Amber Riley shares her weight loss journey

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The talented Amber Riley opens up about her transformative weight loss journey, sharing her experience with Jason Lee

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00:00 We talked about the weight loss.

00:04 What was the journey to get there?

00:06 Because mine was a trip to Houston.

00:08 What's that mean? A trip to Houston?

00:11 I had surgery. I didn't have time to lose weight.

00:13 Gee.

00:14 I mean, I tried. I ran.

00:18 I ran. I ate well.

00:20 I stopped drinking. I did everything,

00:23 and it just wasn't working for me.

00:24 So I took a trip.

00:26 Then I came back 22.5 pounds lighter,

00:28 and every week after that, I kept losing weight.

00:30 But then I had to change, of course, my lifestyle.

00:31 But what was your process?

00:34 Oh, man, this is five years.

00:35 When I started therapy,

00:38 that's when I really started taking my health seriously.

00:41 It was blood tests, checking your hormones.

00:44 It was food tests to see what you're allergic to,

00:48 what foods make you bloat, what foods hurt your stomach.

00:51 It was changing my relationship with food

00:54 because I used to feel like,

00:56 oh, eating less means you lose weight,

00:57 when it was actually eating more means you lose weight,

01:00 which was a mind-blowing thing to say,

01:02 because we're taught the opposite.

01:04 It was not paying attention to the scale

01:06 and just being consistent and showing up at the gym

01:09 and cooking instead of going out to eat.

01:12 It literally was just ...

01:13 I mean, there is no secret way to being healthy,

01:17 and if you want to lose weight, there's no secret way.

01:20 It's literally just discipline and consistency.

01:23 Or surgery.

01:24 And you talked about your body.

01:25 You said to people online, "Falling in my DMs

01:27 "because I've lost weight,"

01:28 and you said, "Keep that same fat phobic energy

01:32 "because ain't nothing changed with the scale."

01:34 Who was in your DMs?

01:35 Did Drake slide?

01:36 'Cause you know Drake likes him thick.

01:38 - No, you know what?

01:39 It's not even famous people.

01:40 It's guys that I've known for a long time

01:43 or guys that I've worked with.

01:44 It's like the DMs went from, "Hey, sis,"

01:46 to being a little bit more flirty,

01:48 and it was weird to me.

01:49 I've known you for a long time,

01:51 and just because I may look a little bit different,

01:55 you don't get to hit on me now?

01:56 That's weird, bro, because you liked me when I was fat,

01:59 but because I was fat, you didn't want to hit on me.

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