Getting actual! Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird (née Shannon) opens up about her 40-lb weight reduction journey and the way she made some main life-style adjustments in an unique video interview with In Touch.
“I had gained quite a lot of weight. I used to be on a special kind of contraception [and with] everything going on with my mama I used to be stress consuming,” the fact star, 21, tells In Touch solely as new episodes of Mama June: Road to Redemption proceed to air. “I observed that after I, type of, let that stuff go in my life and type of began engaged on myself. I observed that I didn’t must eat as a lot. I didn’t must drink as many sodas a day. I didn’t must eat as many snacks as I used to be consuming. So now, I eat like I’m imagined to, I don’t drink as a lot soda. I simply drink actually water, truthfully. And I keep lively. Every time there’s a competition or one thing exterior outdoorsy, me and [my daughter] Ella will exit and stroll and issues like that.”
Lauryn has been displaying off her weight reduction transformation by way of Instagram with progress photographs since September 2020. The mother of 1, who married longtime love Joshua Efird in April 2018, typically shares each progress photos and captions about her eating regimen and train journey along with her spectacular social media following.
The Here Comes Honey Boo Boo alum additionally tells In Touch that she and sister Alana Thompson, in any other case often known as Honey Boo Boo, “undoubtedly” encourage one another all through their health journeys. The former Toddlers and Tiaras star, 15, first revealed her fitness plan in an October 2020 Instagram publish.
“When I purchase water bottles or stuff to place my water in, Alana buys one [too],” Lauryn explains. “She was truly the primary ones to purchase, like a Hydroflask. I didn’t even know what these have been.”
The TLC alum provides that when she cooks at her home, Alana all the time eats it. “It will not be the best meals, nevertheless it’s a more healthy alternative than me cooking fried hen and fries.”
When it involves their exercises and staying match, Lauryn says the siblings “exit to flea markets” with “actually lengthy strolling paths.” They additionally like to take 3-year-old Ella to the park collectively. “We can stroll round and she will be able to simply play on the park and I don’t have to fret about something,” the WE television character says. “We can nonetheless see her, she’s inside a strolling distance of us.”
New episodes of Mama June: Road to Redemption air on WE television on Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
