Osher Günsberg's impressive body transformation

Osher Günsberg has shown off his impressive body transformation by posing shirtless for the cover of this month’s Men’s Health Australia magazine.

The 44-year-old TV presenter went on a ten-week shred in order to improve his mental health without medication and the results are amazing.

In the course of 10-weeks, Osher who already follows a vegan lifestyle claims that by following a strict plant-based diet and training every day he was able to lose 9kg of body fat and gain 2.5kg of muscle.

“I always said I’d never take my shirt off on camera unless it was for the cover of Men’s Health Australia,” he said in an Instagram post sharing the results of his transformation.

“I’m a man of my word.”

I always said I’d never take my shirt off on camera unless it was for the cover of @menshealthau.⠀ ⠀ I’m a man of my word.⠀ ⠀ This is me, with my shirt off on the cover of @menshealthau, and I’m the first plant-based person to do so in Australia. ⠀ ⠀ The full story is in the issue on sale August 6th. ⠀ Over ten weeks I lost 9kg of fat and gained 2.5kg of muscle by eating nothing but plants and training every day until I was a flat pancake on the gym floor. ⠀ ⠀ I started this #MHtransformation as a way to help me manage life off of meds. ⠀ I hadn't been on antipsychotics for about 18 months before I started this. I'd shifted to a different medication for the OCD, however as I got better and better, the side effects now became more prominent than the symptoms – so me and my Dr decided to try life without them. Coming off meds in Dec meant that I needed to put management strategies in the place where they once were, I needed things to help me regulate my emotions and emotional responses – and resistance training was a large part of that. ⠀ ⠀ I was grateful to train every day with @chiefbrabon and @emiliebrabonhames. ⠀ ⠀ I pushed my body until it released those feel-good hormones: the 4 horsemen of endorphins, dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. ⠀ ⠀ Like a good mental health patient, I kept checking in with my psychiatrist – and as the months passed, our med-free experiment carried on.⠀ ⠀ It’s now 7 months off meds, and I’m still under Dr's supervision because there’s a difference between not taking meds and not NEEDING to take meds. ⠀ ⠀ To keep it that way, resistance training is something I do almost every single day. I ride my bike almost every single day. I eat with purpose and consideration every single day. ⠀ ⠀ Sure it takes time, but that’s an investment in my health but more importantly in the quality of my relationships at home and at work. ⠀ ⠀ The mental health benefits are incredible, the physical health benefits are off the chart (Dr can’t believe my blood pressure for a 44yo) and let's be honest, the aesthetic benefits aren’t bad either😉. ⠀ ⠀ This is a life goal, a dream come true, couldn’t have done it without @audreygriffen by my side xx

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Osher, who has opened up about struggles with his mental state in the past, particularly coping with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), went on to explain how he used exercise to, “help manage life off meds.”

“I hadn’t been on antipsychotics for about 18 months before I started this. I’d shifted to a different medication for the OCD, however as I got better and better, the side effects now became more prominent than the symptoms – so me and my Dr decided to try life without them,” he wrote.

The Bachelor host needed to establish a number of management strategies to regulate his emotions when coming off the medication and said that resistance training was one of them.

“Resistance training is something I do almost every single day. I ride my bike almost every single day. I eat with purpose and consideration every single day,” he wrote.

“Sure it takes time, but that’s an investment in my health but more importantly in the quality of my relationships at home and at work.”

“The mental health benefits are incredible, the physical health benefits are off the chart (Dr can’t believe my blood pressure for a 44yo) and let’s be honest, the aesthetic benefits aren’t bad either,” Osher said – and we couldn’t agree more.

Osher credited the support of his wife, Audrey Griffin who he says was “by [his] side,” throughout the journey.

The pair who met on the set of The Bachelor where she was his make-up artist, have been married since December 2016 and together raise Audrey’s 13-year-old daughter Georgia.

Speaking of his wife and daughter, Osher has previously claimed they have “made everything better,” in his life.

The full story is available in the September issue of Men’s Health that comes out Monday 6th August.

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