Kim Kardashian has been on a big weight loss kick for the past year, year-and-a-half. I don’t know why, but I suspect it has something to do with the fact that she’s so happy that she’ll never have to go through another pregnancy again. Nowadays, it feels like Kim is the slimmest she’s ever been. Kim chatted with E! News (via People) this week about how she’s recently lost 20 pounds through diet and exercise. Some highlights:
How she lost 20 lbs: “I work out about an hour-and-a-half every single day, heavy weights. I don’t do a lot of cardio. But honestly, like even my mom pulled me aside maybe a week ago and pulls me in a closet and is like, ‘What are you doing?’ She says, ‘I don’t care what, I just need to know.’ I’ve been working out really hardcore with a bodybuilder for one year. September is our one-year anniversary. I’ve lost 20 pounds and I’m really proud of that. I was almost 140 forever and now I’m like 116 and it just feels good. I didn’t see results right away, but when you stick with something and you’re consistent, you will. So, I love it.”
How she changed her diet: “I don’t really eat sugar the way that I used to. It doesn’t really do it for me. I’ve kind of been trained to just eat a lot healthier than I used to. I used to just eat anything and everything and I loved it. And so I really do control that now. … I don’t want to ruin it by just stuffing my face.”
Her one sweet indulgence: “I love Häagen-Dazs ice cream. That’s like my one go-to.”
The rest of that People piece is an interview with her trainer and dietician, and I was startled by the fact that Kim isn’t pretending to be vegan or anything like that – she’s just cutting out a lot of sugar and processed foods, eating lots of veggie and lean meats (like chicken) and regular stuff like that. I’ve actually been wondering if a more weights-intense workout might be good for me, for a change of pace and because I’m getting to the age where I just can’t do cardio like I once could. Like, my feet hurt, my body hurts and I think I’m just burned out on the treadmill and stationary bike. Maybe I’ll do a week or two of just intensive weights and see if I miss the cardio. Hm. That is, if you believe that Kim’s transformation is entirely about exercise and diet.
… Also, just know that I don’t enjoy being this person, but I actually think Kim looks awful at this weight. Her body looks good, for sure, but she just looked younger, happier and more comfortable when she was closer to 140 lbs.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
She looks good, but she’d look better if she got rid of the fake ass that is wildly out of proportion with her small frame.
And if she dressed nice. She constantly picks the worst for her kind of body, her clothes always make her look weird, not pretty.
i was thinking those booty implants are the “heavy weights” she has been lifting…
I was looking around and saw a pic of her last night in that dress with her Spanx showing! Lol, and she thought she was so slick. There she was pulling down the dress. So funny. Don’t worry, nobody saw!!
Yep.Those fake hip’s and butt are ridiculous.I am not really felling the new haircut or wig and the bad work she has had on her face.
I could care less about Kim and her constant talk about her body and weight….but I NEED NEED NEED that French fry purse.
It might be Moschino. They’re the only brand I can think of that does stuff like that
It’s a Judith Lieber purse apparently. Retails for $5k. I love it.
It’s a Judith Leiber “Rainbow Fries” purse and costs just shy of $6,000! It’s cute.
I’ve thought the same thing about her weight. Pre-children Kim and I have the same measurements and I know if I ever lost that amount of weight I’d look insane. Small frame weight doesn’t work on a medium frame girl. It makes her face look old.
Truth truth. I have a medium frame and some things are better accepted. I’ve been carrying an extra 5-10 lbs the last couple years and have saved thousands of dollars in facial fillers because I don’t need them.
First, her head in that last picture looks too big for her body (maybe the way the photo was taken). Also, show the guns or I don’t believe she works out with heavy weights.
Women don’t gain muscle all that easily.
If she’s doing it every day as claimed she would build some muscle. With women, it’s use it or lose it.
When I spent a semester in college at a national lab, weakling me had to deal with big liquid nitrogen tanks a couple of times per day. They were shaped like a short cylinder with a truncated cone on top. I would have to tip them over to fill the dewars (like thermoses) until the tanks were half empty, then after that point I had to lift them up to pour the liquid nitrogen.
When I got home, just that much unusual “weight lifting” was enough so all of a sudden, my brother’s stereo set was light as a feather to me. Before, I struggled to lift it even a little. Just a few minutes each day, either tipping or lifting a heavy tank, was enough to have an effect. The overload makes the difference, apparently, not the time spent.
