Soap actress Lisa Riley is best known for playing the role of Mandy Dingle in the long running ITV soap opera Emmerdale since 1995
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! hopeful Lisa Riley has been open about her impressive 12 stone weight loss and how she managed to achieve it. The actress has been honest over the years about how she was able to go from a size 28 to a size 12 in just 18 months.
She has explained in the past about the techniques she used to shed 12 stone which included cutting out snacking. The star traded her usual takeaways for regular gym workouts and healthier food options.
But now the star could be taking on quite a different diet as she is rumoured to be on the next series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! Lisa could be swapping her usual meals for rice and beans when she enters the jungle.
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She may also try some other odd foods during the Bushtucker trials which are known for offering delicacies such as fish eyeballs and kangaroo testicles. Lisa has been candid about her previous weight loss journey and said it wasn’t without its difficult aspects as Lisa found herself dealing with painful folds of excess skin, weighing more than 1.5 stone in total.
Lisa previously appeared on This Morning in 2017 when she talked about the weight loss as well as her documentary Lisa Riley’s Baggy Body Club.
The actress spoke to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield about what she did to have a healthier lifestyle. Lisa said: “What happened was I decided to lose weight for me. Everything I had tried previously didn’t work.
“I did Slimming World all those sorts of things didn’t work for me and probably because I wasn’t being honest and dedicated to myself and then I kind of took myself out of the limelight and I was on holiday in Singapore and I put a picture on Twitter of me celebrating Chinese New Year.
“Next thing I was on the cover of every single magazine infiltrated about how have you done it and I just did it for me and I was patient and I had to realise all the mistakes I had made year after year.”
She was asked then what an “honesty diet” is as she explained that it is being “realistic” about what you are eating. Lisa said she would fill out a diary each night saying what foods she had eaten which meant she could visualise what she was consuming.
She said this helped as it made her realise that some days she was eating too much and not making the healthiest choices.
Lisa found that when she lost the weight, she was left with loose skin which she struggled with. She explained that there were times that she found the skin painful.
Lisa told her fans: “When I made the decision to lose weight, I never for one second imagined that I would end up looking like that.
“It never occurred to me that the loose skin would be so bad. I thought why on earth have I lost all this weight? I looked worse than I did when I was obese. And it was the pain as well. The skin was flapping about and dragging.”
Lisa is one of the celebrities to be rumoured to be starring in the 2025 series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! ITV are yet to confirmed who will be heading into the jungle but Lisa could be one of them.
Speaking exclusively to the Mirror with Buzz Bingo, the Emmerdale icon has teased they could be onto something. She said: “I’d have a ball in the jungle. Just because I love people. I like to learn from people.
“I like to know why people are like they are. So, would I think about the trials? Probably not. I’d think about who am I going to be with, and can we have a really good time and have a really good laugh.”
Source: Mirror
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