Leo's Personal Transformation - Losing over 200LBS
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:38 Leo intro
1:56 Leo's weight loss
3:17 Food addiction
8:28 Giving up
11:39 His craziest meals
16:45 Psychological work before diet
23:46 How people treat you when fat
28:45 Dealing with injury
32:45 Trying Keto
35:14 Current diet
37:55 Lifting during weight loss
41:11 Focusing on the future
48:19 Advice for overweight people
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to the ARP strength podcast. I'm Nick Shaw, joined by Dr. Mike Isretel. |
| 0:09.6 | He's going to be quiet for a second. And guess what? Oh, no, never mind. No, he's not. |
| 0:14.9 | Guys, it's been a while since we've got a guest on. Usually it's just Mike and I, just chatting. I can't shut that |
| 0:22.5 | guy up. You know what I'm saying? Everyone's like, yes, we know. But we have the distinct pleasure |
| 0:28.2 | to have on a guest who had reached out has a pretty cool story that we thought we'd want to |
| 0:32.9 | share on the RP string podcast. And his name is Leo deillis. Did I say that correctly? Yeah, that's fine. The original Italian pronunciation will be DeCillis. I can't say that. Yes. But yeah. But it's cool. That's cool. Yeah, man. Well, welcome to the podcast. Great to have you on. Thank you very much. And thank you for the opportunity to talk with you guys. |
| 0:56.0 | Of course. Where do you live currently? You live in Europe. |
| 1:00.1 | Yes, I live in Malmo, Sweden. |
| 1:02.5 | Okay. |
| 1:03.8 | That's so cool. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah. Yeah. I have actually been here for almost 17 years, so a long time. |
| 1:12.5 | Do you speak Swedish? |
| 1:14.2 | Yes, yes, I do. |
| 1:18.2 | I heard that the girls are very unattractive there, is that true? |
| 1:20.0 | If you say so. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.1 | No, yeah, definitely a lot of attractive people here. |
| 1:26.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:46.6 | Legendary. Amazing. Awesome. So, Leo, you had reached out. You were sharing some of your stories, so we want to cover that. So can you just, I guess, highlight kind of what weight you got up to and like where you're at now. And then we can kind of dive into that a little bit more on the podcast and we'll actually you know ask for a bunch of details but can you share that briefly yes yes so at my heaviest i was at 210 kilos uh that's 4163 pounds |
| 1:57.8 | uh right now i weigh 90 kilos so that's 188 pounds so yeah I've lost 265 and yeah I've actually lost |
| 2:11.5 | about 200 of those in the last 18 months wow yeah wow yeah a lot. Yeah. Mike made the joke when he got on. |
| 2:21.6 | We were looking for the other half of you. That half has now gone. So can you tell us a little bit |
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