Rebel Wilson reveals the “Simple” Workout that helped her lose 75 Pounds

Rebel Wilson is an actress, writer, producer, and as of her self-declared “Year of Health” 2020, a health and fitness guru for many, so she doesn’t shy away from discussing how she continues to focus on her mental and physical health. But now, the star is going into more detail about her weight loss journey and sharing the (extremely simple) exercise that helped her lose 75 pounds: walking.

In the season three premiere of Apple Fitness+ Time to Walk on Apple Watch, Wilson takes listeners with her while she hikes Griffith Park, Los Angeles. During the 32-minute episode, she talks about her life-changing weight loss journey and reveals exactly what motivated her to live the healthiest version of herself.

“My goal was to get healthier and lose the body weight I didn’t want,” she said during the hike. “I knew deep down that I wasn’t the healthiest version of myself because of work commitments.” She said she was going through “some fertility stuff. And the doctor said if I did get healthy, then that would be a lot better for me.” Wilson suffers from Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, which “made it harder than an average person would have to lose weight.”

After promising herself that 2020 would be her year of health, Wilson attended an Austrian health retreat where she developed a new understanding of her health and wellness goals. “An Austrian doctor said ‘Rebel, the best way for you to lose unwanted body fat is by just simply walking, it doesn’t have to be high intensity or uphill…just simply walk an hour a day.’”

Wilson couldn’t believe the doctor’s advice was so simple. “It just made me think: OK I should take it a bit easier on myself, and just do it gently and do it lightly. So in 2020 I lost weight but very, very gradually. Sometimes I kicked up things a notch with some workouts and went hard. But, the majority of the work for the year was just doing things like walking for an hour.”

She decided that instead of forcing herself to lift heavy weights and practice intense workouts at the gym (that left her feeling exhausted), she would focus on getting in physical exercise in a more relaxed way: walking. She says it was a “simple solution” to something she’d thought about a lot before. “Sometimes the simplest thing like getting out and walking for an hour a day is the kindest thing to your body, and your body will respond to that,” said Wilson.

To hear more of Wilson’s journey in her own words, and get in on the walking action yourself, you can access the walk on Apple Fitness+ via your Apple watch.

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