Jelly Roll drops 100 kilos: How the rustic tune superstar reworked his frame

Jelly Roll has been constant in his efforts to drop some weight next admitting that he used to be hooked on meals in the similar manner that he used to be hooked on medication. 

Now, midway via his excursion, the rustic tune superstar collision a plethora milestone in his weight-loss progress and has misplaced 100 kilos. In Might, Jelly Roll advised Fox Information Virtual he had misplaced “like fifty to seventy-something pounds” generation coaching for the 5K. 

In 2018, the nation superstar observable on Instagram that he weighed over 500 kilos in 2015 sooner than he launched into a condition progress and misplaced 200 kilos.

The artist took to Instagram on Wednesday to proportion that “next year when y’all see me, you won’t recognize me. I’m going to get under a pile of weights in a way that I never had.”

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Within the video, Jelly Roll used to be joined via his diet educator, Ian Larios, who has been with him on excursion, serving to him guard excellent consuming conduct and keep energetic. Larios defined what the rustic tune superstar has been doing to achieve this type of plethora milestone in his weight-loss progress.

“Next year when y’all see me, you won’t recognize me.”

— Jelly Roll

“We just passed the halfway point of the tour, and Jelly’s been crushing it,” Larios stated. “We’re either walking [around] the arena, playing basketball, boxing. He just surpassed his 100-pound weight loss.”

Larios famous that Jelly Roll, whose actual title is Jason Bradley DeFord, has been specializing in a high-protein nutrition and shared some foods he prepares for the artist. Considered one of Jelly Roll’s favourite pre-show snacks is a banana with Manuka honey, Stevia and twilight chocolate shavings. 

Left: Jelly Roll is pictured onstage in 2022; proper, Jelly Roll is proven on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Status Induction rite in 2024. (Getty Photographs)

Jelly Roll says this fast chunk provides him “fuel before a show.” Every other staple Larios preps for the singer is his spin on Nashville scorching hen. He is taking “away the oil and the batter from it,” which permits Jelly Roll to nonetheless get a excellent quantity of protein. 

Jelly Roll attended the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2024. (Amy Sussman/Getty Photographs)

“So it tricks your brain into thinking that this is, like, that nice greasy Nashville deep-fried hot chicken. He’s going to feel like he’s eating at home,” Larios stated. 

On Oct. 14, Jelly Roll used to be a visitor on Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast and admitted that he has struggled with meals dependancy, in a similar fashion to how he struggled with substance abuse.

Jelly Roll shared in 2018 that at one level he weighed over 500 kilos. (John Nacion/Billboard by way of Getty Photographs)

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“The weight for me right now is the mountain in front of me, and I’m taking it, I’m learning. I’m being very diligent with it. I’m taking it really serious, I’m drinking a lot of water, I’m cold plunging, I’m eating right, I’m doing good,” Jelly Roll advised Shetty.

“I just have to fight the pirate on my shoulder, you know them late nights, I’m a food addict, man. I’ve probably never said it this honestly, but this is the podcast to be that real about it.

Jelly Roll at the 2023 ACM Awards. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

“I simply have had a wicked courting with meals from start. I’ve by no means had a excellent courting with meals. I by no means had a excellent instance round me of it. I’ve at all times stated that I consider weight problems is at once attached to psychological condition,” he continued. “I know the way simple it’s for nation to walk, ‘Vacate consuming such a lot, simply exercise. It’s really easy.'”

“I want I checked out meals that manner,” he continued. “However I know it from the standpoint of an addict, as a result of I do know what dependancy is and the way I aim with meals is similar manner I struggled with codeine. It’s the similar manner I struggled with cocaine.”

Jelly Roll compared his food addiction to the struggles he faced with substance abuse. (Mat Hayward/Getty Images for Jelly Roll)

Jelly Roll explained it took him “years” to be in the same room as others using cocaine before he was able to not do it himself. Now, he feels the same way with food.

He opts to keep all food out of his green room: “I wish to exchange my whole courting with how I have a look at meals,” Jelly Roll said.

In April, Jelly Roll’s wife, Bunnie Xo, revealed that the singer was taking a break from social media due to negative comments about his weight. He made his return to Instagram on May 9.

Jelly Roll’s wife, Bunnie Xo, announced in April that her husband left social media after continuous negative comments about his weight. The two are pictured here in May 2024. (Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty Images)

“My husband were given off the web as a result of he’s so bored with being bullied about his f—ing weight,” she said on her “Dumb bleached” podcast. “That makes me need to yell as a result of he’s the sweetest angel child.”

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“My husband doesn’t display it to you guys, however I’m getting to have an excessively inclined year right here,” Bunnie Xo told her listeners. “It hurts him.” 

Back at the 2023 CMA Awards, Jelly Roll told Fox News Digital that his weight-loss journey was giving him the “will to reside.”

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“I don’t actually have a purpose in the case of condition,” he said at the time. “I simply need to hold doing the fitting factor and feeling higher. I’m origination to discover a will to reside, and I need to incline into that. That’s it. I simply need to be happier.” 

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Jelly Roll continued, “Weight is in most cases at once similar to psychological condition, so I’m looking to get that beneath keep an eye on and the remainder is following that.”