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19-year-old Joanne is a budding artist with an eye for style and fashion, who dreams of becoming an art teacher, she has everything to look forward to. Except that Joanne has an embarrassing secret; she's addicted to potatoes and survives on a diet on chips, mash, and crisps. She's dislikes anything with flavour that isn't mushy - - but she's tired of the impact her weird eating is having on her and her friends' lives.
Freaky Eaters is a series in which nutritionist Charlotte Watts and psychological coach Felix Economakis help people with strange eating habits and food phobias and addictions. While Charlotte encourages them to eat new foods, Felix attempts to get to the bottom of the psychological problems causing their food phobias, with the aim of getting them on the road to eating a healthy balanced diet in just four weeks.
Freaky Eaters is a series in which nutritionist Charlotte Watts and psychological coach Felix Economakis help people with strange eating habits and food phobias and addictions. While Charlotte encourages them to eat new foods, Felix attempts to get to the bottom of the psychological problems causing their food phobias, with the aim of getting them on the road to eating a healthy balanced diet in just four weeks.
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00:0119-year-old Joanne Adams is a budding artist with an eye for style and fashion.
00:06With dreams of becoming an art teacher, she has everything to look forward to.
00:11Except that Joanne has an embarrassing secret.
00:14She's addicted to potatoes and survives on a diet of chips, mash and crisps.
00:21In a day, I'd say I could go between five and ten packets of crisps.
00:25The only time I'm not eating them is when I'm asleep.
00:27She's terrified of eating fruit and veg.
00:30I live in fear of lumpy food getting into my mouth and making me feel.
00:35And her fear of all things new doesn't end with food.
00:39I always think there's someone following me or gonna kidnap me.
00:43Unless Joanne changes her ways, she risks serious health problems.
00:47Are you ready to see what the future holds?
00:50Oh, my God.
00:52Getting her to beat her addictions will be the job of clinical psychologist Stephen Bryars and nutritionist Natalie Savona.
01:00Natalie will encourage Joanne to stop being stubborn.
01:03Is that something that you think you might try?
01:05It looks like sick to me.
01:06While Stephen will work on Joanne's state of mind.
01:09Are you ready to go for it?
01:10I don't know. I want to sit here for a bit.
01:12By getting the ball rolling.
01:17Over the next four weeks they'll try to reverse a lifetime of bad eating habits.
01:22Disgusting.
01:24Joanne Adams lives in Middlesbrough with her family, mum Carol, dad Jeff and older brother Paul.
01:31And her boyfriend of three years, Tom, lives just around the corner.
01:38A talented artist, Joanne is about to enrol on a fine art course at university.
01:43She might be about to enter a whole new world, but there's one thing that won't be changing.
01:47Her penchant for all things potato.
01:52For dinner every day, Joanne eats mashed potato, but only when made by her mum.
01:57They're alright?
01:58Yeah.
01:59I've mashed them enough.
02:00I will only eat mashed potato made by my mum, because I know that my mum's going to do it the way I wanted.
02:05So I just don't trust anyone else to do it.
02:07I think I'll have that back of it out.
02:09Do you want to try them?
02:13Yeah, just how I like them.
02:15On special occasions Joanne treats herself to chips.
02:18Hi Joanne, the usual.
02:19Yeah, the usual.
02:20But even they must be bought from one of two trusted chip shops.
02:25If my mum gets me some chips, I can always tell that they're not from the chip shop that I like.
02:29And she'll be like, yeah they are, and I'll be like, no they aren't, I know they aren't.
02:32Nobody can lie to me about food.
02:34We have accepted it, it is the norm in our house.
02:37We don't think about it now because it's gone on for so long.
02:41The mainstay of her diet is crisps, and lots of them.
02:45That's breakfast, and that's lunch, and that's tea.
02:51Her parents buy a shocking 100 bags of crisps a week to keep Joanne happy.
02:56On an average day, it'd be wake up, crisps.
03:00Break time, more crisps.
03:02Lunch time, probably two packets of crisps.
03:05When I get home, some more crisps.
03:07And then maybe chips or mashed potato.
03:10Joanne's grandma is worried about her potato-fueled diet,
03:13and always offers her something healthy to eat instead.
03:16Just one of these little nice salads, it's got little bits of everything in.
03:19Looks like sick.
03:21Would you like to try it?
03:25New foods make me feel panicky, anxious, worried.
03:30I live in fear of lumpy food getting past my lips into my mouth.
03:34Because I'm not used to it at all, but I have to spit out the food there and there.
03:39To keep these embarrassing situations to a minimum,
03:41Joanne has developed a useful avoidance strategy.
03:44Because I've got a nut allergy, I can use that as an excuse.
