Luke Combs’ Weight Loss: Photos of Singer’s Transformation From Rising Country Star to Grammy Nominee

June 2017

Luke burst onto the country music scene in 2017 and hasn’t looked back since.

However, it wasn’t until several years into his career that he opened up about the insecurities he has about his appearance. “I think my physical fitness and my appearance and my size has always been something that I struggled with, from the time I was a child,” he admitted in 2023. “And it’s this mountain that I’ve always been standing at the bottom of, trying to run up, but then inherently slipping down every time.”

June 2018

By 2018, Luke was beginning to rack up awards and land at the top of the charts. Here, he attends the CMT Music Awards in Nashville.

“[My weight] is this thing that I feel like if I don’t overcome it in my lifetime, it will be my biggest regret, without a doubt,” he later shared.

May 2019

For the most part, Luke kept his red carpet style very simple during the beginning years of his career. He later revealed that he was always uncomfortable with his body.

“It was always something that bugged me,” Luke shared in 2022. “Especially when you’re younger. You’re like, ‘Man, I just got a horrible genetic dice roll on this thing.’ You start to realize that almost even more when you’re older. Not that I don’t big out … because I do pig out. I’m not trying to say it’s not my fault because it is in a lot of ways. But also, I got to this point where I’m like, ‘Man, I’d really love to trim down.’ And it’s so hard for me to do that.”

October 2020

Despite his insecurities, Luke continued to show up for televised events and perform live. In 2020, he briefly tried to adopt a vegan diet for 90 days after losing a bet, but admittedly did not make it through the full duration.

He later revealed that he struggled to keep things “consistent” in his diet and compared it to drug addiction. “I don’t need a cigarette to be alive, but I need food to be alive,” he pointed out. “It’s like, you would literally die without food. And so that’s what makes it such a difficult thing [for me to control].”

November 2021

By 2021, Luke began to up his style game and started rocking suits for red carpet appearances, like this velvet ensemble he wore to the CMA Awards.

“I want my thing [to be] to continually become better overall,” he confirmed in a 2023 interview. “The show, the songs, the everything. I feel like sometimes I go in, I’m like, ‘Man, I don’t want people to think of me in this way where it’s like, ‘This guy doesn’t care about himself.’’ And I know that not everybody does. But that’s another OCD thing where you’re like, ‘What’s everybody … what are they going to think?’”

September 2022

After welcoming his first son, Luke debuted a trimmer figure at an event honoring Vince Gill in 2022.

“[Weight] is something I’ve definitely struggled with, but it’s also something that I just am also really comfortable in my own skin, as well,” he confirmed.

November 2023

Luke looked dapper while attending the 2023 CMA Awards, where he took home a trophy for Single of the Year. However, he wasn’t done with his journey to get healthy.

“[Losing weight] is a burden that weighs so heavily on me,” he shared earlier that year. “And not because I care about what other people think about me, about the way I look, about my size or any of that. It’s because [of] what I feel like it means about me as a man. Because there’s this thing that I wanna accomplish that is solely up to me. Nobody else can do it for me. Nobody did this to me. I want so badly to conquer that and I will.”

May 2024

Keith Urban shared a photo with Luke on May 8, 2024, with the caption, “LC and KU on a rando Wednesday mornin’ on Music Row !” While wearing a sweatshirt and jeans with his bear trimmed, Luke was looking noticeably slimmer in the picture.

October 2024

Luke looked even slimmer while performing at the Concert For Carolina Benefit Concert at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, on October 26, 2024. He sported a black button-down shirt with short sleeves, jeans and a baseball cap.