Chrissy Metz: 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness'

She adds that there are too many people who think if "they're not thin enough, they're not good enough."

As big fan of therapy, Metz, 44, knows that it’s important to heal what’s inside, especially after years of her own disordered eating when she'd turn to food for comfort and love.

“I’ve had thin, beautiful women with their jogging strollers tell me, ‘You don’t know how much your story helped me,’” she says with a laugh. “I’m just like, ‘What?!’ But you realize that everyone has their struggles, their anxiety or depression or grief over losing someone. Skinniness doesn’t equal happiness."

However, she is embarking on a new longevity goal, and if she ends up taking a GLP-1, she says it’s her business.

“I never said I was the poster child for body positivity. I just want to do what I can do to live the longest, healthiest life," she says, adding that her own father died from sepsis after getting gastric bypass. "I'm at a stage in life where I don't want that to be me. I wonder if he'd had GLP-1s whether he'd still be around."

Newly in love with an electrical engineer, whom she prefers to keep out of the spotlight, Metz says she and her boyfriend meal-prep together on weekends and she’s gotten into lifting weights.

“I need to strength-train, eat more protein. I want to be mobile. I’m relying on intuitive eating and asking myself, ‘Is what I’m putting in my body harmful or helpful?’" she says, adding, “I want to be health-positive. It’s not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body. There are plenty of people who are bigger-bodied and perfectly healthy.”

She notes that all that truly matters is whether she feels good about herself as a person at the end of each day.

“I do my best,” she says of trying to be kinder to herself, especially after growing up feeling "misunderstood."

That includes not beating herself up for any reason: “If I say that everyone is deserving of happiness, that must mean that I am too.”

[quote]But if you already have a restrictive eating disorder and take something that minimizes your appetite, it can become a very slippery slope

I rolled my eyes so hard at this I think I hurt myself.

These medications do have guidelines that doctors should follow. They are not meant to lose 20 pounds or for people who are already at a healthy weight, and I imagine most doctors know this.

If you have a quack who is prescribing it to someone underweight already, then there are avenues to deal with them (like the doctors who "killed" Michael Jackson, Matthew Perry, tens of thousands of opioid patients).

[quote]I need to strength-train, eat more protein. I want to be mobile. I’m relying on intuitive eating and asking myself, ‘Is what I’m putting in my body harmful or helpful?’" she says, adding, “I want to be health-positive. It’s not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body. There are plenty of people who are bigger-bodied and perfectly healthy.”

These are all good goals, but someone at her weight probably has multiple comorbidities now.

If the house is on fire, you need to use all tools to get the fire under control and then go from there.

Chrissy Metz has opened up about her health journey, sharing her nuanced views on weight loss drugs, inspired partly by her father's death after a gastric bypass.

Focused on long-term wellness, the actress meal-preps with her boyfriend, practices intuitive eating, and prioritizes strength training over cardio to stay strong and mobile.

Chrissy Metz also split time between Los Angeles and Nashville for a better quality of life and career flexibility.

Reflecting on her father's heartbreaking death from sepsis following gastric bypass surgery, Metz admitted she's determined to avoid a similar outcome.

"I'm at a stage in life where I don't want that to be me," she shared. "I wonder if he'd had GLP-1s, whether he'd still be around."

Focusing on long-term wellness, Metz revealed that she and her boyfriend, an electrical engineer, spend weekends meal-prepping together and that she's recently incorporated weightlifting into her routine.

"I need to strength-train, eat more protein. I want to be mobile," Metz said, explaining that she now relies on intuitive eating and regularly asks herself, "Is what I'm putting in my body harmful or helpful?"

Her priority, she emphasized, is building healthy habits rather than obsessing over the scale.

"I want to be health-positive. It's not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body. There are plenty of people who are bigger-bodied and perfectly healthy," she said.

Having been open about her past struggles with disordered eating, Metz also reminded fans that worth isn't tied to body size, noting that too many people mistakenly think that if "they're not thin enough, they're not good enough."

She explained: "I've had thin, beautiful women with their jogging strollers tell me, 'You don't know how much your story helped me,' I'm just like, 'What?!' But you realize that everyone has their struggles, their anxiety, or depression, or grief over losing someone. Skinniness doesn't equal happiness."

