Eminem before and after weight loss

— -- In 2007, Eminem weighed close to 230 pounds.

The reason, he said in a recent interview, was because he'd been eating badly in an attempt to soothe the stomach problems caused by his addiction to painkillers.

"When I got out of rehab, I needed to lose weight, but I also needed to figure out a way to function sober.

Unless I was blitzed out of my mind, I had trouble sleeping. So I started running," he told Men's Journal. "It gave me a natural endorphin high, but it also helped me sleep, so it was perfect.

Eminem before and after weight loss

It's easy to understand how people replace addiction with exercise."

In no time, Eminem, 42, was running seventeen miles a day on treadmill -- half before work, and half after. The rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, became obsessive about burning 2,000 calories every day and dropped to about 149 pounds.

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