Overview

• Joshua Richards slimmed down from 17½ to 13½ stone over two years, reversing his Type 2 diabetes through dietary changes
• He followed Dr Meghan Rossi’s Eat More Live Well plan with a focus on vegetables, fiber, gut-friendly kefir, despite a bad back limiting his ability to exercise
• Richards has expressed skepticism about weight loss injections, highlighting limited research, pointing to his own success without them
• The Emmerdale cast immediately noticed his slimmer figure when he returned to filming after a break
• Producer Laura Shaw confirms his character Bear Wolf will vanish from screens in a late summer to early autumn storyline