“Down 6 pounds!” 154 pounds now,” the former child star wrote

Amanda Bynes shares an update on her health journey.

On November 5, the former child star posted a screenshot of her step counter app to her Instagram Stories, revealing that she walked 14,895 steps and 6.60 miles for the day, reaching her goal drive fixed. It also showed that she burned 481 calories, exceeding the amount she needed to burn that day.

“Down 6 pounds!” 154 pounds now,” the 38-year-old wrote of her weight loss progress.

In March, Bynes shared on her Instagram Stories that her mental health issues, particularly her struggle with depression, had recently impacted her weight.

“I gained over 20 pounds. over the last few months of being depressed,” she wrote at the time. “I’m doing much better now and have learned to do opposite things when I don’t feel like working out or eating healthy.”

“I weigh 162 pounds. right now and I want to get back to 110 pounds. Lacquer star added.

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In 2018, Bynes admitted that at the height of her career, she dealt with severe body insecurities that led to Adderall and drug addiction and fueled his decision to stop acting in 2012.

Bynes identified his role in She’s the manan update on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in which she plays a girl pretending to be her twin brother, one of the times when her body image issues became an issue.

“When the movie came out and I saw it, I fell into a deep depression for 4 to 6 months because I didn’t like the way I looked when I was a boy,” she said. Paper review. The short hair and sideburns she had for the role were “a super weird, out-of-body experience.” This really put me in a funk.

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The actress began experimenting with drugs like ecstasy and cocaine, and her goal of losing weight led to an Adderall addiction. After having similar experiences with her weight and appearance after filming Hall passport And Easy A In 2010, Bynes decided to stop acting altogether.

The following years were marked by several arrests for drug possession, drunk driving, dangerous driving and more.

In 2013, she was hospitalized as part of an involuntary psychiatric stay, which her parents extended for nearly six months after explaining in court documents that Bynes “is obsessed with the idea that she and others are ‘ugly’. She constantly talks about the cosmetic surgeries she wants to have… We fear that the surgeries she wants to have are dangerous and detrimental to her health.

After her release, Bynes returned to a calmer life. She is now sober and is gradually making a comeback.

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