinky butt, toe jammed…I’ll take him anyway he is! Love that man!
Report Post »neverending
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 4:26pmHe could certainly get the job done.
Report Post »simple thought
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:36pmmost of the left media will be in a loony bin somewhere after next few elections.
Report Post »we the tea party have set our sights on the 100 years of progressive destruction to our liberty and the constitution and we out # them by the millions……. they woke a sleeping giant in we the people.
we will change America back to the course that our founding fathers set……..
it’s as simple as that……
Rickfromillinois
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:29pmThe Governor has lost weight but Matthews hasn’t lost his stupid. Guess who wins.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 10:06amyou can’t lose or fix stupid!
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:25pmMush Mouth Chris Matthews will say anything to get on the Blaze. Its that; or he‘ll say anything to make sure everyone knows he’s ingernont. Thats a level above Ignorant, stupid and a member of MSNBC……..Carry on McDuff
Report Post »Dale
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:25pmWell mark and chris do you remember a president named Taft?
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:23pmChristy can lose weight, but for mathews, stupid is forever
Report Post »Brontefan
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:39pmChris Christie has common sense; Chris Matthews gets a tingle down his leg every time he hears the Prez speak. I doubt there is any hope for him.
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 10:46pmS-X-T— Suck an egg!
Report Post »scoter
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:18pmPlease run for PRESIDENT.
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:23pmHe should probably jog first, get a handle on the weight :) then RUN Like Hell in 2012 – hey that can be his slogan.
Report Post »Stage_X_Tuning
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 10:02pmPlease look some of the things he had said and done before asking him to be Pres.
Chris Christie: A Conservative Myth – Intro
http://conservativenewjersey.com/the-myth-of-christie-conservatism-intro
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:11pmWhat’s Chris going to do for material now?
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:13pmStart raggin’ on Sarah Palin again…….just a thought!
Report Post »THEBRAIN
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:03pmTingle up the leg Chris will never ever loose the horrable weight in his head.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:34pmYou mean balloon head.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:58pmThat should put a shiver up CM’s leg!
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:09pmI think it’s Tinkle- yeah – that’s the correct term. Chris gets a tinkle up his leg when excited about politicians.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:14pmChris gets a tinkle up his leg when excited about politicians.
Report Post »——
According to the laws of gravity,
the tinkle is down his leg
:D
etetetet
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:17pmwell, the man is backassward and inverted in everything else that exit his body :)
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:33pmCM gets tingles for BHO. Christie may scare him enough to give him shivers. How ever, I am fairly sure the tinkle goes down his leg.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:53pm@CheezWhiz ~
Report Post »Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:14pm
Chris gets a tinkle up his leg when excited about politicians.
——
According to the laws of gravity,
the tinkle is down his leg
:D
____________
Eeeeewwwww!
Capt_Spalding
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:58pmAnd guess what else Chrissie Matthews? Chris Christie can lose weight… meanwhile you’re stuck on stupid.
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:13pmAnd ugly ;p
Report Post »veruca salt
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 12:05amBrilliant ad hominem arguments, both of you. You guys are forging new intellectual ground on the blaze.
Report Post »teresa2010
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 12:46amI agree!!!..Chris can lose the fat but you can’t do much for Ugly Matthew… There’s not enough laser or plastic surgery to help…IS ANYONE ELSE TIRED AS TAXPAYERS, PAYING FOR NANCY PELOSI’S FACELIFTS AND BOTOX? It’s not helping either
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:57pmAdd your comments
Report Post »roxee
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:23pmThe country has been robbed by bankster, no money left in the til..and issues of weight just do not seem to be of any import really.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:50pmI‘m thinking you’ll try again. (Embarrassing, isn’t it?)
Report Post »MBA
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:55pmExcept for the possibility of Governor Christie being at a higher risk for diabetes and joint problems, what business is it of chris matthews as to the Governor’s weight? The Governor is doing a tremendous job trying to save NJ from bankruptcy and create a future for the state instead of bad mouthing opponents and calling names. It would be nice to hear of some mature dialog coming from the media instead of the constant childish whine.
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:51pmWe do need him healthier if he is going to be a daily peep in the WH
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:59pmYep! In the meantime Chrissy and Lamont can look in the mirror and do some critiquing.
Here’s some US Presidential trivia for Blazers to have fun with: http://www.suite101.com/content/presidential-trivia-shortest-oldest-fattest-etc-a74680
Report Post »publiuswarmac9999
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:49pmThis is great new for his health, but it also implies that he is thinking about the presidency. Wonderful.
