"And while I may look a little better, I FEEL f*cking fantastic!" Getty Images It's been four months since filmmaker Kevin Smith suffered a massive heart attack that nearly killed him. The 47 year old was in between back-to-back standup sets when he was rushed to the hospital, where doctors found "100% blockage of my LAD artery," he tweeted. Following the near-death experience, Smith dedicated himself to getting healthy, and on Wednesday he revealed that he's down 43 pounds since the scare. Smith credited the comedian and magician Penn Jillette, who wrote a book about his own weight loss journey, and Weight Watchers for getting "the absolute adult thinnest I’ve been since I finished high school!" ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! Visit Website He added: "And while I may look a little better, I FEEL fucking fantastic!" ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! Visit Website ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! Visit Website Smith wrote that he still has seven more pounds to lose before reaching his goal of dropping 50 pounds, but he'll be sure to let the world know when he gets there. The man known for his Silent Bob character owes much of his weight loss to adopting a vegan diet. “He’s the healthiest he’s ever been, he’s vegan now, which is amazing,” his daughter, Harley Quinn Smith, told Page Six in April. He later went on The Jim & Sam Show with Jim Norton and Sam Roberts and said that his daughter as vegan for two years before he came around. It wasn't easy though. Admitting that he's not a fan of fruit and vegetables, he described how a diet including falafel, hummus, beans, and the occasional vegan comfort food, has resulted in 'wonderful' health and a loss of 32 pounds in less than 3 months. He added: "Chickpeas became a thing that saved my life." Smith promised that once he loses 50 pounds he'll reveal how much he's lost since his biggest. If this picture he posted from April is any clue, it's going to be a lot.<doc-sep>Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Kevin Smith is really making strides on his weight loss journey. The “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” star revealed on Instagram that he has lost a ton of weight and is looking to lose more. “Today, I am down a total of 43 pounds! Only 7 more pounds until I’ve shed the 50 my Doctor told me to lose following the heart attack!” he captioned a selfie. Smith, who is also a Weight Watchers ambassador, said he’s “now at the absolute adult thinnest” he’s been since he “finished high school.” “And while I may look a little better, I FEEL f–king fantastic! It’ll take a few weeks, but I’m ready to lose that final 7 pounds! And when I hit my goal, I’ll let you know where I started…” In April, Smith told Page Six that he had lost 30 pounds and “felt so much better right away.” Following his heart attack, Smith adopted a vegan diet, which his daughter, Harley Quinn Smith, told us he loved. “He’s the healthiest he’s ever been, he’s vegan now, which is amazing,” she said.<doc-sep>Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Harley Quinn Smith says her father Kevin Smith is “the healthiest he’s ever been,” after suffering a massive heart attack in February. “He’s doing really, really great,” she told Page Six at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of “All These Small Moments” outside the SVA Theater Tuesday night. “He’s the healthiest he’s ever been, he’s vegan now, which is amazing,” she added, recalling a recent trip to healthy eatery Veggie Grill where “he had the vegan nachos and loved them.” Harley Quinn Smith, 18 — who stars in the film as Lindsey, a teen who gets rejected by main character, Simon, played by Sam McCarthy — has been vegan for two years and has tried to get her dad on the healthy bandwagon for some time now. “Now its finally happened and I’m so happy,” she said. Kevin, 47, has spoken publicly about his health scare and recovery. On Monday’s “Today” show he said, “I didn’t know until I was in the operating room that I had a heart attack. [The doctor was] like, ‘You had a massive heart attack.’ I was like, ‘Nobody told me. Are you serious?’” Also walking the carpet at the SVA Theater was Molly Ringwald, who plays the mother of McCarthy’s character — decades after playing opposite his father, Andrew McCarthy, in “Pretty in Pink.” Harley referred to Ringwald as “my queen.” “Just to be able to say that I was in the same piece of work as her is truly an honor,” she gushed. “She’s been a role model to me growing up and will continue to be a role model to me forever.”<doc-sep>
From Men's Health Kevin Smith is still shedding pounds four months after the massive heart attack that nearly killed him (not to mention exposed to his penis to like five doctors). "Today, I am down a total of 43 pounds!" the Clerks director wrote on Instagram, accompanied by a photo of himself looking like half a Silent Bob. "Only 7 more pounds until I’ve shed the 50 my Doctor told me to lose following the heart attack!" Back in March, Smith revealed he'd lost 17 pounds in just nine days using the all-potato diet that magician Penn Jillette presented in his book, Presto! : How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear - not something we'd recommend, exactly. According to the director's latest update, he has since phased over to Weight Watchers, the preferred diet of musician and noted non-cunnilingus practitioner DJ Khaled. "This #wwambassador is now at the absolute adult thinnest I’ve been since I finished high school!" Smith wrote. "And while I may look a little better, I FEEL fucking fantastic! It’ll take a few weeks, but I’m ready to lose that final 7 pounds! And when I hit my goal, I’ll let you know where I started..." Story continues We're pumped Smith is feeling great, and especially psyched he's feeling good enough to return to Degrassi High School. Photo credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images The key to Weight Watchers, however, is not just losing the weight - but keeping the weight off. "The data are quite clear," David Levitsky, Ph. D., a professor of nutrition at Cornell University, told Men's Health in 2011. "When people complete their dietary treatment, they gain most of the weight back within one year." (Need help sticking to your new diet? We have some tips.) So basically, the man who made his career writing movies about lovable slackers needs to make sure he doesn't slack off. We're rooting for him. You Might Also Like