Mike & Molly’s Billy Gardell reveals he no longer has diabetes following 150-pound weight loss
Mike & Molly’s Billy Gardell Reveals He’s No More Diabetes After 150 Pound Weight Loss…Two Years After Gastric Bypass Surgery
- Billy Gardell, 53, weight loss transformation helped him get rid of his type 2 diabetes
- The married father of one underwent gastric bypass surgery two years ago
- Gardell said his healthier self has helped his relationship with his 20-year-old son
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Billy Gardell revealed he no longer has diabetes following his impressive 150lb weight loss following gastric bypass surgery in 2021.
The 53-year-old actor, who weighed a whopping 370 pounds at his heaviest and suffered from type 2 diabetes, decided it was time to take better care of himself and his family.
As he reflected on sticking to a healthier lifestyle to slim down, he was elated that he could finally buy clothes from stores and that his diet consisted of “small but very healthy” meals.
“I think you have to find peace with yourself and look in the mirror at some point and you know, it’s probably time to take care of you,” the Mike & Molly star shared Entertainment tonight.
He continued, “Then I didn’t get that note early. So I’m a big believer that if you get it, you get it. It doesn’t matter when. As long as you get it.’
Trimmer than ever: Billy Gardell revealed he is no longer a diabetic following his impressive 150lb weight loss following gastric bypass surgery in 2021
As of now, the father of a child, who stated that he “floats between 205 and 210” pounds, is “walking around pretty healthy” these days.
While he said it was “a real gift” to be able to find clothes more easily, Gardell explained that “the health stuff” was “the most important thing.”
In addition to being free of type 2 diabetes, his “resting heart rate went from 113 to 68.”
“I eat like all the people I made fun of, to be honest,” he joked. “I’ve had my fill and now I’m at the place where I can take a few bites of something decadent if I want.”
Gardell told readers that “self-care is important,” but admitted that his latest vice he’s trying to quit is “smoking cigarettes.”
For those considering gastric bypass surgery, the Pennsylvania resident said the surgery is just “the beginning.”
“Because what you need to commit to on the flip side is what you need to look at…if you’re not willing to commit to that routine.” Do not do it. But if you’re willing to put in the effort every day, the proof is in the pudding,” he concluded.
He also contributed to fatherhood as it motivated him to take steps to live longer and attend all of his 20-year-old son William’s biggest milestones.
“I have a kid, and when you turn 50, you start calculating that dad, like, ‘If I can live another 25 years, he’ll be 40. So I want to be there for him,'” he noted.
“I think you have to find peace with yourself and look in the mirror at some point and you know, it’s probably time to take care of you,” the Mike & Molly star told Entertainment Tonight; seen in 2011
Gardell then reflected on how he has been “an example to” a child in many good ways, but not “a good example of health to him.”
“And so I want him to see that it doesn’t matter how old you are. If you are willing to do something every day, you can change everything. That’s the message I wanted to give him,” said the artist.
Gardell is best known for starring in Sullivan & Son and Bob Hearts Abishola, as well as the voice of Santa Claus in Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas.
He has been married to wife Patty Knight since 2001.
Prolific Career: Gardell is best known for starring in Sullivan & Son and Bob Hearts Abishola, as well as the voice of Santa Claus in Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (seen alongside Melissa McCarthy in Mike & Molly)