If you’ve been watching The Price is Right, you would have noticed that funny guy Drew Carey is a shadow of his former self. More specifically, between January and September 2010 he lost 85 pounds. His alteration was one of the more noticeable public weight loss stories of 2010.
How did he do it?According to People, Carey dropped the carbohydrates:
“No carbs,” Carey says. “I have cheated a couple times, but basically no carbs, not even a cracker. No bread at all. No pizza, nothing. No corn, no beans, no starches of any kind. Egg whites in the morning or like, Greek yogurt, cut some fruit…Once I started losing weight, again, like once I started dropping a couple pant sizes, then it was easy ’cause once you see the results, then you don’t wanna stop.”
Carey aimed at 45 minutes of cardio for most days of the week and reputedly drunk only water.
Probably the biggest payoff – next to just being healthier – is Drew’s shrunken waistline. He went from a size 44 pants down to a 33-34, and he aiming to drop another 10 pounds, so he can get into a size 32.
Whether Carey continues on this routine remains to be seen, but highlights again the need to find what works for you.
Will Drew Carey gain the weight back?
There isn’t a yes or no answer. But Drew’s restrictive diet could ultimately be his undoing. Last year, a study in the journal Obesity, found people following a diet that is too restrictive regained even more weight than they started with.
Losing weight and gaining it back is often referred as “yo-yo dieting” and it comes with serious health risks.
- Depression
- Emotional problems
- Reduced metabolism
- Lack of energy
- Heart problems
- Poor blood flow
Hopefully Drew can stay slim and avoid putting back the pounds, but celebrities are notorious for their bodyweight highs and lows.
true…weight CAN return if the person doesn’t ALWAYS stay on a restricted diet. Even after a gastric bipass doesn’t mean it’t gone for good. All is based on determination to maintain and keep it off. Temptations sure don’t help
Drew didn’t go on a diet, he changed his eating habits. He made a drastic lifestyle change. Yes it’s possible to fail and go back to high carbs. There is such a thing as being addicted to carbs, but addictions can be over come and defeated.
Drew has a great inspiration to keep up his healthy lifestyle. It all starts with attitude and desire.
As a chef and a person with diabetes, it is 100% possible. When you are forced against a wall you fight. Especially if your life depended on it.
Listen, if you become a diabetic what do you think is cut from your diet?? Sugar and Carbs….it does work, its not easy but there are healthy alternatives to sugar,potatoes and flour.
It’s not true at all that he won’t be able to do low-carb forever. My mom lost a good amount of weight back when Atkins was very popular and she has kept it off for many years now.
Different strokes for different folks
Good for him
That sounds like an uber-strict diet in my book. I couldn’t do it. To lose my weight, I needed the whole bandwidth of food choices to avoid feeling deprived and constrained and grrrrrrrrrrr!.
I was crying last January. I am now smiling so is my husband! I went from a size 28 to a size 4 petite with “Hypersonic Weight Loss”
If it works for him, that’s great, but I could never go without carbs for any length of time. I hope he’s able to keep up with it.
**Dramatic eye roll**
The problem with that diet (and diets in general) is that it’s not something he’s going to be able to do forever, therefore, as soon as he stops the diet, all the weight is going to come back. If you love carbs, you’re probably always going to love them and you’d be better off figuring out how to eat them in moderation.