for jelly rolllosing weight is a matter of life and death.

The country star discussed losing 300 pounds during an appearance on “The Show.”Joe Rogan Experience” According to him, at his previous weight, he felt that he could only live another 6 to 12 months.

“I don’t think I’m making it up when I say I thought I was six to 12 months away from missing it,” he told Rogan. “Especially traveling – you know, I travel 280 days a year. Spending around £500, taking over 200 flights a year, 250 flights a year?”

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Jelly Roll appears in November 2022 (left) and November 2025 (right). (Getty Images)

“Too bad for you,” Logan agreed.

Jelly Roll continued: “I can’t do it, I know it.”

this “Save Me” singerHe, who turns 41 on December 4, explained that he first started seriously thinking about losing weight on his 39th birthday because “I knew my next weight was 40… I don’t think I’d ever met a 40-year-old who weighed 500 pounds.”

He said he felt he had “cheated the game” after dealing with “multiple heart issues”.

“I was like, ‘Man, I should really start trying to figure this out’ … I could feel myself dying, Joe,” he said.

Jelly Roll performs on stage at the Strummingbird Music Festival on November 2, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

Jelly Roll says he’s “always working on lose this weight My whole life,” but this time, he approached the problem differently—instead of viewing his overeating as a “failure of willpower,” he began to view it as “a biological cycle that I didn’t know how to interrupt.”

“I spent most of 2022 between £480 and £560,” he explains. “That’s how much I fluctuate throughout the year, just up and down.”

This time, he decided not to make any big promises to himself or his family, but to start small. With the help of experts, his first step in losing weight was to start cold jumping and walk 10,000 steps a day.

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Jelly Roll talks about how his wife Bunnie XO and kids support his weight loss journey. (Tyler Hill)

when he talks about how his family He cheered him on as he took his first big walk, saying: “That’s when I realized how much damage my addiction had done to this family.”

He admitted to his sex life with his wife, RabbitXOciting “Horrible,” who told Rogen, “I married the kind of woman who makes you smile when you cry, and Joe, I can’t even get aroused, I’m too big.”

Another thing he couldn’t do was throw the football with his son – he said his brother threw the football with him.

“I was like, ‘This is what my addiction is doing to these people, and they’re here cheering me on. No, man, we’re going to show up… We’re going to fix this.'”

The country singer also shared that he’s gained 35 pounds of extra skin thanks to losing so much weight. (John Lamperski/AFP via Getty Images)

In addition to these small changes, he also began change his diet — he said he hasn’t eaten any bread except for Thanksgiving in two years — and he’s begun therapy to overcome his food addiction.

“I was never meant to live, Joe,” he confesses to Logan. “It was just like before. It was never in my life plan. Even when I was successful, like I got here and life was getting better and better for me, in my mind, I was like, ‘Okay, well, at least when I die, my kids will probably be okay and they won’t be ashamed of me… At least their dad died of obesity because he had mental health issues, but he was a cool guy, man, and he did some cool stuff, you know?”

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He added: “I never thought I would be able to live a life like this.”

Jelly Roll admitted that a few years ago, he thought he wouldn’t live long, but now he can see himself becoming a 70-year-old man. (by Jason Kemp)

Even the last time he saw Logan, he thought he would never see him again.

“This could happen to me at any time,” he remembers thinking. “like, my heart May exit at any time. I might relapse and overdose. Most of the time my ideas are wrong. “

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Now, Jelly Roll says his thought process is completely different.

“Like, sitting here looking at you right now, I’m like, ‘Dog, with you, I’m going to be a 70-year-old man, Bubba.'” … That would be cool. “