I have no idea if Kim is telling the truth about lifting heavy weights or what she considers heavy or what her arms and legs should look like if she’s being truthy. But she’s a pathological liar and so it’s reasonable to be a little skeptical without good proof. I’m surprised she hasn’t spread around videos of herself doing all this, although of course weights can be faked.
Yeah nah. She fixed her implants in her butt, and lipoed her waist some more. The exercise she claims she’s doing would leave her with more muscle definition. Plus I don’t think it’s possible to lose 20 pounds on small weights and better food alone. Maybe 7 or 10, but unless she added some cardio in there (which she says she didn’t) then nope.
As for looking better at her older weight I don’t think it’s the weight so much as the fact that she’s ruining her face with the fillers. Add in the spray tans that age you at that color and the severe middle parts and yeah
Thank you.
She’s full of it, as usual.
Always is. Also hola minx hope you’ve been doing well 😊👋🏾👋🏾
Back to work so busy!
Yeah sorry no Kim. I don’t gain muscle easily either, but if she’s doing 90 minutes “every single day” she’d have some muscle tone somewhere. She’s just been lipo-ing the f out of herself. Now, I’ll believe she doesn’t eat much. I don’t think the same things that bring regular people joy make her happy. While the rest of us are eating dinner she probably looks at photos of herself photoshopped to look thinner.
You’re not even supposed to do heavy weights every day! She’s lying so hard.
I don’t she was ever 140 lbs. unless she was pregnant. We certainly would’ve noticed as she’s so short. So nothing new here, just more BS out of a Kardashian mouth, something like Khloe saying, “I bust my butt at the gym.”
@Leigh-Klein I am built very similarly to KK, and I was well over 140, but no one would ever have guessed because it was well-distributed. I lost neary 20 pounds and it was a noticeable, but not dramatic change in my physique. It sounds cray, but tis but too true!
@ AV I’m sure your body is real, too. 🙂 I don’t believe anything that comes out of a Kardashian mouth.
@lynnie I hate to be contradictory, but I lost close to 30 lbs by cutting out sugar and doing much of the same diet that Kim claims she is on. I do not go to a gym but my job is pretty physically active in that I lift heavy boxes and haul them around all day. So it can be done. However, I do not believe Kim simply because she lies about everything and practically lives in her surgeon’s office, and she is also known for repping all manner of diet products.
Congrats on your weight loss! =)
Lynnie and I are in agreement. She sucked some of the filler out of her ass and her stomach and outer thighs. You can tell a lipo belly: it’s just preternaturally flat but undefined. She may be on a diet, but when you lift heavy weights, your weight actually can go up, even though you look slimmer. I do HIIT classes and kickboxing and have put on a bunch of muscle and lost fat and feel fantastic but I weigh more than I ever have. Kim is fundamentally lazy and I don’t see her working out 1.5 hrs a day.
This. My weight went up when I started heavy lifting. Also, my jeans got tight in the thighs. As soon as I curtailed my workout, my weight dropped and my pants fit better. She’s not telling the truth.
Yeah, that’s what I thought too: no muscle definition whatsoever. I started working out more recently. I haven’t lost any weight, but even if I’m still chubby, my legs and arms are definitely more toned and I can see the muscles move while I walk, grab stuff, etc. and I don’t do heavy weight, just mid-range stuff (I’m afraid of tearing something by going too heavy). So yeah, I’m sure she’s dieting and exercising (and got lipo), but she doesn’t have the muscle tone of someone doing lots of weight exercises
Kim lies about EVERYTHING, but regarding weight loss, I lost 40 lbs from severely reducing sugar, cutting my portions, and going for walks 5 days a week. I’m 5’0″, overweight, and was 68 yrs old at the time. My metabolism improved and my appetite decreased—no shocker, since no one suffers from broccoli and kale cravings. Sad to say, I have since regained 25 lbs. from eating tons of sugar and walking seldom.
@ Funfactor- YOU ARE SOOOOO INSPIRING! I’m 58, had a gastric bypass a month ago, and I’ve been having a HELL of a time being motivated to MOVE, let alone WALK…I lost almost 60 lbs before the surgery. Losing weight wasn’t my primary reason to have the surgery; “reversing” my Type 2 diabetes and getting to throw out 2 different insulins and my boxes of syringes, was.
