Jelly Roll boss talks singer’s 100-pound weight loss

Jelly Roll and his boss explain how the singer lost 100 pounds while on tour.

The Grammy-winning singer, who is currently on his Beautifully Broken Tour, has lost weight over the past year, his nutrition coach and chef Ian Larios revealed in an Instagram video shared to Jelly Roll’s account on Monday .

The video begins with footage of Jelly Roll proclaiming, “When I see you in March… you won’t recognize me. That’s why next year when you see me, you won’t recognize me. I’m going to put myself under a pile of weights like I’ve never done before.

Jelly Roll initially talked earlier this year about setting a major weight loss goal.

“I plan on losing another 100, 100-something (pounds). If I feel this good at this weight, man, I can only imagine how I’m going to feel by the time I go on tour ” he said. said in an interview with People in April, after initially losing 70 pounds.

In this week’s Instagram post, Larios shared an update for Jelly Roll fans.

“We just passed the halfway point of the tour and Jelly crushed it,” Larios says in the video, adding that “he just surpassed his 100-pound weight loss… That 100-pound weight loss goal since his last tour is huge.

Larios says Jelly Roll stayed active between performances and traveling, including walking, playing basketball and boxing. In addition to his fitness routine, Larios says Jelly Roll also focused on his nutrition.

“One of his favorite pre-show snacks is bananas. We’re making this one a little fancier today (with) manuka honey (and a little) dark chocolate that we grate on top,” he said of footage of himself preparing the snack.

Larios then demonstrates how he prepares a high-protein version of Nashville-style hot chicken and fries for Jelly Roll before a concert.

“We air fry it. It tricks your brain into thinking it’s like that good, greasy, fried Nashville chicken. It’ll feel like you’re eating at home,” Larios said. “It’s healthy. It’s air-fried, full of protein that helps keep it on track.”

For Jelly Roll, the topic of his weight has followed him throughout his country music career.

In the documentary “Jelly Roll: Save Me,” produced by ABC News Studios, the singer said he had been told in the past that he was “too fat” to make it in music and that it was an obstacle he had to overcome.

“They say we were too big to work in the music business, that my voice wasn’t cool enough. These were all mountains we had to conquer,” Jelly Roll said in the documentary.