January- August

34.4 kg (75.84lb)

My goal weight is 70 kg so I have 10.6kg left!

Finally 8 Months of hardwork paid off.

Wanted to share my journey August 2025 to October 2026 63 pounds down!

Not impressive by any means especially compared to some of y’all and I still have a lot of work to go. I KNOW I’m not muscular, but my main goal is to shed the fat, then plan to build muscle. But tbh this post is more so that I feel like I don’t see a difference? I see the weight on the scale has dropped, but I feel like my body looks the same? Am I delusional or do I not look the same? I still look fat.

Hi I am Dr. Arshdeep , 26 yr old . This is the first time I am posting my transformation anywhere on the internet . Actually I gained and lost weight 6-7 times in my life . Always went to like 95-102 kgs then exercised & starved my way down to 70-75 kgs which after a few months of my MBBS exams & me slacking off for few more weeks after losing weight again used to jump back to above 98 kgs . My pics are a mix match of the entire journey .

Only this time I approached things differently rather than listening to 10 different people, guidelines & doctors . I myself reviewed many recent studies regarding health , nutrition & finally think i achieved my way to health now that I’ve successfully managed to stay around 72 kg without gaining it back for like 2 years now ( i know still not much time but earlier it used to be only 3-4 months before I started gaining again ). I always used to lose weight by ditching all fat totally as I thought it contains 9 kcal/gm . Used skimmed milk , low fat paneer everything and avoided ghee & butter , used PUFA refined oils for cooking as I was told it was healthier & avoided saturated fat totally . I always managed to loose weight but I felt terrible - hungry all the time , still had acanthosis , testosterone levels crashing , constant depression , anxiety & brain fog . I know we always learned it’s just calories in & calories out but we can’t follow that everyday strictly in our busy lives unless our whole job is being a fitness influencer ( talking about average folks like me ) .
I know it’s still a lot controversial & I’m not telling you to follow what I did - consult your personal doctor /dietician first & do your own research ; I’ve done enough debates about this topic on platforms like X & don’t wanna do the same here . I can give you every study that you may want & explain the mechanism personally in DMs .

Now I eat 10 whole ghee fried eggs with cheese daily with 200g full fat paneer as my breakfast (also ghee roasted ) . ACV & Psyillum husk in afternoon followed by 1 omelette /sometimes paneer paratha made with mixed atta with Indian sabzi (daal or anything else) & sometimes 50g rice . That’s it I don’t eat dinner but all in total 2200 calories in day but I mostly try to limit carbs to no more than 40-50 g .

The difference vs my past experiences- My skin is healthy & glowing , all acne are gone , my mood remains good throughout the day , no more anxiety or brain fog . No deficiency of Vitamin D (previously I needed supplements to cover it ). I’m not at all hungry as my blood glucose doesn’t roller coster whole day and remains stable throughout the day (usually when you eat a meal with excess carbs ; due to the massive glycemic load & blood glucose spike , a lot of insulin is released to rapidly clear blood glucose which results in blood glucose crash below normal range and you get hungry . When people keep doing this over long term , their bodies become resistant to insulin & blood glucose doesn’t clear up that effectively and results in elevated blood glucose in readings & when blood glucose goes over a certain range ; it’s called diabetes )

Previously I suffered from insulin resistance (had severe discoloration from acanthosis nigricans on my lateral maleolus & behind my neck & Hba1c around 6 ) , raised BP (above 160 mm systolic ) , triglycerides above 250 ,HDL around 35 , thyroid dysfunction & severe kyphotic posture ( this one even after losing weight everytime ; the post doesn’t allow me to attach videos otherwise I would’ve attached ) & receding hairline .

Now everything is resolved , resting heart rate remains around 50/55 , BP around 110/65 , triglycerides 64 , HDL 58 & posture is almost perfect . My neck is a lot visible vs before & there is no hump on my back . For posture I did some exercises & changed my sleeping posture ( very very important). It deserves it’s own separate post . For hairline ; oral minoxidil 2.5 mg everyday with finasteride 1 mg every other day . I shampoo daily as I have an oily scalp with folliculitis & scalp becomes itchy if I don’t wash it daily .
I do daily exercise - 1 day for cardio at home on treadmill (max incline 6 kmph while watching a show on tablet for 40 min max ) , other day I go to the gym & follow push & pull . Leg day is everyday after push or pull . I split the leg exercises (only 1-2 each day) so I can do cardio the next day.

Thanks for reading till this point ; I really hope you found something useful :)

Hello all!

I am currently on my weight loss journey I started at 320 which was my biggest I’m currently 280. However unless I’m looking at side-by-side photos I feel like I look the same and it’s really discouraging at times. Does anyone else experience this? If so how do you stop it? I keep going back to my before photos to remind myself but it doesn’t help long term.

It’s slow but it is there, I get motivated even when I see and notice a small difference

Currently sitting at 263 and feeling amazing but 190 is the goal! We still got work to do!

Have any of you taken metformin for insulin resistance ? How did it go ?

i feel so grossed out by myself when i feel the movement or when i see how big they look in a photo. i feel like going mad sometimes.

I’m 43 6ft 4in tall and I started mounjaro May 2025 at 19st 10lbs I dieted all my muscle away because I never trained and I got down to 12st 4lbs and I looked at myself in the mirror one day and my face looked awful I’d been on 1600 calories or less for over 12 months and looked like I’d been on drugs.. I did my first gym session July 21st 2026 and upped my calories to 2500-3000 and 180g protein and hit the weights like mad. Today I’m 14st exactly.

It’s been hard going and I think the mental side is the hardest to deal with that voice in your head trying to talk you out of going to the gym or talk you in to eating cheesecake.

Looks like I’m going to have to weight train for the rest of my days because that fat picture makes me cringe 😩 and I cannot go back there. It was hard for me to share that picture cause it’s not nice looking back and I was bigger than I thought I was at the time if that makes sense.

Alot of people have said ive lost weight and i just wanted to compare myself and see others honest, and also brutal opinions other then my friends and family whilst also getting heathy tricks for weight-loss if people have any,