John Goodman is getting candid about what led him to lose weight.During a recent interview with The New Yorker, the 74-year-old actor discussed his struggles with his weight and alcoholism, saying that he got sober in his 50s, but was trying to manage his weight before quitting."I’d lose sixty pounds in a summer, gain it all back.Seventy pounds, eighty pounds.
And that got tiring," he said."I took steps so I wouldn’t have to do that anymore.
I was almost four hundred pounds.I was eating alcoholically after I stopped drinking."He shared that to improve his health, he "had an operation on my stomach," but said he also became "anemic and lost a layer of fat under my skin."Goodman shared he underwent stomach surgery to get a handle on his weight after previously losing and gaining the same 70 pounds.
(David Jon/Getty Images for Warner Bros.Pictures)'MIKE & MOLLY' STAR BILLY GARDELL REVEALS WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY 'PROBABLY SAVED' HIS LIFEWhen discussing his experience with alcoholism, the "Roseanne" star shared his struggles began in 1978 when his girlfriend at the time "put me on waivers, so my nights were free for the first time in five years."He recalled going out to multiple bars until drinking became a "habit," noting, "I started gaining weight at an alarming rate." He pinpointed one bar in particular, Café Central, noting he "turned it into home—and got very used to drinking" in his pursuit to find "friends" and "people to hang around and laugh with.""There’s a saying in the rooms: I got sick and tired of being sick and tired," he said about his decision to get sober.
"The thing about instant gratification is you don’t really care what’s going to happen right after it—which always led to bigger hangovers or me getting the shakes, and having to drink to get rid of the shakes, and that vicious cycle.I was in a position, when I quit, where I had to be hospitalized one way or the other."Goodman went on to say that he grew "tired of it" and wanted i...