Adele’s Weight Loss Quotes: Everything She’s Said About Diet and Exercise After Losing 100 Lbs

Me Time

In a 2021 interview with Vogue, Adele revealed that a “Year of Anxiety” amid her divorce sparked her fitness journey.

“I realized that when I was working out, I didn’t have any anxiety,” she shared. “It was never about losing weight. I thought, ‘If I can make my body physically strong, and I can feel and see that, then maybe one day I can make my emotions and my mind physically strong.”

She revealed that her workouts began with working out her back and stomach before transitioning to full body exercises. “[She was] going to town on the elliptical,” the Vogue interviewer dished. “[She] proceeded through every weight machine.”

It Doesn’t Happen Overnight!

“I think one of the reasons people lost the plot was because, actually, it was over a two-year period,” the London native told British Vogue.

A Fitness Addiction

“It was never about losing weight,” Adele explained. “It was always about becoming strong and giving myself as much time every day without my phone. I got quite addicted to it. I work out two or three times a day.”

Spilling Her Secrets

“I do my weights in the morning, then I normally hike or I box in the afternoon, and then I go and do my cardio at night,” Adele shared in 2021. “I was basically unemployed when I was doing it and I do it with trainers. It’s not doable for a lot of people.”

Blocking Out the Noise

“People are shocked because I didn’t share my ‘journey,’” she realized. “They’re used to people documenting everything on Instagram and most people in my position would get a big deal with a diet brand. I couldn’t give a flying f–k. I did it for myself and not anyone else. So why would I ever share it? I don’t find it fascinating. It’s my body.”

All About the Exercise

“I haven’t done any diets,” Adele insisted. “Ain’t done that. No intermittent fasting. Nothing. If anything I eat more than I used to because I work out so hard.”

The Same on the Inside

Adele acknowledged that some fans were upset about her drastic body change. “I understand why it’s a shock,” she admitted. “I understand why some women, especially, were hurt. Visually, I represented a lot of women. But I’m still the same person.”

In a separate interview. she added, “I was body positive [before losing weight] and I’m body positive now. It’s not my job to validate how people feel about their bodies. I feel bad that it’s made anyone feel horrible about themselves, but that’s not my job.”

Balance, Baby!

After a brief hiatus from her Las Vegas residency at the end of 2023 and beginning of 2024, Adele revealed that she was ready to grind again.

“I have done absolutely nothing since last weekend,” she said in January 2024, per The Mirror. “I am back at my gym grind like nobody’s business. I am doing two or three sessions a day. My ass is getting rock solid again. I can move mountains with my bum. That’s all I have done.”

However, she also admitted that she was indulging more than she had been previously. “I gave up drinking, coffee and all the fun things being an adult allows you to do. I was so boring,” she shared. “So on my last break, I was like, ‘I will have a glass of wine and four espressos.’ So now I am back on shows, I am only allowing myself to drink on Sundays. But it is OK. Four or five white wine spritzers get me absolutely hammered and also I order McDonalds and forget the next day so it doesn’t really count.”