Jelly Roll Shares His Secret To Dropping 200-Lbs
When Jelly Roll hit the mainstream in 2022, he weighed nearly 600 pounds. He had been in the music industry for over a decade as a rapper and hip-hop artist. In 2022, he switched genres and found success as a country artist. He made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry in 2021. His hit single “Son of a Sinner” was released a year later, and he hasn’t looked back since.
With his music career on the rise, Jelly Roll turned his focus to his health. He embarked on a weight loss journey. The singer has lost 200 pounds so far. The visual difference is shocking. Stay on this page to read about how he did it.
Jelly Roll’s First Step In Weight Loss Journey Was Addressing Food Addiction
Jelly Roll’s criminal past is well known. The convicted felon doesn’t shy away from talking about it. In fact, he uses his own history as a drug addict and prison stint to write music that resonates with a lot of people.
The singer grew up in Antioch, Tennessee. He opened up to PEOPLE magazine in late 2024 about the origins of his weight gain. “The battle was with the food addiction, changing the way I’ve looked at food for the last 39 years,” he said about his weight.
Jelly Roll added, “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.”
At the time, he had lost over 100 pounds, and he wasn’t done. How did he lose another 100 pounds since then?
Jelly Roll Shares His Secret To Dropping 200-Lbs
Getting his diet under control was one of the first things Jelly Roll did to start losing weight. He also got into running and entered two marathons in the last year.
“I’ve been really kicking a**, man. I’m doing two to three miles a day, four to six days a week,” he told PEOPLE about his exercise training in April 2024. He also credited “20 to 30 minutes in the sauna, six minutes in a cold plunge every day” as helpful in his weight loss journey.
According to Healthline, cold plunges or ice baths can help burn body fat.
See His Shocking Transformation
Jelly Roll recently made his professional wrestling debut at SummerSlam, another goal after losing weight. He recently shared plans to get skin removal surgery once he’s at his goal weight. But it might not be for a while.
At a recent appearance at Pat McAfee’s Big Night AHT event in Pittsburgh, he said that he wants to lose another 100 pounds and go skydiving with his wife, Bunnie XO.
Jelly Roll has lost nearly 200 pounds after weighing in at 550 pounds at the start of his weight loss journey.
In addition to diet and exercise, he has his wife’s support. She recently revealed on her podcast that she’s taking small amounts of weight loss medication to keep her weight under control.
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