“I rebalanced all that”: Jimmy Mohamed confides in his impressive weight loss, after a period when he had gained 12 kilos

While he’s known for giving sound health advice, doctor Jimmy Mohamed struggled to apply it to himself for a while, to the point of gaining 12 pounds.

In just a few years, he has become one of France’s best-known doctors. It was especially during the covid-19 pandemic that Jimmy Mohamed, former columnist in The Big Mouths on RMC then on C8, successively in It’s only TV et It’s just health Then Balance ton post ! et Do not touch My TV, became known to the general public. From the start of the epidemic in March 2020, the general practitioner at the APHP, also author of books such as Waiting for the doctor, all the answers for worried parents, becomes the health consultant for Cyril Hanouna’s show and is even called upon by more and more other platforms. In a few months, it becomes a real star. Until the end of 2021, he was still on Europe 1 in Without an appointment presented by Melanie Gomez.

A very busy schedule

From now on, it is on France Bleu that listeners can find him in Hello doctor. But it is also on the screens that the French can see Jimmy Mohamed every day. Since 2021, it presents The health magazine on France 5. His colleague and host Marina Carrère d’Encausse says about him: “He has a permanent communicative energy, an ability to decipher medical information so that it is accessible to all, an obvious naturalness, whether he is commenting on diagrams or handling”. Finally, it offers daily and short videos on his social networks where he is followed by a million people, gives advice and informs and popularizes on health issues. It is in particular for this reason that the doctor is also called upon by the government to convey messages of prevention.

“I compensated for my stress by nibbling”

In addition to all this, he continues to make home visits with SOS Médecins. If he said that he too had been prone to the health problems he intends to preventmany would not believe it, and yet… He took 12 kilos in ten years: “I worked like crazy, often at night, I ate on the run, I compensated for my stress by snacking on Snikers and M&M’s! It was no longer possible. I rebalanced all that, not by an ineffective diet but by moving more, avoiding ultra-processed products, taking the time to live.” This is what he admits in his book Zero stress to lose weight. But as for stopping the field to limit itself to its already numerous subordinate activities, it is out of the question for the doctor: “I am not a product distributor, not an influencer. My job is medicine. I want to be in the field, with the sick. What legitimacy would I have to talk about them if I was disconnected from them?