He Was Told He'd Be Dead by 40. Then He Lost 200 Pounds. | Raheel Siddiqui
3/2/20261 hr 5 min
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At 27 years old, Raheel Siddiqui weighed 405 pounds. His doctor looked him dead in the eye and said he wouldn't make it to 40. Most people would have folded. Raheel went to war.
What followed wasn't a diet plan. It was a complete identity overhaul.
He lost 200 pounds. His father died in his arms during the journey. He blew out two discs in his spine. He fought through years of IVF to have a son. And through every single wall that...
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Raheel Siddiqui· Guest0:31
I'm four hundred and five pounds. My father at that time, he was a pharmacist. One Saturday morning, he looked at me and was like, "Whoa, you know, like, man, you're, you know, you're gaining a lot of weight. I'm getting very concerned. Let's go to the doctor. I want to get some blood work done because I'm, I'm, [chuckles] I'm looking like a wa- walking time bomb." A few days later, went to the doctor's office to get my results. This is probably the craziest part. Doctor walks in, has a folder in his hand, looks at my dad and I, looks down at the folder, flips the pages of results over, closes the folder, throws the folder on the side of the counter, looks dead at my father and I and says, "It doesn't matter what these results say. Your son's going to be dead by the time he's forty. We're just wasting our time."
Ryan Hanley· Host1:06
What you're about to watch is a conversation with Raheel Siddiqui. This is one of my favorite conversations I've ever had on this show in the more than five years and almost four hundred episodes that we've done. I do this show very selfishly. I get to meet incredible people, and I've met hundreds and hundreds of incredible