At 55, Ricki Lake Shares How She Lost 35 Pounds in 7 Months
Ricki Lake opened up about losing 35 pounds in her 50s.
At 55, she said she’s the “fittest” and “healthiest” she’s ever been.
She shared exactly how she and her husband embarked on their weight loss journeys.
Since Ricki Lake embarked on a mission to get healthy in October, the actress lost 35 pounds. She wants the world to know that she did so without medication, she said in various recent interviews. And in hopes that others might follow suit, she shared how she lost weight and, in her words, became the “fittest” and “healthiest” she’s ever been.
Lake began her steady ascent when she married her “perfect man,” Ross Burningham, two years ago, she told Good Morning America. “And if I pinpoint one thing that was not working in our lives, is that we were carrying this extra weight,” she said.
Because, at 55, Lake is in perimenopause, doctors doubted her ability to meet her goal without weight loss drugs. “And I like a challenge. And I like proving people wrong. And so, it pissed me off,” she said. In an interview on The Sherri Show, she disclaimed that she doesn’t judge anyone who uses them.
“I just was reluctant. And I wanted to give it a go on my own,” she told GMA. “And so I said to my husband, ‘You want to go on this ride with me?’”
She hikes regularly
Over the last seven months, Lake has made daily movement a priority. “I hike [the Malibu mountains] with my dog and my husband every morning,” she told People. “It’s meditative for me and it gets your heart rate going, it gets your metabolism going and it’s really been a game changer.”
She adheres to intermittent fasting
The Hairspray star told GMA that she and Burningham also utilize intermittent fasting, the keto diet, Pilates, and sleep tracking. “This is a lifestyle change. I’ve made this my job. And it’s become my joy,” she said. “Like, I just, I love it. I think it’s safe to say I’m in the best shape of my life.”
She really wants people to know that they can thrive in mid-life. “It’s so funny that because when you’re in your 50s, you’re supposed to be going sort of down, it’s all downhill from here,” she said. “I feel the opposite, I feel the healthiest I’ve ever felt, the fittest and I have a beautiful partner that I share my life with. I pinch myself every day.”
She focuses on feeling good
Aside from raw determination, her two biggest motivators on this journey are self-love and the desire to maintain vitality. “Love yourself first above everything else,” she told People. “Like honestly, come to a place of real self-love and self-acceptance and I think good things come from that.”
She continued, adding that she’s not focusing on “a number on a scale”: “It’s really about feeling as good as we can for as long as we can.”
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