{"id":275049,"date":"2026-01-09T00:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275049\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:51:09","slug":"matt-damon-40-lb-the-odyssey-weight-loss-regimen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275049\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon 40-lb. The Odyssey Weight Loss Regimen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/matt_damon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Matt Damon<\/strong><\/a> lived his own epic odyssey.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar winner revealed that he shed almost 40 pounds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1415333\/matt-damon-debuts-body-transformation-on-the-odyssey-set\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to portray the character of Odysseus<\/a> in <strong>Christopher Nolan<\/strong>\u2019s upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey after the director requested Matt be \u201clean, but strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in really good shape,\u201d Matt, 55, shared with <strong>Jason Kelce<\/strong> and <strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong> on their <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fDmLVfMmHGk?si=Ylp0JGNK_yqSEUEL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Heights<\/a> podcast Jan. 7. \u201cI lost a lot of weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a weird thing,\u201d he added, joking with the football pros, \u201cI don\u2019t wanna bore the s&#8211;t out of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To which Jason responded, \u201cNone of this is boring at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for what Matt did to help him get, as Jason quipped, \u201cyolked,\u201d it included not only spending a whole lot of time in the gym, but also making one major change to his diet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of this other thing I did with my doctor, [I] stopped eating gluten,\u201d he explained. \u201cI used to walk around at between 185 and 200, and I did that whole movie at 167.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Damon lived his own epic odyssey. The Oscar winner revealed that he shed almost 40 pounds to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-275049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115862404006792787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}