“how much can you fit in your cakehole?”

Wayhey it’s yet another trash TV show about fat people, sorry overweight people, one of which I remind you, I used to be. This particular show is presented by Anna Richardson, who is herself of a questionable weight, this she admits herself at least.

So the concept of this show is simple, but sneaky and devious. Basically subjects are stalked and snooped on to see why they are so fat (sorry putting on weight). In this particular show it focuses on two sisters who have put on seven stones between them in the last few years. Florence insists she eats very healthily and mainly vegetables. Precious is a gymaholic apparently, insisting that in a post gym workout you can eat anything you want and your metabolism will burn it, if only. Precious and Florence weigh in at a whopping 17 and 18 and a half stone, well above their bmi’s.

Florence and Precious insist they eat just 1200 calories each daily. This is less than is needed by the body and less than the recommendation for women (which is approx 2000 cals a day)

For starters both girls go to a party and tuck into the buffet, a recipe for disaster. Also on this program the focus turns to the general public in a feature called gluten nation. In this episode the public is observed eating a breakfast buffet. The combination of foods is strange at the least, when its all the food is ‘free’ the temptation to pig out is seemingly irresistible.

Since the sixties our average weight has increased by a massive 3 stones (thats 42 lbs or 19kgs). This program basically proves people are liars, or at least to themselves, hence the tag secret eaters.

The girls are taken to a cafe, which is actually a set with actors On the other-side of the wall they are sat next to is their own eating incident room, with a sample of the junk they have been observed eating in the week and photos of them both caught in the act. It is at this point it’s revealed they have been followed by private investigators to their shock and horror.

Precious is focused on first adding sugar, butter and peanut-butter to her breakfast. Just before lunch she scoffs three biscuits. For lunch she heads into KFC for a BBQ wrap. Just three hours later shes making noodles, another three hours later she has rice n shit. Ah but now the gym to burn it off, followed by a full profiterole workout.

“i know i’m fat but you two take the busicuit(s)”

So now comes the nutrition expert, but very patronising and sarcastic Lynn. Lynn dismisses Preciouses stupid post workout theory. Lynn then bares the news that precious actually eats an average of 3700 calories a day. She then uses the noodles as an example of overeating having noodles everyday for a week amounts to the equivalent in calories as found in 42 iced fingers.

Next for a grilling is Florence, who of course we know eat few carbs. A chicken balti curry is on the menu, with a shitload of salt and a jar and a half of source, with a load of sides and bread. Lynn analyses a similar meal coming to a large 900 calories. This where they are told most of what they eat is carbs, ooops.

The diet industry is worth 2 billion pounds. The reduced fat and lower calories myth is tested. This is to see as to whether people eat more if the goods are promoted as low fat or healthier. So two identical sets of cake are presented as different, one healthier and one more to see if people eat more of the so called healthier cake.

Now back to the girls “We don’t eat takeaway much” Que the PIs following them and filming them going to takeaways often and they are only observed over five days. Again more humiliation is the key factor of this cringe program.

Back to the experiment on so called healthy cake vs unhealthy cake, the results are weighed , embarrassingly as they don’t know they are being watched some greedy git was eating shitload of the unhealthy cake, thus skewing the overall result. The culprit is singled out. In the end they kind of proved their overeating theory of healthier cake for the brownies and banana cake, but not the carrot cake or overall.

Still more stalking, Precious is in the supermarket, of which the PI copied and surprise surprise its mostly shite. She is even seen later eating her kids chocolate bar, shameless. Not to leave out Florence here, who chomps on multiple croissants.

So the difference between their food dairies is significant. Florence consumed 2400 calories not 1200 calories and for Precious she got through an average of 3400 calories a day instead of the 1200 she claimed, nearly three times as much. So now they confess to being greedy bastards in denial, (sorry I mean secret eaters.) So now they are put on a healthy eating plan to curb their gluttonous ways.

Funny that one of the ads I was made to watch during commercials was for KFC, how ironic. So now we see the sisters as reformed eaters a month later. They feel healthier and look it. Apparently now prefering to go out for a nice salad and some fruit, yum yum.

Next another public test with free food snacks in a bar. They do this as a battle of the sexes. The champions were the female munchers, but the individual winner was a man.

So now comes in the final weigh in. Florence in just five weeks has gone from 18st 9 to 17st 4 thats a whopping 19 lbs loss in 5 months. Precious has gone from 17st to 16st 5lbs, a not too shabby 9 lbs/ Great for just five weeks. This program is actually one of my guilty pleasures since it’s so dam sneeky. Most old episodes are still available to view on 4od.

For more tips on weight-loss from this program go to :

www.channel4.com/secreteaters

if your brave enough to go on this show follow this link :

http://scrapbook.channel4.com/bookmarkBar/51951424e4b0bc354516f8d4

Or watch episodes online at http://www.channel4.com/programmes/secret-eaters/4od