Joshua Michael Peck is an American actor, author, comedian, YouTuber, and voice actor who grew up in the public eye. Physical appearance changes over time. However, Josh Peck stands out of the crowd due to his notable weight loss journey.
Josh began acting in the late 1990s and appeared in various characters in The Amanda Show (2000-2001), and came into the limelight through the sitcom Drake & Josh (2004-2007). Besides that, he also appeared in Family Guy (2001), Drake & Josh Go Hollywood (2006), and Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008).
Josh got emotional after landing a role in Drake & Josh due to his body. He was fortunate to be successful at a young age, though worried that people would forever typecast him as a best friend or a bully. Josh considers himself a role model because he is a television personality, and his weight-loss journey might inspire people.
Josh’s appearance is not limited only to television. Over twenty years, he voiced Eddy in Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). He played different roles in movies such as Kenneth Bainbridge in Oppenheimer (2023), Samuel in The Timber (2015), and more.
Josh Peck Before And After
While shooting for Drake & Josh, Josh reached 300 pounds. It was the point when he realized it was time to change. Josh looked thinner in the fourth season. According to his confession on Mark Bell’s YouTube talk show, he made little changes, which was not a one-day task.
Josh Peck is well-known for playing Josh Nichols in Nickelodeon’s Drake & Josh, a live-action sitcom. Thus, his fans know how he spent his teenage years being out of shape due to his struggle with weight, alcohol, drugs, and eating habits.
Josh learned better health would bring him happiness. Thus, he leads a healthy lifestyle now. However, one and a half years ago, he weighed so much that he could not do a single pull-up or push-up and required a personal trainer for both exercises.
Thus, Josh started doing push-ups with his knees and eventually did them with his toes. The resistance band helped him for a hundred pounds for pull-ups. It is how the basic bodyweight workouts made him achieve an impossible target.
The Oppenheimer actor remembered the fifteen-year-old Josh every time he achieved a goal while doing pull-ups. He had an extreme diet in the beginning. For instance, he cut worse content such as carbs and sugar.
However, Josh got flexible with food over time and developed a moderate approach toward dieting. Thus, he decreased but did not eliminate consuming his favorite unhealthy food items.
Now, Josh looks at the calories associated with the food items before eating them. He knows he requires only 2,500 calories a day as a man, though it depends on every man’s metabolism rate. So, he does not hesitate to consume food with a few more calories if he decides to burn them afterward.
What Josh Peck Says About His Transformation
Josh began as a child actor and spent over twenty years in the film industry. He considered himself only as a working actor, as only it could define him. According to his confession to Forbes in 2022, he got sober and lost a hundred pounds over twenty years.
Moreover, Josh made a career on social media, got married, and had kids. He married Paige O’Brien Peck in 2017. He found completeness in his life after his two sons, Max Milo Peckmin and Shai Miller Peck, were born in December 2018 and October 2022, respectively.
Josh told Forbes how he had been searching outside for the things to stay happy. He used drugs, alcohol, and food to get high and fix his insides. However, Josh later understood that the outer things could not make him feel whole and overcome the issue in his mind. He went through discomfort when he believed in his false identity before seeking the real one.
The now-36-year-old actor said that he only does what makes people happy. So, he finally loves his younger ‘self.’ Now he remembers how strong was his younger self, who encouraged him to accomplish peace, better health, and contentment in life.