03:49So I sometimes say, oh, I am going to eat at home because I have to be wary of nuts.
03:54Only eating her mum's mash means that Joanne always has to eat dinner at home.
03:59Her family fear for her health.
04:02We worry about Joanne every day.
04:04We need her to be strong and healthy.
04:06And we're pretty desperate for her to change.
04:09And at the moment, we're failing.
04:11Boyfriend Tom is also concerned about the future.
04:14It does worry me a bit.
04:15She's got to be ill when she's older.
04:16She's got to be thrilled and stuff.
04:19At just 19, Joanne is already worried that her food problem is holding her back in life.
04:24Now that I'm going to university, I plan to move on as I'm following my career.
04:29I want my food to move on with me.
04:32I want to change now before it's too late.
04:44It's day one of Joanne's nutritional makeover.
04:47She's been summoned to London for her first meeting with the experts.
04:51Too nervous to come alone?
04:52She's brought her dad.
04:54Hello.
04:55Hi.
04:56I'm Steven.
04:57Hi, Joanne.
04:58I'm Natalie.
04:59Hiya.
05:00Hello.
05:01Joanne's dad.
05:02Ah, right.
05:03Hello.
05:04Hi, Jeff.
05:05Hi.
05:06How are you feeling today?
05:07A bit nervous, but unsure what's going to happen, but I'm OK.
05:08We'll be gentle with you.
05:09What we've got lined up today is something that we'd like to show you to help get you
05:12through the next few weeks.
05:14Head that way?
05:17Before they begin their work, Natalie and Steven have a surprise in store for Joanne.
05:22Whilst dad, Jeff, waits in the foyer, the experts hope to focus Joanne on the job ahead.
05:29OK, Joanne.
05:30You're here because you're ready to make some changes, but what we've got for you now is
05:34a collection of messages from people who also really care about how you do.
05:38So we're going to leave you to watch this, and then we'll come back and talk to you about
05:41it afterwards.
05:42All right?
05:43OK.
05:49Joanne, you know that you mean the world to me.
05:52And from my heart, I really want you to think that you're normal like everybody else.
05:57I think about it every day, and every time we come into the house, I can see empty packets
06:00of crisps.
06:01You can say there's ten o'clock, there's half past ten, there's eleven o'clock.
06:05And every day we think, well, one day will you change?
06:08I don't tell you as much, but you know I care about you, and it worries me loads to think
06:12that you could be affected by this when you get older.
06:14And obviously I want to be with you as long as I can, so I don't want you to, like, feel
06:18ill or anything like that.
06:19Let's think about what this food thing's doing to your health.
06:22Because I want you to be with me for a long, long time.
06:26I'm going to cry.
06:29You can achieve a fantastic future in front of you if you just take this step and get
06:34over the hurdle.
06:35Please go for it.
06:40Let's do it, eh?
06:41Together.
06:42How was that for you?
06:52Like, it made me feel a bit guilty.
06:57And, um, I've never really said that before.
07:00Like, I didn't realise it without worry.
07:03So whose comments affected you the most?
07:06Probably Mum and Dad.
07:09What part of what they were saying really got through to you?
07:12Just, like, about me being here forever.
07:16So how do you feel about your eating habits affecting your relationship with Tom?
07:20Well, we don't do things that other people do.
07:24We do go out for meals, but not very often, and I get, it's not like a happy time.
07:29Is the embarrassment factor a big thing for you?
07:32Are you very conscious of your eating issues?
07:34Yeah, I am very conscious of what other people are saying.
07:37I always think that people are talking about me because I'm not eating the same as them.
07:44So that must affect your social life generally.
07:47I mean, do you feel like you're missing out?
07:49Yeah, I do.
07:50I think I've grown up, but my eating habit has not grown up with me.
07:54Okay, well, I think now what we need to do is have a look at the food that you are eating.
08:00In case the tears of her loved ones weren't enough motivation,
08:04Stephen and Natalie have another nutritional wake-up call in store.
08:08So, Joanne, this way.
08:10Why do you think we might have brought you to a child's nursery?
08:24Because my diet is a bit like a child's diet.
08:28Mmm.
08:29Run us through what you do eat then.
08:30What I actually eat is chips, mashed potato, crisps, bread.
08:35Mmm.
08:36That's about it.
08:37Wow.
08:38So it's very, very, very limited, isn't it?
08:40Yeah.
08:41What is it about these mushy children-type foods that you like?
08:45Erm, it's what I'm comfortable with and what textures I feel are nice in my mouth.
08:53Now that we know that potato dominates your diet, we've got a surprise for you.
08:59So what do you think all that's about?
09:28Probably nearly how many potatoes I've had in my lifetime.
09:32In your lifetime?
09:33You'd be lucky.