In the end, Metz says her journey is about progress, not perfection.

"If I say that everyone is deserving of happiness, that must mean that I am too," she said.

In an interview with Daily Mail, Metz revealed she's been more consistent than ever with weight training.

"I have always enjoyed strength training. I've always enjoyed lifting weights," Metz told the news outlet, adding that she has a preference for cardio. "I don't want to run unless I'm being chased."

The "American Horror Story" actress also shared that she connects deeply with her trainer, who has gone through his own weight loss journey.

"We have things in common where it's not just like, 'Why are you doing this?' she explained. "Like, I don't want to be yelled at. I want to be lovingly supported in whatever it is that I'm doing."

Metz further noted that her motivation goes beyond the workouts themselves as she's focused on long-term health.

"I want to age the best way that I can, and I want to be strong. And that's really the impetus behind any of it," she emphasized, adding that she is "nervous" about aging, and about "osteoporosis or arthritis."

Another recent shift for Metz has been dividing her time between Los Angeles and Nashville, Tennessee, after spending more than 20 years on the West Coast.

"The reason why I'm there so often is that everything is very close in proximity," she told E! News in April. "You can go to three different shows, to great restaurants, in one night. It doesn't take two hours to get anywhere. It's really great."

For the Florida native, the move is also about lifestyle.

"It's just like quality of life as well, you know?" she said. "The Southern hospitality. I grew up in the South. It's very familiar to me. There's a lot of great, great aspects of Nashville."

She's also found that the shift supports her evolving career priorities.

"There's also not work happening in Los Angeles," she explained. "There's just not much shooting here, unfortunately. And because I've been focusing on music, my family's close in Florida. Yeah, it's just where I split my time."

How would she know?

What the fuck is “intuitive eating?”

This sounds like a lot of excuses to remain morbidly obese, which is never healthy.

Getting to the weight she is also involves some seriously disordered eating.

Do a search before starting new threads, OP.

[quote] "I need to strength-train, eat more protein. I want to be mobile," Metz said, explaining that she now relies on intuitive eating and regularly asks herself, "Is what I'm putting in my body harmful or helpful?"

[quote] Her priority, she emphasized, is building healthy habits rather than obsessing over the scale.

[quote] "I want to be health-positive. It's not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body. There are plenty of people who are bigger-bodied and perfectly healthy," she said.

[quote] Having been open about her past struggles with disordered eating, Metz also reminded fans that worth isn't tied to body size, noting that too many people mistakenly think that if "they're not thin enough, they're not good enough."

[quote] She explained: "I've had thin, beautiful women with their jogging strollers tell me, 'You don't know how much your story helped me,' I'm just like, 'What?!' But you realize that everyone has their struggles, their anxiety, or depression, or grief over losing someone. Skinniness doesn't equal happiness."

I'm so so SO happy she said this!!

I'm sick of these Ozempic cheaters, who would rather starve themselves to be thin - despite the obvious effect on their health.

Not to mention that they really don't get to enjoy food any more.

Chrissy's approach is a very mentally healthy one.

She is basically saying, "I like to eat."

Good for you, Chrissy. So do I. And you shouldn't have to sacrifice the joy of eating, just to please other people.

So her approach is a very healthy one. She's working out, she's watching her diet, and she's happy.

That's all that counts.

GOOD FOR HER!

Agree 100% with r9.

Another thread on this damn woman and her bullshit rationalizations for being obese?

Tired rationalizations for staying morbidly obese and unhealthy.

Celebs that end up dying young due to overindulgence/bad habits and a lack of people willing/able to give them fearless feedback are a dime a dozen. I agree people should be able to do what they want, but don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. She'll die happy of cardiac arrest in her 50s. The End

[quote] She'll die happy of cardiac arrest in her 50s.

Burl Ives was a very large man. Well over 300 pounds for most of his acting career.

He lived to be 85.

Shelly Winters was another large actress. She also lived to be 85.

Marlon Brando lived to be 80.

Raymond Burr lived to be 76.

All large people. All lived beyond the average life expectancy.

And normal, "healthy" John Ritter died of cardiac arrest at 54.

