"I'm ready to stop waiting to be myself" - Lizzo opens up about her weight loss journey and struggles with anxiety

Grammy-winning artist and body-positivity activist Lizzo is reclaiming her narrative, this time with openness about her personal development, physical health, and mental health. Lizzo talked candidly about her recent weight reduction in a TikTok livestream video. She said that the adjustments were motivated by her desire to feel better physically and mentally rather than by aesthetics or peer pressure. She said:

"I'm ready to stop waiting to be myself like fully and be happy."

Speaking about her weight loss journey, she mentioned that she stopped eating "sugary stuff" early in the morning and went for something "super savory."

She said:

"I do something sweet. It's gotta be with some sort of like carb. I'll have like almond butter and toast. So, everybody's body is different. Find out what works for you."

She added, saying:

"It works across the board, science-wise, is calories in versus calories out. That's just how the human body works."

After finding out that she was consuming close to 1200 calories in her "two to three" large Starbucks drinks a day, she quit immediately. Adding to this, she also mentioned that she stopped consuming coffee so that it may regulate her "nervous system."

Lizzo stated that she:

"Had to start applying a calorie deficit, because I was prone to binging."

Although she doesn't think calorie counting is healthy, the musician admits that she uses it "as a tool to fight against the American food system."

She also opened up about her mental health,

"I've been working to get my anxiety under control for years. And then I decided that I want to release and I'm ready to stop waiting to be myself like fully and be happy."

She added:

"And I meditated. I calmed myself down. And I isolated a little bit, but not like made myself lonely, not the way I used to when I was depressed. I isolated myself in a mindful way where I had no distractions."

She concluded by saying:

"I loved to distract myself with people. I loved to distract myself with food. I loved to distract myself with drinking. I loved to distract myself with problems that I would create. I would love to do that. And I stopped doing that. And I just focused on me."

Lizzo says no to Ozempic and other weight loss drugs

Lizzo had made it apparent in the past that she would not be following the rising trend of celebrities using drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to lose weight quickly. She had firmly declared in her past videos that she would not fall prey to weight loss medicines. She wrote on an Instagram post to deny any usage of Ozempic:

"When you finally get Ozempic allegations after 5 months of weight training and calorie deficit."

She even uploaded an Instagram carousel of photos of her and a screenshot of a user who was mocking her weight loss.

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