09:35There's about 4,000 potatoes there and that's how many potatoes you're getting through in a year.
09:42I didn't think it was that many.
09:43You're shocked to see how many it is?
09:45Yeah.
09:46Shocked, yeah.
09:47So, Joanne, what's it like living on variations on a theme?
09:51Erm, it gets quite frustrating and I feel it affects me socially because my boyfriend's
09:57family and my family have never actually got together for a meal or anything like that
10:01because obviously I feel embarrassed and just not comfortable in that position.
10:06Alright, so our challenge then to you is that by the end of this four-week period you are
10:12going to have a meal together and eat the same things as everybody else.
10:17Yeah?
10:18Does that sound...
10:19Right.
10:20...doable?
10:21I think so.
10:22Right.
10:23I'm going to try.
10:24What's really stunning about Joanne's diet is how restricted it is.
10:28She's really only eating potatoes and she's eating them in a very salty, fatty form most
10:34of the time.
10:35So it's going to be quite an uphill struggle to get her off that sort of childish way of eating.
10:40The harsh reality of what lies ahead is too much for Joanne and she turns to her dad
10:44for comfort.
10:45Joanne?
10:46Yeah.
10:47It has made me think about, like, changing a little bit.
10:53Yeah, that's what it makes you do, yeah.
10:55Brilliant.
10:56I'm scared, please.
10:59Joanne now has just one month to overcome her unusual eating problem.
11:12Seeing all those potatoes, I felt, like, stupid, like, as if to say, why do I only eat this
11:18one type of food when there's loads of different types of foods out there, but something's stopping
11:24me from getting, like, from getting to that stuff where I can eat those foods.
11:37Alongside a new diet, Joanne is starting a new life at Teesside University, just three
11:42miles from where she lived with her parents.
11:45Ready, done.
12:00In the canteen, Joanne soon discovers there's only healthy food, and with no chips on offer,
12:05she resorts to the next best thing.
12:07I'm worried that some days I'm going to be fancying chips and just eating crisps, and obviously
12:13I don't want people to think that I'm strange, so I don't want to get, say, three bags of
12:17crisps, because people will be looking at me, thinking, why is she eating that many crisps?
12:21Is she some sort of weirdo?
12:30Today, Joanne is in London to start her work with nutritionist Natalie.
12:34It's her first step on the road to a life without spuds.
12:38I am a bit anxious about it, but also I know that she can't make me do anything that I
12:43don't want to do.
12:45Potatoes form so much of Joanne's diet that she really is in a disaster zone.
12:52Now, there's nothing wrong with potatoes in themselves, but she eats it in the most unhealthy
12:58forms.
12:59Hi, Joanne, come on in.
13:01Joanne, you're perched right on the end of your seat there.
13:04In fact, half of you's not even on it.
13:06What's that all about?
13:08A bit nervous.
13:09To try and put your mind at ease at least a little bit.
13:12The purpose of this session here is for me to find out where your boundaries are with food.
13:19So, just sitting down near here, I know you said you feel a bit nervous, but what else
13:24are you feeling looking at all of this?
13:26I can smell the coleslaw.
13:28It's always one of those foods I've looked at and thought, how can somebody eat that?
13:33What if you were to pick out a tiny speck of carrot?
13:37No.
13:38It looks like sick to me.
13:40Really?
13:41Yeah.
13:42So, coleslaw's definitely nowhere near the menu at the moment.
13:46And soon it appears that pretty much everything that Natalie has to offer is off the menu.
13:52How about you give these different mashes a go?
13:55I don't want to.
13:56Would you try that?
13:57No.
13:58I mean, baked beans are one of the nation's favourite foods.
14:01So, is that something that you think you might try?
14:03No.
14:04I thought that might help because it's sort of, you know, something a lot of children like.
14:07I still don't want to.
14:08Why don't you try some of those different fruits?
14:11No.
14:12How do you feel about trying these?
14:14I don't want to try it.
14:15Fish cake?
14:16No.
14:17The fact is that you've put yourself forward to this, but you will need to keep trying
14:22those foods.
14:23Maybe, yeah.
14:24What do you mean maybe?
14:25After all that?
14:26If you set me to do that and there was something making sure that I did, I'm more likely to,
14:31yeah.
14:32Right, so it's almost like you want some sort of school teacher or mum figure to be going,
14:40right, you've got to do this.
14:41Er, yes.
14:42What about cracking your own whip?
14:44I can do that to a certain extent, but I'll probably let myself off a bit.
14:49Okay, well, we'll see what we can do because it is going to take all that practice.
14:53Joanne's behaviour is like a little toddler sitting there being asked to try something
14:59and, in effect, going, no, I don't want to.
15:02And it's like that stage of things was missed out when she was little.
