{"id":915425,"date":"2026-06-25T18:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/gina-carano-admits-she-was-pre-diabetic-and-had-trouble-walking-before-losing-100lb-for-comeback-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:18:02","slug":"gina-carano-admits-she-was-pre-diabetic-and-had-trouble-walking-before-losing-100lb-for-comeback-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/gina-carano-admits-she-was-pre-diabetic-and-had-trouble-walking-before-losing-100lb-for-comeback-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina Carano admits she was pre-diabetic and had trouble walking before losing 100lb for comeback fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article id=\"post-309876\">\n<p><strong>Gina Carano has revealed she was over 240lb during the depths of her mental and physical health struggles before agreeing to a comeback fight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has been over 16 years since her last outing in a cage, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2026\/05\/15\/gina-carano-reveals-netflix-career-goal-after-comeback-fight-that-features-nate-diaz-and-mike-perry\/\">Carano has been through the wringer emotionally<\/a> in recent years especially. But tomorrow night at Intuit Dome in California she will make her return to action against <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ronda-rousey\">Ronda Rousey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<div data-trigger=\"vue-sidebar-poll\" data-story-id=\"6038927d-fc33-4ab5-9bfe-f9b49f1acd48\" data-story-name=\"Ronda Rousey\" data-comment-id=\"4fd1cc8c-bf30-4848-9506-1aa14af44873\" data-story-slug=\"ronda-rousey\" data-poll-id=\"16650317\">\n<header>  <\/header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Who wins when Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano return to face each other?<\/h3>\n<p>Defend your pick in the comments<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1\/2026\/02\/BE-creative-templates-11-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano side-by-side comparison\" ><\/p><figcaption title=\"Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano side-by-side comparison. Credit: Albert L. Ortega\/Getty Images\/Ethan Miller\/FilmMagic\">Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano side-by-side comparison. Credit: Albert L. Ortega\/Getty Images\/Ethan Miller\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both women <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2026\/05\/15\/ronda-rousey-and-gina-carano-complete-weight-transformations-as-they-both-come-in-way-under-limit\/\">have had to physically reinvent themselves in order to fight again<\/a>, with Rousey giving birth to two children in the near-decade since her last fight. Now, they just have one more face-off to complete before finally stepping into the cage for one last effort.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><svg width=\"20\" height=\"20\"><use href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/#list-arrow-svg\" \/><\/svg><strong>MASSIVE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2026\/05\/15\/francis-ngannous-huge-37lb-size-advantage-for-netflix-fight-revealed-at-first-weigh-in-since-2024\/\">Francis Ngannou\u2019s huge 37lb size advantage for Netflix fight revealed at first weigh-in since 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Gina Carano pens emotional message after 100lb weight loss<\/h2>\n<p>Ahead of her big return fight on <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> tomorrow and after coming in considerably under the 145lb limit for her bout, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/gina-carano\">Gina Carano<\/a> shared an emotional message with fans on social media. She shared just how much she struggled at her lowest, and thanked them for their continued support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOk. Vulnerable post but here we are,\u201d Carano wrote to her 2.1 million followers. \u201cI just weighed in at 141.4lb. Since Sept 2024 to today, May 15, 2026, I have lost 100lb. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurts to say that and share but I am going to share it because I worked so damn hard every week for over a year and a half to shed this weight. It did not happen overnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for having this incredibly challenging goal in fighting\u00a0@rondarousey\u00a0I most definitely wouldn\u2019t have reached this. I was pre-diabetic, had trouble simply walking in September and have been on the path to recovery to turn myself back into an athlete since then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was hard, SO damn hard\u2026 There was so much to learn, too much to unpack here, ups, downs, plateaus, things I learned late I wish I learned earlier, trial by error but I did it. Thank you to Ronda, who waited patiently while I lost this weight and giving me something to aim for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is still so much I need to learn and want to do in the health space and to continue transforming my body, but for today, I thank God, my husband and my family for sticking with and encouraging me the whole way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pray this encourages you wherever you are in your health journey. Believe there is hope. Never give up. Ok\u2026 Enough emo, I\u2019ve got a fight tomorrow. We\u2019ve worked so hard to get here. 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It has been over 16 years since her last outing in a cage, and Carano has been through the wringer emotionally in recent years especially. But tomorrow night at Intuit Dome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":915426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4207,22065],"tags":[5835,150557],"class_list":["post-915425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-admits","category-carano","tag-admits","tag-carano"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}