DoctorOz: Fat Joe's Incredible 100+ Pound Weight Loss Journey & Life Change | Oz Health

Sometimes the fame and fortune of the music industry means living large in more ways than one. Today, an important hip-hop health summit with some of the biggest names in hip-hop coming forward about a new rapper revolution, a move away from excess towards healthy eating and living. One of the best known rappers of all time, Fat Joe is here today to reveal how he lost the fat, changing his body and his mindset. Reporting from the front lines of the hip-hop health crisis is Fox 5's Lisa Evers. You gotta love every nasty thing he says. Listen, Lisa's here with Styles P and Jadakiss in a few minutes, but this hip-hop health summit's gonna start with a man, a large than life persona, who's recently dropped 100 pounds. Please welcome five-time Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist, Fat Joe. Oh my goodness. God bless you for being here. I'm so proud to have you. You look amazing. And they're proud of you. Dr. Oz, it's an honor to be here with Dr. Oz. I've always watched your show with my wife, with my family, and we love the work you do and bringing the health message out there to the community. So I really want y'all to know, I'm honored to be here with Dr. Oz. This is a big deal for me. God bless you. Thank you. Well, there's so much to talk about. I mean, I first saw you actually in action helping kids learn about their bodies. And what's so important about hip-hop getting engaged in this is you guys tell the truth. That's the essence of the genre. So when you tell kids the truth about their lives, they listen to you. But I'm gonna start with you. I see you walk out here. You got a swagger to you. You gotta look. Do you feel as good as you look right now? Yeah, I feel as good as I look. And I'm trying to feel even better, Dr. Oz. And you gotta keep it real with yourself. Let's go back a second. Your weight was part of your persona, right? You named yourself Fat Joe. Well, you know, I was always Fat Joey from Forest Projects in the Bronx, you know? I don't think a skinny Joe ever existed, man. But you tipped the scale of 460 pounds at your heaviest. Even more, Doc. Even more. We would go, me and Big Pun, rest in peace, you know, you go to Sizzlers and, you know, you put your plate on top of the tray. We would take the plate off and fill up the whole tray. So a lot of guys that come from where I come from, you make money, you start thinking you want to eat lobsters and drinking bottles of champagne. You're doing it big. But the truth is, you're doing more damage to yourself. But take me back to that point. Your first solo album comes out, Represent. You go from being well-known in the South Bronx to becoming worldwide in your appeal. And you have access to everything. So where are the pitfalls there? There's too much pitfalls. There's too much pitfalls from then to now, Doctor. I was like, everybody always seems to want to eat, to meet, to talk, to do. It's like, I'm addicted to food. So if I'm riding in the highway and I see a McDonald's sign, it's like McDonald's fries is chasing me. They break dancing. And we got to try our best to stay away from that. So in my house, we don't have none of those temptations. You know, my wife, she's very health conscious, so we don't even bring it in the house. So let me talk about this wake up call you had. 2000. Joe was scheduled to perform on SNL, Saturday Night Live, with two of his closest friends, Jennifer Lopez and Big Pun, who you just mentioned a few seconds ago. Big Pun canceled at the last minute. Two days later, you received the devastating news. He had passed. We were young, right? So when you're young, you think you're invincible. And so we got to teach the youth from now. Well, how did it affect you? Big Pun was 28 years old, weighed 700 pounds, has a heart attack, respiratory failure. These three kids behind, and a wife. I went on what I call a where I ain't eaten nothing for like a whole year. And I started working out at the YMCA, so I lost about 100 pounds. So what's been the key to what's on your road to success? What are the obvious? Education is key, Dr. Oz. That's why we love you so much and we appreciate what you do. So education is key. So a lot of people, a lot of people. So diabetes is like the VIP, the express lane to death, right? And people don't realize, some people say, yo, I don't have a sweet tooth. I don't have, I don't eat all this junk food. But when you, when you go to a Spanish restaurant, they put bread with butter on the table. Once you eat that bread, it turns into sugar in the body. Then you eat the rice, beans, and God forbid you eat fried chicken or something like that. But let's just say the rice and beans and platanos, that's all sugar in your body. Then when you turn around and you eat a dessert or something like that, God forbid you drink two sodas, you're done. You're recipe for death. So we got to stay away from the carbs. What I mean by carbs, I mean rice, bread, spaghetti, potatoes, all of that we got to do away with. So we got to eat meats. If you're into eating meats, fish, chicken, but you got to, you got to lace it with greens. That's the only way you're going to live. The carbs are the killer, Doc. You want to co-host the show from now on? I mean, I would love to. I'm in. I'm in. I tell you, you got it. All right. So we've got a mutual friend, E.J. Callard, who, uh, you know, I, I gather he and others are looking at you and saying, if Fat Joe can do it, we can do it. Callard is my little brother. I discovered him and he, uh, one day he called me up and he said, what's the gimmick? What's the secret? And I said, what you mean? What's the gimmick? Nah, you got a secret. Your, your, your neck is skinny. So I'm like, yeah. So I said, he's possessed with this neck skinny thing, right? So I said, Callard, man, there's no other gimmick. We got to stay off the carbs. You got to work out. So he had weight watches, help them with the diet. I, I put some, uh, workout routines with and I kept calling them every day, FaceTiming them every day. And now he lost close to 50 pounds. So that's what I did to Callard. Before we go to break, one question about someone else you care a lot about. J-Lo. Oh, I love J-Lo. She's, she's a machine. She is a machine. Uh, she's probably going to go down as the best looking older woman ever, like ever. She might. Yeah, she is. It's Halle Berry. There's a couple of them, Halle Berry and a couple of them, but I think J-Lo's going to win. So are you going to the wedding with A-Rod? I would love, if she invites me, I'm going 1 million percent. I think it's a beautiful couple, her and A-Rod. He's handsome. She's beautiful. They're good. They're handsome. All right. 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