Melissa McCarthy Wows With 75-Lb Low Carb Diet Weight Loss, Praised As ‘Style Hero’


Melissa McCarthy has been dazzling fans with her 75-pound weight loss, which she credited to a combination of a high-protein, low-carb diet and exercise regime. Now McCarthy is being recognized as one of Today‘s “style heroes,” with the actress lauded for her success as a fashion designer, as well as a comedienne. In addition, Melissa is earning praise for her positive body image message that embraces all sizes and shapes.

McCarthy is among the designers, actors, athletes, and what Today calls “revolutionaries changing the style world” on the first annual Style Heroes list.

Noting that Melissa smoothly shifts hats from acting to producing to fashion designing, Today pointed out that the comedienne has succeeded in publicizing her message about positive body image and self-esteem.

“[McCarthy has] urged people to ‘stop tearing down women’ and…encouraged us to love ourselves, just the way we are.”

When it comes to her fashion design skills that contributed to her qualifications as a “Style Hero,” Melissa recently unveiled her new clothing line. The Melissa McCarthy Seven7 fashion collection “is designed to give all women a whole new love of shopping,” she states on her site.

“I’ve been every size on the planet and know that I didn’t lose my sense of style just because I went above a size 12.”

The site also offers a guide to sizes, making it clear that whether women have a 25-inch waist or a 52-inch waist, McCarthy’s fashion collection can help them fulfill her goal of discovering “their own personal style.”

Melissa has explained just why she felt it was essential to create fashion for all sizes and shapes, rather than just plus-size women, reported Health.

“I don’t like the segregated plus section,” said McCarthy about typical store layouts. “You’re saying: ‘You don’t get what everybody else gets. You have to go shop up by the tire section.'”

Noting 70 percent of women in the nation wear a size 14 or higher, Melissa feels categorizing those women as “plus-size” is “very strange.” Consequently, she avoided categorizing her designs in that way.

Melissa McCarthy created her own clothing line. [Image by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Lane Bryant]

“I just don’t get why we always have to group everything into a good or bad, right or wrong category,” she emphasized. “I just think, if you’re going to make women’s clothing, make women’s clothing.”

Fans of the actress turned fashion designer were thrilled recently when they learned that Melissa would be one of the co-stars in the Gilmore Girls revival, where she’ll be showing off that 75-pound weight loss.

McCarthy weighed 236 pounds prior to taking off the excess weight with a low-carb diet and resistance training workouts, according to Foods4BetterHealth.

“I’ve been every size under the rainbow,” Melissa reportedly once said.

McCarthy’s low-carb, high-protein weight loss diet includes vegetables, protein, some fruits, and healthy fats such as nuts, and she also sips green tea, which boosts the metabolism, according to the media outlet.

To help with her weight loss, Melissa does a variety of fitness routines, ranging from martial arts to rowing and skipping rope. Her exercise regime incorporates squats, crunches, push-ups, and walking lunges.

Melissa McCarthy has been named a “style hero.” [Image by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images]

In addition to using a high-protein, low-carb and fitness to shed 75 pounds, McCarthy revealed that she has another weight loss secret, according to Hollywood Life.

“The real secret is a super-boring life. You go to bed at 7:30[pm]. That’s the trick,” claimed Melissa.

McCarthy also shared her desire to teach her daughters, Vivian and Georgette, about self-esteem.

“A biggie for me is, take the compliment…It’s kind of a rule with me — just say thank you, don’t negate it,” revealed the weight loss winner. “I hope that’s one of the many ways I show my girls that it’s OK to like who you are and it’s ok that everybody’s different. If we were all the same, we’d be robots.”

[Featured Image by Gerardo Mora/Getty Images for HSN]

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