YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson is taking his creator name "MrBeast" quite literally. After cutting a bunch of weight, he's now on a mission to get "yoked."
What Happened: Donaldson on Thursday posted a body transformation picture on Twitter.
"Woke up and realized I was obese so I started lifting and walking 12,500 steps a day," he said in a tweet.
The workouts have really paid off. He looks like a completely different person and noted that he's happy with his progress, but he isn't done.
The first step was dropping weight, he said in the comments: "Now we get big."
Why It Matters: According to a Men's Health report, MrBeast talked about his weight loss journey in a recent interview on "The Colin and Samir Show."
He noted on the show that he had been lifting weights and walking for about a year in order to slim down.
"Me and Eric, another YouTuber, we signed a contract where we'd work out every day, and if we didn't, we'd get a tattoo of each other. You're OK to have a day off it's like an actual part of your program, so I occasionally have rest days, but for the most part, the last 310 days, we've worked out every single day," he said in the interview.
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Donaldson told listeners that they too could get started losing weight by going all in for three months. Once you spend three months doing it every day, it becomes part of your routine and more like a "habit" than a chore, he said.
Donaldson is one of the highest earners on the YouTube platform, where he is known for giving out piles of cash and high-value prizes to random subscribers. He's also been ramping up efforts on his Beast Philanthropy channel recently, which launched in late 2020. MrBeast has more than 160 million subscribers on the platform, which helped him to make $54 million in 2021.
At the end of 2022, Donaldson revealed that he once turned down a $1 billion offer for the MrBeast brand.
Donaldson said in an interview that he could see MrBeast being worth more than WhatsApp in five or 10 years, but money is not his motivation. The 24-year-old YouTuber has pledged to give away all of his money before he dies: "every single penny," he said in a tweet from January.
This story is part of a new series of features on the subject of success, Benzinga Inspire.
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