Lizzo has opened up about the three meals that helped her achieve her “weight release goal”.
The Grammy-winning artist, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, has turned heads with her noticeably slimmer figure.
In a recent interview with Women’s Health, the 37-year-old spoke about her weight loss journey, sharing the meals that helped her transform her health.
She explained that after years of experimenting with her diet, she shifted her focus to meals centered around protein and vegetables.
Her go-to breakfast includes two scrambled eggs, chicken sausage, and a cauliflower hash brown. For lunch, she rotates between a shredded Thai chicken salad, lettuce wraps stuffed with tuna, and sliced chicken breast.
Dinner is typically a turkey meatloaf paired with cauliflower mashed potatoes and green beans, a meal she eats before 5PM to manage her GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease).
“I have GERD, so my body needs time to digest food before I go to sleep, so acid doesn’t roll up to my throat,” she explained.
Earlier this year, the ‘Truth Hurts’ hitmaker announced that she had reached her goal, sharing that she lowered her BMI by 10.5 points and reduced her body fat by 16% since January 2023.
“I did it. Today, when I stepped on my scale, I reached my weight release goal. I haven’t seen this number since 2014!” she posted on Instagram, adding: “Let this be a reminder you can do anything you put your mind to.”
The ‘Good As Hell’ musician prefers to say “weight release” instead of “weight loss,” a change she credits to her boyfriend, Myke Wright.
“At first I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I lost five pounds,’ and he was like, ‘Where did it go?’” she recalled on Just Trish with Trisha Paytas. “I was mad at him… but I want to be very intentional about the words that come out of my mouth because there’s young people who are watching me.”
She added that the way media covers weight changes “had an effect on my brain chemistry,” and she hopes to “transmute it into something that makes people feel comfortable and less afraid”.
After months of rumors that she was using weight-loss drugs, Lizzo confirmed that she briefly tried a medication like Ozempic but ultimately decided to stop.
“I tried everything. Ozempic works because you eat less food, yeah? So if you eat right, it makes you feel full,” she told Paytas. “But if you can just do that on your own and get mind over matter, it’s the same thing.”
She also noted: “It’s not easy. It’s a drug to help somebody with something they’re struggling with. I think people… It’s their way of being fat phobic when you’re telling someone they’re cheating.”
The singer didn’t reveal which GLP-1 drug she tried but emphasized that “everyone’s journey is different,” adding: “I don’t like to tell people too much about releasing weight like what I did because I don’t want people to do what I did and it doesn’t work for them. Everybody’s body is different.”
The About Damn Time singer also shared that a major breakthrough came when she stopped following a vegan diet.
“When I was vegan, I was consuming a lot of fake meats, I was eating a lot of bread, I was eating a lot of rice, and I had to eat a lot of it to stay full,” she said. “But really, I was consuming like 3,000–5,000 calories a day.”
After reintroducing meat during a trip to Japan, her body felt instantly better. “My body was so happy. My body was like, ‘More, more please.’ And I was like, ‘OK, this is what my body likes,’” she shared.
Now, Lizzo feels proud to accept compliments about her transformation. “I feel like I worked really, really hard and it was intentional with what I did with my body,” she said. “So when I get compliments, I go, ‘Thanks b****.’ Like, I really receive it.”