Melissa lost 50 pounds (22.7kg) in 2015 – just by changing the way she thinks about her weight, according to Life & Style.
‘I truly stopped worrying about it,’ she told the magazine. ‘I think there’s something to kinda loosening up and not being so nervous and rigid about it that, bizarrely, has worked.’
Melissa also attributed her weight loss to, well, not doing much of anything at all: ‘No trick, nothing to tell, just super-boring life,’ she told ExtraTV. ‘You bring it real down, you don’t do anything fun, and you go to bed at 7:30 – that’s the trick.’
That said, Melissa has also made it clear that she’s not trying to be a certain weight. ‘I have [lost weight], but I’ll be back again,’ she told Refinery29 in 2016. ‘I’ll be up, I’ll be down, probably for the rest of my life. The thing is, if that is the most interesting thing about me, I need to go have a lavender farm in Minnesota and give this up. There has to be something more.’
In her July 2019 interview with WSJ, she also said that she keeps her home life simple: She gets up at 4 a.m. (‘I’m like a weird old man,’ she says), prepares breakfast, takes out the family’s two dogs, gets her and the girls ready for the day, and then she or her husband drives them to school.
