Khloé Kardashian Shares Her Journey To Body Positivity, Reflects On How She Used To Be An “Emotional Eater”
At 39, Khloé Kardashian has come a long way in her relationship with her body. In a recent episode of the health and wellness podcast, SheMD, Khloé opened up about her lifelong struggle with weight, how she used to be an emotional eater and how she turned her challenges into triumphs.
“I used to be overweight a lot of my life,” she revealed during the podcast hosted by Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney.
“God, I mean my weight-loss journey. It took years for me. I’ve always been chubby — like athletic. I’ve always played sports. I just was never in shape,” she added.
According to her, she had to “retrain my mind as to what I could eat, what I couldn’t eat.”
Over the years, she tried every diet imaginable, but it was never about quick fixes for her.
“I would, let’s say, cut out all sodas. Little by little, I would cut things out. I would do that for a week and then cut out one other thing because I realized, I did every diet under the sun when I was younger,” she shared.
The reality star shared that her weight-loss journey was marred by emotional eating. “I used to be a major emotional eater for sure, but then when I was done, I would always be like, ‘Wait! I would feel so good eating. And then—” she said, adding, “And then I would cry and probably do it again because I was sad so I needed the ice cream again. And it was this crazy repeat cycle, but I gave myself a lot of patience and I just took my time.”
Her real test came in 2018 when she was pregnant with her daughter, True. Weighing 204 pounds at delivery, she worried about losing weight again. Khloé reflected. Surprisingly, she found it easier to shed the pregnancy weight compared to her earlier efforts.
“I was 204 pounds when I delivered and I was like, ‘How am I going to do this again?’ Because I took so many years to do it the first time. But because I had all the tools in my toolbox, I knew what to do and I actually lost my pregnancy weight so much faster than I ever did my regular fat weight,” she shared.
These days, Khloé maintains her physique with a balanced approach to fitness and diet.
“I love it. If I’m getting ready for a shoot, I’ll do Pilates and my workouts. But now that I’m in a good place, body-wise, that I like, I do sort of eat what I want, but because my brain is so trained, you don’t even want half of the crap or junk,” she shared even though she admitted, “Something like pizza is my weakness. But now that I am in this different state of my mind, I’m never going to eat a full pizza. It’s retraining your brain. If your brain isn’t trained with your body, then you’re not doing anything. It doesn’t matter.”
