How Kaaran Lost 70 lbs While Juggling a Newborn & a Nomadic Schedule
A Birthday That Asked for More Than Cake
Some birthdays arrive quietly. Kaaran Singh’s 35th did not. It came with a deadline he had written down himself.
At 6’4″, Kaaran had spent years as a former basketball player who never fully lost the athlete’s instinct to compete, even after the game stopped being organized. He trained. He showed up to the gym. But somewhere between should and will, his effort had stopped adding up to results.
His weight had been drifting for three years, hovering between 215 and 225 lbs. A three day water fast at the start of 2024 knocked him down to 206. By the end of that same year, he had climbed back up past it, touching 240. He wasn’t upset about it exactly. He was tall, and the extra size looked like strength on him, and he was hitting bigger numbers in the gym than ever. But he also knew, quietly, that gaining weight and gaining muscle were not the same thing.
So on May 7th, the day he turned 35, he decided to stop letting the two get confused.
“My overall main goal is body recomposition. I’m not looking to lose a lot of weight, I’m looking to turn my weight into optimum use.”
He gave himself four months to start proving it.
Four Goals, One Real Question
Kaaran didn’t walk in with a vague wish to get fit. He walked in with a list.
He wanted body recomposition, the kind that burns fat and builds muscle at the same time, not one at the expense of the other. He wanted his workouts to have a reason behind them again, not just weight on a bar for the sake of moving it. He wanted to actually understand nutrition, the science of it, the why behind what he ate and when, instead of eating clean and hoping that was enough. And he wanted a flat stomach and real core strength, because he’d finally accepted that abs get built in the kitchen as much as anywhere else.
Underneath all four goals was the same missing piece.
“I felt like I was missing structure and purpose. I was working out, I was going to the gym, but I was plateauing. My body wasn’t performing the way it did when I was younger.”
He had the athlete’s mindset. What he didn’t have was the plan.
Married, Expecting, and Gaining the Wrong Way
Kaaran’s timeline wasn’t simple. Around the time he needed structure the most, his life was adding complexity, not subtracting it.
He’d gotten married. Then his wife got pregnant. And with that came what he calls the sympathy cravings, the kind of eating that happens next to someone else’s pregnancy, that piles on weight fast and quietly. His running slowed down. His performance dipped. The extra pounds he’d been carrying stopped feeling like size and started feeling like drag.
He didn’t need someone to tell him to eat clean. He was already trying that. What he needed was someone to explain what his body was actually doing with the food he gave it, and why trying hard wasn’t the same as training smart.
What Actually Changed in the Gym and the Kitchen
Kaaran came in already active. What he was missing wasn’t effort. It was information.
“I know I do not follow the science behind nutrition. I would love to gain that knowledge so I can apply it and know the why.”
For the first time, he learned to track macros properly, fats, carbohydrates, and protein, and to manage his calories with intention instead of guesswork. He learned how to navigate the moments that actually derail people, dinners out, birthdays, vacations, without falling off the plan entirely or swearing it off completely.
The hardest part wasn’t the tracking. It was the mindset underneath it.
He describes himself as someone who wrestled with perfectionism, afraid of getting a meal wrong, afraid that one mistake meant starting over. Learning to trust the process meant learning that one off night was not a failure. It was just a Tuesday. He learned to rebound instead of restart.
70 Pounds, One Newborn Daughter, and a New Baseline
Kaaran started the program weighing around 236 lbs, a number that had crept up to 240 at one point in the two years before he ever signed on. He wrote down his four goals nearing his 35th birthday in 2025. By the time he stood in front of a camera for his transformation photo shoot in 2026, after a little over a year of consistent training, he was 70 lbs lighter and looked nothing like the man who’d made that promise to himself.
Somewhere in the middle of that transformation, his daughter Saiba was born.
That changed the weight room too. The Bulgarian split squats that used to just hurt became something else entirely, motivation with a name and a face. He wasn’t training for a photo shoot anymore, not really. He was training to be the kind of husband and father he wanted his daughter to grow up watching.
“Being with the right people, the right coach, someone who can motivate and influence you, that’s what matters. But at the end of the day, it comes down to the individual putting in the work.”
The Transformation Didn’t Stay Contained to Him
Kaaran’s transformation didn’t stop at his own body.
His friends noticed. Some of them started losing weight themselves, following the same path he’d carved out. His wife started cooking differently, and the two of them began coordinating grocery shopping the way people do when they’re actually building something together instead of just surviving the week.
He didn’t set out to influence anyone. He just stopped hiding the work.
Photo Shoot Day
The day of his shoot, Kaaran called the whole thing awesome, easy, and deeply rewarding. Not stressful. Not something he had to grit his teeth through. Just the natural conclusion of a process he’d trusted for over a year.
Having finished the fat loss phase, he’s not stopping. He’s moving into a maintenance and muscle building phase now, ready to get bigger, stronger, and fill out his frame the right way, the way he’d wanted to all along.
What He’d Tell Anyone on the Fence
Kaaran doesn’t have patience for hesitation, mostly because he remembers being hesitant himself.
“Hesitating, saying I can’t do this, that’s just making excuses. Rewire your mindset. Trust yourself. Set your goals, stick to them, and trust the process.”
He’s not interested in convincing people to want change. He’s interested in reminding them that the only thing standing between them and it is the decision to start.
What’s Next
Kaaran isn’t chasing a single number anymore. He’s building on top of what he already proved, more muscle, more definition, more of the strength that first drew him to basketball as a kid, except this time with the structure to actually keep it.
He didn’t just lose 70 lbs. He built a version of himself that his daughter will grow up knowing as the norm.
Could This Be Your Story Too?
If any part of Kaaran’s story sounds familiar, the plateau, the feeling that you should be further along than this, the birthday that’s creeping closer than you’d like to admit, you already know the feeling.
The missing piece was never effort. It was structure, real nutrition knowledge, and a team that could turn what you already do into results that actually last.
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