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“I spend months on end depressed …
I just sit around disgusted with myself,” he confessed.

In fact, even sex was a struggle.
However, he wasn’t about to just give up on his dream.
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“I feel really good,“Jelly Roll said of his transformationtoPeoplein April 2024.
He’s already on his next goal, which is to keep his weight down long-term.

He also ticked off a major item from his bucket list.
“I’m ready to go,” Jelly Roll captioned the Instagram reel.
“I believe in myself.
… 5K by May baby!
I’m in [sic]!”
My goal is to be able to do a 15-minute mile,” he informed the magazine.
“Whenever I started doing this, I couldn’t walk a mile [sic].
So the fact that we got 3.1 [miles]…
I feel really, really good.”