Alas, that hasn’t happened yet, I feel my entire body is screaming
“W.T.F. BISH!!!!”
and is holding on to the weight, the high blood sugars, for dear life. Although I’m doing everything ‘right’, eating the right foods in the correct amounts; fastidiously logging everything going into my mouth in a phone app AND a written log, drinking enough water (NO DIET DR PEPPER, Y’ALL!!!) AND my body is melting before my eyes, not much difference on the scale nor my blood sugar meter.
I knew that exercise was the missing leg on the “stool” but I chose my old way of coping with frustration by sitting on my arse and having a pity party. YOUR POST spoke directly to me-when you make changes, your body responds. Even “mature” ones, LOL 🤣
Thanks so much 💖🎶
Rav- be patient, it’s only been a month. Your body needs time to adjust to all the changes and how long it needs is very individual. Just keep doing whatever you think you should be doing, forget about the scale and have faith.
Yes she has had something done to her waist.It’s smaller now that it has ever been.If you noticed all of her recent picture’s of her she is showing off her waist all the time.Fake,fake,fake!.
I’m confused, doesn’t heavy weight lifting make you weigh more as muscle weighs more? I mean I thought it may not show on the scale as much but you would lose inches instead and look smaller and sculpted. Ooh now it is 116 she was bragging on 119 at first.
If you lose a pound of fat and gain a pound of muscle, it equals out. But at the amount she says she does I would think the muscle gain outweighs the fat loss. When I was at my thinnest (visual wise) when I was younger, I was my heaviest (weight wise).
Yes. Exactly what I was going to say. Muscle weighs more than fat. She doesn’t look muscular like someone who’s a heavy weight lifter, she just looks thinner. She might have changed her diet, but I don’t believe she’s a weight lifter, espescially not an everyday heavy weight lifter
Heavy is a relative term (its probably moderate), and Lipo is like a teeth cleaning to this family. Helps even out the numbers if it’s being removed.
Bobblehead!
You shouldn’t be doing serious weight lifting every day – your muscles need the recovery time to grow!
I mean, you do you Kim – we all know this body shape is mostly courtesy of your plastic surgeon. No one should be looking to a Kardashian about the truth behind their bodies
I’m no expert, but can’t you alternate days when you do heavy weights, i.e., upper body one day, lower body the next, and so on? In which case, you’re doing heavy weights everyday.
Having said that, she doesn’t have the muscle tone of someone who does heavy weights for an hour and a half every. single. day. I know women who lift heavy weights multiple times a week, and they are seriously toned, muscular, and kick-ass.
I think she has lost weight, and maybe it is the sugar. She had the uneven hip fixed…lol. If she wants to look thin, and this seems to be her thing now, she should let the air out of the balloons and have her natural hips/butt, and be your typical lollipop girl, big head and stick body. She does have a tendency to get carried away, wouldn’t be surprised if she keeps dropping lbs just so she can post the pics. Damn, we all know too much about this chick.
her hip was never uneven it is just how the angle caught her as she was walking, that was such a dumb comment for him to make, it isn’t true
There’s just no way she weighs 116. I don’t think she has much fat on her, but that plastic surgery has to make her weigh more. I hate when people brag about how much they weigh, it’s not impressive.
Also, I wish I could cut out sugar. I’m so addicted, I wish I could go to rehab for it. I get the shakes when I try to cut it out one day 😭
Seriously, I have a massive sweet tooth. I like healthy food, too, but I love a good dessert. It’s a good thing I never learned how to bake.
All I can think when I see those clear plastic shoes are how much her feet must sweat and stink in them. Phew.
I think she looks healthier and that’s great. And, trust me, as someone with a hip replacement and birth defects that keep me from doing any major cardio, you absolutely can lose that kind of weight with weights resistance and diet, no problem.
However, I do agree there should be more definition in the muscles if she’s doing the weight resistance for and hour and a half every day. At her age she should have guns like kelly rippa with that much weight training. But, who knows with this family, there is no line between truth and fabrication so I’m not putting my money on this horse either way.
The Kardashians are a constant reminder to me of the lesson we all learned from George Costanza, “It’s not a lie if you believe it!”
