Reiner Calmund showed the way, now Ralph Siegel, at the age of 70, has changed his diet again to lose weight. With success, as the composer now weighs 25 kilos less. How did he do it...
Ralph Siegel has big plans and has already achieved just as much. On the occasion of a new musical he penned, the composer wanted to lose weight in order to look good at the premiere next week. Now he weighs 25 kilograms less and his wife is also very proud of this success.
Siegel didn't celebrate his 77th birthday until the end of September, but he didn't use his age as an excuse for being overweight, which he carried around with him for a long time. At the premiere of his new piece "'N bit of peace" he will now be much slimmer than before on the red carpet. At his side is his wife Lara, who is almost 40 years his junior and who is happy with her husband about his weight loss success. "I'm very proud of Ralph, how consistently he lost weight," she is quoted as saying by the "Bild" newspaper.
In order to achieve this goal, Giulia Siegel's father underwent a special diet, as he explains in the "Bild" interview. Accordingly, he feeds mainly on figs, cheese and sushi. "I don't eat any carbohydrates anymore, I only drink very little alcohol. I only treat myself to a whiskey at night, when I get out of the studio at one o'clock," it says there.
"'N little peace" celebrates its premiere on October 20 in Munich. The musical is about a couple who met in East Germany in 1979 and had to overcome borders over the course of decades. The piece is named after Siegel's biggest hit, the Eurovision Song Contest winner "A Little Peace", which was performed by singer Nicole in Harrogate, UK in 1982.
Reiner "Calli" Calmund had already shown the way and changed his diet again at the age of 70. However, he also underwent a stomach reduction. His take-off weight was 180 kilograms. "Now I weigh an average of 90 to 92 kilos, and I used to have 180 kilos, so that's half," said the 73-year-old in March.
(This article was first published on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.)
