POP megastar Ed Sheeran has revealed the secret behind his 5st weight loss.
The Shape Of You singer, 33, said being consistent with his fitness and diet is the key to his success.
The hitmaker piled on 4st while on “chicken wing” diet, before realising the unhealthy impacts of eating the deep-friend dish daily.
Appearing on Session 24 podcast, Ed shared: “I was in my fat phase, in America I used to think no carb meant no bread, no fries.
“I was like ‘I can eat chicken wings’ and I just ate chicken wings for a year and a half. And I put on 4st.
He then explained the how he’s maintained a healthy weight over the last four years.
“I’m prone to putting on a lot of weight and what I found is just going to the gym regularly and trying to portion size,” he continued.
“Like that lobster roll, it’s not a huge portion, you have that, you’re good.”
Host Jake Shane said: “I have this thing where I overeat, my friend says ‘would it kill us to go to bed hungry.”
Ed replied: “Yeah, I have that. I don’t have an off switch. If I have one thing to eat, the off switch is there.
“Like if I have that, then I won’t be like I need to order another and another.
“But if everything is in front of me then I will eat it.”
In 2019, Ed spoke to The Sun about the cruel jibes he had received from internet trolls.
At the time, he was called “chunky” and “fat” by anonymous keyboard warriors, leaving him feeling the need to lose weight.
At his heaviest, Ed said he’d got to 16st and admitted the cruel trolling intensified so much he quit Twitter in 2017.
He said: “I never had insecurities and people pointed them out — your brain starts thinking about them.”
He added: “It all stems from other people’s insecurities. So many people have things they’re insecure about so it makes them feel better to point out someone else’s.
“Because half the people that would point out that I’m fat are probably fat themselves.”
Supported by his wife Cherry, he started a rigorous diet and exercise regime to try to get fit.
Ed explained: “My problem was I’d go to the pub, have bangers and mash, a pie, maybe a pudding and then loads of pints. And then not exercise.
“My friends used to call me Two Dinners Teddy. On tour, it’s very easy to drink every single day because there’s always someone visiting.
“I had to make a real effort on the tour. I’m 12st now. I started running. I’ve got into cycling as well.”
Ed admitted his weight was the reason he shunned his early music videos. He added: “I wasn’t in my first three or four videos.
“I was the same sort of age as the One Direction boys and Justin Bieber and all these people who had six-packs and I was kind of like, ‘Oh should I look like this?’”
