DIET COP BUSTS LARRY THE CABLE GUY – AND HE LOVES IT!

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Take along diet cop helps keeps yo-yo dieter LARRY THE CABLE GUY to GET IT DONE – dropping 50 pounds!

It’s the second time in four years that the 5-foot-10 come­dian, whose name is Daniel Lawrence Whitney, shed that massive amount of weight.

The blue-collar comic once crushed the scales at 282 pounds. Then back in 2008, he lost 50 pounds on the Nutrisystem diet.

BUT slowly his weight crept back up, and before too long Larry was hitting the 280 mark,” an insider told The ENQUIRER.

“He knew he had to do something, so he went back to Nutri­system, added intense treadmill workouts and pumped iron. It took about three months, but Larry dropped another 50 – and now he looks great.”

The first time around, the funnyman blamed his weight gain on his wife Cara’s pregnancy with their second child, daughter Reagan.

“She’d crave a double cheeseburger, have two bites and then I’d eat the rest,” he quipped. “I couldn’t let it go to waste!”

After his first success­ful battle of the bulge, Larry, 49, cracked that he’d lost so much weight he was “down an Olsen” – a reference to the famously skinny showbiz twins Mary-Kate and Ashley.

But the beefy blue-collar comic couldn’t resist his favorite dishes, said a source.

“He was soon back to feasting on the fatty foods that helped him balloon up in the first place.

“It was particularly tough when he was on the road work­ing. The more he missed his family, the more he ate!

“He used to say, ‘They don’t call it comfort food for nothing.’”

By last year, his weight had soared back to an unhealthy 280 pounds.

But the star of the History channel’s “Only in Amer­ica” show got his willpower back and he put Nu­trisystem’s pre-pack­aged diet meals back on his menu.

And he when he was ON the road, he made sure that the diet food came with him – even if it had to be flown in,” said the source.

“Plus, he took a trainer along with him, who functioned as a ‘diet cop.’

“Wherever they were, the train­er took him to a gym every day, put him through a workout and made sure Larry wasn’t hiding snacks.

“Larry’s grueling regimen in­cluded weight training, 50 minutes of cardio early in the day and 50 minutes of cardio mid-day and 50 minutes of cardio at night,” said the source. “Now he jokes, ‘I’ve almost lost another Olsen! And this time I’m trying to keep it off.’”