15:06No one actually said, no, no, no, you are eating that.
15:09So, at this stage, I'm not actually convinced that Joanne has the strength of will that
15:14she's going to need to have to really change her diet.
15:19But on the train back to Middlesbrough, Joanne's in a more confident mood.
15:24When I go back home, it will be easier for me to try things that I want to try and, like,
15:29it'll be me picking them and not somebody else.
15:32If I could see myself eating chicken and chips, burger and chips, I would see myself as more
15:38normal.
15:39That would be, like, a massive step for me.
15:42But chips with every meal is unlikely to impress nutritionist Natalie.
15:53In Middlesbrough, Natalie has sent Joanne a hamper of homework tasks designed to kickstart her new diet.
16:01Out with the old.
16:03Your first task is to turn your back on the temptation and clear your kitchen of all potatoes
16:08and that means crisps too.
16:12Oh, my God.
16:14I'll have to do it, won't I?
16:27I don't want to feel they're awake.
16:30I feel like I need them.
16:33Saying goodbye to my crisps feels a bit sad.
16:35I've, like, betrayed them.
16:42Unable to watch good spuds go in the bin, Joanne's dad hatches a rescue plan for his tatties.
16:52Our eyes only, if no peeping.
17:04I'm sure it'll be safe behind her.
17:06Not like, Joanne will ever appear in here.
17:08I'm worried that I'm going to start, like, fainting and stuff like that because I'll be
17:11having her anything.
17:12I feel all weak.
17:13And without my crisps, I'm not going to, I'm going to feel empty.
17:25Today, Joanne has her first session with clinical psychologist Stephen Bryers.
17:29It's a chance for him to probe Joanne's childhood for the origins of her food problems.
17:34What do you think it is about potato-based foods that you like so much, Joanne?
17:38Mashed potato reminds me of when I was younger, really.
17:42Taking me back to coming home from school and having that plate of fluffy mashed potato ready for me.
17:47So back to a whole bunch of memories associated with being at home, being safe, being comfortable.
17:55Yeah.
17:56OK.
17:57Now, I was quite interested in the fact that your dad came down when we first met you.
18:01Do you want to tell me about why he came and what would it have been like if you hadn't come?
18:05I'm fearful of being on my own.
18:07I always think there's someone following me or going to kidnap me.
18:12It sounds like the world can sometimes seem for you like a pretty dangerous and unfriendly place.
18:18Yeah.
18:19I always like to think, oh, if this person's going to do this to me, I'll do this.
18:22And I've planned it all before it's even come anywhere near to happening.
18:26And what do your parents feel about your anxieties about the world?
18:31How have they tried to deal with that?
18:33My parents always have been there to make sure that I was never really left unknown.
18:38So they were always would accommodate me.
18:41I mean, do you feel that that's been a helpful thing for you?
18:44Or do you think it's made this difficulty worse?
18:47Maybe if they hadn't, I would have grown out of it.
18:50OK.
18:51You mentioned allergies.
18:53Do you want to tell me a little bit more about those?
18:55I've got a peanut allergy, which I don't believe I've had since I was born.
18:59My brother also has it, and he's an older brother.
19:02I've always been told that if I eat enough, I'll die.
19:06So I think a fear of food was implanted in me when I was little, as if food was evil.
19:12That makes a lot of sense.
19:14I mean, it does sound as if your kind of issue with food is somehow linked into your sense of insecurity that you get when you're away from someone who can make you feel safe.
19:26Yeah.
19:27Because, I mean, your diet does seem to represent, in some ways, a reluctance to grow up.
19:33So I think those two things are tied up in some way that we need to think about a little bit further.
19:39Because of her nut allergy, Joanna does have good reason to be nervous around some foods, but her restricted diet seems to reflect a more general distrust of the world.
19:49It's as if, developmentally, she's never got past the point where she can feel safe in the world without maintaining that connection to home and her parents.
19:57I'm going to have to try and help her to stand on her own two feet a bit more, because I think it's time for her to really let go and start growing up.
20:04Back home, Joanna's left questioning Stephen's suggestion that her parents have accommodated her food problems.
20:13I don't think he was blaming my parents, but in some things he said, I felt like he was a bit, which I didn't really want to respond to, because obviously I feel guilty.
20:25And I don't want to say, oh, yeah, it's all their fault, when I don't feel like it is all their fault.
20:30With her childish diet of crisps and mash-off limits, Joanne sets about the first of Natalie's tasks.
20:40I want you to eat three new vegetables a day. This will put you well on the way to eating your five a day.
20:46Mmm. I don't know what that is. This one looks like, um, I don't know. To me, it looks like a load of leaves. More leaves. I don't even know what this is.
20:58It looks like poo. I'm scared of the tears, the tears. It just looks so weird and not like food to me.
