Ricki Lake Details 40 Pound Weight Loss Without Ozempic: Diet, Workouts
Ricki Lake.
Getty Images (2)Ricki Lake says she is “alive [her] best life” after losing 40 pounds without any help from Ozempic or other weight loss medications.
“I started on October 26, 2023 and went on this journey,” Lake, 56, exclusively reveals in the latest issue of We weekly while her collaboration with Steenweg farms for her Ricki Lake & Bake cannabis line.
The Hairspray actress explains that she started “following a very strict keto diet,” which included intermittent fasting and walking outside “every day” with a weighted vest.
Since October 2023, Lake has also been doing Pilates “four days a week,” which has helped her lose 40 pounds and keep her weight off.
Ricki Lake is getting into the cannabis industry. The former daytime talk show host announced on Monday, December 3, the launch of “Ricki Lake & Bake,” a product she collaborated on with California-based cannabis company Stone Road Farms. “I clearly believe in this drug, and the Stone Road brand and what they’ve built,” […]
“I didn’t take any medications because I didn’t have prediabetes,” she says, noting, “There’s nothing wrong with those medications. They are actually game changers for so many people. But for me, I didn’t want to be dependent on a drug if I could help it.”
Instead of using Ozempic or similar GLP-1 drugs, Lake says she did her “own thing” that was “very specific.”
“I wore a glucose meter. I wore my Oura ring [which tracks health data]. I prioritized sleep and generally a low-stress lifestyle. And it worked,” she reveals. “It continues to work.”
Before you speak to UsLake says she went for a two-mile walk and took a pilates class, which is her norm.
Ricki Lake rose to fame in 1988 with Hairspray, in which he played self-described “pleasantly chubby” leading lady Tracy Turnblad. “Being fat worked, and I think that was confusing for me for a long time in my career,” Lake told Good Morning America in December 2010 after losing 130 pounds. “During my adolescence and, you know, […]
“I took what was once a chore, you know, having to work out every day and get on the elliptical and hate every minute of it,” said the first. Ricki Lake talk show host continues. “Now it is a privilege and a joy to be able to move my body, to not be in pain, to see the results [and] fits my size 4 jeans.”
Lake rose to fame playing Tracy Turnblad in 1988 Hairspraywho, according to her, was once ‘pleasantly plump’. Since then, she has had many ups and downs with her weight.
In 2007 she was We weekly‘s cover star after losing more than 100 pounds – even give Us an Instagram shoutout on February 26, 2024, wearing the same red Norma Kamali swimsuit she modeled for the photo shoot 17 years earlier.
“I literally put on the swimsuit for me,” she says Us. “I thought, ‘I wonder if I could still pull this off?’ Because I kept it [off] all these years. I loved that swimsuit! And I thought, ‘Oh, my God, I look good!’ In some ways I think I look even better than I did then.
Lake reveals: “I kept all the clothes from back then for seventeen years. And I thought, ‘Why am I doing this to myself? I’m in my fifties, I’ll never get in that good shape again.’ And yes, they all suit me. I even had to take some and make them smaller.”
“It’s exciting. I’m not gonna lie. It is the best feeling in the world to have done this hard work and to feel good about myself,” she continues. “And to be able to share with the world that I did this. I set my sights on this and look what I did. And besides, I’m just so healthy. I’m so strong. And I just want to keep feeling that way.”
Three years after Lake was covered We weekly in her swimsuit, she revealed her 130-pound weight loss Good morning America. She confessed during the December 2010 performance: “Being fat worked, and I think that was confusing for me for a long time in my career. During my adolescence and, you know, later teenage years, I got bigger and bigger and bigger. I had the worst, the worst eating habits.”
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When the mother of two children came along Dancing with the stars for season 13 in 2011, Lake lost even more weight. At the time she exclusively told it Us That DWTS ‘didn’t feel like training’, but she was ‘sweaty’ after every rehearsal.
More than ten years later, says Lake Us she continues to make her health a “priority” and gives herself all the tools to succeed. “I don’t go out late at night like my friends. I have DJ friends, they go out at midnight, and I’m like, ‘I’m so sorry. I can’t get there,” she says, laughing. “I already sleep at 8 p.m.”
The former talk show host shares that she goes to bed early and gets up to exercise before the sun comes up. “I walk every day, weather permitting. But even in the rain I’m just outside [at the] at the crack of dawn with my dog and usually my husband,” she adds.
Ricki Lake.
Steenweg farmsLake notes that it has been a “mind flip” over the past year, where working out is no longer a “chore” but rather something “I enjoy doing.”
She says, “I like to slow down and look at nature and move my body and get my heart rate up and sweat.”
The actress – who teased Us that she is working on a lifestyle cookbook documenting her health journey – has also turned to cannabis to relax and avoid added sugars.
Last month, Lake announced its partnership with Stone Road Farms in California for its Ricki Lake & Bake products, which are available in area stores.
Ricki Lake shows off her 30-pound weight loss during her recent health journey. “Hello friends. I wanted to share with you what I’ve been up to over the past four months. On October 26, 2023, I promised myself to get healthier,” 55-year-old Lake wrote on Saturday, February 24, via Instagram. […]
“I clearly believe in this medicine, and the Stone Road brand and what they’ve built,” Lake said in a press release in December 2024. “It’s so aligned with where I am in my life, and I’m so happy to to bring out.”
Besides growing her own weed, Lake says Us she drinks cannabis in the evening with her husband, Ross Burninghambefore going to bed.
“It’s low in calories. Wine contains sugar and calories,” she explains. “I’ve lost a lot of weight recently and I’m really making it a priority to keep it all under control. I prefer my cannabis drink, which is about 40 calories. And still get that nice buzz.”
For more information about Ricki Lake & Bake of Stone Road Farmscheck out their website. Grab the latest issue of We weeklyon newsstands now, for more details on Lake’s health journey.
With reporting by Andrea Simpson
