Amy Schumer weight loss tips & tricks: comedian calls Hollywood insane when it comes to body image during her Saturday HBO special

In a weight-loss, social-media-obsessed world, it's not surprising to see women standing up against Hollywood sexism and double standards when it comes to weight and beauty. Comedienne and television star Amy Schumer isn't one to shy away from such topics, as evident in her Saturday Night Live opening monologue and HBO special, Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo.

During her stint as host on Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago, People reports that the actress commented on Khloe Kardashian's weight loss, implying that she was more relatable when she was full-figured, like most women. Schumer said that the world needs better role models than the Kardashians, musing, "Is that a great message for little girls? A whole family of women who take the faces they were born with as like, a light suggestion? We used to have Khloé. Khloé was ours, right? Whenever there's a group of women, you identify with one of them, right? But Khloé – she lost half her body weight."

Kardashian was quick to respond the only way she seems to know how, via Twitter, where she claimed to be on a "healthy journey."

Speaking of healthy journeys, Schumer isn't one to delve into details about her eating habits. In fact, when she wrote the film Trainwreck, she did not expect to be cast in the main role, but she felt the pressure to lose weight.

Washington Post reports according to Schumer, "I assumed they would cast a beautiful, model-y actress to play the lead role, like a Blake Lively and that I’d be on set just as a writer with a messy bun and a laptop."

But of course, Schumer was set to play the role of a men's magazine editor Amy Townsend. She said, "They were like, ‘No, we want you to be in the movie — we just need you to do three things. One: Just be yourself. Two: Have fun! And three: Stop eating food."

The Emmy Award winning Inside Amy Schumer star continued, "I was like, ‘Wait a minute…don’t people need food to live?’ And they were like, ‘That’s a myth.'"

Her statements were met with more laughter, as she continued, "I was like, ‘You guys! I don’t even like food, I was just eating it ’cause I was bored. Yuck! Who wants to chew and eat food all the time?"

Schumer deadpanned, "Me. I do. It turns out I need food."

In July, Schumer shared that before filming Trainwreck, she had indeed met with a trainer, who she claims "trains everybody like all the Hemsworths and Megan Fox and actual foxes". E! Online reports that according to the actress, "He walked in to meet me for the first time and I could see him kind of assessing the damage. And he's looking at me up and down and he's looking at me like he would look at a burn victim to try and be brave for them, you know?"

She said she was given a new eating plan to follow, saying, "I got my meal plan which was like, a smoothie for breakfast, and then like for lunch you journal about that smoothie…like, there's no food! That's the Hollywood secret!"

Schumer admitted that she was able to lose 3 lbs., but the bigger lesson to be learned is how to not give into society's pressure to lose weight. Weight loss is a serious, health-affecting matter that should be done for the betterment of the overall wellness of an individual, and not for the satisfaction of others.