The country music star Jelly Roll has inspired millions of fans by losing nearly 200 pounds over the past few years. In a new interview, Jelly Roll is admitting that he thought he was “dying” before he lost this weight.
Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss Journey
While being interviewed on The Joe Rogan Experience on Wednesday, Jelly Roll revealed that he decided to go on this weight loss journey sometime around his 39th birthday in 2023.
“I started really considering taking the step to try to make a major change in my life,” admitted Jelly Roll, 41. “I thought about it around my birthday ‘cause I knew my next one was 40. You know what, I don’t think I’ve ever met a 500-pound 40-year-old.”
“That’s usually when they drop off,” replied host Joe Rogan, 58.
“It felt like I’d already cheated the game. I’d had multiple heart issues,” Jelly Roll confessed. “I was like, man, I should really start trying to figure this out. I could feel myself dying, Joe.”
“I’ve been trying to lose this weight my whole life,” the country music star added.
Jelly Roll Turns His Life Around
Jelly Roll went on to say that in 2022, he weighed between 480 and 560 lbs.
“That’s how much I fluctuated in just a year, up and down,” he confessed.
That’s when Jelly Roll decided “to take a different approach. I’m going to really take my time with it and I’m going to think about what I’m doing and be intentional. I’m not going to let it be an emotional thing where you just jump up and go, ‘I’m going to go running today!’ I was like, ‘Let me figure this out.'”
Jelly Roll is now crediting diet and exercise for his weight loss transformation. According to him, it’s a mental shift that has kept him on track.
“Clearly, I’ve dealt with drug addiction. So, I was like, maybe there’s something here,” Jelly Roll said. He added that he was “overeating wasn’t a failure of willpower for me. It was a biological loop that I didn’t know how to interrupt.”
“The problem with food addiction, as opposed to every other addiction, is that you have to keep doing the thing you’re addicted to,” Rogan responded.
“It’s everywhere. Not that crack isn’t everywhere and heroin isn’t everywhere,” Jelly Roll replied. “There’s not heroin on this table. You know what I’m saying? There’s a cookie on here somewhere.”
“Food is something that you need to sustain you to keep alive,” Rogan stated. “Like imagine if you were a gambling addict, but you had to play a few hands of blackjack every day. Every day.”
Jelly Roll ‘Had Never Planned On Living’
Jelly Roll then said that, given his troubled history, he had never planned to live as long as he has now.
“I had never planned on living,” Jelly Roll acknowledged. He added that he thought to himself, “When I die, at least my kids might be okay and they won’t be ashamed of me.”
Jelly Roll also said that the last time he saw Rogan, he thought to himself: “I’ll probably never see Joe again.”
“I’d think, you know, it’ll probably go any day for me. You know what I mean? Like, my heart could quit any day. I could relapse and overdose,” Jelly Roll stated of his previous mentality.
“To like sit here and look at you now like, ‘Dog, I’m going to be a 70-year-old man with you, Bubba’ … it’s going to be cool,” Jelly Roll concluded. “I never would have thought I could have this kind of life.”
Jelly Roll is a true inspiration who is showing the world on a daily basis that it’s never too late to turn your life around.
God bless you, Jelly Roll!