When I saw Lori Harvey’s sexy, cutout, completely off-theme Met Gala dress, I was surprised by her abs. In addition to thinking she’s very pretty, my impression of Lori has always been that she has a lovely figure. But I never got gym rat vibes or thought of her as super shredded. Turns out, that’s because she gained 15 pounds of relationship weight when she got serious with Michael B. Jordan. People noticed the changes, probably because of that dress, so Lori went on TikTok to talk about her exercise routine and diet.
Lori Harvey is opening up about her workout regimen and recent weight loss journey.
After attributing Pilates as the main reason for her toned Met Gala physique, the 25-year-old model had fans taking an interest in her fitness — to both positive and negative reactions.
In a TikTok from the SKN founder this Friday, Harvey gave more details about her weight loss journey and exercise routine.
“Okay so I just left my Pilates class,” she said, “and I see all the girls saying they’re signing up for Pilates now, love that for you guys.”
“But everybody’s been asking like what it is I specifically did to get my body to this point. So when Mike and I got together, I gained like 15 pounds of relationship weight and it was horrible, none of my clothes fit, it was just not OK,” she said, referring to her boyfriend of over a year, Michael B. Jordan.
Harvey continued, “So I’ve been consistently doing Pilates for like the last year. I’ve done it for a few years, but I’ve been really consistent the last year. And when I was trying to drop weight, I was working out like five, six times a week, and I would even do, for the first month and a half, I would even do two-a-days.”
In terms of her diet during that time, Harvey said she wasn’t on a “specific eating regimen” but was on a strict calorie deficit. “I think I was consuming like 1,200 calories in a day, max. I was trying to do like meat and veggies and like minimal carbs.”
Other than Pilates and her diet, Harvey was also doing regular cardio exercises. “I had this sprint interval circuit that I would do so I would do pilates in the morning and then I would sometimes directly go to the gym and hop on the treadmill for 30 minutes or I also like to do a hike or I would run the stairs, just some type of cardio.”
“That’s how you drop,” she stated. “Pilates alone is not gonna make you lose weight, it’s just gonna give you long, lean muscles. So yeah, that’s how I did it.”
I’d happily gain 15 pounds if it was from staying in bed all day with Michael B. Jordan… Relationship weight gain is real because you’re doing all those romantic dinners and brunches and lounging around (for normies it’s on couches, but I guess they do it on boats and stuff). She’s always looked great, but if she didn’t like being 15 pounds heavier that’s her choice. I looked up Lori’s height and she’s 5’3″ like me and 15 pounds really shows at this height. So I would want to lose the weight too, MBJ be dammed. I guess that’s what the off-theme dress was about: showing off all her hard work! Her abs and arms look amazing.
But it sounds like Lori lost the weight in a pretty healthful way? Unless I’m missing something, she didn’t put herself on some crazy timeline, she did it over the course of a year. And although she did count calories, she also did a lot of exercising with Pilates and cardio. I do agree with her technique and think I actually have similar workout vibes to her. I like to do things like Pilates and strength, but I never stray far from cardio because that’s my only real way to drop pounds. I like running and hiking and HIIT and stairs — my best butt ever was when I lived in a 5th floor walkup, so I love stairs. Lori’s whole routine seems pretty realistic. My only quibble would be it works better for people who have a lot of time. Two-a-days or multiple types of exercise in the same day are tough for people who have a normal job.
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Ofcourse its her business how she looks. However she looked much better with a little weight on, the weight loss has also aged her a gteat deal.
Same opinion here – she looks old(er) and exhausted.
2 a days 6 times a week for at least a month sounds exhausting.
Honestly I kind of wish celebrities wouldn’t talk about weight loss regimens in general. They’re already coming from a place of HUGE privilege when it comes to the amount of time and resources they have available. They can buy the healthiest food, some have chefs even cooking it for them.
It’s also kind of tiring to hear how someone with all those resources and a life of relative luxury feels that gaining 15 pounds is such a horrible thing to have happen. I get it – you don’t feel like yourself. But in the scheme of things it’s coming from a place of such huge privilege. The pandemic has kind of taught me to not be so image obsessed. There’s so many worse things happening out there that if gaining 15lbs of weight during a new presumably very happy relationship is something awful – you probably have it pretty darn good. But I will say – thank god she didn’t promote crash diets and weight loss products.
