Christopher Schwarzenegger gets real about his weight loss transformation

Christopher Schwarzenegger is spilling the beans on the efforts he put into getting in shape for over five years.

Christopher, who is the director of development at Indus Valley Media, got candid about his journey at the Inaugural Beacher Vitality Happy & Healthy Summit in Los Angeles on Saturday.

"It was a big process," Christopher, 27, said during a panel discussion with Shriver, Kelly Osbourne and the event's host Jeff Beacher.

"I started in 2019 when I was living in Australia. I was on this big trip. I made it a big [deal] like, 'Oh, I'm going to go out and do all this stuff, be in Australia,' and I just saw how much my weight was prohibiting me from doing the everyday activities."

"I was like, 'I want to go skydiving.' And my friends were like, 'Yeah, no shot.' I was like, 'Yeah, I can't skydive,' " he recalled.

Christopher revealed that hi insecurity about his weight dated back to his high school years when he brought customised lunches from home to eat healthy.

"I tried everything. I was doing meal delivery things in high school, and I remember feeling like a weirdo when I was bringing weird lunches to school," he shared during the panel discussion, which marked one of the first times he spoke publicly about his weight.

"It's not an overnight thing, but it took a lot of trial and error," the University of Michigan graduate added. "And even still to this day ... when you're saying, oh, before and after photos ... I don't feel like I'm an after yet. I don't feel like I'm at the point."

He also revealed the one food item he gave up that helped him lose 30 pounds in less than two months.

"Weirdly enough, I gave up bread for Lent," he said of the 40-day Christian religious observance. "I don't know if anyone's Catholic in here, but I gave up bread for Lent."

"I was like, 'Well, if I'm giving up bread, I might as well just take the opportunity and I'm a good Catholic boy, so I'm not going to break it,' " he recalled. "And that was my one rule. I was like, 'I'm not going to break Lent.' And so I lost 30 pounds just through that."