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Success Quote by Shane Warne

"I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months, I have been in the best form in quite a while"

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Warne’s charm was always that he could talk about his body the way he talked about spin: as a practical problem, a public performance, and a bit of theatre. The line reads like a casual progress report, but it’s doing heavier lifting than it admits. Weight loss here isn’t confession; it’s reputation management. For an athlete whose career unfolded under relentless cameras and tabloid scrutiny, “trying to lose weight” signals discipline, control, and readiness to be taken seriously again, whether that’s for commentary gigs, charity matches, or simply the ongoing project of being Shane Warne in public.

The slippery time stamps - “two-three months,” then “six-12 months” - give it a conversational looseness that also functions as plausible deniability. He’s not offering hard metrics that can be fact-checked; he’s offering a vibe: momentum, improvement, hinting at a turnaround without inviting a forensic audit. “Gone really well” is intentionally vague, the kind of optimistic phrasing that keeps the story positive while sidestepping the messy realities of bodies and habits.

Context matters because Warne’s image was never just athletic excellence; it was swagger, excess, reinvention. This is a late-career, post-peak style of competitiveness: winning the narrative even when you’re not on the field. The subtext is simple and very human: I’m not done. I’m getting back to myself. And I want you to notice.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Warne, Shane. (2026, February 17). I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months, I have been in the best form in quite a while. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-been-trying-to-lose-weight-for-the-last-157273/

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Warne, Shane. "I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months, I have been in the best form in quite a while." FixQuotes. February 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-been-trying-to-lose-weight-for-the-last-157273/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months, I have been in the best form in quite a while." FixQuotes, 17 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-been-trying-to-lose-weight-for-the-last-157273/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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Shane Warne (September 13, 1969 - March 4, 2022) was a Athlete from Australia.

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