James Jordan has spoken up about his daily problems prior to reducing weight.
The 45-year-old former Strictly Come Dancing star and his wife Ola Jordan, 40, have publicly shared their change, having lost 6.5 stone between them by changing their diet and training routine.
The couple, who married in 2003 and have a kid, have also developed their own training routine called Dance Shred, establishing a community of individuals with similar aspirations.
Despite being a ballroom dancer and now quite active, James initially struggled to put on his own shoes.
He told Metro.co.uk that he is now’much more mobile’ and has more ‘clarity’ in his thinking.
‘Even simple things like putting my shoes on, I used to bend over to put my shoes on and because I was so big in my belly, I would push on my gut and get reflux and things like that,’ he explained.
‘I just have more energy now to do things, more clarity, I started getting brain fog, I think also because I wasn’t in a good place, losing my dad, different things that were going on in our lives, we got ourselves in a bit of a pickle.
‘But I was feeling quite foggy all the time and since we cleaned up our diet, started exercising, started moving more, things that we all know we should do but sometimes opportunities and life get in the way, we changed our lives and feel so much better for it.’
James and Ola have continually refuted claims that their weight reduction was a ‘cash grab,’ stating that their motivation for sharing ‘before’ and ‘after’ images was merely for motivation.
‘We were doing it (losing weight) at the beginning for selfish reasons, all we cared about at the time was changing our bodies,’ James said.
‘Then people were like, “Why did you do before and after pictures?”, well, because we believed that we were going to see drastic improvement and all your see now on Instagram and TikTok are people’s before and afters, we didn’t think up the idea, it’s been out there for years, but we took them because we wanted to know where we started.’
‘It’s motivating yourself and seeing that picture,’ Ola added.
‘When I had pictures done on holiday in a bikini, I woke up one day like, “Right I’ve got to do something about it”, and I think that motivated me to take pictures.’
James wishes they had taken’more’ images in the beginning of his weight loss journey, laughing that there was’so much hilarious stuff’ because they were first struggling to perform their own exercises.
‘People go, “Oh yeah, they’re professional dancers!”, but if they saw how we were also struggling at the beginning, it makes people go, “Ok, so they are normal”,’ he added.
‘People sometimes think that because you’re a professional dancer, it’s easier for you, but it’s not.
Another thing the couple can now do is spend quality time with their kid.
Ella, three, recently joined her parents at Gabby on the Go!, the first touring experience in the UK based on DreamWorks Animation’s famous TV series Gabby’s Dollhouse.
James and Ola were among the first individuals to enter the animated world and tour recreations of rooms from the blockbuster show at Lakeside Retail Park in London last weekend, grinning from ear to ear.
Ella, despite her youth, enjoys working out with her parents.
‘We don’t have to involve her, she comes to us, she wants to,’ Ola explained.
‘She loves the functional exercises, she’s brilliant at the burpees and bunny hops.’
‘We’ve started doing TikTok videos together and I’m 45 years old! However, we enjoy it. It’s so much fun and Ella can get involved,’ James said.
Source My Celebrity Life.