Billy Gardell Opens Up About His Impressive Weight Loss and How He's Been Able to Keep It Off (Exclusive)

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Billy Gardell is opening up about his impressive weight loss as part of his transformative health journey.Thestar recently sat down with ET's Kevin Frazier and opened up about his incredible, life-changing efforts to shed pounds and change his mentality in order to keep healthy and stay as safe as possible during the pandemic.«I’m fighting middleweight these days, I’m down to 212!» revealed Gardell, who weighed over 370 pounds nearly a decade ago. "[It's been] a long journey."«At first I developed Type 2 diabetes, and then I went on a medication for that for about a year and start taking care of myself better,» he recalled. «I lost about 30 pounds.

But then COVID hit. and when they punched up all the markings that made you 'at risk,' I had all of them except 'over 65.' I had a full bingo card.»In an effort to change his life dramatically and not be quite at risk for COVID-19, Gardell «finally went and I had bariatric weight loss surgery last July.»«And then I just changed everything I did,» he added. «I want to be clear — [getting surgery] was a very personal choice.

I’m not telling anybody to do it. For me, that’s what I needed to do, but it’s just a tool. The real battle is still in [the mind], because people get this big again.»«You have a small window to change the way you live, the way you eat, the way you exercise, and so far I've been able to do that,» the 53-year-old actor explained. «I do it a day at a time and I'm just so, so very grateful that that happened for me.

No more diabetes, no more bad blood numbers.»For Gardell, the mental aspect of getting healthy and staying healthy has been one of the hardest factors, and has required him to overcome a lot of environmental conditioning that began, like it has for.