However, he explained cutting out all training and healthy eating wasn’t sustainable for him either. “At one point, that was a dream of mine — what it would be like to not have to be in shape all the time,” he said. “What if I just say, ‘Fuck it’ and let myself go? So I tried it, and I was successful. And for all the reasons I thought it would be incredible, I was just miserable. My body would not feel healthy; I just didn’t feel alive. I felt bogged down and slow.”
One of the most notable moments where Zac mentions his body image journey is during his docuseries Down To Earth With Zac Efron where he begins to tear up as he’s eating pasta in Italy. “I’m so happy that I’m eating carbs again,” he said. “I went, like, years without eating carbs. When I shot Baywatch, I didn’t have a single carb for, like, six months. I almost lost my mind.”