Before reading any further, you must know this: Drew Barrymore lost 20 pounds for the Santa Clarita Diet, not on the Santa Clarita diet.
In Barrymore’s latest role, she plays Sheila, a woman who develops a strange illness that brings on an interesting new craving. She is now on “an all-protein diet… consisting of human flesh,” the actress said to TODAY.
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The sitcom began while Barrymore was in a time of person struggle, dealing with a public divorce from Will Kopelman and learning to navigate life as a single mom. Barrymore admits she ‘let herself go’ and that Santa Clarita Diet was a way not only to get back to work, but to take control of her health inside and out.
“[The show] turned out to be this great thing I got to escape into, lose 20 pounds, get liberated with Sheila and kind of have this physical transformation,” Barrymore told Magic Radio. “It gave me a lot of goals and things that weren’t just like showing up to work every day. I had to do things to be her that were actually very positive for my real life.
“If a woman is just eating simple protein, everyday all day long, she would lose weight. It’s like a very macabre Atkins,” she explained, and decided to lose weight as her character would.
How’d she do it?
The 41-year-old actress went from 144 to 124 pounds throughout the filming of Santa Clarita Diet by following nutritionist Kimberly Snyder’s methods with some tweaks. “I added some protein like fish and chicken since [Snyder] is all vegetarian or vegan,” Barrymore told Us Weekly.
Barrymore slimmed down by rocking through a variety of workout classes from hip hop to hiking and hot yoga. She also drinks 64 ounces of water per day, which happens to be her best secret for clear, glowing skin!
Even with these healthy lifestyle changes, the actress says those naughty cravings will never subside. “I’ve been very disciplined and all I did was cry and dream about pizza. I still am dreaming and crying about pizza.”
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