Extra points for Seinfeld reference!!
We all should do some weight training because it builds muscle and protects our bones, especially important as we age and bones become more brittle. But you won’t lose 20 pounds just lifting weights. And you can’t start with “heavy” weights, you have to build up to them. And you can’t lift every day, unless you’re alternating between upper and lower body on different days. Lifting will build muscle, so you look more toned but muscle weighs more than fat so unless you’re doing something else in addition, you’re going to weigh the same. And any good trainer would have her doing some cardio prior to lifting to warm up the muscles.
“Sugar” means starchy foods, not just sweets, so she has cut out or cut down on breads, pastas, potatoes, squashes, even some beans and legumes because they’re high in starch and sugar.
I also suspect Kim’s “diet” was helped a lot by liposuction.
If she really lost that weight through lifestyle changes, it’s probably due more to the diet than anything else.
Weight lifting is important for women, though. It helps increase bone density, which is important because ours get dramatically more brittle after menopause.
That’s why I decided to start going to the gym. My family is prone to back pains and stuff like that and I was starting to feel some aches at the tender age of 30… So I decided to do some muscle building to help my core and my spine deal with the next (hopefully) 60 years or so. I actually really love weight training, much more than I like cardio (I hate, hate, hate running!), I’m trying to include a bit more cardio in my training though
If she’s careful about how she splits up her lifting regimen, one actually could do heavy weights 5x week. Chest, arms, back, shoulders, legs each day.
I’m sure she lost weight after upping her regiment…and getting that yearly liposuction…and possibly changing her implants…
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Kaiser, let me make the case for body weight exercises instead of a heavy weight routine! It is so. much. more. fun! I genuinely like all the weight stuff but the sense of accomplishment I felt after my very first chin-up (at the tender age of 38) was awesome.
People were asking me about rib removal on yesterday’s KK post, so I’ll respond here. Yes, there are definitely doctors who offer it. I’ve done my research (I’m fascinated by plastic surgery) and there are doctors in *Ohio* who perform rib removal. Of course there are L.A. doctors willing to remove ribs, e.g., maybe the ones who cut into a young Kylie Jenner? And no it’s not life threatening, but you are quite sore afterwards.
Rib removal results in a tighter waistline and makes your curves more pronounced. Often patients get liposuction at the same time to enhance the contour even more.
Thalia had ribs removed years ago. Many latin women do this.
Where’s the muscle definition then? There’s none.
Yes yes, the good old Kardashian diet. Lose weight in the arms, torso, and legs but NEVER in the breasts or butt. Ok Kim sure.
I must preface this by saying: I don’t believe anything the Kar/Jenner ladies claim.
BUT, I modified my eating to low/no carb no sugar and lost 15lbs in about 4 months and I wasn’t working out at all.
Unfortunately, I “relapsed” and starting eating pizza, pasta and potato chips again and gained it all back. 😿
When you LOVE FOOD it’s hard to not eat all the things that are SO GOOD! I have 3 donuts waiting for me to eat them right now. 😩😪
Prissa: first of all, how the heck did you manage to give up those foods for so long? I need advice LOL
Hi Cee! It took a lot of determination and seeing an old friend who modified her eating the same way and she had gotten so small (she was exercising too). I ended up going to the store all the time for fresh vegetables and consistently cooking ALL THE TIME. No fast food runs, no pizza or delivery. I would have black coffee in the morning with a tablespoon of coconut oil (no sugar / no creamer). And I would have veggies or pistachios for a snack. I was using lettuce to replace bread (even with hamburgers) and I cooked a lot of fish.
I learned so many neat recipes like zucchini chips and broccoli tots and I even did well over the holidays. It was Easter that I broke down and had homemade mac and cheese and that just snowballed into me going back to my old eating habits.
I would like to try to go back to eating that way someday soon. I just need to get determined again lol
@Kaiser Is there any possibility of you having access to a pool? I am not at all a fan of swimming, but I always advocate swimming as one of the best forms of exercise, especially for those who are having difficulty with their joints. Ellipticals are nice as well, though I still think swimming is a better workout. Good luck with your fitness goals!
Don’t tell me Kim actually picked up one or even two of her children ie “lifting weights”.
