Chris Pratt
When he's playing the dimwitted Andy Dwyer on NBC's Parks and Recreation, Chris Pratt proudly carries around a beer gut and plenty of pudge. But the 34-year-old actor, who next stars in big-screen superhero adventure Guardians of the Galaxy, raised the Internet's temperature when he recently posted a photo of himself to Instagram sporting a chiseled face and rock-hard abs. “Six months no beer. #GOTG Kinda douchey to post this but my brother made me," he wrote.
Drew Carey
The Price Is Right host Drew Carey shed 92 pounds in 2010 and has since managed to keep the weight off. “It’s just become a lifestyle, you know what I mean?” the 55-year-old comedian said in 2012. “I don’t want to make a big deal out of it since it’s how I live my life. It’s like making a big deal about getting dressed in the morning or brushing my teeth.”
Jerry Ferrara
He became famous playing the chunky stoner Turtle on HBO's Entourage, but Jerry Ferrara, 33, lost 55 pounds by hiring a nutritionist and a personal trainer. The actor told Men's Health that he was "addicted" to the changes he was seeing in his body. As for dealing with cravings, Ferrara says, "Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don’t have it again the next day."
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel spoofed his own dramatic weight reduction in a series of parody videos touting the "Jimmy K Diet Plan," but in reality, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host, 45, credits the advice of Dr. Oz for his transformation. "It’s a ridiculous thing, but the way I feel is: I’m on television, so I need a television doctor to tell me. I can’t go to a regular doctor," Kimmel joked.
John Goodman
Roseanne star and Coen brothers regular John Goodman says the moment he realized he had to lose weight was when he starred in 2006 TV movie The Year Without a Santa Claus. "I looked at it and I was really unhappy about the way I looked," Goodman, 61, told Men's Health. Working with a New Orleans fitness guru named Mackie Shilstone, Goodman dropped 70 pounds. He struggled to keep the weight off, however, and a recent profile with RadioTimes says "he looks dangerously obese."
Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill, 29, dropped 40 pounds after 2011's Moneyball, the film that saw him nominated for an Oscar. The secret? "It was just mostly diet," he told ABC's Nightline in 2012. "I wish there was some crazy thing that I did, like a pill or a genie or something. But it was, unfortunately, I went to see a nutritionist, and he told me what to eat to change my habits and stuff." Hill has since gained the weight back.
Seth MacFarlane
"The 5-foot-10 Seth MacFarlane wasn't fat," wrote The Hollywood Reporter's Merle Ginsberg in her 2012 article, "The Incredible Shrinking Actor." "But he did weigh 205 pounds." Trainer Bobby Strom stepped in for the fix: "A year and a half ago," says Strom, "Ryan Reynolds, who I've worked with for nine years, did an episode of Family Guy. When Seth saw him, he said, 'Hey, man, who's your trainer?' Now Seth weighs 170, works out seven days a week and eats things like egg whites and Greek yogurt."
Seth Rogen
This Is the End star Seth Rogen went from chubby to trim, losing 30 pounds over a nine-month period leading up to the 2009 filming of The Green Hornet. He's since added much of that back. "I'm slowly outgrowing all the clothes I bought last year," the 31-year-old actor said in 2011. "It's a sad thing. I gave away all my fat clothes, thinking 'I won't need these anymore,' but I do!"
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