Report Post »WIjoyzie
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:57pmThere may be a presidential run in his mind after all. He has my vote!
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:13pmI don’t care how much weight he loses-still won’t support someone for president who wants to legalize aliens and supported cap and tax.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:35pmI love Chris Christy regardless, but for the sake of his health, perhaps it would be better to lose a bit. Not too much tho. Cannot stand skinny azz men. They look so pitiful. \
Report Post »As for Matthews, he can go suck eggs for all I care, I wouldn’t watch him if they paid me.
SHASTADIANE1
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:48pmHe’d get my vote no matter how much he weighs. The fact that someone is overweight is an idiot way of thinking. I have a sister-in-law who is 5 ft. tall and 5 ft. wide, and smart as a tack….2 Master’s degrees, and has suffered professionally because she isn’t thin and BARBIE. Makes me sick…I use to be BARBIE, but I was smart also, and I know that I made points with employers because of my looks, but you know, now that I am not so thin, I still do the same good job for my employers, and they tell me if I retire, they are just going to move the business to my home because I can’t leave them. So I look at it like this…weight is a NON-ISSUE…quit judging people by the way they look..You know BARBIE is NOT the sharpest knife in the drawer…after all, she has never gotten a day older or a day wiser.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:48pm@wodiej
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:13pm
I don’t care how much weight he loses-still won’t support someone for president who wants to legalize aliens and supported cap and tax.
And your source for that information is …..?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 9:01pm@WODIEJ & @Showtime ~
Looks like we have another lying liberal. WodieJ has not given the source for his “information.” Don’t guess there is one.
In the words of Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-3), “YOU LIE!”
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 9:50pm@Bluebonnett, you know your statement about skinny men hurts,did you ever think slender people like me have feelings as well? did you ever stop to think it could be genetic? or did you ever stop to think when you see a skinny person maybe just maybe they have gone thru cancer treatments like i have,or do you just naturally hate skinny people? What ever happned to looking at the persons heart and noting he or she is a good person even if they are carrying to much weight or are to skinny,I am very sorry you hate people like me because i am as you call it a skinny azz
Report Post »exdem
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:11pm@SLIMNRANGER
Report Post »It was just a comment from BLUEBONNET, nothing personal. If you are looking for political correctness you are on the wrong site. Good luck with your health.
Stage_X_Tuning
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 6:37am@SHOWTIME
Just read a few things on the page below as well part1 through part8. please do your research be for you ask for someone you wont like. plus i hope that if he does run that more and more of this will be brought up and then more and more people will veer away from him…
http://conservativenewjersey.com/the-myth-of-christie-conservatism-intro
PhilipJames said it best
Report Post »“PhilipJames
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 9:10pm
Chris Christie is a trojan horse… a disaster in waiting. If he decides to run, then he will blow up in spectacular fashion when all this information finally comes out
http://conservativenewjersey.com/the-myth-of-christie-conservatism-intro
since even the “conservative” media is not talking about his horrible stances and outside of all the yelling, his horrible record… make sure you read the entire series. Then I dare you to even consider him a candidate with any hope in h*ll of getting through the primary. He is the next media John McCain.”
tifosa
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 9:45amRUN CHRIS, RUN!!!! (that is NO reference to a need to exercise, btw)
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 10:49am@slimnranger, get off your high horse. I did not insult anyone sick with cancer. I have to liberty to comment against the hateful remark about Chris Christy. It’s to point out all of us have different body shapes & weight and looks. We all prefer different things and it has nothing to do with being sick. Sorry if you’re sick, However, most skinny men remind me of ballet dancers and it’s not my preference to date one of them. Just like most men want a Barbie with long hair. Same thing.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 4:31pmThanx for the info, STAGE…, RUN, CHRIS, RUN! :)
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:49pmSpeaking of diets
is a salad still concidered healthy
if you put fryed chicken in it?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:55pmIn November, former Fox News Contributor Marc Lamont Hill infamously said Christie could never be president because “He does not have the body type to win a national election”:
Report Post »———
This racist hatemonger will never find a conservative with the body type and color to be POTUS
etetetet
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 6:58pmAbsolutely – but, I’d lose the lettuce and veggies :)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:00pmWhen is Chrissy Matthews going to get into shape? .. he looks like death warmed over himself. Matthews has NO room to talk.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:33pm@CATB
Report Post »When is Chris Matthews going to stop spitting on his guests when he talks? Just think how much money he makes spewing dribble and spraying the panel. Not to mention the “jimmy legs” he gets every time he hears Obama’s name.
kentuckypatriot
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:33pmyes Dash, but I won‘t tell momma Moochelle if you won’t!!
