Ree Drummond Shares 'Game Changer' Secrets to 50-Lb Weight Loss
Over the last several years, Pioneer Woman has dropped over 50 pounds—and, more importantly, improved her health—and now, she's sharing some of her weight-loss secrets with her fans.
The Food Network star took to her personal blog recently to reflect on her journey since 2021, revealing that she's decided to "jump back into" the lifestyle she found worked for her back when she was first focusing on losing weight after her weight fluctuated a bit in the time since she stopped—though, this time around, she's not in "quite as high a gear."
While the television personality previously focused on weighing her food and counting calories, she's eyeballing her portion sizes this time around, with an emphasis on "eating more protein and keeping it a higher percentage of my calories."
In addition to the importance of protein, she "can't emphasize enough how important it is to build muscle," working out with lunges, squats, deadlifts, and floor exercises with ankle weights.
Combined, she calls the two a "game changer."
Also different this time around is her alcohol consumption. She previously cut it out altogether for several months, whereas now, she'll "generally have a little white wine then top off the glass with cold Topo Chico sparkling water, so it's kind of a wine spritzer type of thing."
Finally, she recommends the app called Happy Scale. "During the year I was gaining weight, I didn't use it very often," she admitted. "I'm using it again and forget how helpful it is!"
Overall, she's "feeling better and better all the time," and hopes, just as with her original weight-loss blog post, that it helps anyone who needs it. "The first time around, I heard from so many of you who read something in the post that resonated, so just wanted to be sure to share again," she explained.
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