Lizzo is defending her choice to call her weight loss a “weight release.”
The four-time Grammy winner, who’s dropping her fifth album Love In Real Life soon, appeared on The Breakfast Club radio show on Monday (May 12). Around the 1:30 mark, she broke down how her “weight release” journey began.
“I think I had to start with cleaning out my mind and my energy and clearing out all of the negativity around me. And I feel like I released so much I was holding on,” the musician said.
Lizzo explained that this release eventually “manifest physically” and her transformation started with getting “snatched” mentally first.
“I do call it a weight release because [when] it started, I got snatched here first,” Lizzo said while pointing to her forehead. “And then my body just followed suit so I do feel amazing.”
The star mentioned she also shed “toxicity,” starting with Pilates before trying other workouts like yoga sculpting, hiking and pickleball.
Around the 41-minute mark, Lizzo called out critics of her weight loss, emphasizing that she still considers herself “big.”
“The internet is like, ‘Oh Lizzo’s skinny now,” she said. “I am well over 200 pounds, do you know what I’m saying? I’m five-foot-nine.”
Lizzo also revealed she only truly noticed her transformation while shooting the “Love In Real Life” music video. “I was in shock. It shocked me, because the way that I’m releasing weight has been a long slow process,” she continued. “People may not have seen me or been keeping up with me, but I’ve been posting about it, and I’m in a calorie deficit, so that’s the one that sneaks up on you.”
Lizzo’s been open about her health journey for months now, and during an April episode of On Purpose With Jay Shetty, she got real about the step-by-step nature of her “intentional weight release.”
“So when I pop out on a red carpet or when a video suddenly goes viral and my body is different, it appears like it was overnight,” she told Shetty in the episode. “It appears sudden. And I think that was shocking to a lot of people because now the headline is ‘Lizzo’s skinny,’ which is a far cry from the truth because I’m not.”
