Melissa Joan Hart dropped 20 pounds by cutting two things in her ‘longevity journey’

Cutting 2 elemental things from her fare helped Melissa Joan Hart shed astir 20 pounds, she revealed successful a caller interview.

The actress, champion known for her roles successful "Clarissa Explains It All" and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," mislaid astir 18 pounds aft cutting sweetener and intoxicant arsenic portion of what she described arsenic a "longevity journey," she told People earlier this month.

"I conscionable wanted to consciousness better. It had thing to bash with losing weight," Hart, 49, said astatine Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler's Grammy viewing enactment connected Feb. 1 successful Los Angeles. 

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"I truly didn't deliberation I could suffer value anymore, being successful midlife and perimenopause," she added.

Hart shared details of her value nonaccomplishment portion attending Steven Tyler’s Grammy viewing party. (Robin L Marshall/Getty Images)

Weight summation during perimenopause and menopause is common, according to the Mayo Clinic, arsenic hormonal changes, aging and manner factors dilatory metabolism and displacement abdominous toward the belly. But staying active, maintaining a steadfast diet, limiting added sugars and intoxicant and prioritizing slumber tin assistance minimize value summation successful midlife, experts say.

Hart said her main absorption was connected improving however she felt, and it has worked.

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"I really consciousness stronger and amended than I person successful a truly agelong time," she said.

Melissa Joan Hart says cutting sweetener and intoxicant helped her suffer astir 20 pounds. (Araya Doheny/Getty Images for Janie's Fund)

Hart said it began by moving retired much intensely and paying person attraction to her lifestyle. In the process, she discovered intermittent fasting and decided to destruct sweetener and alcohol.

She added that giving up intoxicant was an casual decision.

"I conscionable don't adjacent bask drinking. So wherefore bother?" Hart said. "So I chopped these things retired of my life, and I started to consciousness better. And successful doing that, I mislaid a batch of value and benignant of consciousness great."

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Cutting backmost connected added sweetener and intoxicant tin trim excess calorie intake and little the hazard of value gain, bosom disease, benignant 2 diabetes, liver harm and definite cancers, portion supporting amended wide metabolic health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The histrion said she began moving retired much intensely and paying person attraction to her lifestyle. (Chad Salvador/Variety via Getty Images)

Hart besides shared that staying hydrated has been a situation for her implicit the years, joking that her husband, instrumentalist Mark Wilkerson, notices her dislike for drinking water.

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"My hubby says erstwhile I portion a solid of water, I marque a look similar it's the astir disgusting happening connected earth," she said. "I'm sipping connected it, like, 'Eww.'"

Hart, seen supra successful St. Lucia successful 2024, said she "just wanted to consciousness better." (John Parra/Getty Images for Sandals Resorts)

Instead, the ma of 3 said she often reaches for nine soda with lime oregon tea. "I'll bash blistery tea, acold tea, greenish tea, peppermint beverage — immoderate benignant of tea," she said.

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Hart, who turns 50 successful April, joins different celebrities who person precocious credited cutting intoxicant and different manner changes for improved wellness and value loss, according to reports.

More celebrities accidental they are cutting backmost connected intoxicant and sugar. (iStock)

Last year, Russell Crowe said cutting backmost connected intoxicant played a large relation successful his 57-pound transformation, and "Queer Eye" prima Jonathan Van Ness has besides spoken retired astir cutting down connected booze and focusing connected wide health.

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Country vocalist Jelly Roll has credited semipermanent wellness and intelligence wellness enactment for his melodramatic value loss, portion Matt Damon precocious said cutting definite foods, including gluten, helped him slim down for movie roles.