Jelly Roll Explains Why He Didn’t Use GLP-1 to Shed Nearly 300 Lbs on Weight Loss Journey

Jelly Roll explains why he didn’t use GLP-1 before losing nearly 300 pounds on his weight loss journey. “I just remember everyone telling me about GLP-1, or taking Ozempic or Mounjaro, ‘Listen, it’s going to make your stomach hurt a little bit,'” Jelly Roll, 41, shared in a new Men’s Health profile released on Friday, January 2. “I felt so bad about my body that I couldn’t believe God gave me this voice for so long. I didn’t deserve it. I was actually doing it out of fear.” The musician eventually worked with a therapist to help treat his “addiction” to food. “Even before I started getting blood tests, I went to mental health treatment for overeating. I started treating my food addiction like a food addiction: an addiction. Why would I treat cocaine a certain way? I went to cocaine meetings, found a sponsor, quit it, and then went through the really hard, life-changing emotional choice of getting off cocaine and codeine on my own,” Jelly Roll shared. “I didn’t think about food addiction differently. Once I started thinking about food as an addiction, it started changing everything for me.” Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss Transformation Over the Years: View Photos Jelly Roll eventually dropped from 540 pounds to 265 pounds. “I feel like a teenager, dog,” he joked. “I’ve got the libido of a 17-year-old girl again. I’m fucking throwing myself at my wife. We’re having daytime sex again. It’s fucking great.” Movie Magic; he continued: “[Before the weight loss] My testosterone levels – and I’m happy to talk about this publicly – are those of a prepubescent boy. When I went there to take the exam, the situation was terrible. Bad. when i open the door to the world [saw] It’s on paper. I was like, “This is my testosterone level?” I mean, man, we’re talking 57. Without T, you can’t get up. I’m married to a smoke show and I’m still struggling. The first few blood tests were like, ‘Are you alive?’ ‘” Jelly Roll, who has been married to Bunnie XO since 2016, calls struggling with her weight “never-ending sadness.” “And the anger. I am a prisoner of my own body. Man, wiping ass is a problem. Cleaning yourself properly is a problem. Get in the car. Every decision I made in life had to be based on my weight,” he recalls. “If it supports me, facilitates me, or suits me — people don’t think about all the aspects of ‘I still wish I could do this but I can’t.’ I’m inspired by that kind of stuff. ” The Men’s Health Jelly Roll breaks down how his size affects every aspect of his life, saying: “I was so fat that at one point in my life my wife and I had to put two queen beds side by side because we couldn’t sleep in one king bed anymore and I was done. Looking back now, I almost can’t believe that I was able to perform, that I was on national television, that I was on stage, performing over 100 shows a year. “I was literally killing myself,” he continued. I mean, I ate myself to death. I can’t talk about an aspect of my life that hasn’t been affected. When I actually think back on it, it’s just as gross as you can imagine. I struggled to wipe my butt. You know what I mean? Like, I’m ashamed of it. The thought of nausea made me feel ashamed again. Shame also brings me back to the pantry. It’s the same as sending an alcoholic back to the bar. ” After losing nearly 300 pounds, Jelly Roll remains committed to his health journey. Celebrity Weight Loss and Transformations: Before and After Photos “I don’t have a goal weight, I have a feeling weight, but I don’t feel it yet. I’ll know it when I feel it because I’ll be there eventually. But, man, I worked really hard and lost the weight the right way,” he shared. “I’m feeling the weight loss in every way. Whether it’s basketball, or how I dribble or move, or how I run around the court. I can feel it when I sleep, the pain in my hip is lessened and I can roll over more easily without making a loud rumbling sound. Or my wife and I could sleep in the same bed again. The musician admitted that his weight loss had also “dramatically” changed his marriage. “Things are completely different now.” I chased her around the house,” he said. “I felt like a teenager again! I was like the Pink Panther – I came out of every corner. She opened the cabinet and I said, ‘Hi! ‘” However, there are some more unexpected side effects. “There’s so much skin here. I started meeting with a dermatological surgeon to discuss possible skin-cutting surgery next year,” Jelly Roll said. “That’s probably the weirdest thing I have to do with it. Like, I’m proud of it because I deserve it. “It’s a symbol of the war I’m fighting with myself,” he concluded. But again, that’s the way to fuck. So, you keep looking in the mirror, like, if there wasn’t a mirror, man, I would be on fire. so, [I’ll] Maybe those nipples will have to be cut off eventually. “