Kanye can admit to Lipo, so why can’t Kim lol? I think she loves having people hate her. The more she lies, the more attention she gets.
She looks like she lifts heavy. There is an obvious addition of muscle tone that she’s never had before. Sure, surgery played a role, but she actually worked for her current body.
90 minutes of exercise a day is unnecessary unless you’re a professional athlete. Which chica is most definitely not.
As you get older it’s not the sheer amount of time spent exercising but the quality of the exercise you’re doing. Weights, or even just body weight based exercises, are great for changing shape and toning up and you don’t need to do it for hours at a time. Plus, if you’re lifting properly, you’re less likely to injure yourself than from pure cardio based exercise.
She looks skinny, but she doesn’t look strong or toned.
There’s worse advice in the world to give, especially since the application for regular folks would naturally self select to a more reasonable weights routine. But yeah, she got corrective work done and as always is trying to pass it off as diet and exercise.
If you dont believe her, just look at her trainer, @fitgurlmel on Instagram. She is the proof that weight lifting reduces body weight. And after all, its all about calorie deficit. Whether your intake is lower than your expenditure. Easy as that. It doesnt really matter if you reach this with cardio or whatever else. Hate it that people think that only cardio means losing weight.
Muscles are heavier but take less space so you can actually look smaller without a significant weight loss. Muscle training is the way to go, in my experience. Cardio is great for fitness though.
Kaiser – I work out with a trainer 2 times a week. I sometimes work out alone but I’m bad at motivating myself to go to the gym. We do functional training and a lot of it is weight lifting and my body has changed so much! I have burned fat and my thighs and ass look smaller (I have a real ass, no lies in there) and just tighter and perkier.
I have now set a new goal for myself: clean eating (as in, no sugar and no processes foods) and 4 times a week work outs. I wanna see how far my body can take me. Exercise is truly something magnificent – you might resent it at first, but it becomes vital after some time.
Just remember that if you lift weights – especially heavy ones – you need to give your muscles time to heal in between workouts. If she’s working out heavily for that long every day, she might be losing muscle instead of gaining it.
She is LYING! Look at her arms, the arms are the easiest to tone, yet her arms look like that of an 80 year old. Soft and saggy. She needs to be called out for her blatant lying. Kim is the biggest liar I have seen on TV in a long time, even her family called her on it.
Nope. The arms are not the easiest to tone for everyone. I actually have a hard time toning mine yet my legs are hard as a rock after a month of training.
If she’s seriously been working out with a bodybuilder for a year doing 90 minutes a day she would have serious definition, and she doesn’t. She has no tone whatsoever. She probably lifts a few lbs and then takes a break to take a selfie, fix her makeup, and has the rest done by her surgeon. She’s decided now that she wants to be super skinny but if she’d really been working out and dieting like she says her ass of lies would’ve shrunk and surprise! It hasn’t…
The other day someone put a link of what she looked like when with Kris Humphries and OMG she really was so stunning (not to mention a completely different colour). Now I don’t know what she is, I don’t even think she knows what she is any more.
The Kris era face was the best face.
I personally think her Reggie bush era face was the best. She still had her original nose then. I still don’t understand why she messed with such an amazing nose.
As a person who does heavy lifting, i will say I lost 20 pounds just through diet and regular lifting (never 5 days a week though) and i am about her height. Everyone carries muscle differently, and she may lift, her liposuction is obvious. Her early 2000s frame was hourglass but never naturally this much. That being said, if she gets more women into the weight room that’s awesome! I weigh about 140 but everyone assumes I’m much less. So it is possible.
I thought the heavy lifting was in reference to Kanye’s ego. . .
Kim’s ego is just as big.
That’s true, too! 😀
She would have “selfied” all of her “daily” weight lifting workouts. She documents everything else, why not this? Because it’s not happening!
Exactly. I will believe her when I see her do a full hour and a half workout video. Not from 30 sec snapchat
She does, in fact, post many of her daily workouts.
Yes, heavy weights and HIIT training was what finally did it for my bod. But it’s super important to get a trainer, even for just a few weeks if you can’t afford a regularly scheduled trainer. Learning proper form and the right movements is key, both to prevent injuries and to see results.
I got into the best shape of my life after having 3 kids, all with classic bodybuilding moves (squats, lunges, bench press, Turkish getups, etc.) and HIIT.