When Melissa McCarthy stopped thinking so much about her weight, she started seeing the pounds melt away. “I truly stopped worrying about it,” she told Life & Style in June 2015. “I think there’s something to kinda loosening up and not being so nervous and rigid about it that, bizarrely, has worked.” However, McCarthy’s dedication to her work inadvertently helped the process. In preparation for her role as a C.I.A. agent in “Spy,” McCarthy had to undergo intense workouts as she was set to perform her own stunts.
“The second I knew I was doing the movie, I started training with an amazing martial arts instructor,” she said. While McCarthy didn’t diet at all, she did implement a few changes to her daily life. For one, she started to incorporate more proteins and fewer carbs in her meals, though she refused to give herself a hard time if she had an off day.
However, McCarthy believes the biggest contributor to her weight loss was the lifestyle she was leading at that particular time in her life. “No trick, nothing to tell, just super boring life,” she told Extra in March 2016. “You bring it real down, you don’t do anything fun and you go to bed at 7:30 — that’s the trick.” Even after shedding all those pounds, McCarthy still chose to continue to not worry about it. Instead of stressing about keeping the weight off, she opted to be realistic.
