Simon Cowellis opening up about his decision to go on a strict vegan diet — and why that hasn’t stopped him from drinking and smoking.
Cowell decided to change his diet after a trip to the doctor.
“I went to see this doctor in London. We did some tests. And then a month later he said, ‘You have the worst diet I’ve ever met from any patient,’ ” Cowell recalled to DeGeneres, 61. “So I went, ‘Okay, out of the smoking, the drinking, and diet, what do I have to drop?’ And he said, ‘The diet.’ So I said, ‘I’m in!’ ”
Since then, Cowell has lost at least 20 lbs.
His new diet — which he said restricts him from eating “pretty much all the things I loved” — wasn’t as difficult to adopt, thanks in part to his 5-year-oldson Eric.
“It was easier than I thought, and part of the reason I did it was because of Eric,” he said of his son with girlfriendLauren Silverman. “I realized if I didn’t sort myself out physically, I wouldn’t be able to catch up with him. Because the minute he gets up to the minute he goes to sleep … their energy, you forget, at 5-years-old, is phenomenal.”
“It’s like the Eric diet because he actually, apart from ice cream, he actually likes water,” Cowell previously toldExtra. “I mean, who likes water? And his raw vegetables. So I’m on like, the Eric Cowell diet.”
Simon Cowell.Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
Cowell’s new slimmed-down figure follows ascary incident in October 2017that he said served as a wake-up call.
The star was rushed to the hospital after he fainted and fell down the stairs while trying to get himself a glass of hot milk during a bout of insomnia.
He later explained that his fall was due to low blood pressure.
“Sometimes we get a reminder that we’re not invincible and this was certainly mine. It was a huge shock,” he toldThe Sun. “I have got to really take good care of myself to sort that out.”
TheEllen DeGeneresShowairs weekdays in syndication.
source: people.com