It’s really nothing to work out 2x a day when she has nothing else to do, no job. I did it between when I quit my job and started grad school.
I actually prefer them talking about it. I think that hearing about how much time, energy, and money (pilates is $$$) it really takes to be that consistently slim helps people to realize that not everyone can do this.
At least she’s being honest IMO. I don’t think her diet (1.2k calls) was healthy, but I hate it when celebs/models try to say they don’t work out or watch what they eat, which makes people feel even worse about themselves.
I prefer the honesty , too. It does take more than “oh I do Pilates” to look that thin and fit.
Yes to all of this. She talked about not liking the way her clothes fit as if she couldn’t…just buy new clothes. I’d prefer if celebs and influencers kept their diets and regiments to themselves, it’s never helpful, definitely some questionable stuff in their (gym all day basically?) plus the max 1200 calories could mean that she didn’t even get to 1200 on some days. She has a large following of mostly young people and I’d hate to see the type of disordered eating or intensive workouts she’s encouraging with her diet
I prefer hearing the truth. I don’t want to hear “Pilates” like some other celebs. Be honest. It’s intense exercise regime and a caloric deficiency over a period of time that has you looking snatched. We can get there too if we want to pass out at the end of the month.
At least we now know the real routine and can plan accordingly.
Her body looks incredible, not going to lie, but I’m more concerned about her tik tok? is she driving and recording ??
Anyway, she probably has a lot of time to work out, even twice a day, so I guess, good for her…
She obviously has a phone mount in her car.
You can tell by the trees she’s only driving in part of that.
When she is driving she either isn’t looking at her phone or she briefly glanced at it.
I don’t know if I would qualify this as healthy. She says she ate a max of 1200 calories and that’s the minimum one should eat even when losing weight as a petite person.
For daily caloric intake, I’m a little shorter than her but honestly I get absolutely stuffed at 1200. If she’s mostly eating fruits and veggies (many of which are low in calories) you can eat a pretty high volume of them.
The current Dietary Guidelines for America from the Department of Health and Human Services estimate 1600-2400 calories per day are needed to maintain energy balance for an adult female. They specify this varies depending on the person’s age, sex, height, weight, level of physical activity, need to lose/maintain/gain weight and other factors. 1200 calories a day sounds low to me if she is also exercising so much? She, if she had to share this with her followers who may then try to do the same diet, probably could have included some context of how this may vary for different people and a recommendation not to embark on a diet plan without professional medical guidance.
Based on my understanding, you never want to hit a calorie deficit where you’re body is only taking in less than 1000 calories. Lower than that is ED territory.
So if I’m on 1200 a day diet, and do 45 min of Peloton (600 calories), I’d try to eat at least 1,600.
A calculator would tell me my body needs 1,400 just to exist.
Riffing on this, 1200 calories a day is a starvation diet. Somehow it’s been normalized as ok but it’s not even close to enough.
Having abs like that isn’t typically healthy on women. Super low body fat is not healthy for women.
That unappealing truth is that the end result is unhealthy. We glamorize unhealthy bodies as ideal and then are upset when unhealthy routes are taken to get there:
Absolutely unhealthy. 2 workouts a day and eating less than or max 1200 calories is so far from healthy. Eating disorders have been way too normalised in our society. 1200 calories is less than a toddler eats. An adult needs on average 1400 calories just to keep their organs functioning.
This.
Agree 100%!
Yeah, that was a red flag for me, too. If you’re working out twice a day and doing intense cardio, that is not nearly enough fuel. Not healthy at all.
Did we read the same article..? She ate ”max 1200” calories per day and did two workouts per day.
Also called a 15 lb weight gain ”horrible”.
This sounds like an eating disorder and nothing here is healthy.
I’m sad for all the young girls following her advice.
1200 is supposed to be the minimum caloric intake for a woman. She wasn’t eating the minimum, which is not healthy. I agree with you 100%.
I am over women who have nothing more substantial to talk about than their looks, how they achieved their look and how they maintain said look. She gets paid to look like that and has all the money and time in the world to focus on nothing else.
If she chooses to do nothing with her time but that, good for her. But I don’t want to hear it.
Wake me up when she does anything interesting.
