Will Smith Tells Us How He Lost All That Weight

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Will Smith was tired of being called a "Pudge Muffin" due to his weight gain, so he decided to do something about it.

Smith opened up about his weight during an appearance on "Red Table Talk," a show hosted by his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

Smith says that after he finished playing the Genie in the live-action Aladdin, he ballooned to 225. That weight was more than he gained for shooting Ali.

What was getting to him was the muffins:

“So for breakfast, I was having the four or five muffins. You know, Aladdin was successful, so I was like muffin, muffin, muffin.”

It was muffins and alcohol.

“Then for lunch, I would have a Moscow mule, I’d have a little vodka. That was pretty much my routine for the 10 days. I’d wake up, eat five muffins and go back to sleep.”

That's when the nickname "Pudge Muffin" cropped up, and that was his wake-up call.

He says to lose weight, he decided to fast for 10 days. That didn't go well.

“I did it and I got to about four days and I’m [mimes passing out] because I was still taking my blood pressure medicine. So I started taking my blood pressure medicine and my blood pressure was almost way dangerously low.”

“So I stopped taking my blood pressure medicine and my blood pressure normalized for the 10 days and I felt as good as I had ever felt."

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That reaction gave Smith pause.

“And I started thinking, I’ve been taking blood pressure medicine for almost a decade and I was thinking ‘do I have high blood pressure or was I eating myself into high blood pressure?' ”

That's when he realized he basically didn't know how to eat right.

At least now he does, and he's looking great.