Lenny Henry's remarkable weight loss transformation after doctor's grave warning

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British comedy legend Sir Lenny Henry underwent a dramatic three stone weight loss transformation after receiving a grave warning from his doctor regarding his health.The 65-year-old tragically lost his mother Winifred to uncontrolled Type 2 diabetes in 1998 and his physicians told him he would also go the same way if he didn't do something about his diet and fitness levels.The impressionist who rose to fame in the late 1970s said he knew it was time to take action when he started "finding it difficult to get in and out of the car".He said: "My mum lost two legs through diabetes and eventually died from it, so I knew I had to lose weight.

The doctor warned me I was heading the same way."Sir Lenny who split from his comedian wife Dawn French in 2020 first started making changes to his lifestyle in 2011 when he was cast in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, the Mirror reports.The show required four gruelling hours of hard physical rehearsals each day and Lenny recalled how he didn't "want to be a ­heffalump running around the stage".

To improve his fitness, the actor took up Ashtanga yoga and running, cut out sugar and reduced alcohol.He said: "Dieting is tedious, but I feel better for it",After the play came to an end, the comedian kept up his good habits and added dance, Pilates and military exercises to his workout regimes.However, the following year he noticed his weight was climbing again and went on another diet in 2014 to shed the pounds.

After the play's run, Lenny kept up his good habits and added pilates, dance and military exercises to his workout regime. Speaking to the Mirror, Lenny said: "I'm a bit diabetic so I was put on a very strict diet.