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- Jimmy offered Majd $250,000 to lose 100 pounds within one year. Majd would live in a dedicated home with a personal gym, unlimited healthy food and the resources needed to complete the transformation. The strict condition was that stepping on the red line before losing 100 pounds would end the challenge, leaving him with nothing.
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- The challenge was designed to remove the practical obstacles to weight loss. Majd had his own gym and a controlled living environment, while Jimmy described the project as the longest challenge the channel had attempted. Majd initially expected to remain there for a full year, with 364 days still remaining after the opening day.
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- Majd began at 324 pounds and wanted to improve his health, happiness and longevity. He specifically wanted to live longer and remain present for his family, particularly his niece and nephew. At the outset, he lacked basic exercise experience and did not know how to perform a squat correctly.
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- Coach Wall became Majd's personal trainer and taught him fitness and nutrition from the beginning. Early meals replaced his previous habits of eating peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and drinking energy drinks. Coach taught him to prepare healthy food, including grilled meals, while Majd experimented with making his first smoothie and decided he preferred fruit bowls.
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- The initial training plan combined substantial daily activity with a controlled diet. Majd reached as many as 18,000 steps a day, lifted weights five days a week and ate approximately 2,500 calories daily. His routine included walking, basketball, strength training and other exercises prescribed by Coach.
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- The production incorporated medical supervision and rest days. Rather than pushing Majd at maximum intensity every day, the team arranged weekly doctor checkups and made sure he rested. His doctor reported that he was healthy, his stamina had improved and he could continue his weight-loss program.
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- Majd made a strong start during his first month. He followed Coach's meal plan and completed the prescribed workouts consistently. At the first monthly weigh-in, Jimmy announced that Majd had lost 20 pounds, although a later recap listed his day-30 weight as 303 pounds, compared with his starting weight of 324—a difference of 21 pounds.
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- Jimmy introduced additional cash challenges to reward measurable improvements. The plan was to introduce new challenges approximately every 30 days, with successful performances adding money to Majd's prize pool. The first major test was scheduled for day 60: Jimmy would add $1,000 for every push-up Majd could complete, meaning 100 push-ups would generate another $100,000.
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- Majd's best friend Chandler helped him train and stay motivated. Chandler worked out alongside him, and the two encouraged each other to improve their push-ups. Majd also developed a consistent daily routine involving breakfast, walking and basketball; by around day 50, he was walking more than five miles a day and had recorded a 15,000-step day.
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- Smaller clothes provided an early, visible measure of Majd's progress. Around day 50, Jimmy gave him clothes one size smaller than his previous size. Majd was excited that the new clothes fit, and the milestone boosted his confidence, although his motivation appeared to dip during the following days.
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- Majd revealed that his father's death had contributed to a major weight regain. About a year earlier, he had been close to 270 pounds, and his father had congratulated him on his progress during a FaceTime call. After his father died, Majd returned to 324 pounds within a matter of months. He explained that losing a parent had taken a heavy emotional toll and said he wanted to make his father proud.
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- The day-60 weigh-in showed Majd at 286 pounds. He had lost 38 pounds from his starting weight, completing 38% of his 100-pound goal. He then performed 31 push-ups, prompting Jimmy to announce an additional $31,000 for the prize pool; his push-up ability had more than doubled since the beginning of the challenge.
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- The next major challenge rewarded Majd for carrying cash around the building. Jimmy made up to $100,000 available, allowing Majd to choose how much money to carry for a complete lap. If even one bag or dollar touched the pavement, he would lose the entire amount he had chosen to carry.
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- Majd's family came to stay with him and help prepare for the money-carrying challenge. His mother, sister and brother-in-law Dani were allowed to remain as long as they wanted. They cleaned the gym, prepared meals and supported his training, which focused on grip strength, endurance, shoulders and upper-back strength for carrying heavy duffel bags.
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- Coach Wall developed a close personal bond with Majd. While Jimmy was abroad filming another video, Coach and Majd's relationship grew stronger. Coach sent Majd a message describing him as kind, caring and compassionate and predicting that he could positively influence millions of people. Coach also became close to Majd's family and participated in a birthday celebration where people sang in Arabic.
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- Coach Wall's sudden death nearly brought the entire project to an end. A producer informed Majd that Coach had been found dead in his apartment the previous day; the transcript gives no cause of death. Majd was devastated, and visitors came to support him while he considered whether he could continue the challenge without his trainer and friend.
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- Jimmy gave Majd permission to stop after Coach's death, but Majd chose to continue. When Jimmy returned to the United States, he explained that Majd's grief was real and that the video could end immediately if he wished. Majd refused to abandon the challenge, saying he was doing it for himself and now for Coach as well. He also declined to take on another trainer.
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- Jimmy gave Majd a plaque honoring Coach Wall. Majd chose to place it beside the door so that he could see it regularly and use it as motivation. The gesture connected his continued training with his desire to honor the person who had guided his transformation.
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- At day 100, Majd weighed 271 pounds, having lost 53 pounds. He was more than halfway toward the 100-pound target. He then completed the money-carrying challenge with $40,000 in bags, crossed the finish line without dropping the money and added $40,000 to his prize pool, bringing it to $321,000.
