Jelly Roll Did NOT Rely On Ozempic Or Other Meds To Lose 275 Pounds! He Explains The Unexpected Reason Why AND How He Did It Naturally!

Jelly Roll is opening up about his incredible weight loss transformation — and the important strategy he used to tackle it!

In a cover story with Men’s Health out on Friday, the musician explained why he didn’t reply on any weight loss medications to drop nearly 300 pounds, sharing:

“I just remember everyone telling me GLP-1s, or taking the Ozempic or the Mounjaro, ‘Listen, it’s gonna hurt your stomach a little bit.’ I’ve treated my body so bad, I can’t believe God’s gave me this voice for this long. I didn’t deserve it. I literally didn’t do it out of fear.”

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His chef and nutritionist, Ian Larios, explained:

“When they were talking about the whole GLP-1 option, he had heard about some people, how their voice was getting dry and it was affecting the way they would speak and the way they would sound, and so he threw that off the table immediately.”

Such an unexpected reason! But it sounds like he did his research and knew it wasn’t going to be the best option for him!

So, how did he do it? Well, he treated his eating habits like an “addiction” and worked with a therapist for support, the 41-year-old detailed:

“Even before I got into getting my blood work done, I went and got mental health therapy about my overeating. I started treating my food addiction like what it was: an addiction. Why did I treat cocaine a certain way? I went to meetings for cocaine and found a sponsor and detoxed off of it and s**t myself and went through real hard life-changing emotional choices to get off cocaine and codeine. I didn’t look at the food addiction different. Once I started treating food like an addiction, it started changing everything for me.”

This allowed him to go from 540 pounds to 265. Such an accomplishment! And it’s changed SO many aspects of his life – including his sex life with his wife Bunnie XO! He teased:

“I feel like I’m a teenager, dog. I have the sex drive of a 17-year-old again. I’m fing pouncing on my wife. We’re having daytime sex again. It’s fing awesome.”

He doubled down later, saying it’s “dramatically” changed his marriage, joking:

“Now it’s a totally different thing. I’m chasing her around the house. I’m like a teenage kid again! I’m like the Pink Panther — I bust out of every corner. And she opens the cabinet and I go, ‘Hi!’”

LOLz!

This is especially exciting for Jelly because the Need a Favor hitmaker recalled reaching a really dire point before embarking on his health journey:

“[Before the weight loss] my testosterone level — and I’m cool to talk about this openly — was of a preteen boy. When I went in there for the test, it was bad. Bad. The world opened up when I [saw] it on paper. I was like, ‘That’s my testosterone level?’ I mean, dude, we’re talking a 57. You can’t get it up without T. I was married to a smoke show, and I was still struggling. The first couple of blood panels were like, ‘How are you alive?’”

Ultimately, his old way of life and weight was a “never-ending sadness” to him, he candidly expressed:

“And anger. I was a prisoner to my own body. Dude, wiping my ass was a problem. Washing myself properly was a problem. Getting in cars. Every decision I made in life had to be based on my weight. If it could hold me, facilitate me, or fit me — people don’t think about every facet of ‘I still want to be able to do that and I can’t.’ I was so inspired by that kind of stuff.”

One big point of frustration when he was at his largest was as simple as going to bed. Jelly revealed that there came a point he and Bunnie couldn’t even fit in the same bed:

“I was so fat that there came a moment in life that my wife and I had to put two queen beds beside each other because we couldn’t fit in a king bed anymore, I was just all over. It’s almost to the point where I look back now and I can’t believe that I was able to perform, that I was on national television, and that I was on stages and doing 100-something shows a year.”

Whoa. He furthered:

“I was killing myself, literally. I mean, I was eating myself to absolute death. I can’t talk about one area of my life it was not affecting. It’s as disgusting as you imagine, when I really look back at it. I was struggling to wipe my ass. You know what I mean? Like, I’m ashamed of it. When I think of it being disgusting, I feel shame again. And shame is the exact same thing that will send me right back into the pantry. It’s the same thing that sends an alcoholic right back to the bar.”

Oof. This is why it’s great he’s working with a therapist — someone he can lean on to help process the root cause of his eating and help him work through these challenging emotions without reverting to his old ways.

He’s now committed to continuing to making positive changes to his lifestyle, he shared:

“I don’t have a goal weight, I have a feeling weight, and I don’t feel it yet. I’ll know when I feel it, because I’ll finally be there. But, man, I’ve worked really hard and lost the weight the right way. I feel the weight loss in every facet. Whether it’s basketball and how I dribble or move, or how I can breathe running up and down a court. I feel it when I sleep and my hip hurts less and I can roll over easier without making a big of a rumble. Or the fact that me and my wife can fit on the same bed again.”

The Grammy nominee has one more significant change in his future, as well. Now that he’s lost so much weight, he’s contemplating having surgery to remove excess skin — and that could be happening as soon as this year, he mused:

“There’s so much skin under here. I’m starting to meet with skin surgeons to talk about possibly cutting skin in the next year. That’s probably what I have the weirdest relationship with. It’s like, I’m proud of it because I earned it.”

He should be so proud! Jelly concluded:

“It’s a symbol of a war that I fought with myself. But equally, it is in the f***king way. So it’s just, you keep looking in the mirror, like, If that wasn’t there, dude, I’d be fire. So, [I’ll] probably have to clip these titties off eventually.”

We’re wishing him all the best as he continues this health and wellness journey! What an inspiration to so many he is.

Hear lots more on his progress (below):