Jelly Roll is struggling to maintain his diet after splitting from Bunnie Xo.
In a YouTube video shared on Saturday, the Save Me singer opened up about a recent bout of “stress eating” after confirming his divorce from Bunnie Xo last month:
“I’ve been overeating the last three or four days and I was feeling myself stress eating. And then, what else happened was the addict in me came out.”
He went on:
“We had this show at this one spot that I love their catering. They have a dairy-free skillet cookie. I don’t eat nothing like that. I’m like a drug addict. You can’t eat that, because if I eat one, I eat two. I eat four. Later that night, I’m at the taco truck getting the peanut butter fluff. Next thing I know, we’re at the rest stop, I’m looking for a chocolate bar. I’m like, ‘Damn, that fast, now I’ve consumed 2,000 extra calories today that I didn’t even see coming.’”
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As we’ve been following, the country crooner has been on an impressive health journey across the last several years, which has seen him drop more than 300 pounds. However, Jelly noted he has to REALLY “pay attention” to and stay on top of what he eats, because for him, having even just a “taste” of unhealthy food is like having “a taste of blood.”
“I have to pay attention to it because it’s like a taste of blood. Now, now it’s going to take me a whole another week to get that back completely out of my mouth.”
However, he argued the same challenge with binge eating can ring true for certain healthy foods, too:
“If you put a big bowl of strawberries in front of me and leave me alone, I will eat the entire bowl of strawberries. I got to take a few strawberries and be like, ‘Put the bowl away.’ Or just not eat the strawberry at all … What I learned is how you do anything is how you do everything.”
The Son of a Sinner singer went on to compare his relationship with his food to his past battle with substance abuse:
“I’m like that with alcohol. I’ve never done ‘a shot.’ I’ve never done ‘a line’ of cocaine. I’ve never smoked ‘a joint.’ Either we’re smoking all day, we’re drinking all night, we’re doing coke.”
Scary!
And for anyone thinking one “cheat meal” isn’t so bad every now and then, for Jelly, it’s the difference between staying on track and going on a weeklong “food bender.”
“People are like, ‘Oh, you can have one for a cheat meal.’ I was like, ‘You can have one for a cheat meal. I can’t.’ ‘Cause it might be a five-day food bender for me … People don’t get it. I tell people, ‘You don’t become the size you became without having a mental health issue.’ It’s something way deeper. It’s a different thing. But once you get to that point of really realizing what you’re hungry for, everything changes. And knowing what your triggers are.”
We’re happy Jelly is so aware of what he needs to do to stay on track!
As we’ve been following, Jelly has assured fans that he and Bunnie are still on great terms amid their divorce. Recently, though, she’s been linked to 24-year-old reality star Dylan Wolf after they were spotting kissing in Jelly’s Nashville bar… We wonder if that has anything to do with things?? Watch more from his video (below):
On the other hand, Bunnie herself recently opened up on her Dumb Blonde podcast about losing 20 pounds amid her split from the musician because she ““was not eating” and “wasn’t drinking.”
We hope she and Jelly both can get themselves back on a safe track! We’re sending support!
Thoughts, Perezcious readers??
[Images via Jelly Roll & Bunnie Xo/instagram]
