Jelly Roll’s weight loss journey “started rolling” like “an avalanche,” according to the country music superstar.
The “Save Me” singer opened up to People magazine in a story published Wednesday about losing 110 pounds, including 60 to 70 pounds on his Beautifully Broken Tour, which continues into next year.
“The battle was with the food addiction, changing the way I’ve looked at food for the last 39 years,” he told the outlet. “I’ve never had a healthy relationship with food, so that was the hard part. But once you get into that discipline and commitment, it’s like an avalanche. Once that little snowball started rolling, it was on its way.”
He continued: “It’s cool because there was once a time in life that the culture I built on tour was the opposite. It revolved around alcohol and drugs and now our tour culture is around good eating and around exercising and doing emotional check-ins with our crew every day.”
Jelly Roll told People that “nobody in my house ever had (a healthy relationship with food), so that was the hard part, really fighting that demon at first and getting into that discipline and that commitment,” adding that “I hope I continue to lose this weight.”
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In October, the country music crossover star marked his weight loss milestone in an Instagram video.
“That’s why next year when y’all see me, you won’t recognize me,” he said in the clip. “I’m going to get under a pile of weights in a way that I never have.”
In the video, Jelly Roll’s personal chef Ian Larios told fans the rapper-turned-country star lost 100 pounds by eating healthy pre-show snacks such as bananas, topped with manuka honey and dark chocolate sweetened with stevia, with the help of exercise including basketball, boxing and walking arenas before shows on his tour.
Jelly Roll has lost 100 lbs:‘You won’t recognize me’ next year
At the time, Larios said Jelly Roll’s weight loss plan focuses on high-protein post-show meals, so he preps healthier versions of his favorite meals such as Nashville hot chicken and French fries. The chef made air-fried fries in bone broth to increase protein and decrease fat for Jelly Roll and take “away the oil and batter from” the meal.
The video ended with Jelly Roll, who is halfway through his tour, proclaiming that when he sees fans “in March for Canada, dawg, y’all aren’t gonna recognize me.”