Lizzo shared some of her eating and exercise habits that helped with her weight loss journey, including some of the food and drinks she gave up.
The “About Damn Time” artist, 36, revealed that she avoids “sugary stuff” in the early hours of her day and instead goes for options that are “super savory,” during a TikTok Live on Tuesday, April 22, according to People.
“I do something sweet. It’s gotta be with some sort of like carb. I’ll have like almond butter and toast. So, everybody’s body is different. Find out what works for you,” Lizzo said.
The singer added that she found the only thing, for her, that “works across the board, science-wise, is calories in versus calories out.”
Lizzo explained that she used to drink between “two to three” large Starbucks drinks a day that sometimes added up to 1,200 calories. Plus, she said that cutting out the coffee has helped “regulate her nervous system.”
Along with changing her diet and fitness regimen, the “Good as Hell” singer opened up about how her anxiety had impacted her weight loss journey over the years.
“I’ve been working to get my anxiety under control for years. And then I decided that I want to release and I’m ready to stop waiting to be myself, like fully, and be happy,” Lizzo explained. “And I meditated. I calmed myself down. And I isolated a little bit, but not like made myself lonely, not the way I used to when I was depressed. I isolated myself in a mindful way where I had no distractions.”
She continued, “I loved to distract myself with people. I loved to distract myself with food. I loved to distract myself with drinking. I loved to distract myself with problems that I would create. I would love to do that. And I stopped doing that. And I just focused on me.”
Lizzo has been open about discussing her weight loss journey since she began in 2023, and she was up front about how not everyone who loses weight is trying to reach a certain number on the scale or fit into a specific size of clothes.
“Heavy on the not trying to escape fatness,” she said in a TikTok video at the time. “I think a lot of people see a fat person that way and immediately just assume everything they’re doing is to be thin. I’m not trying to be thin. I don’t ever want to be thin.”
She added, “Will my body fluctuate from this size? Will I get a little smaller depending on some of the choices I make or a little bigger, depending on some of the choices I make in my life. Yes, I’m used to fluctuating.”
In January, she revealed one of her biggest milestones to her fans when she announced that she had lost 16 percent of her body fat.
“I did it. Today when I stepped on my scale, I reached my weight release goal. I haven’t seen this number since 2014!” she captioned a carousel of photos on Instagram on January 25. “Let this be a reminder you can do anything you put your mind to. Time for new goals!”
