Hulk Hogan, 70, a veteran wrestler, has disclosed his weight loss after giving up alcohol on New Year’s Eve.
“It changed everything,” Hogan told Harvey Levin, the founder of TMZ, and executive producer Charles Latibeaudiere.
Hogan, whose real name is Terry Gene Bollea, admitted to overeating on junk food and overeating as a result of his drinking.
He observed significant improvements after cutting out alcohol and junk food and focusing on daily exercise.
“I wasn’t eating late at night — I wasn’t eating junk food anymore. I dropped like 40 pounds right away,” Hogan told the outlet.
The wrestler claimed that he realized he needed to make a change after his drinking and binge eating began to affect his joints.
The 12-time world champion stated his fitness struggle has helped him keep up with his 45-year-old fiancée Sky Daily.
Hogan revealed that his alcoholism began during his 40-year career as a professional wrestler.
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“We’d have beers before the matches. Beers after the matches. And we’d go to the hotel and all meet down at the bar. It was kinda like part of the whole wrestling genre,” the 70-year-old American icon said.
In a recent interview with “Muscle and Health,” Hogan stated that he does not have an “addictive personality” and has no plans to resume binge drinking.
He described his and many of his fellow wrestlers’ troubles outside the ring as a result of being administered drugs for injuries, which led to many becoming addicted.
“I was hitting the pain pills hard because I’d had to endure 25 procedures, including ten to my back, facial operations from being kicked, knee and hip replacements, and abdominal and shoulder surgeries.”
Hogan claimed he’s not finished drinking for good after nearly a year, but if he does, he’ll take it easier than he did in his younger days.
“I would never drink daily, you know, like I did when I was wrestling,” he added to TMZ.