Jellyroll noted: “I’ve always said that I think obesity is directly related to mental health. “I know how easy it is for people to say, ‘Stop eating so much, just exercise, it’s so easy! I wish I looked at food that way, but I understand it from an addict’s point of view because I know what addiction is.
He had to adapt his life to the reality of the road accordingly.
Jellyroll continued: “It took me years to be able to be around people doing cocaine and not do it, just to recognize that it’s happening in my environment and accept it. “I have to take the same approach with food, to be honest, and I’m not ashamed to say it, I have to make those dramatic decisions where I say: ‘I don’t need anything’ to eat in my green room! I need to change my whole relationship with the way I look at food.”
He said he is still prone to bouts of self-loathing and said he sometimes scares himself, describing the “shame spiral” as “the monster in front of me all the time.”
But Jellyroll added: “I have a good support system around me and I will say that all these clichés are true. When they say, ‘Go for a walk in the sun and drink water,’ you hear that” and [it’s like]”It’s not that easy, it’s hard!” and then I started walking around in the sun and drinking water. I’m like, “Dude, I feel so much better!”
To complement Jellyroll’s candor, see what more stars had to say about their weight loss journeys:
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