(I also have to admit that it takes down MBJ in my estimation too because if that’s the kind of shallow partner he chooses…)
Couldn’t agree more! So much money and privilege and nothing done with it. If I had that money I would go to Harvard, get the best education there is.
I don’t believe she gained weight when she started dating Michael B. Jordan. I remember when she was with Future and he took pool pictures of her. At that time, she looked just as she always had, really good. The weight loss she has had now is just a whittling away of the way she looked when she went into the relationship with Jordan. In my opinion, she never gained any relationship weight, just decided that she wanted to be really thin, like most of the Hollywood women. It’s certainly her right and she does look good, but why not be transparent about the whole process? She was never this thin before, so this is a whole new look. Also, she did facial surgery. The natural lines from her eyes were removed and I believe she had a nose job. Again, this is typical Hollywood. I do prefer her face from before though. So pretty. Now she looks like every other “done” Hollywood gal.
Could be this talk of weight loss is to DISGUISE the facial surgery (as weight loss will *definitely change the shape of your face). I don’t know/follow her so I wouldn’t know how changed she is.
I commented below but should have just replied. She deleted every photo on her Insta profile from before January 2021, so something is amiss!
I have an honest question – is counting calories necessarily bad? I have plenty of friends who are gym rats and build muscle and they track calories for macros, etc, and they are not under-eating by any means.
I count calories because of my medication – it severely increases my appetite and I can find it hard to chart how much I am eating, especially while working at home.
I never thought calorie counting was a surefire sign of disordered eating. What do you all think?
Counting calories is definitely not a sign of disordered eating, by itself. People can legitimately do it to lose weight, or maintain weight.
I think it’s how many calories you’re (not) eating, or exercising without rest. I knew a girl who was given a time out on her membership by her gym because she was working out 2-3x per day for hours without any days off. And she wasn’t in training.
Whether or not this is actually what Lori Harvey did to lose weight, at least this regime sounds more realistic than what we mostly hear from celebrities.
When I was losing weight for my wedding I did 2 workouts a day on the one day I had a spinning class in the morning and there was a body sculpting class at night. Otherwise I was working out 3 other days week once a day. I was following weight watchers so I was eating pretty clean – much like what Lori says, veggies and fruit and lean protein with minimal carbs and junk food.
I recognize that for Lori her body and her appearance is how she makes money apart from whatever money she has from her parents’ wealth. So maybe to someone else 15 lbs isn’t a lot but when your image is your money maker as it were this can make a difference.
At the end of the day to lose weight normally (outside of medical issues) you need to be in calorie deficit. How much calorie deficit varies from person to person and if you have specific goals about how much you want to lose per week then this can change from person to person as well.
The fact that she’s in her 20s and has an apparently youthful metabolism doesn’t hurt either.
I follow her on Insta and just looked to see if I could see the before and after changes. She deleted every single photo from before January 2021. I think the commenter who suspected plastic surgery might be correct.
It’s sad if this is about plastic surgery. I didn’t even think about it! But yeah, totally possible. I wonder why though, I googled pictures of her from 2019/2020 and she is beautiful, but it’s true she had fuller cheeks around that time. Such a shame, I don’t understand but her choice I guess…
moltovino, I looked for the pool pics Future took of Lori, with the caption, “I’m so proud of you!” They are no longer there. Her true figure and face were on display there, and very different from now. It also seemed like all pics of her and Future have the “new” Lori on display. Her decision, I guess, but she was always a pretty woman, then and now.
Honestly, I am surprised and disappointed at the tone of this article. I expected it from other publications, but NOT Celebitchy. 1 200 calories daily, combined to that amount of exercice, is UNHEALTHY. It is such a bad exemple for young women who may think this is what they need to do to have a guy like Michael B. Jordan. I thought Lori Harvey looked grounded and cool. Now she just seems like an out of touch startlett.
There is nothing healthy about promoting orthorexia and extreme calorie counting to the millions of young people who look up to her. I get that this their “job” and the scrutiny must be unbearable, and I also appreciate that she was honest. But I feel so bad for her that she couldn’t just enjoy being in love and having a body without shaming herself for 15 “horrible” pounds. This country is so sick. And this industry eats its own.
I could do 3000 sit-ups a day and I still wouldn’t have abs like this. She has good genes and muscles, that helps!