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GREEN BAY – The hardest thing to drop was the gummy bears, but sacrifices needed to be made.
Aaron Jones has big goals for 2019 and a two-part plan to help achieve them. The first half was done in the weight room, with the Packers’ third-year running back splitting his training between EXOs Performance in Phoenix and his hometown of El Paso, Texas.
The second part of the deal? Well, that was a bit more tedious.
“It’s hard. I was big into candy,” smiled Jones after practice Wednesday. “I’ll turn and see candy and I’m, ‘Man I want that.’ But I know how I feel in my body, so that’s a big thing.”
Jones retooled his diet this winter, filling his dinner plates with chicken, rice, steak and quinoa. During snack time, he traded in chips, cookies, gummy bears, Twizzlers and Skittles for apple slices with almond butter, rice cakes and nuts.