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Amanda Bynes updates fans on her weight-loss journey after gaining 'over 20 pounds' from depression struggle Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 06:45, 6 November 2024 | Updated: 06:49, 6 November 2024 e-mail 2 View comments Amanda Bynes sounded excited to share her weight-loss progress when she updated her fans on social media on Tuesday.
The 38-year-old Easy A actress posted a screenshot to her Instagram Stories of a health app that she used to track her health journey. 'Down 6lbs! 154lbs now,' she gushed while added a shocked emoji to her caption. The display indicated she had achieved her fitness goals for Tuesday after walking 6.
6 miles and getting nearly 15,000 steps and climbing 12 flights of stairs in by the early evening. Amanda has lately been keeping her fans abreast of her weight-loss journey after she said her recent mental health struggles had contributed to her weight gain . Amanda Bynes sounded excited to share her weight-loss progress when she updated her fans on social media on Tuesday; pictured September 16 in Los Angeles The 38-year-old Easy A actress said she was 'down 6lbs' to '154lbs now,' and she revealed she had accomplishe dher exercise goals for Tuesday Read More Amanda Bynes says she 'gained over 20lbs from being depressed' Shortly after her update, Amanda posted a video of herself strolling down a sidewalk while wearing sunglasses and a black beanie, according to Us Weekly .
The clip seemingly illustrated her exercise regimen, but she appeared to have deleted the video shortly afterward. Back in March, Amanda shared that she had 'gained over 20lbs in the past few months from being depressed.' However, she sounded optimistic that she could reverse the trend.
'I’m doing a lot better now and have learned to do opposite action when I don’t feel like working out or eating clean,' she added. At the time, she revealed that she was weighing in at 162 pounds, meaning that she is now down about eight pounds. She shared then that her ultimate goal was to slim down to around 110 pounds.
Amanda previously revealed that her struggles with her weight had been an issue for years. In a 2015 interview with Paper , the All That actress admitted to have 'definitely abused Adderall' in pursuit of a slimmer figure. While she was filming the 2007 Hairspray remake, Amanda recalled 'reading an article in a magazine that [called Adderall] "the new skinny pill" and they were talking about how women were taking it to stay thin.
I was like, "Well, I have to get my hands on that."' However, she admitted to 'faking the symptoms of ADD' during appointments with a psychiatrist in order to get the prescription. In March, she revealed she had 'gained over 20lbs in the past few months from being depressed.
' She said she weighed 162 pounds at the time In 2015, Amanda admitted to Paper that she faked the symptoms of ADHD to get a prescription for Adderall after hearing it called 'the new skinny pill'; pictured in 2011 in Universal City, Calif. After a 2013 psychiatric hold, Amanda was placed under a conservatorship run by her mother. It was dissolved in March 2022 after both agreed Amanda was ready to take care of herself Amanda's latest attempts to lose weight and focus on her health come over two years after the end of her nine-year conservatorship.
In 2013, the former child star was put on a psychiatric hold after starting a fire on a stranger's property. She hasn't spoken negatively of the conservatorship in the way that Britney Spears has, even though fans of the pop singer had also advocated for Amanda to be freed from her conservatorship. Amanda's mother Lynn Bynes, who became her conservator responsible for her health care and personal matters in 2014, reportedly agreed with her daughter's desire to regain her independence, and the conservatorship was dissolved in March of 2022.
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