Adnan Sami’s journey to losing 120kgs: ‘Doctors told me I had six months to live’

In the entertainment industry, we have seen a lot of fat to fab journies. Most of the Bollywood stars have confessed that to enter into the industry and to make a mark they worked hard to make sure to cut the extra killos. However, when it came to popular singer Adnan Sami, he lost weight after getting a grim ultimatum from his doctor. Adnan’s doctor told him that he would only have 6 months to live if he did not address his weight issues. Thus, losing weight for Sami was not about looking good, it was about survival.

“In 2006, doctors told me I had six months to live because I was grossly overweight. I weighed 230 kilos. They said, ‘If you don’t do something, you’re not going to make it.’ It was a do-or-die situation,” shared Adnan while talking to Humans of Bombay.

The motivation stemmed from the fear of losing life, and not anything else. However, since his transformation was so dramatic, people started to speculate that he was either planning to do a movie or had lost all the extra kilos for a love interest.

Clarifying the same he said, “I was doing it for survival. I wanted to live. There was no better motivation than that.”

Losing that much weight (230 kilos) was not easy at all. Adnan Sami recalled how everyone close to him had given up on him, and the singer doesn’t blame them. In his own words, “It was a herculean task.”

However, he was fortunate enough to have found a “wonderful nutritionist,” who knew and understood that to reach the main goal it was important to focus on the baby steps. And those steps helped Adnan to lose 120 kg.

Of course, he had to make very drastic lifestyle changes and he wasn’t confident enough whether he would be able to stick to the plan. But, as they say, a journey to a thousand miles begins with one step; the famous singer took one step at a time, made sure to be consistent in his efforts, led a disciplined routine, and was able to achieve a goal that seemed impossible at a point.