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- Jimmy set a new $25,000 challenge: run one mile in under eight minutes and 30 seconds. Majd's original mile time had been 17 minutes and one second. His first training attempt produced a time of 12 minutes and 50 seconds, leaving him with roughly five minutes to shave off his initial performance; he explained that he normally did cardio only twice a week.
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- Shopify supplied equipment to support Majd's running training. Jimmy said Shopify had sent running shoes, supplements, a tracksuit, clothes and other equipment from businesses built on its platform. The video incorporated a Shopify promotion, including Shopify.com/MrBeast, and Jimmy said Shopify had helped him launch Feastables online and that the business had sold millions of bars. The transcript does not specify any sponsorship payment or other financial terms.
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- Majd beat the mile challenge on day 130. He completed the mile in eight minutes and four seconds, beating the eight-minute-30-second cutoff by 26 seconds and qualifying for the $25,000 prize-pool addition. He credited Jimmy's support and said he was showing up for Coach Wall, who had supported him every day.
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- By day 130, Majd had lost 71 pounds and was down to approximately 253 pounds. The recap listed his earlier weights as 324 pounds on day one, 303 on day 30, 286 on day 60 and 271 on day 100. His clothing had progressed from 3XL to XL, reflecting the physical changes, and he was following his diet and workouts consistently.
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- The next challenge offered $1,000 for every second Majd could hold a dead hang, plus $10,000 for completing a pull-up. His original dead-hang time was only six seconds. Jimmy brought in fitness influencer Jeff Nippard, who was described as having a biochemistry degree and experience training bodybuilders, to help Majd develop upper-body strength.
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- Jeff Nippard helped Majd improve his dead-hang performance rapidly. Within three days, Majd reached 45 seconds. Jeff then left him to prepare independently for the remaining 27 days, and Majd focused on upper-body training, three daily sets of dead hangs lasting 10–20 seconds, 10,000 steps a day and a stricter routine.
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- Majd's training diet was later reduced to 1,800 calories a day. He set a 10 p.m. food cutoff and aimed to sleep by midnight. The training was increasingly focused on building the grip strength and upper-body endurance needed for the dead-hang challenge and a possible pull-up.
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- On day 161, Majd weighed 234 pounds and had only 10 pounds left to lose. He was 90 pounds below his starting weight of 324 pounds and 10 pounds above the target of 224. Jimmy told him that reaching the target would end the video and suggested he could finish within the next 30 days.
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- Majd completed the dead-hang challenge 100 feet in the air. Suspended from a crane, he held on for one minute and one second, earning $61,000 for the prize pool. This was ten times his original six-second performance; his hands and arms were visibly struggling by the end.
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- Majd also completed the pull-up challenge, qualifying for another $10,000. The dialogue indicates that he managed the movement without assistance and appears to count up to three repetitions, although the exact count is not clearly explained. The dead-hang and pull-up additions totalled $71,000, and the video subsequently stated that the overall prize pool had grown from $250,000 to $417,000. These were announced prize-pool amounts; the transcript does not explicitly confirm that the entire sum was paid out.
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- After the final micro-challenge, Jimmy switched to daily weigh-ins. He clarified that losing 100 pounds remained the main challenge and that the video would end when Majd officially lost the final 10 pounds. Majd described the experience as bittersweet, reflecting on how much he had changed in less than six months and how isolated he had been inside the red circle.
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- Majd credited Coach Wall with having the greatest impact on his transformation. He said he was grateful for the experience and believed Coach would be proud of him. The video also stressed that, once Majd left the controlled environment, maintaining his progress would depend on applying what he had learned to ordinary life.
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- Jimmy used Majd's old clothes and a custom bodysuit to demonstrate the physical change. The clothes Majd had worn on day one had become baggy. The production scanned his starting body and created a one-to-one replica bodysuit weighing exactly 97 pounds; Majd wore it and attempted a lap to experience the burden of his former weight, comparing it with footage of his day-one performance. He preferred his day-175 body.
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- By the final phase, Majd was only half a pound away from the 224-pound target. The video reported that he had reduced his daily calorie intake by 600 calories, decreased his fat mass by more than 50%, completed 3,950 push-ups and made 17,600 basketball shots. His doctor estimated that maintaining the changes could add around five years to his lifespan.
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- The transcript contains a discrepancy in its calorie figures. It initially described Majd's intake as 2,500 calories a day and later stated that he was eating 1,800, a reduction of 700 calories. The final narration instead reported a reduction of 600 calories without explaining the difference.
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- Majd recorded a message to his future self on the first day of the challenge. He reminded himself not to return to how he felt at the beginning and said that the changes needed to become lifelong habits. He promised himself that he would not let his progress disappear.
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- The final weigh-in was presented as the culmination of the challenge. Jimmy said he had gathered Majd's best friends, including David Letterman, before the weigh-in and then jumped forward to show the transformation after half a year. The supplied transcript does not state the final scale reading, so it does not independently document the exact finishing weight.
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- After 178 days in the circle, Majd was reunited with his family. His mother and family were brought out for the reveal, and Majd expressed his love for his mother. He said he could not have completed the journey without Coach Wall and recalled Coach's wish that they could experience the transformation together.
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