Lizzo has taken to social media to reveal the “truth” behind her weight loss, saying that it was down to diet and lifestyle changes rather than weight loss drugs.
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The musician shared side-by-side photos from before and after her weight loss and explained how she managed to make the change. In both images, she is posed in front of a mirror at a lymphatic massage centre.
“In light of all these magazines and blogs wanting me to be on Ozempic soooo bad— here’s the truth,” the post reads.
She wrote: “I work my ass off, training 3x a week, daily sauna & cardio, adding animal protein back into my diet, hiring a chef who helps me meal prep and keeps track of what I put into my body in a calorie deficit, cutting out sugary Starbucks & full fat sodas & potato chips… I quit drinking for the longest… (but I’m drinking again cus I earned it!)… I play pickleball and hike and walk on the beach and move my body and dance and drink water.”
Lizzo then explains how she gets holistic treatments done, before concluding the post with: “I’m so happy and proud of what I’ve done and no one can take that away from me.”
Earlier this year, Lizzo celebrated reaching her “weight release” goals, telling her followers: “Let this be a reminder you can do anything you put your mind to.”
In other Lizzo-related news, she made a surprise appearance during Paris Hilton’s DJ set at Stagecoach Festival to perform her hit ‘Truth Hurts’.
Hilton was playing on the Diplo Honky Tonk Stage at the Indio, California festival on Friday (April 25) when she welcomed Lizzo to join her – the singer walked out onto the stage accompanied by her recent single ‘Still Bad’. They then kicked into ‘Truth Hurts’, from Lizzo’s breakout album ‘Cuz I Love You’ in 2019.
Earlier this year, Lizzo was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, where she played a medley of ‘Still Bad’ and ‘Love In Real Life’, the latter being the title track of her upcoming fifth studio album. In March, she said the record was “finished”, and it is likely also to include ‘Don’t Make Me Love You’, which she also played on SNL.
Lizzo has explained how she came up with the album title, saying that it came about after she realised how much more integral real-life friendships are compared to those made through social media.
“I think that real life is the only place that love exists,” she said. “I think that I have mistaken the gratification that you get from social media as love. Because there was a time [where] I wasn’t reaching out to the people who were closest to me or I was in isolation, in desolation, in certain times of my life. The internet was the only place I felt seen and appreciated.”
“I think when it stops becoming that safe space and it becomes a very toxic, destructive place, your sense of self-worth gets destroyed as well,” she added. “I had to discover in the past two years, one and a half years, that as good as it feels to be praised online and to be loved by people through a screen, the real love happens when you are in the real world connecting with people.”