Ben Napier is opening up about his weight reduction. ET’s Rachel Smith spoke with the HGTV star and his spouse, Erin Napier, they usually dished on why and the way Ben dropped 95 kilos.
“We’re all trying to be healthier and trying to live better and trying to live longer,” Ben informed ET. “I started just [because I knew] I needed to take some weight off. And then we did an interview… and my shirt wouldn’t stay buttoned and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a bad look. That is a bad thing.’ I was already working [on my weight] and then that jumpstarted it.”
After the vacations got here and went, Ben determined to begin the following yr with a “new year, new me” mentality. Ben’s wholesome journey continued when he went in for shoulder surgical procedure, and was pushed ahead once more when his physician wished to place him on blood strain remedy.
“I was like, ‘I’m too young.’ At the time I wasn’t even 40,” Ben mentioned. “So I said, ‘Let me see if we can drop it by losing weight.'”
Ben did simply that, and now, Erin boasted, “His blood pressure is perfect! It is the sexiest thing.”
As for a way Ben dropped the burden, Erin revealed that her husband and Dwelling City co-star arrange a house gymnasium and altered his consuming habits.
“I like only eat ‘girl dinner,’ which is basically crackers for two meals a day. I just crave crackers and maybe a little cheese, charcuterie, a little fruit, maybe a crunchy carrot. Ben just basically adopted eating the way I was eating,” Erin mentioned. “He has one big meal. He eats a good, healthy, big lunch… Last night for supper he ate some dates. He’s obsessed with dates!”
Erin could not be extra happy with her husband, telling ET, “I want him to live forever. That’s what I care about.”
The couple shares two daughters, Helen, 5, and Mae, 2, each of whom are “so good,” Erin mentioned.
“Helen is in kindergarten. We are reading, which has been the most amazing thing,” Ben mentioned of his eldest, earlier than Erin famous of the youngest Napier, “Baby Mae is just becoming such a lovebug. She’s getting very articulate now.”
Whereas Ben and Erin are thrilled to gush about their daughters, they’ve made the choice to maintain their women off social media till they graduate highschool.
“We have a group of about five families who have all banded together. We all have kids that are in the same age range — from like 2 to 10 — and we’re all in it together,” Ben mentioned. “We’re like, ‘Hey, we are not doing this. Pinky promise.’ In doing that we are working together… We’re not anti social media. It’s a tool. It’s a thing that you use. It’s not a toy, it’s a responsibility.”
Because the Napiers navigate their life within the highlight, they’re grateful to have some well-known mates to get recommendation from, together with Chris Stapleton and Drew Barrymore.
“We met their family and became friends right at the beginning of this,” Ben mentioned of Chris and his spouse, Morgane. “It was impeccable timing for us, because we had never been in front of the camera or out in the public eye. We learned a lot from them.”
“They keep their family first before anything else… Sometimes when I think, ‘I don’t know how to handle this.’ I think, ‘I know what Chris and Morgane would do. I know how they would handle it,'” Erin added. “Having people who are so many steps ahead of you in the public spotlight when you don’t know how to handle a certain situation or what to do, they’ve been there. It’s so nice.”
When it comes all the way down to it, Ben mentioned, their hit HGTV present is “an incredible opportunity, and it’s changed our life, but, at the end of the day, it’s a job.”
“My very favorite thing about what we’ve gotten to do over the last seven years is that our girls will always have this,” Erin mentioned. “Someday we won’t be here, but they’ll have this. They’ll get to be with us, and hear us, and learn our story and why we love this town so much. They’ll have that and I feel so lucky that they’ll have that.”
Dwelling City starring Ben and Erin Napier returns with a brand new season Sunday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on HGTV.
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