"As light as I've been in awhile:" Packers Aaron Rodgers, Eddie Lacy slimmed down in the off-season

GREEN BAY -- A lot was made of running back Eddie Lacy's weight since the Green Bay Packers 2015 season. Lacy says he worked out with Tony Horton, who invented P90X, this summer.

The Packers running back isn't saying much about the weight loss, and he wouldn't talk about how much weight he ended up losing.

"Do I look like I lost a few pounds over the summer?" Lacy said.

"I think so," a reporter said.

"You can go with that," Lacy said.

Eddie Lacy

"His off-season last year was not good enough -- and he never recovered from it, so I had the chance to talk to Eddie and that was pretty much the majority of our conversation. He has to get it done because he cannot play at the weight he played at this year," Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy said.

"It needed to be said. It was said -- and you can either take it the right way or the wrong way and I think I did a pretty good job of taking it positively and, you know, going take care of what I had to," Lacy said.

"Eddie looks like Eddie -- and he's a big back and we're just glad he's on our team," Packers QB Aaron Rodgers said.

Lacy wasn't the only one who lost weight during the off-season.

Aaron Rodgers at Packers Training Camp

Rodgers said he's down a few pounds too.

"I'm as light as I've been in awhile, but my muscle mass is as strong as its been when I've been 10 pounds heavier, so that kind of was the goal as I get older -- to continue to find ways to get my nutrition and my muscles where I need them to be and I feel good about where I'm at. Conditioning is something that grows during camp -- but coming in, I'm probably physically as good shape as I've been in awhile," Rodgers said.

Aaron Rodgers

"I would say Aaron's vibe, and really, his off-season participation and performance looks to line up for a great year. He's in great shape. I would say this is the best shape I have seen him in. This is -- as always, he's very into the details. He's ready to go, and he's excited. In communication with him -- he was excited to start," Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy said.

Rodgers told ESPN in June that he's adopted a sort-of vegan diet that's part of his long-term nutrition plan to help him play for as long as possible. He told ESPN that since his knee surgery in January, he has been eating "some red meat at times and some chicken" -- but that he is trying to focus on fruits and vegetables.

"I think that's how I can extend my career -- if I eat a little bit better," Rodgers told ESPN.

Rodgers told ESPN in June he was down to "218-ish" pounds from 230 at his heaviest.

One challenge this year will be the extra pre-season game, as the Packers play August 7th in the Hall of Fame game.

That meant starting Training Camp a little earlier, and there is a different schedule vs. past pre-seasons.

Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy

"It really creates a whole another challenge for your team, which I'm excited about. We need to find flow and
flow doesn't always mean just smooth, everything's the same every day. This will be a really good gauge to see how our guys respond going really right from the installation phase -- which is, won't even be completed when we play that game right into a football game -- and that's been planned out. That's really what May and June are for and that's where we put our extra time in and I think it's just part of unique Training Camp challenge -- but with that it gives you more information in the evaluation process for our roster," McCarthy said.