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.