Adele lost 7 stone in two years with two golden rules

Adele performing on stage in Munich in 2024.
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Pop megastar Adele has been inspiring fans around the world since she first burst onto the scene with her incredible debut album 19 in 2008.

But her soulful - and often heart-breaking - singing is not the only way the Tottenham-born singer has impressed admirers. In 2020 she shocked fans when she posted an image of herself on Instagram having lost around 100 lbs - or more than seven stone.

In the image - posted the day after her 32nd birthday - the Easy on Me singer wrote: "Thank you for the birthday love. I hope you’re all staying safe and sane during this crazy time. "I’d like to thank all of our first responders and essential workers who are keeping us safe while risking their lives! You are truly our angels ♥️ 2020 okay bye thanks x".

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But what was her secret? Quite simple, as it turns out: a regular regime of exercise, including weights, hiking, boxing, and cardio, and no restrictive diets alongside.

“It was because of my anxiety," she said about her initial motivation, speaking to British Vogue in November 2021. "Working out, I would just feel better. It was never about losing weight, it was always about becoming strong and giving myself as much time every day without my phone. I got quite addicted to it. I work out two or three times a day.”

Her regime included weights in the morning, hiking or boxing in the afternoon, followed by cardio at night. But the 36-year-old said weight loss was just one benefit of her new-found dedication to fitness, which came amid the breakdown of her marriage.

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“I needed to get addicted to something to get my mind right,” she continued. “It could have been knitting, but it wasn’t."

And the Rolling in the Deep singer says she didn't use any kind of headline-grabbing diet to help her. In the Vogue interview, she also said: “You know 100% of the stories written about me have been absolutely fake,” adding that she hasn’t “done any diet”.

"No intermittent fasting," she said. "Nothing. If anything I eat more than I used to because I work out so hard."