American rapper Jelly Roll sheds 90 kilos, claims these 3 things worked in his favour

American rapper Jelly Roll lost 90 kilos by walking, running and developing a mindful relationship with food. (Picture Credit: Instagram/@jellyroll615)

• Jelly Roll shed 90 kilos with diet changes and daily exercise, no weight loss drugs.
• He beat food addiction with therapy and willpower, like his cocaine battle.
• Jelly Roll's tour now emphasizes healthy eating, exercise, and emotional check-ins.

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American rapper and singer Jelly Roll has always been candid about sharing his weight gain struggles. Due to poor dietary choices and sedentary lifestyle, the rapper had gained a lot of weight. However, he lost 90 kilos without being on any weight loss drug.

Speaking about his battle with food addiction at Grammy 2026 event, the rapper shared that it took the same amount of dedication and willpower to lose weight as it had taken to overcome his cocaine addiction. "I had to fight my food addiction just the way I fought my cocaine addiction,” he said.

Given how a lot of celebrities are taking help of weight loss drugs to get back in shape, seeing the rapper's transformation one may think that he too must have been on one of these weight loss drugs. However, this is not true.

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Jelly made a slew of changes in his diet and introduced movement every day to achieve his goal of losing extra kilos. For starters, he changed his emotional and mental relationship with food. He took therapy and learned to quieten the "food noise" in his head. So, every time he ate something, he would question himself why he ate what he did and how will it benefit him. The sole focus was on making healthy food choices. “It's cool because there was once a time in life that the culture I built on tour was the opposite. It revolved around alcohol and drugs. And now our tour culture is around good eating and around exercising and doing emotional check-ins with our crew every day,” Jelly told People.

For daily movement, he would walk and run a lot. He had to train for the 2 Bears 5K race with comedians Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura, and in the process he lost 70 pounds. “I feel really good. I was thinking, I plan on losing another 100, 100-and-something pounds. If I feel this good down this weight, man, I can only imagine what I'm going to feel like by the time I go on tour," he concluded.

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