Chrissy Metz is prioritizing her health and wellness in this exciting chapter of her life — and she’s shared some candid sentiments about her journey so far.
The This Is Us alum lost 100 pounds after getting into weightlifting and focusing on her health.
“I have always enjoyed strength training. I’ve always enjoyed lifting weights,” she told Daily Mail in May 2025.
Metz revealed that she preferred lifting weights over doing cardio, adding, “I don’t want to run unless I’m being chased.”
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While she’s focused on longevity, Metz clarified her main takeaway when it comes to her health.
“I know skinniness doesn’t equal happiness,” she told People in August 2025. “I just want to be health-positive. I never said I wanted to be the face of body positivity. It’s not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body.”
Scroll below for everything Metz has said about her weight loss:
On Her Childhood Eating Habits
Metz recalled shopping for clothing and spending time with her friends during her childhood while speaking with People.
“I was always the chubby girl, and I was also sort of the only one,” she said, noting that she sometimes felt “less than.”
“We’d go shopping at Wet Seal, and I wanted to wear the cute shorts and outfits, but all I could fit were the accessories,” Metz recalled. “It was really hard.”
Metz said that she turned to food to ease the sadness she felt in those moments.
“It was my crutch, the love to fill in the holes,” she told the outlet. “Food was always my thing.”
On How ‘This Is Us’ Shifted Her Perspective
Metz burst onto the acting scene in 2005, but she noted that getting starring roles wasn’t always simple.
“Every single role was for a tall, skinny blonde. … Plus-size girls were either the butt of the joke or couldn’t be attractive. One director told me I was ‘too cute’ to play the side chick,” she told People.
It wasn’t until she got the call to play Kate Pearson on the NBC series that she finally got the career breakthrough she deserved and it helped her nab more gigs that had “nothing to do with pant size.”
On Longevity
“I want to live the longest life possible,” Metz told People of her positive outlook amid her weight loss journey.
On Getting a Personal Trainer
Metz told Daily Mail that she hired a trainer to help guide her throughout her fitness journey.
“We have things in common where it’s not just like, ‘Why are you doing this?’ Like, I don’t want to be yelled at. I want to be lovingly supported in whatever it is that I’m doing,” she said.
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On Aging
“I want to age the best way that I can, and I want to be strong. And that’s really the impetus behind any of it,” Metz told Daily Mail of what inspired her to focus on her health.
The Hunting Wives actress continued, “I’m literally doing it because I am nervous about aging, about osteoporosis or arthritis, you know, and because they are now discovering so much about health overall [and] it’s really about being and staying strong and flexible.”
On Kate Pearson’s Weight Loss Story Line
On This Is Us, Metz’s character, Kate, went through a weight loss journey of her own on the show, which related to her real life.
“The trajectory is that Kate will be losing weight just as I will in real life to reflect the character in her arc and her journey,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in January 2017. “That’s exciting for me, especially because losing weight is something I’ve struggled with and contemplated. I have lost weight and I’ve gained weight back. I wouldn’t have this amazing role if I’d already lost all the weight.”
Metz added, “So I have to believe that everything happens for a reason and I do feel that way in life. The weight loss is definitely going to happen. When Kate starts to realize it’s more about how she feels about herself and not necessarily a number on the scale, that might take a backseat, but right now she has been obsessed with losing weight to make her happy.”
She continued, “I have friends and I know that when you do lose weight, you’re happy and it’s exciting but there are other things going on. There are other things that make us want to eat or overspend or fill a void with something. And so as she loses the weight and puts the food down a lot of other things start to come up, which happens in real life. It’s going to be really fascinating to watch that unfold on a lot of different levels.”
On Not Being Confined
“I want to have a fit, healthy body and not have to be put in a box,” Metz told People in February 2017. “I don’t want to be limited by anything.”
On Breaking Stigmas
“There’s so much stigma about weight,” Metz said on The Jamie Kern Lima Show in October 2024. “There’s this idea that you can’t put the food down or you’re lazy. I’m trying to heal those wounds slowly but surely.”
On Smashing Beauty Standards
“Size doesn’t equate to beauty,” Metz told Marie Claire in March 2017. “I don’t understand why that’s a thing. Well, I do, because the media has told us thin is beautiful. But is it? Because I think people are miserable not eating and smoking cigarettes. I’ve had roommates who were thin girls and constantly working out and trying to stay under a certain size. Even the average girl looks ten pounds heavier on the screen.”
On Weight Loss Drugs
Metz explained that while she is not using weight loss drugs, she doesn’t judge people who do.
“It’s so personal,” she told Daily Mail. “But I also think it’s people’s personal decision to decide what it is that they want to do for their body. I think ultimately, at the end of the day, we all just want to feel good and feel good about ourselves.”
She continued, “If you’re not hurting anybody, and you’re not hurting yourself, you should do what you feel is right for your body or your mind or whatever.”
On Not Having Weight Loss Surgery
Metz shared that people frequently asked her if she was considering weight loss surgery.
“The question I wish people would stop asking me is, ‘Are you having weight loss surgery? Are you gonna be doing a gastric bypass? Are you?’ Um, what?” she said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in December 2016.
On Silencing the Internet
“Some people do feel like they’re my doctors and they have tried to diagnose me on the internet,” she said on Today in September 2017. “So that’s … that’s weird. Cause like, I’m good. I’m good, boo. But thanks! But I’m good.”