21:08And when faced with food she doesn't want to eat, as always, Joanne turns to her mum.
21:14Oh, it stinks. Just tell me that tiny, tiny little bit.
21:26Disgusting, I swear. I don't like them. Eating three pieces of vegetable and three pieces of fruit a day. I don't know anyone who does that. I don't want to be a health freak.
21:38You don't want. No. I don't want to eat them, Mum. I don't want to eat them, Mum.
21:44Nobody's going to make you do anything.
21:46You knew it was going to be hard. No, I don't want to eat them. I don't even want to.
21:52Joanne's back in London to visit the doctor with Natalie.
22:08she's plugged up enough courage to leave her dad behind but she's brought her mom instead
22:13dr pixie mckenna is a gp with a special interest in eating problems she's analyzed the results of
22:20joanne's blood tests and while joanne prepares to get the results this is dr pixie hi joanne nice to
22:26meet you her mom settles into the waiting room outside i was just wondering how you feel on a
22:33day-to-day basis do you feel faint or dizzy and around about dinner time i'll fix can't start to
22:39feel a bit dizzy right you feel weak would you ever get sore mouth or very tall yeah i do get um
22:45sometimes like the middle of my tongue really sore even when i have a drink it hurts sometimes have
22:51you had any problems with your hair yeah it doesn't grow very much it does grow but it doesn't grow
22:56long no i've never been able to get it long right when we looked at your blood results um it doesn't
23:02surprise me at all the things that you're complaining of there were two things that came
23:06up the first thing was that your red blood cells were very very fat and the reason for that is
23:13you're lacking in vitamin b12 i suppose i was nearly falling off the chair with surprise when i looked
23:18at the next result which was that you're deficient in protein that's quite a serious thing you have to
23:25have protein to survive if you ever look on television that kids who are starving and they
23:29have the tummies that are bloated out that's because they're lacking protein and it's a sign
23:34of malnutrition so it's quite it's quite a frightening thing proteins are the building blocks of our bodies
23:42they're made up of small components called amino acids these form in a long chain to create a protein
23:49molecule protein is involved in every life function in the body from carrying oxygen in red blood cells on
23:55the inside to growing hair on the outside
24:03what we really need to give you a feel for is what protein and b12 deficiency could be like for
24:10you i'm going to do a little experiment follow me
24:16i'm going to hand you over to bella who's going to transform you into the future don't be nervous
24:22pixie's medical makeover will show joanne the impact protein and b12 deficiency could eventually
24:29have on her appearance meanwhile natalie wants to give joanne's mum carol a makeover too but of the
24:36dietary kind carol i know that you are 100 behind joanne in changing her diet and i've got one favor to
24:45ask you and that is for you all to eat exactly how joanne used to eat for three days right that's
24:54something you think you could take on i can't imagine myself having a plate of potato for my tea
25:00she doesn't really bear thinking about do you think it's something you could do for three days
25:06if it's going to help joanne yes i would carol may have found natalie's request surprising but
25:12it's nothing compared to the shock joanne's about to get are you ready to see what the future holds
25:18i think so take a long hard look in the mirror oh my god
25:25it's horrible you've got all the side effects of b12 and protein deficiency
25:29i look really old and scabby lips and nice hair as well hey yeah the hair's probably one of the
25:37worst parts so i'd have to wear a wig we've done this joanne to illustrate to you that
25:4110 years down the line this is perhaps the way you could be looking don't look like that at all
25:47so a lot more incentive to change your diet then yeah good i feel like this has answered a few
25:53questions in my mind like i hadn't seen anything going on because obviously like the protein and the
25:58blood cells are inside so like you can talk about that as much as you like but i'm just like oh yeah
26:03flies over my head but if when it's the appearance if i'm walking down the streets and like everyone
26:08can tell that's like it's had a wake-up call but i don't want to stay like this i need to change
26:17the next day carol and jeff begin their potato-based diet and in typical joanne style start the day with
26:23a big bag of crisps it's really horrible taste in your mouth no i can't eat them
26:28not salt and vinegar in a morning lunch brings yet more delicious crisps next i think the sooner i
26:34get the more with the better looks like that's the end of my lunch today at tea time things get
26:41really interesting as they tuck into a lovely crunchy sandwich of crisps one crisp sandwich
26:47remind you when you were a kid and you used to have things it's been very very naughty today i've had
26:52enough of that meanwhile joanne has a struggle of her own to deal with she's tackling some of natalie's
26:57homework with tom's help they're a bit like lumpy they've got like little hairs on them i feel
27:03i don't think i like them you'll stick with i still go back to my crisps it'll probably always
27:07be my favorite food by day three the relentless diet of crisps and chips means carol and jeff have
27:15earned a sunday night treat a plate of mash it's strange looking to you this isn't it funny how
27:22you play it this way i know but this hasn't even got any different textures or tastes so it's just
