Luke Combs has a lot of reasons for wanting to lose weight, including his son, Tex, and his upcoming baby boy, due this fall. The Grand Ole Opry member has been vocal about wanting to get healthy, saying now that a lot of his motivation is for his family.
“I want to be running around the yard with my children,” Combs said on the Joe Rogan Experience (via Music Mayhem). “I want to take my son on an elk hunt when he’s 16 years old and hike up a mountain when I’m in my late 40s. [I] wanna do that with him. And I know right now I can’t do that with him, and that bugs the sh– out of me.”
By his own admission, Combs has struggled with his weight his entire life, never able to maintain a healthy weight, even though it is something he has wanted for years.
“I think my physical fitness, and my appearance, and my size has always been something that I struggled with, from the time I was a child,” Combs acknowledged. “And it’s this mountain that I’ve always been standing at the bottom of, trying to run up but then inherently slipping down every time.
“And it’s this thing that I feel like if I don’t overcome it in my lifetime, it will be my biggest regret, without a doubt,” he adds.
Combs has accomplished more than any other artist in country music history, with 15 consecutive chart-topping singles. He is currently on his World Tour, and is the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year. But for all that he has done, the 33-year-old says losing weight is the one thing he wishes he could do, but has yet to be able to accomplish.
“It is a burden that weighs so heavily on me,” Combs conceded. “And not because I care what other people think about me, about the way I look, about my size or any of that. It’s because what I feel like it means about me as a man. … There’s this thing that I want to accomplish that is solely up to me, nobody else can do it for me, nobody did this to me. I want so badly to conquer that, and I will.”
This isn’t the first time that Combs has opened up about his desire to lose weight. Last summer, the North Carolina native revealed his struggle to shed excess pounds,
“It was always something that’s bugged me,” Combs admited to Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “Because especially when you’re younger, you’re like, ‘Man, I just got a horrible genetic dice roll on this thing.’ You start to realize that almost even more when you’re older and it’s like, not that I don’t pig out because I do pig out. I’m not trying to say it’s not my fault, because it is in a lot of ways. But also, I got to this point where I’m like, I’d really love to trim down. And it’s so hard for me to do that. Not from the execution standpoint. I know what to do and how to do it.”
Combs recently made headlines for announcing he was opening a new bar and music venue, in the place where the Wildhorse Saloon now stands. The new place is expected to be opened by the summer of 2024.
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