Lizzo Explains Her ‘Weight Release,’ Pushes Back on ‘Skinny’ Label: ‘I Am Well Over 200 Pounds’

Lizzo stands by her decision to refer to dropping pounds as a "weight release."

The four-time Grammy winner, who will soon release her fifth album Love In Real Life, was a guest on 105.1 show The Breakfast Club on Monday (May 12). Around the 1:30 mark of the interview, she detailed how her "weight release" process began.

"I think I had to start with cleaning out my mind and my energy and clearing out all of the negativity around me. And I feel like I released so much I was holding on," the musician said.

Lizzo added that the release started to "manifest physically" and that she started to become "snatched" beginning with her mindset.

"I do call it a weight release because [when] it started, I got snatched here first," Lizzo said while pointing to her forehead. "And then my body just followed suit so I do feel amazing."

The artist added that along with losing weight, she also let go off "toxicity," and that she first did Pilates before other forms of exercise like yoga sculpting, hiking and pickleball.

Around the 41-minute mark, Lizzo slammed those who criticize her weight loss, also sharing that she considers herself "big."

"The internet is like, 'Oh Lizzo's skinny now," she said. "I am well over 200 pounds, do you know what I'm saying? I'm five-foot-nine."

Lizzo also said that she realized how much she slimmed down while filming the "Love In Real Life" music video. "I was in shock. It shocked me, because the way that I'm releasing weight has been a long slow process," she continued. "People may not have seen me or been keeping up with me, but I've been posting about it, and I'm in a calorie deficit, so that's the one that sneaks up on you."

Lizzo has talked about her health changes for months, and in an April episode of podcast On Purpose With Jay Shetty, she detailed the gradual process of her "intentional weight release."

"So when I pop out on a red carpet or when a video suddenly goes viral and my body is different, it appears like it was overnight," she told Shetty in the episode. "It appears sudden. And I think that was shocking to a lot of people because now the headline is 'Lizzo's skinny,' which is a far cry from the truth because I'm not."