Lizzo is looking good and feeling good! And she’s sharing the specifics of her health journey with fans.
In the July issue of Women’s Health, the singer revealed that she has three “go-to” meals that she’s been eating consistently to reach – and even exceed- her weight loss goals.
All three focus on protein and vegetables and giving her body the nutrients it needs.
For breakfast, the “Truth Hurts” singer generally dives into two scrambled eggs, chicken sausage and a cauliflower hash brown.
For lunch, she has a rotating menu of either a shredded chicken Thai salad or lettuce wraps filled with tuna or sliced chicken breast.
Dinner is typically turkey meatloaf and mashed cauliflower with a side of green beans. But Lizzo says dinner has to happen before 5:00p.m. And that’s not for weight loss. “I have GERD [gastroesophageal reflux disease], so my body needs time to digest food before I go to sleep, so acid doesn’t roll up to my throat,” she told the magazine.
Despite being a vegan for years, that didn’t translate into good health for the singer. Lizzo says she was eating all the wrong things like bread, soy and cashew cheese. “I wasn’t getting the nutrients
I needed,” she says.
Lizzo Says She’s Never Regretted a Workout
But what she eats is far from Lizzo’s only focus on her journey to better health.
In fact, her quest started not as a way to look better, but to address growing back pain.
Lizzo told Women’s Health she’s been working out with a trainer for about a year. In fact, fellow singer and friend Kelly Rowland introduced her to her trainer, Marvin Telp.
Lizzo says the pair worked together to come up with a plan.
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays- Lizzo focuses on things like step-ups, crunches, lunges and single leg deadlifts, followed by 20 minutes of cardio on her Arc Trainer, and then 20 minutes in her infrared sauna.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are straight cardio, but 45 minutes instead of 20.
And that’s true even if she doesn’t feel like exercising. And she motivates herself with one reminder.
“I’ve never regretted a workout,” she says. “After, I always feel better. I work out for mental health first. Exercise is the best mood enhancer.”
Lizzo also makes exercise fun on the weekends, going hiking or playing pickleball.
Lizzo Reveals the First Step in Her Health Journey
Before Lizzo ever picked up a weight or put down a slice of bread, she took an all-important first step on her journey to better health.
Lizzo tells Women’s Health that the first step was putting down her phone.
The singer handed her social media over to her team and stopped reading comments.
“My validation was from external sources, people telling me they loved me, or that I look good, and accepting me,” she revealed. “It helped me build self-confidence. But if that’s all I’m getting my validation from, when it changes—and it will, because people are not always going to like you—what happens? Where are you going to get your love from? I can convince myself that I’m beautiful, my body fine, no matter how big or small. But reminding myself that you can’t let others tell you who you are—that was hard work,” she told the magazine.
She also started seeing a therapist once a week.
And while her life now includes both healthy meals and rigorous workouts, the singer says she wants to be kind to herself.
Lizzo says if she wants chicken and waffles, or a coconut cream-filled doughnut, she allows herself the occasional indulgence without beating herself up about it. “There’s a balance. I think that’s what true health is.”
