Suits alum Rick Hoffman is detailing the secrets behind his wellness and weight loss journey.
“#Circlingback,” Hoffman, 56, recently captioned an Instagram selfie, where he posed in a checked button-down shirt and gray slacks. He added over his photo, “Been a min.”
Without elaborating further on his social media hiatus, several Instagram users quickly offered their praise over his slimmed-down physique.
“What a transformation 🔥🙌👏❤️,” one follower wrote in the comments section, with another adding, “Someone is lit! 🔥🔥🔥.”
Former Suits costar Sarah Rafferty chimed in, succinctly sharing “🔥😍” emojis.
Another fan, meanwhile, asked for the “secret” to Hoffman’s weight loss since he looked “great.”
“Intense intermittent fasting and keto diet,” Hoffman replied, noting that he also cut out alcohol.
Intermittent fasting is a diet pattern based on time limits, according to the Mayo Clinic, where followers eat a typical diet for a set period of hours or days. At the end of the session, one would switch to consuming very few or no calories for hours or days. A keto diet, meanwhile, is a specific type of high-fat, low-carb meal plan.
Hoffman has not further detailed his weight loss, though has long been candid about his health ups and downs.
“At the age of 23, I had the biggest challenge I ever had. I got struck with major anxiety where I would be woken up and I felt like I was jumping out of my skin 24/7 in this nightmare,” Hoffman recalled in a March interview. “I was diagnosed with OCD, but this was back in 1993 when nobody really knew what the hell that was, and when you see things from a different perspective like that, where you feel like your world is impending doom around the corner every day, you see the world incredibly differently than other people.”
He continued at the time, “Had I not had that happen, I never would have made it with any career. It was a real quick slingshot through life lesson to really know where you stand on this planet, which is just with everyone else.”
Nearly 18 years after his diagnosis, Hoffman landed the role of attorney Louis Litt on Suits. The show ran for nine seasons, wrapping in 2019. Hoffman later reprised his role in the short-lived West Coast spinoff, Suits LA, last year.
“When I got the call, I was naturally excited and surprised, and thrilled to say yes,” Hoffman told The Hollywood Reporter in March 2025 of his Suits LA appearance. “How they were able to fit [Louis’ journey] that has now formed in one episode, I thought, was just really well done. I liked how they were able to do it in such a small amount of time. They were able to deal with some actual, real, existential moments, as well as ridiculous buffoonery.”
