Jelly roll explained why she didn’t use GLP-1 before she lost nearly 300 pounds on her weight loss journey.
“I just remember everybody telling me GLP-1, or taking the Ozempic or the Mounjaro, ‘Listen, it’s going to hurt your stomach a little bit,'” Jelly Roll, 41, shared in a new post. Men’s Health profile published on Friday, January 2. “I’ve treated my body so badly, I can’t believe God gave me this voice for so long. I didn’t deserve it. I literally didn’t do it out of fear.”
The musician eventually worked with a therapist help treat his “addiction” to food.
“Before I even got the blood test, I went to mental health therapy about my binge eating. I started treating my food addiction for what it was: an addiction. Why did I treat cocaine a certain way? I went to cocaine meetings and found a sponsor and detoxed and shitted and went through life-changing emotional choices that were real and hard to share.” “I didn’t look at food addiction any differently. When I started treating food as an addiction, it started to change everything.”
Jelly Roll has been on a mission to lose weight. “Next year, when you see me, you won’t recognize me,” the country star (real name Jason DeFord) said in an October 2024 Instagram video, revealing he’s lost more than 100 pounds. “I’m going to get under a lot of weights in a way that I’ve never (…)
Jelly Roll finally dropped from 540 lbs up to 265 lbs. “I feel like a teenager, dog,” he joked. “I have the sex drive of a 17-year-old again. I’m hitting on my wife. We’re having daytime sex again. It’s amazing.”
He continued: “(Before the weight loss) my testosterone level, and I’m cool to talk about it openly, was a pre-teen. When I went there for the test, it was bad. Bad. The world opened up when I saw it on paper. I was like, ‘Is that my testosterone level?’ I mean, man, we’re talking about a 57. You can’t lift it without a T. I was married to a smoke show, and I was still fighting. The first blood panels were like, “How are you alive?”
Jelly Roll, who has been married to Bunny XO since 2016, she called struggling with her weight an “unending sadness.”
“And anger. I was a prisoner of my own body. Man, 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,” he recalled. “If I could hold myself or ease into myself or fit in, people don’t think about all the facets of ‘I still want to be able to do it and I can’t.’ I got a lot of inspiration from that kind of thing.”
Jelly Roll explained how his size affected every aspect of his life, saying: “I was so fat that there came a point in my life where my wife and I had to put two king-size beds together because we couldn’t fit in a king-size bed anymore, that was it. It’s almost to the point where I look back and I can’t believe that I could perform on television, that I could perform on the national stage, and that I could perform on the national stage. 100 things a year.”
She continued: “It was killing me, literally. I mean, it was eating me to absolute death. I can’t talk about an area of my life that wasn’t affecting me. It’s as disgusting as you can imagine, when I really look back. I was struggling to wipe my ass. You know what I mean? Like, I’m ashamed. When I’m ashamed, I’m ashamed. And shame is exactly the same as he’ll send me back to the pantry. It’s the same as sending an alcoholic to the bar.
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“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 be there eventually. But man, I’ve been working really hard and losing weight the right way,” he shared. “I feel the weight loss in every facet. Whether it’s basketball and the way 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 turn more easily without making a big noise. Or the fact that my wife and I can fit in the same bed again.”
The musician admitted his weight loss as well “dramatically” changed their marriage. “Now it’s a totally different thing. I chase her around the house,” he noted. “I’m like a teenage kid again! I’m like the Pink Panther: I pop out of every corner. And she opens the closet and I’m like, ‘Hello!'”
However, there have been some more unexpected side effects. “There’s a lot of skin under here. I’m starting to meet with skin surgeons to talk about possibly cutting out the skin next year,” Jelly Roll said. “It’s probably the weirdest relationship I have with it. It’s like, I’m proud of it because I earned it.”
He concluded, “It’s a symbol of a war that I fought with myself. But still, it’s in a fucked up way. So, keep looking in the mirror, like, if that wasn’t there, dude, I’d be on fire. So, (I’ll) probably have to cut those nipples off eventually.”