{"id":42561,"date":"2026-01-08T05:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/matt-damon-says-cutting-one-thing-out-of-his-diet-got-him-down-to-his-high-school-weight\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:41:12","slug":"matt-damon-says-cutting-one-thing-out-of-his-diet-got-him-down-to-his-high-school-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/matt-damon-says-cutting-one-thing-out-of-his-diet-got-him-down-to-his-high-school-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon says cutting one thing out of his diet got him down to his &#8216;high school&#8217; weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/695f1a70832e0ef1ead761e5?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Matt Damon.\"\/><figcaption>Matt Damon says his latest role required a strict routine that left him lighter than he&#039;s been in years.<\/p>\n<p>NBC\/Todd Owyoung\/NBC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt Damon, 55, says he made a big diet change to prepare for his latest film, &quot;The Odyssey.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>He said cutting out gluten helped him slim down to 167 pounds, a weight he hadn&#039;t been at since high school.<\/li>\n<li>Experts say gluten-free diets are not universally necessary for weight loss or better health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Matt Damon, 55, says one diet change left him lighter than he has been in years.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Wednesday&#039;s episode of the &quot;New Heights&quot; podcast, Damon spoke about how he prepared for his latest role in &quot;The Odyssey.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was in really good shape. I lost a lot of weight. He said he wanted me like lean but strong. It&#039;s a weird thing,&quot; Damon told hosts Jason and Travis Kelce, referring to the film&#039;s director, Christopher Nolan.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve that physique, Damon said he cut one thing out of his diet.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I literally, just because of this other thing I did with my doctor, stopped eating gluten,&quot; Damon said. &quot;I used to walk around between 185 and 200. I did that whole movie at 167. And I haven&#039;t been that light since high school. So it was a lot of training and a really strict diet.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The actor said he works with a trainer, and compared the physical preparation to how the Kelce siblings would gear up for a football season, with training becoming part of his daily routine.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You know, it&#039;s like just part of your day. It&#039;s part of your job, right? And it&#039;s like yeah, you get really routinized about it and really kind of build your day around all that stuff,&quot; Damon said.<\/p>\n<p>The actor added that he hasn&#039;t had gluten since. &quot;I&#039;m done. I&#039;m done. I&#039;m gluten-free everything,&quot; Damon said.<\/p>\n<p>A gluten-free diet eliminates gluten, a protein found in grains such as wheat, barley, and rye. It is often adopted for medical or digestive reasons, including to manage symptoms of celiac disease.<\/p>\n<p>For most people, gluten isn&#039;t necessarily harmful.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Evidence suggests that, for general health, the emphasis should be on a whole, minimally processed, plant-based diet, which can include gluten-containing grains,&quot; Grace Fjeldberg, a registered dietician with the Mayo Clinic Health System, told Business Insider in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its popularity, a gluten-free diet doesn&#039;t necessarily result in weight loss and isn&#039;t a universal approach to better health.<\/p>\n<p>Damon is no stranger to getting into peak shape for a role.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2016 BBC interview, Damon said that getting back into shape for his return to the Bourne franchise was &quot;brutal,&quot; after his last appearance in 2007&#039;s &quot;The Bourne Ultimatum.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For the first Bourne movie I was 29 and I thought that was hard work getting into shape,&quot; Damon said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Now I&#039;m 45 and it&#039;s just brutal. We shot this bare-knuckle fighting scene on my 45th birthday and it was a lot of work to get there,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Damon says his latest role required a strict routine that left him lighter than he&#039;s been in years. 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