27:27exactly the same with every mouthful it's just so boring i can't believe that she's done it all this time
27:33that's me saying i quit no you've got to have the willpower you've got to keep on going
27:39like mother like daughter after less than a week joanne's thrown in her chips too by buying some
27:46tonight i'm not hungry and i'm not desperate and i've watched that many people eating crisps and chips
27:52that i've come in and i just wanted some chips i don't feel guilty about it because i don't want to
27:58stand myself i don't want to make myself feel ill i don't want to be miserable anymore i have tried
28:03i think i've done well so i think i deserve some chips the lure of the chippy may have melted joanne's
28:17resolve but if she's to stand any chance of beating her potato problem she'll need far greater self
28:23control she's on her way to meet stephen who has planned a covert operation to put her childlike
28:29dependency in the firing line when i don't know what the activity is going to be it makes me feel
28:35quite like nervous and anxious about what it could be so it makes me feel like i don't trust him
28:41something like steven it's strange it's like tell me what's going to happen
28:53in a world that feels full of danger for her joanne's learned to cope partly
28:58by relying on other people to make her feel safe today i want to prove to her that actually she already
29:04has what it takes to face a challenging situation under pressure and my hope is that this will encourage
29:10her to ditch her childish dependency and hopefully the restricted diet that goes with it hiya hiya
29:17hiya hiya all right good are you ready for more fun and games today yeah specifically war games we've
29:22got for you right you are going to be in charge of a very big gun on a tank you're going to be the one
29:32who's going to be giving orders telling me what to do all right the idea is i want you to sort of come
29:38out of that dependent vulnerable role and start acting with some kind of real authority and taking
29:44responsibility for yourself all right yeah should we go and get started steven wants joanne to stop
29:49being so dependent on other people if she can take charge in this environment it might help to change
29:55how she perceives herself and her food problem okay joanne your vehicle awaits madam as far as the gun
30:02is concerned you're in charge all right you have to tell me exactly what to do so give those orders
30:08and don't hold back right joanne's job is to aim the gun but with steven in charge of loading and firing
30:14she'll need to be a hard taskmaster if they're to be successful all right joanne now you may find that
30:20i'm a little bit slow a little bit lazy all right you're really gonna have to keep the pressure on me
30:25all right you've got to be the one who sort of makes it happen in just the same way as you're gonna have to
30:29make it happen with your diet all right for the purposes of this exercise joanne our lives are in
30:34your hands with no mum or dad to hold her hand this is one new experience joanne will have to tackle head
30:42on at the top of the hill the two tanks take their positions on parallel tracks the enemy tank on one
30:49side and joanne's tank on the other the enemies arrive and stop there and you can see them in your
30:55parish coats and fire each shot at your command sir all right charging mode
31:01load
31:13come on quick to get them this time come on steven you can do it charge and load
31:32oh oh we got here
31:38with steven struggling down below it's lucky it's paint balls not bombs but as the battle continues
31:44joanne begins to show stronger leadership charging lord next one
31:48all right
32:03ready on your command fire okay yes we bit them
32:09well done sir
32:16good to you boss
32:19blimey how was that for you commander then yeah it was really good um i i had good fun
32:25it was good taking charge you know there's quite a hard edge in you somewhere isn't there you're not
32:29just this fluffy little creature there's actually some steel in there as well yeah yeah once i got
32:34going i was like right come on um yeah yeah i can be bossy tell me about it i thought um this
32:41activity was really good fun it helps to make me think of the pressure that i've got on myself
32:46to change not for only for me for everybody else as well and to put the pressure on myself so i
32:51don't let myself let myself just say oh i don't want to but um as long as i focus and got the
32:56pressure on me um this is the only way i'm going to do it i think the great thing about today is
33:01that joanne really has proved that you know when pushed to it she can step up to the mark
33:06and be a very different person from this kind of helpless vulnerable child that we see around food
33:12so much and it's important because although what we did today was a bit of a laugh you know she is
33:18going to have to take command of her own life particularly when it comes to a diet if she's
33:22ever really get this eating problem wrapped joanne has anxieties about traveling outside of middlesbrough
33:37but having shown her steelier side stephen wants to put her new inner strength to the test
33:42in a real life situation she will be dropped off in a village 20 miles from the comfort of her home
33:48and will have to make her way back using nothing but her own initiative
33:53skinning growth men are men and the sheep are worried see you in about a day after
33:58good luck see ya
34:07the people i've seen look a bit rough like you can see how there's boarded up places and
34:11caravans about probably a few weirdos around here
34:23randoms could just pop out anywhere
34:29next one comes at nine minutes past four
34:3240 minutes to wait there's hills there's fields like where could i go if something happened
