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Adele Weight Loss 2026 Update: Sirtfood Legacy, Pilates, and Where She Stands Now

Five years after the photo that broke the internet, the actual Adele story is duller than the diet industry made it. The sirtfood legend, the Pilates floor, and where the singer sits in 2026.

By Marin Cole Celebrity Desk
An empty grand piano on a dark stage with a single warm spotlight, a glass of water on the bench, dust in the beam — atmospheric mood image, not a portrait of Adele.
Atmospheric image · Real Easy Diet — not a portrait
Direct Answer

Adele lost approximately 100 pounds (about seven stone) between 2019 and 2020. The widely-circulated "sirtfood diet" story is not what she herself credited. In her November 2021 Vogue cover, she credited Pilates, weight training, and a divorce-period commitment to her body. Her trainer Pete Geracimo has explicitly denied the sirtfood framing. As of 2026, she has maintained the loss publicly, has not endorsed any branded plan, and has not confirmed any weight-loss medication.

The 100-pound loss, in her words

The Adele weight-loss conversation effectively started in May 2020, when she posted a 32nd-birthday photo on Instagram and the internet immediately treated her body as a news event. By the November 2021 Vogue cover — both American Vogue and British Vogue — she had given her own account. Her quotes were not about a diet. They were about her divorce, her son, and the gym.

The number "100 pounds" came from outside reporting. Adele cited "about seven stone" in the British Vogue conversation, which is about 98 pounds — close enough to "100" that the round number stuck. She has not given a precise figure since.

The more important quote, for our purposes:

"It was because of my anxiety. Working out, I would just feel better. It was never about losing weight, it was always about becoming strong and giving myself as much time every day without my phone." — Adele, British Vogue, November 2021.

That's the frame she gave it. Not "I did the sirtfood diet." Not "I went keto." Her own framing was: divorce, anxiety, training. The diet industry filled in the rest.

The sirtfood diet, examined

The sirtfood diet — promoted in 2016 by nutritionists Aidan Goggins and Glen Matten in The Sirtfood Diet book — argued that a list of "sirtfoods" activates sirtuin proteins in the body and triggers a fat-loss response. The list: kale, dark chocolate, red wine, green tea, walnuts, blueberries, strawberries, parsley, capers, soy, turmeric, olive oil, coffee. Phase one of the plan called for about 1,000 calories a day for three days, then 1,500 for four days. Phase two was a 14-day maintenance window.

The sirtuin biology is real — sirtuins are a family of proteins that regulate cellular health — but the diet industry's claim that eating dark chocolate "activates" sirtuins enough to produce weight loss is not supported by the dietetic literature. The British Dietetic Association has called the sirtfood diet "neither realistic nor sustainable" and warned that the rapid first-phase loss is mostly water and glycogen depletion.

Adele's link to it was made by chefs in her circle and by tabloid coverage in 2020. Her personal trainer Pete Geracimo, who worked with her for 17 years, told outlets — and posted on Instagram — that the sirtfood story was wrong. His framing: she trained hard and ate clean, but not on any specific branded protocol.

What you should not do: take Adele's loss as proof that the sirtfood diet works. The on-record version is that she did not credit it, her trainer rejected it, and the dietetic associations recommend against it.

Pilates and weight training — the part she did credit

The activity story is where Adele's own quotes are clearest. Three to four days a week of training, with two distinct halves to most weeks:

  • Circuit-style weight training, programmed by Pete Geracimo. Compound lifts, dumbbells, full-body movement. The goal was strength, not the gym-mirror look.
  • Pilates, mat and reformer. Pilates is not a high-calorie burner — the published estimates run about 175 to 250 calories per hour on a reformer — but it is one of the most-cited routines for posture, core, and back support in adults carrying or recovering from weight loss.
  • Daily walking, mostly with her son and her dog. She has described this as the part she didn't think of as exercise.
  • Hiking, picked up during her Los Angeles years.

