Looking at his appearance, seems like he's been hitting the gym pretty actively since the start of the war. I would guess it's to take his mind off of all the bad stuff for a moment.
It doesn't hurt though. And things like defenestration are a lot harder to pull off if the victim can fight. Even if it's only to buy some time for help to come or just for him to feel better. No matter how you turn it, it's beneficial for him
That eating stuff is from the Simon Shuster book and wasn't Zelenskyy, but some other person who was in the bunker the first few weeks. Who later complained that he couldn't get rid of the weight.
I've never seen Zelenskyy put on massive weight apart from getting swole. Look at all the early pics, Ze didn't suddenly have an extra 5kg of belly fat. But by summer 2022, he almost busted out of his shirts. And he's always had very veiny arms, you do not keep those when you stuff your face with chocolates.
Also, IIRC, Shuster's book also mentioned about Ze already training in the first weeks in the bunker and playing table tennis. Now, yes, you need to take Shuster with a big grain of salt but photo evidence says Ze definitely didn't just live on chocolates, even the first few weeks. Which is just INSANELY disciplined.
But I guess he's probably used to it? Don't forget he had a 20 year media career with about a dozen roles as leading man in rom com movies and a lot of his sketches on his late night show were with him semi-naked. He's probably been on a diet / nutrition plan for most of his life.
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u/Giorgk95 Mar 07 '25
War took a good chunk of his life for sure. Crazy stress