34:42the weird thing like cars they seem to slow down look at you and like you just think why
34:46why do you know what you're putting me through weirdos again there's millions of them out there
34:53as the bus arrives joanne can breathe a sigh of relief
34:57middle station please please that i found it i thought it was going to be harder than this
35:03so it has proved to me that i can do things like this but it still hasn't changed the way i feel about
35:08like weirdos five more minutes and we'll be home
35:18made it so you've completed the mission i've completed the mission
35:24but it's not just her fear of danger that's putting joanne on edge the demands of her diet
35:28are also getting her down i'm not hungry that it's really affecting everything in my life
35:34um i feel like because i'm not hungry i'm getting that irritable and snappy with people
35:39um especially like people close my mom my dad especially tom as well i'm just like
35:44not being myself at all because i'm not hungry i'm just like and showing everybody and blaming
35:50everybody else except myself with joanne struggling on all fronts the experts meet up to discuss her
35:56problem i think the thing that i've discovered about her is there are some quite significant
36:01attachment issues going on and one of the results of this is that she's created a diet
36:05that actually ties her to home and also it's induced a real fear of new experiences generally
36:12well there's also the health aspect of her poor diet she's low in b12 she's low in protein which is
36:17just ridiculous in this day and age in this country to be low in protein so i'm going to have to get her
36:23looking at foods that are going to increase her b12 and protein levels and i think i'm going to have
36:28to do some work with her parents who i think in trying to protect their daughter from her food
36:33anxieties actually unfortunately have been making things worse
36:44with natalie worried about the lack of nutrients in joanne's diet
36:48she's brought her to whitby to try and introduce to her a whole new food group joanne's blood test
36:54showed that she was severely lacking in protein and a great source of protein is fish so here we are
37:00by the seaside to look at the origins of fish and how she could incorporate that into her diet
37:05so have you ever been rock pooling joanne no i haven't ever been a rock pool in far
37:16do you know what that is it's like a bit like a snail um a winkle
37:23not something you've ever eaten before no no
37:27little crab people would quite happily buy it they don't really think about where it came from
37:34yeah you hold it it won't do anything come on let it crawl on your hand
37:43how do you feel about the thought that these sorts of foods crab or muscle or something end up on your
37:48plate i'm not sure i'll have to explore like the actual part that you're going to eat before like
37:53i can tell you if i'm comfortable
38:06so joanne you knew you weren't going to get away with just a nice little trip to the beach
38:10what do you fancy then um oh try some prawns thank you
38:15oh we should really try muscle given that we just found some on the beach
38:23oh i don't know don't dare try um i don't know i'm trying to try somewhere else first
38:27that's okay go for prawn
38:28all right yeah just pop it all in your mouth
38:40that's amazing that's a tricky thing to do and you've just eaten it yeah please can we have a crab
38:46sandwich yeah i don't know about really should i break off a little bit for you
38:53you just break off a little bit pop it in your mouth
39:03all right it's quite nice it's quite strong taste that though yeah crab is it's not bad yeah so you
39:10could get used to it because at the moment that's the thing isn't it you're not really used to anything
39:17that's amazing joanne jumping your way through a crab sandwich
39:20yeah this is i get like you get used to it on it like every bite so really opening up a whole
39:27new world for you isn't it yeah i was surprised that i actually enjoyed the taste other foods
39:32that i've tried i've coved with but i feel like i can i can go on and eat that i feel like i've got
39:38used to a seafood on the whole i've seen it today being caught and i feel like um i've combated
39:43it to a certain extent of where i can maybe try and go on and try things at home cook it myself
39:50explore fish further joanne's had the most enormous success today to have confronted fish
39:56which for a lot of people is quite a scary food head on and enjoyed it means she's well on her way
40:02to being able to eat a full meal but there's one vital ingredient missing to that full meal
40:07and that's vegetables so that's what we need to tackle next
40:10with her visit to whitby a success joanne embarks on a seafood diet she sees food and eats it
40:21here we are joanne's attempting the uh chicken my god this is fish in breadcrumbs that i'm going to try
40:28tonight tonight tonight's bush took a trial cheese on toast
40:34i see these are being closer to the type of foods that's classes normal i don't classes the
40:40the squash and the aubergine
40:45i can't believe it i think i've been cured it's a miracle the best thing i've tried all week
40:50i taste less i think i think i could probably eat that another tick hi over the past week joanne's
41:03managed a variety of tasty treats but with only one week to go before the final meal she's still not
41:09managed a single vegetable i could take this weird crunching no i still don't understand why people
41:21want to eat vegetables they're just not nice i don't understand still
41:28having helped joanne start to take responsibility for her diet stephen's called the family to a
41:33mysterious countryside location he wants to find out more about the source of her attachment
