3S. FLASH NEWS: Jelly Roll Reveals the Daily Habit He Never Skips — and Why He Says It Quietly Saved His Life 

Jelly Roll doesn’t describe his weight loss as a glow-up.

He describes it as survival.

In a recent interview with E! News, the 41-year-old country star spoke candidly about the process behind losing more than 200 pounds — and why the hardest part had nothing to do with the scale.

“I was on the brink of death,” Jelly Roll said plainly. “I’m not trying to stand on a soapbox. I’m just passionate about it now, knowing how upside down our system is with food.”

For Jelly Roll, food wasn’t comfort. It was addiction.

And as someone who has been open about his struggles with addiction throughout his life, he says this one was especially difficult to confront — because it was socially accepted, constantly accessible, and rarely treated with the same seriousness.

“As an addict, it was hard for me to get away from it,” he explained. “So I did a lot of work with food.”

That work, he says, became the foundation of everything that followed.

The second pillar of his transformation came through movement — not intense routines or dramatic programs, but consistency. Relentless consistency.

“Running’s been my real healer,” Jelly Roll shared. “I wake up and run every day. Every day. Seven days a week.”

Even on recovery days, he doesn’t skip it.

“It might just be a mile,” he said. “A 15-minute jog. Really slow. But I run every day.”

It’s a detail that feels almost understated — until it’s placed against where he started.

Five years ago, Jelly Roll weighed more than 520 pounds — the highest number his scale could display. In a separate interview with Men’s Health, he admitted even that figure might not have told the full story.

“The needle went past 520,” he said. “It didn’t blow it down, but it went past it.”

He joked about trying to manipulate the scale — lifting his foot, shifting his weight — searching for a lower number. But beneath the humor was a moment of realization.

He fasted for a weekend. Ate only chicken noodle soup. When the scale finally read under 500 pounds, the relief surprised even him.

“I was like, ‘I’m finally under 500 pounds,’” he recalled.

By the end of 2025, Jelly Roll weighed 265 pounds.

He’s also been clear about what his journey was not.

While he has no judgment toward celebrities who use GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Jelly Roll says he does not credit those drugs for his transformation. According to Men’s Health, he only used weight loss medication briefly — for about two weeks at the very beginning.

After that, it was structure. Accountability. And repetition.

What stands out in Jelly Roll’s explanation isn’t discipline alone — it’s honesty about how close he believes he came to the edge.

He doesn’t frame his story as a blueprint. He doesn’t moralize it. He simply acknowledges something many avoid saying out loud: that his body was failing faster than his career was thriving.

And perhaps that’s why his words linger.

Because behind the numbers, the routines, and the interviews, there’s an unspoken understanding — that this wasn’t about looking different.

It was about staying alive long enough to keep going.