Jelly Roll Explains Why He Didn't Use GLP-1 Medication on Weight Loss Journey
Jelly Roll is sharing new details about his weight loss.
Over the past two years, the 41-year-old country music singer has been on a weight loss journey has nearly lost 300lbs.
In a new interview, Jelly Roll explained why he didn’t use GLP-1 medications to help him lose weight.
Keep reading to find out more…“I just remember everyone telling me GLP-1s, or taking the Ozempic or the Mounjaro, ‘Listen, it’s gonna hurt your stomach a little bit,’” Jelly Roll told Men’s Health. “I’ve treated my body so bad, I can’t believe God’s gave me this voice for this long. I didn’t deserve it. I literally didn’t do it out of fear.”
The Grammy-nominated singer ultimately worked with a therapist to help treat his food “addiction.”
“Even before I got into getting my blood work done, I went and got mental health therapy about my overeating. I started treating my food addiction like what it was: an addiction,” Jelly Roll explained. “Why did I treat cocaine a certain way? I went to meetings for cocaine and found a sponsor and detoxed off of it and s–t myself and went through real hard life-changing emotional choices to get off cocaine and codeine. I didn’t look at the food addiction different. Once I started treating food like an addiction, it started changing everything for me.”
Jelly Roll started off at 540lbs and is now down to 265lbs.
“I feel like I’m a teenager, dog,” he joked. “I have the sex drive of a 17-year-old again. I’m f–king pouncing on my wife. We’re having daytime sex again. It’s f–king awesome.”
He continued, “[Before the weight loss] my testosterone level — and I’m cool to talk about this openly — was of a preteen boy. When I went in there for the test, it was bad. Bad. The world opened up when I [saw] it on paper. I was like, ‘That’s my testosterone level?’ I mean, dude, we’re talking a 57.You can’t get it up without T. I was married to a smoke show, and I was still struggling.The first couple of blood panels were like, ‘How are you alive?’”
After losing nearly 300lbs, Jelly Roll said he’s committed to this wellness lifestyle.
“I don’t have a goal weight, I have a feeling weight, and I don’t feel it yet. I’ll know when I feel it, because I’ll finally be there. But, man, I’ve worked really hard and lost the weight the right way,” he shared. “I feel the weight loss in every facet. Whether it’s basketball and how I dribble or move, or how I can breathe running up and down a court. I feel it when I sleep and my hip hurts less and I can roll over easier without making a big of a rumble. Or the fact that me and my wife can fit on the same bed again.”
However, Jelly Roll did admit there have been some downfalls to his dramatic weight loss.
“There’s so much skin under here. I’m starting to meet with skin surgeons to talk about possibly cutting skin in the next year,” Jelly Roll said. “That’s probably what I have the weirdest relationship with. It’s like, I’m proud of it because I earned it.”
He concluded, “It’s a symbol of a war that I fought with myself. But equally, it is in the f–king way. So it’s just, you keep looking in the mirror, like, If that wasn’t there, dude, I’d be fire. So, [I’ll] probably have to clip these titties off eventually.”
Over the summer, Jelly Roll‘s wife Bunnie Xo shared an update on their “tough” IVF journey.