Mo’Nique has a lot to celebrate.
The 50-year-old comedian now weights under 200 pounds, the first time ever as an adult.
“I said that I would share this new journey with y’all on the weight loss and getting healthy,” she said in an Instagram video posted Thursday. “Today was the first time in my adult life that I’ve been under 200 pounds, so I wanted to let you all know it’s possible and you can do it and we can get there.”
Mo’Nique showed in her post that the scale read 198.4, a number she hasn’t seen since she was 17 years old. Mo’Nique has been documenting her workouts on social media in the midst of being at the center of a Netflix controversy and explained that the rules for weight loss were simple but it took hard work to get where she is now.
“For me it was no surgery, no prepackaged foods, not listening to no spokespeople saying ‘it’s easy and you can do it,’” she explained in her video. “It was just putting in the work and not giving up on me … it’s called giving yourself a chance to live the best life you can live.”
As for exactly how she did it? Mo’Nique credits raw food and “dancing the pounds off” with the help of her trainer, Dwight Holt Jr.
Watch her video below.
