Oya Shizuka’s latest update on her weight loss (on her YouTube channel)

AKB48 member Oya Shizuka opened a YouTube channel titled “41ch” on April 1st to document her weight loss.

Oya said her weight went up to 65 kg (143 pounds) at felt that she is overweight and it will inconvenience people, so she created a YouTube channel about her diet and plans to lose weight.

Oya has been yoyo dieting since 2008 but at the end of 2020, she gained the most weight ever and she can’t jump at events because her knees can’t support her weight.

Oya also mentioned that while her face doesn’t get big, she wears loose clothes, so it’s hard to tell how much weight she has gained but now she is unable to close the buttons on her pants and the zipper won’t go down.

So, here we are in November (day 225) and Shizuka posted her latest video:

Oya said she can now wear clothes that she has not worn for two years. On Day 225, Oya said, “If you lose 10kg (22 pounds), you should be able to wear clothes that you couldn’t fit in”.

In her latest weigh-in, Oya went from 65kg (143 pounds) down to 153.8 kg (118 pounds), losing 25 pounds in 225 days.