Jelly Roll’s 120-pound weight loss transformation

“I’ve always said that I think obesity is directly linked to mental health,” noted Jelly Roll. “I know how easy it is for people to say, ‘Don’t eat’ so much, just exercise, it’s that easy!’ I wish I looked at food that way, but I understand it from an addict’s perspective because I know what addiction is.

And he has had to adapt his life to the realities of the road accordingly.

“It took years to be able to be around people who do cocaine and just not do it, just know that it’s happening in my environment and be okay with it,” Jelly Roll continued. “I have to take the same approach with food, to be honest, and I’m not embarrassed to say it, I have to make those dramatic decisions where I’m like, ‘I don’t need something. to eat in my green room!’ I have to change my whole relationship with how I look at food.”

Still prone to bouts of self-loathing, he said he sometimes scares himself, calling the “shame spiral” “the monster in front of me all the time.”

But, Jelly Roll added, “I have a great support system around me, and I’d say all that cliché stuff is real. When they say, ‘Get out in the sun and drink water,’ you hear it. and (it is like), ‘It’s not that easy, it’s hard!’ Then I started walking around in the sun and drinking water. I’m thinking, ‘Dude, I feel so much better!’

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