Ever since she went from a size 16 to a size 6 in front of our eyes, much has been said about Jennifer Hudson’s weight loss journey. Eighty pounds down and seven years later, Hudson has been able to maintain her svelte frame. She was on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011 sharing her workout routine, which included shooting her shot on the basketball court, doing double dutch with her friends and going hard on the treadmill. But following years of keeping her weight down on her own after parting from Weight Watchers (which, ironically, Oprah is now the spokeswoman for), Hudson says that she’s been able to keep those 80 pounds off not by exercising, but watching what she eats. And when she says that she watches what she eats, Hudson isn’t kidding. She’s meticulous about her meals and when she eats them.
While visiting the UK talk show Lorraine on Wednesday (she’s currently living across the pond to be a judge on The Voice UK), Hudson was asked by the host about her exercise regimen. She echoed the sentiments of a one Sweet Brown when sharing her response.
“Well, I don’t really have time to do much of that so I just watch what I eat,” she said. “I’m very careful and cautious of what I’m eating and I just try to place those meals throughout the day. Like, okay, eat here, don’t eat there. When it’s early in the morning, ‘Okay, I would still be asleep right now so I’m not going to eat.’ But yeah, I’m very conscious about what I put in my body.
Hudson did say that her performance schedule qualifies as a workout, though. And it’s good that she burns calories onstage because while she’s stringent about her diet, Hudson is also human. In an interview with Yahoo! Style in 2014, she admitted that she still has to keep chocolate around to soothe her sweet tooth.
“I love chocolate,” Hudson said. “I always have to have chocolate around—it’s my cigarette. I don’t smoke but it calms me so well.”
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