The Happy Gilmore actor, Adam Sandler, was spotted with his eldest child, Sadie, in Los Angeles over the weekend, and fans in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood noticed a significant change in Sandler on his social media post.

Sandler seems to have lost quite a few pounds for a 59-year-old. The Billy Madison star was walking around in his signature baggy garments, but looked significantly leaner after reportedly losing around 25 pounds. His transformation has taken years, and the spotting of it comes at a time when the irony is a hard miss.

Sandler's weight loss came after his viral comic song, "Grandma's on Ozempic," during his You're My Best Friend Tour last year in December. After Sandler turned Hollywood's favorite weight loss method into a punchline, he became the very center of the same conversation.

Although there has been no public admission by Sandler about taking weight-loss injections himself, there is no indication that he has taken GLP-1 drugs to lose those pounds. Instead, the credit appears to go to something far more personal.

While the Ozempic joke may have come across as irony, the story behind Sandler's weight loss is his diet and the motivation from the person he was seen walking with, his daughter.

Adam Sandler Credits His Daughter Sadie for Pushing Him to Get Back in Shape

Adam Sandler is probably one of the luckiest dads to have a daughter who pushes him to his last limit. Sadie was the one who realized that Sandler needed a personal trainer and rehired the trainer who worked with him to get in shape for his 2008 film You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

"I used to take working out so seriously... and now I can't f—g do it," he said. "I play hoop, and then I eat. Every time I'm eating, I'm going, 'What are you doing, man? You don't need to do this.' I can't stop, just got a little bit of thickness all over," said Sandler on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Despite Sandler's hesitancy, Sadie pushed him to reconnect with his old trainer. "It's a lot of work," he recalled telling her — though he acknowledged she had a point. "She's right about everything, [but] I don't promise her. I go, 'Let me think about that. That's a good idea,'" said Sandler, according to The Blast.

From squeezing breast milk on a ship in Paris just moments after interviewing the Olympic flagbearers to being interrupted by contractions from the Football Night in America desk

The man who made the joke about Ozempic proved the oldest adage in fitness – that it sometimes only requires the perfect person to keep you accountable.

Is there someone who pushes you to stay fit like Sandler's daughter does?

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Written by

Proma Chatterjee

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Ashvinkumar Patil