The secret to Rangel’s weight loss — besides that Post cover

If he can do it, we can do it!

US Rep. Charlie Rangel — who admits that seeing an unflattering photo of himself on The Post's front page led him to shape up — says he dropped 35 pounds by always eating breakfast, drinking lots of water, and loading up on smoothies.

The 84-year-old Harlem Democrat revealed the skinny on his two-year weight loss, saying his meals involve having oatmeal for breakfast, salad for lunch and a fruit or veggie smoothie for dinner.

"The thing is not to eat before you go to bed, and it helps when you aren't hungry when you go to bed. There's nobody who has an appetite for food after drinking a smoothie," said Rangel.

"You can last forever after drinking a smoothie — you can sit down to the most delicious meal and not be hungry," he said, adding that the drinks remind him of old-fashioned malted milkshakes.

"I feel terrific," he beamed.

But the pol couldn't stomach revealing his actual weight. He only said he started his diet in early 2012.

To keep the pounds off, Rangel also walks from his office to meetings in Washington, DC. In New York, he usually walks a mile or two each day and recently tried a spinning class.

His "Rangel Resolution Recipe e-Book" includes low-fat dishes, such as "winter root veggie home fries," "Thai coconut shrimp curry" and his wife's "Alma's crab cakes."

Rangel credited The Post with getting him on the thin and narrow after a front-page photo showed him letting it all hang out in 2008. The story revealed Rangel's tax woes on his Dominican retreat — and featured a photo of the belly-bulging pol sprawled out napping on a beach chair.

The fear that another photographer would catch him chowing down on junk food somewhere helped kick-start his weight loss, he said.

"It's fun. I'm enjoying it, and the truth of the matter is, the more I talk about it, the less temptation I have to get my damn pastrami sandwich," he said.

But he admitted, "When I walk into Katz's [Delicatessen] and tell them I don't want anything to eat, the whole place moans."

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