John Goodman has turned his life around recently concerning his health by dropping 200 pounds, which has received praise. The actor admits that shedding the weight does have a drawback.
The Roseanne actor has never been shy about admitting that he’s had issues with alcohol and drinking during some of the highs of his career. In an interview with The New Yorker, Goodman looks back at what led him to lose weight, its connection to his drinking, and how he feels now.
Goodman was 55 years old when he got sober in 2007, and he reveals, “There’s a saying in the rooms: I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. The thing about instant gratification is you don’t really care what’s going to happen right after it—which always led to bigger hangovers or me getting the shakes, and having to drink to get rid of the shakes, and that vicious cycle.”
“I was in a position, when I quit, where I had to be hospitalized one way or the other. I just was tired of it, and I wanted to stop. I was delaying my maturation by drinking, and I had a lot of catching up to do, just realizing how selfish it made me. I was overlooking real life. And it was great to see there was a life where I didn’t have to use anything to enjoy it.”
The Big Lebowski star adds that he has had a history of dropping and gaining weight before he quit drinking. He would lose sixty pounds in one summer and gain it back just as quickly, and the cycle would start again. His weight gain and loss were always in the double digits.
“I took steps so I wouldn’t have to do that anymore. I was almost four hundred pounds. I was eating alcoholically after I stopped drinking,” he said.
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To help with maintaining a healthier body weight, Goodman has an operation done on his stomach. He doesn’t reveal which procedure he had, but admits that losing layers of fat caused a small health concern.
“I had an operation on my stomach. But I also turned anemic and lost a layer of fat under my skin, and I’m cold all the time,” explained Goodman.
In 2016, Goodman told ABC News that he also went on a weight loss journey because he got “tired of looking at myself.” He explained not wanting to look at himself when shaving in the mirror, and admitted it’s a “dangerous” thing.
The actor now has his favorite workout methods to stay in shape at 74 years old, which include walking his dog and doing some “boxing.” He admits that he didn’t start boxing to cause damage, but to simply get good cardio hitting the mitts and learn along the way.
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