Report Post »Stage_X_Tuning
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:48pmChris Christie: A Conservative Myth – Intro
http://conservativenewjersey.com/the-myth-of-christie-conservatism-intro
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:59pmIf all they have to complain about is your weight, Chris, you’re doing your job! Two Thumbs WAY up!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:28pmI for one am glad to hear this…Mr. Christy will have to be in better shape when he starts running our country…America could sure use him…
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:29pmI can only assume that Chris Matthews doesn’t own one single mirror when I hear him talk about Chris Christies weight. It’s not like Chris Matthews is the epitome of physical fitness.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – conservative news and poilitical humor
Report Post »JoeBtfsplk
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:30pmChristie has my VOTE whenever and wherever!!!
Report Post »mcfinch
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:42pmGetting fit for the race!
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »kgb
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:42pmIn my world it is! Love the moniker- great band.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:43pmDo not eat the skin of a chicken. It’s an organ.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:45pm@CheezWhiz ~
Report Post »Personally, I think he looks intimidating, particularly when he’s ticked at somebody! I mean, if he gets in my face, I don‘t think I’m gonna do any backtalking! He could probably take me out with one thump!!!
WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 10:36pmYes!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 10:50pm@cheezwhiz
The only way Mathews could lose weight is getting a complete enema, although, with no more crap in his body, he would no longer have the ability to bloviate or formulate an opinion. On second thought, maybe we could get the entire team of MSNBC to flush their systems, the entire network would be silent.
THENEWMCCARTHY
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:26pmHow many times has Glenn Beck called Al Gore and MIchael Moore fat? And that was just fine. But suddenly it’s so offensive when aimed at a Republican.
And let’s not forget Christie appointed a Muslim judge.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 12:05amChris Christie’s a RINO He is pro GUN CONTROL, pro CAP AND TRADE,
pro government HEALTH CARE, pro AMNESTY, his appointies are liberals, he campaigned for RINOS, and his great triumph of narrowing his states deficit was due to RAISING TAXES.
HOW IS THIS NOT A RINO ?!?!?!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 1:11am@CatB
Report Post »Well Chrissy is in shape, turd is a shape.
Mikeyyy
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 1:18amI want to see Chrissy Matthews and Governor Christie get in the octagon. I’m betting the Governor can Ground & Pound Chrissy like a rag doll, and submit him. Don’t go against Christie.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 2:33amThis is absolutely a ridiculous subject to be discussing – what does his weight matter if he has the brains and ability to be President? It shouldn’t matter – except, he says he doesn’t want to run for President. He would be a good choice! http://wp.me/pYLB7-Eh
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 3:25amI guess that Lamont Hill never looked at a picture of Grover Cleavland or even Teddy Roosevelt. Maybe Hill would not allow polio victims to be president either, that would take down Franklin D. Roosevelt the longest serving President in US History.
Lamont needs to take some ignorance classes before he speaks again!
Report Post »sweetsiebee
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 6:26amUmmmmm, No
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 8:26amWho cares about his weight? It would be stunning if he’s called on to serve his country by AT LEAST running for the presidency and refused. We have a huge population of heroes from the 60‘s who were drafted and served even if they or their wives didn’t want them to. Does he truly feel unprepared, and feel like him being president would be a disservice to the country? ….In that case, people had better stop putting him in the position of declining (ie Ann Coulter.)
Report Post »minnierv
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 10:46amChristie with a few extra pounds is much more preferable to the boney assed pos we have now.
Report Post »Mee the People
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 4:16pmhe is getting too old to carry that much weight,
Report Post »he is a smart guy, he should wise up and lose 1/2 of his size
ItsallaboutJesus
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 8:54am@ Stage–Thank you for this link. I have been a Christie fan. I asked one of his supporters on FB if CC was in favor of Cap and Tax. He said he didn’t know, he would check and get back to me. He never did. He is no longer on my list of hopefuls. Need to get the word out on other sights.
Report Post »infidelamerican
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 10:36amMatthews seem to call eveyone fat asses, he is obcessed, but dude look in the mirror!
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