Director Kevin lost a tremendous amount of weight after his heart attack.
American actor Kevin Patrick Smith is a versatile artist who also works as a screenwriter, director, and film producer. However, it’s not only that; Kevin is also a famous comic book writer, comedian/raconteur, internet radio personality, and author. A very talented man indeed!
The versatile actor’s first step on his first breakthrough was when he portrayed the character of Silent Bob in the low-budget sitcom, “Clerks,” which was launched in 1994. In his career as a comic book author, “Silent Bob Speaks,” “Chasing Dogma,” and “Spider-Man / Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do” are among the comic books he has written.
Though, one particular film, Kevin earned him a terrifying death threat for his movie, “Dogma,” which deals with the issue of the Christian Church and the Catholic Faith. Moreover, despite the threat from his previous film, the sequel to his famous film “Clerk,” which is called “Clerks II,” gained critical acclaim.
In addition, along with podcast co-host Scott Mosier, Kevin Smith is the co-founder of View Askew Productions and the owner of Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash and novelty comic store in Red Bank, New Jersey. Speaking about podcasts, Kevin hosts a weekly podcast called “SModcast with Scott Mosier.”
Kevin's heart attack and plane kicked out incident experience prod him to his weight loss journey.
Kevin’s height was around five feet and 9 inches tall, with a previous weight of 150 kilograms. Due to this matter, Kevin Smith experienced a significant health crisis in 2018, and he stated that he is lucky to be alive right now. He said in his Twitter post, “After the first show this evening. I had a massive heart attack.”
The versatile artist also confessed that if he “hadn’t canceled show 2 to go to the hospital,” there is a considerable chance that he would have died. Kevin also stated, “But for now, I’m still above ground!”
Moreover, Kevin started his journey in weight loss after the 2010 incident, where he was kicked off his flight because of being too big to fit in the plane seat. Then he revealed in HLN around the year 2011 that he had already lost 65 pounds.
Kevin stated that he has mixed feelings about losing weight and continued, “I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I’ll never be thin.” And then, in 2015, Kevin shared a tweet about losing weight for about 85 pounds.
In 2018, the director revealed his weight loss experiments, his wild mood changes, and his “massive heart attack.” Kevin also mentioned that he took fat blockers alongside his trials to shed weight.
And his heart attack became undoubtedly considered one of his motivations to start a journey to being fit and stay a long, healthy lifestyle for himself and his family.
As an end result of all his experiments, Kevin managed to lose 50 pounds in only six months. His weight reduction is maintained, and he shed another 25 kilos another month.
Kevin Smith's Weight Loss Tricks
The main keys to Kevin’s successful weight loss:
- He experimented with a plant-based diet and an all-potato diet.
- He chose to lead a vegan lifestyle for 25 years, despite the nearly fatal error.
- He consumed a nutritious diet by his chefs.
- He persisted in his daily one-hour walk.
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What is the Kevin Smith diet plan?
His weight loss success is a result of his healthy eating and exercise habits. Director Kevin Smith stopped eating all unhealthy foods when he somehow escaped death from a heart attack. He also mentioned that he continued eating only potatoes after a heart attack, which allowed him to drop 17 pounds in nine days. However, medical professionals such as nutritionists and doctors do not recommend the potato-only diet.
Long before, Kevin used to love processed foods and dairy products, but now these are the types of foods he avoids completely. In an interview with Men’s Health, he said, “I was so addicted to milk. I know it’s embarrassing, but I used to drink like two gallons of milk every day. And probably this was the reason for my heart attack.”
In an effort to lower his cholesterol, Kevin Smith experimented with becoming a vegan. On the other note, his daughter also wished to become a vegan for ethical purposes. After Harley Quinn, his 20-year-old daughter, insisted he becomes vegan, and he has since lost almost another 6 pounds. He usually fasts until noon, at which point he gets his favorite fast food restaurant’s vegan nachos.
In a 2019 WIRED Autocomplete interview, Kevin said, “My kid encouraged me to go vegan…she was like, ‘I’ve gotta flip him,’ and she did. And I became vegan.” The actor-director initially acknowledged that it was difficult to become a vegan because: “I hate vegetables…hate ’em with a passion.”
And he continued, “Very hard to be a vegan when you hate vegetables and stuff.” He made the decision to integrate intermittent fasting into his regular basis as opposed to pushing himself to overindulge in foods he doesn’t like.
In starting off his day, either a glass of iced tea or a smoothie kicks off the director-actor-comedian’s regular morning ritual, along with his one-hour walk with his pet dog. Kevin continues by stating that he skips breakfast and that this keeps his energy levels high. He was initially instructed to consume nothing but potatoes for two weeks. Even though his situation proved challenging, Kevin persisted. The versatile artist typically consumes one meal per day at around 3 p.m.
Nevertheless, he prefers to eat chickpeas as a treat on days when he is not particularly hungry, which is the majority of the time. Additionally, Kevin now consumes more than just potatoes; he also includes salad and vegetable juice in his diet.
What is Kevin Smith's workout routine?
Besides maintaining his regular food diet, director Kevin also includes a workout routine to shed more weight. In his daily routine, Kevin Smith walks Shecky, a small dachshund who serves as his canine personal trainer, for an hour to the top of Los Angeles’ Runyon Canyon.
Actor Kevin claimed that losing weight had changed his life and that he feels much better about himself after achieving his objective of losing 50 pounds in the span of six months and losing another eight pounds since then. He’s still determined to keep up his new way of life.