Ed Sheeran has recently shared a few physical changes that he made to accomplish his weight loss goals.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1 over the weekend, the 30-year-old singer shared what he has been doing since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to shed those extra pounds and how he feels healthier than ever.
The Grammy winner said, “It’s the first time I’ve been really healthy. I’ve kind of stopped all the bad habit stuff in my life. Started exercising every day. I was eating like a takeaway every single day, and now I don’t eat takeaway every single day and it’s been good.”
Sheeran, who welcomed his first child, daughter Lyra Antarctica, with wife Cherry Seaborn last August, said he started focusing on his health after he got off tour.
He said, “It just happened. And because I wasn’t having chicken wings and two bottles of wine a night.”
In December 2019, Sheeran talked about his healthy lifestyle when he appeared on the Behind the Medal podcast. He said at the time he took up running after he quit smoking to lose weight.
“I stopped smoking three years ago and then ever since then started exercising,” he said at the time. “I love it,” adding that his fitness routine includes 45 minutes of running in the morning, but sometimes he goes for swimming and sit-ups.
Talking about his decision to start running, Sheeran said, “I started doing it because when I stopped smoking, I was very aware that my lungs were so full of s— that I needed to clear them out. Gyms are good but there’s nothing like fresh air to really give you a clean out. That’s, for me, the main reason why I started doing it.”
In January 2017, he revealed that he lost 50 lbs., mostly by cutting beer from his diet.
During an interview with The Breakfast Club radio show, he said, “Now I’m back on beer, because I’m fine, but I cut out beer for a bit and started exercising, which was quite weird.”
The “Shape of You” singer also explained, “I jump up and down on boxes, when I’m finished I’m drenched in sweat. I do jump around quite a bit. And just under those lights, just sweating, you drop off a bunch.” The article was published on PEOPLE.