The math here is dull and important. A 2022 meta-analysis in Obesity Reviews of resistance training during weight loss found that adding strength work preserved lean muscle mass and supported sustainable fat loss — the most replicated finding in adult exercise science. Adele's account maps cleanly to that pattern: she trained for strength, kept her muscle, and the fat came off as a byproduct of the training plus the consistent caloric reduction her schedule allowed.

Where Adele stands in 2026

Five years after the loss became a story:

  • The weight has held publicly. Her 2024 Munich residency photos and her 2025 public appearances show her at a similar weight to the 2021 Vogue cover. There is no public statement that the loss has reversed.
  • She has paused touring. In late 2024 she announced an extended break from performing. As of early 2026, no new dates have been confirmed.
  • She has not endorsed a branded diet, supplement, or medication. If you see "Adele's keto gummies" or any such product, it is fake.
  • She has not publicly confirmed Ozempic. Her loss happened between 2019 and 2021, before the cultural Ozempic surge. The on-record account is training plus eating less.
  • Her on-record framing has been consistent. Strength, anxiety management, motherhood, divorce processing — not a magic diet.

The 2026 version of the Adele weight-loss story is therefore less interesting than the 2020 version pretended it was. She lost weight slowly. She trained. She walked. She stopped drinking on the schedule she once did. She has kept it off, in public, for five years. That's the update.

An honest read

The sirtfood diet had a five-minute moment in 2020 because Adele's body was a tabloid event and the diet industry needed something to sell. The on-record version, then and now, is duller: strength training three to four times a week, Pilates, walking, eating less, and giving herself a multi-year horizon. None of that is for sale in a bottle.

What you should not do: buy a sirtfood meal kit, buy any "Adele's diet" product, or take a brief celebrity association as endorsement. What you can borrow: the training-first framing, the strength emphasis, the willingness to let the loss happen across years instead of weeks. The CDC's recommendation for sustainable adult weight loss is roughly 1-2 pounds a week. Adele's account — 100 pounds across roughly 18 months — is right in that zone, mathematically.

FAQ

How much weight did Adele lose?

Approximately 100 pounds across 2019 and 2020, per her own statements in the November 2021 Vogue cover story. She has not given a precise number publicly; British Vogue cited 'about seven stone' which is roughly 98 pounds.

What was the sirtfood diet?

The sirtfood diet was an eating plan promoted by Aidan Goggins and Glen Matten that emphasized foods said to activate 'sirtuin' proteins — kale, dark chocolate, red wine, green tea, walnuts, blueberries, olive oil. It included a calorie-restricted first phase of around 1,000-1,500 calories. Adele was widely linked to it; her personal trainer denied she ever followed it strictly.

Did Adele actually do the sirtfood diet?

Reports linking Adele to the sirtfood diet are second-hand, mostly from chefs and trainers in her circle. Her trainer Pete Geracimo has said the sirtfood label is not accurate. Adele herself has credited training, not a branded diet, in her own interviews.

Is Adele on Ozempic?

Adele has not publicly confirmed using any GLP-1 medication. Her loss occurred between 2019 and 2021, before the Ozempic cultural surge. Real Easy Diet does not speculate beyond her on-record statements.

Has Adele kept the weight off?

As of 2026, Adele continues to appear publicly at her post-2021 weight. There is no public statement that the weight has returned. She has paused touring and reduced public appearances in 2025-2026, so visual evidence is limited.

What did Adele's exercise routine look like?

Pilates and weight training. Her trainer Pete Geracimo described circuit-style strength work three times a week plus daily walking. She has cited the post-divorce period (around 2019) as when she 'really got into fitness for the first time.'

What does Adele say about the weight-loss attention?

In Vogue, November 2021, she said she did not lose weight to be praised and was 'a bit irritated' that the response to her body was bigger than the response to the music. Her words: 'I did it for myself and not anyone else.'

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