You have no idea how long ANYONE will live, R12. Including yourself.

So go fuck yourself, judgmental asshole.

Hm. She's saying that her father died from complications due to gastric bypass surgery (sepsis).

However, which father is she talking about? Her bio-dad apparently wasn't in her life at all growing up (found some articles were he apparently resurfaced when she found fame with 'This Is Us'). He's alive and well and an attorney in Minnesota.

She seems to be talking about her Stepfather, who she says was very abusive to her (according to article linked below) and she wrote about him in a memoir. She refers to him as "Trigger" in the article below. However, in the recent article, she says her dad died from sepsis, a complication of a gastric bypass surgery. AI says that her stepfather died of a heart attack.

Something's not really jibing here.

As someone who has been fat, skinny, and everything in between, I agree that skinniness doesn't equal happiness, but being overweight isn't great either. You can be overweight and not have the usual health problems and live a long life, but at the same time, losing weight makes it easier to move around, to exercise, to stand up, and just makes you feel better. Some of those nagging pains in your feet, knees, or wherever may disappear by shedding as little as 25#.

Doesn't she have kids? Is she not worried about dying on them as abruptly as her father died on her? You can talk about Burl Ives all you want but morbidly obese people simply have shorter lifespans - there's no getting around it.

Neither to cheeseburgers, Chrissy, neither do cheeseburgers.

Chrissy Metz was always fat, unlike all the other people in your list r13, and she's been eating third world country food all her life. In a few years she'll do a Lizzo.

R13--Hello Chrissy! Can I have your autograph?

Yeah it kinda does, Chrissy. But you wouldn't know that because you've always been fat.

She is dangerously, morbidly obese. That's a world of difference from just being chubby.

I'm rooting for Chrissy.

Fuck the haters.

Yes, skininess or a low BMI does equate to some peace, dear, and your intuitive eating is the opposite of healthy. Holding up Burl Ives and Shelley Winters as fine examples of weight supremacy is...bizarre.

"Restrictive eating" is not a problem she has ever had.

[quote] Chrissy Metz: 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness

THE HELL IT DOESN’T!!!!

[quote] Chrissy Metz: 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness

It does for me. Lost 30 pounds with the help of Ozempic, and feel much more confident.

Has the white guy with yellow skin commented yet?

“It’s not the size, it’s how you use it….”

I'm underweight, she would hate me.

[Quote] Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness

Sure it does.

R13, they were NOT even close to her size. She weighs over 400 pounds.

She is bigger than ever. And that's why they aren't showing her body in any of the current photos of her.

[quote] I want to age the best way that I can, and I want to be strong. And that's really the impetus behind any of it," she emphasized, adding that she is "nervous" about aging, and about "osteoporosis or arthritis."

Osteoporosis? If that wasn't so sad, that would be hysterical. That's the last thing in the world she needs to worry about. She won't be here in 15 years. At her current size, I don't even know how she can get into a car. She probably has a mini van that her boyfriend drives and she sits in the back bench seat

[quote]The reason why I'm there so often is that everything is very close in proximity," she told E! News in April. "You can go to three different shows, to great restaurants, in one night. It doesn't take two hours to get anywhere. It's really great.

What she really means is she can go to 3 restaurants a night and a movie

She's trying to make herself feel better about being fat. She should make an effort to lose weight and stop being lazy about it.

For the person upthread (or maybe it was on the other thread) who said she was "too fat" to go on Ozempic...there have been no reports or information I've read that would prevent a very huge person from going on Ozempic if they weigh over a certain amount, unlike gastric bypass surgery, which DOES carry a big risk the bigger a person is when undergoing surgery.

[quote] very huge person

The correct term is "great, big fat person".

She’s not healed at all. She’s clearly miserable, look at her.

R22 #JeSuisFrau

She’s delusional.

quote[Chrissy Metz] weighs over 400 pounds

And you know this for certain how?

[quote] Chrissy Metz: 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness'

How would SHE know?! Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

Chrissy, I'm skinny and you can be, too. Shut your fucking mouth. NO ENTRY.

Whoever said she’s 400 pounds is delusional. She’s well over 600.