KATHY BATES LOST 100 POUNDS THANKS TO 'MINDFUL' EATING

Academy Award winner Kathy Bates is gearing up to star in the new CBS reboot Matlock, which premieres later this month. But she's also opening up about life off-screen—including her recent weight loss.

The 76-year-old has lost 100 pounds over the past six years, she shared in a new interview with Variety. “It’s helped me tremendously,” she said. “I don’t think I’ve been this slim since I was in college.”

Here’s what Kathy has shared about her weight loss, plus how she did it.

How did Kathy Bates lose weight?

Kathy didn’t reveal to Variety how she lost the weight, but she has shared in previous interviews that she made tweaks to her diet.

The results were well worth it, with Kathy saying that she's "never been in such good health."

"I just had a physical. I’m doing great," she told Us Weekly at WebMD's Health Heroes event in 2019. "I feel like a completely different person. I can move, I can walk. I just wish I had done it years ago."

She began her health journey while ‘facing diabetes.’

Kathy struggled with health complications from her weight while starring in the 2011 NBC drama Harry’s Law. “I had to sit down every moment that I could,” she told Variety. “It was hard for me to walk.”

So, she started losing weight a few years later. In 2019, Kathy had lost 60 pounds after a health scare.

“I was facing diabetes,” she told Extra. “It runs in my family, and I really didn’t want to live with that.” At the time, Kathy said that she was “in the best health I’ve been in years, and I’m so grateful,” adding, “it’s a miracle.”

She credits conscious eating with her weight loss.

In 2019, she credited "mindfulness" with her transformation. "Just knowing when to push my plate away," she told Us.

Kathy even learned a hack from her niece that helped her to lose weight. "After you eat for 20-30 minutes, you experience an involuntary sigh," she said. "It’s communication between stomach and brain telling you you had enough…and what I discovered is if you listen to that sigh and push that plate away for just five minutes, you realize you’re satisfied and you don’t have to eat more."

But the results didn't happen overnight, with Kathy telling the publication that she was "really patient."

"It took a few years," she said. "I don’t like the word willpower, but I like the word determination."

It’s affected her post-cancer lymphedema.

Kathy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003 and breast cancer in 2012. After undergoing a double mastectomy to treat her breast cancer, she's struggled with lymphedema, a chronic condition that causes swelling in the body because of a collection of fluid.

Kathy shared that you can “swell horribly” from lymphedema, but changing her diet and exercise routine helped, she told People in 2018.

Now, Kathy’s feeling great after her health journey. “I’m ashamed I let myself get so out of shape, but now I have a tremendous amount of energy,” she told Variety.

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