41:38issues and ask for their help in pushing joanne forward get started what i've learned about joanne
41:45so far is that her incredibly hyper cautious attitude to food is only one aspect of a generally
41:51hyper cautious attitude to pretty much everything today i want to find out a little bit more about
41:57the source of these insecurities when i met joanne i was really struck by how anxious she is about quite
42:04a lot of things and not just about new foods you know i mean even coming down
42:08to london you came with her which is quite unusual for somebody who's nearly 20. i don't find that
42:14unusual to be honest okay because she's never been to london before she was going to something that she
42:19was quite anxious about anywhere i think going on her own would have made her even more anxious oh that's
42:24interesting and it is noticeable also that you know she is at college but she has chosen a college which
42:29is on your doorstep how do you feel about that that's fine by me to be honest do you quite like
42:34having her close by yes but she likes that security do you think that because she's been so anxious that
42:42it's inclined you to be a little over protective with her i'm sure that's a better factor yeah have
42:48you pushed her to to step out and do things on her own probably not really now as far as her eating is
42:57concerned how did you react once she started making it clear that she did not want to put these foods in
43:03her mouth because we gave in really didn't we and well we still hoped that one day that she would start
43:11to eat normally but that day hasn't come hmm okay i think what is clear from what you're telling me is
43:19that because you've perceived her to be this anxious rather sensitive person you haven't pushed her
43:25forward all right now we've got an activity for her which i hope is going to give you both the opportunity
43:32rather than protecting her from her fears actually to literally give her a bit of a push come with me
43:39i thought stephen had a lot of good things to say and the fact that we need to maybe push joanne a
43:45little bit harder than we would normally um and some of his reasonings were quite right really
43:52hi joanne how are you today i don't know just a bit nervous i don't know what's going on a bit nervous
43:58are you up for a bit of an adventure depends what it is i don't know what it is joanne how do you feel
44:08about putting yourself inside a plastic ball and being rolled down a hill not good not good i'm not
44:14100 sure if it's going to be safe okay like fly out or i don't know okay so already in your mind
44:20you've got disaster scenarios kind of flooding into your head haven't you all right now listen
44:24i can promise you it is completely safe all right what i want you to do is just kind of go okay well
44:31regardless of what this is like i'm going to commit myself to doing it then i'll judge what it's like
44:36in your pop
44:36i think really as a as a symbolic gesture it would be good if the two of you were involved in actually
44:52launching joanne off so we're going to give her a push you are going to give her a push is that okay
44:57that's fine how are you feeling joanne a bit nervous now that i'm in it you're going to do fine
45:02are you already in there i don't know i want to sit in front of it just do it come on you've already
45:10done the hard work okay you're ready to go for it i just want to know what it's going to feel like i
45:13know but the whole point of this joanne is whether you can get past that need to know before you can
45:19commit to doing something are you ready okay she said yes we're not asking again okay guys here you go
45:28oh my god
45:42oh my god
45:54is she going to see whether she survived yeah come on then
45:58all right there you go okay he said breathlessly having come all the way down the hill
46:03was that as terrible as you thought it was going to be no it was good fun i went once i got going
46:09there was one big crash where i i nearly bit my tongue but it was good fun good brilliant so all
46:14that anxiety up at the top yeah do you think that really was necessary no it wasn't when it comes
46:20to food the more you delay actually it's counterproductive because you're reinforcing the message that
46:26this could potentially be dangerous so try and cut down on the safety behaviors and really just go
46:30for it well done how did she do brilliant did anyone bring my shoes oh they're at the top
46:39i'm glad i did it in the end it was really good and i can see how he's related to that
46:46sort of thing i should have about food i should just go for it and then see what it's like just
46:50think isn't like that what's the worst that can happen i think the great thing from the point of
46:54view of joanne's parents is that they really seemed very prepared to sort of you know give that ball a
47:00shove and i hope very much that they are going to be prepared to let her stand on her own two feet a lot
47:05more because that's exactly what she needs to be doing with regard to her eating
47:18natalie's determined to make joanne overcome her vegetable fears and asked carol to play the
47:22pushy parent in a blindfold taste test to help achieve this what is that
47:40it's a mushroom weird texture but not an awful taste like jelly
47:44it's like it's like slimy though here you are try this i don't like it i could eat it
48:09that taste isn't too bad why does it have to be like this though why can't it be like chips like
48:17why does it have to be like wet and wobbly it's a big fella
48:25this is all right i've never seen her eat vegetables like that i know she was blindfolded
48:30it was a bit of a challenge to her but if that had been four weeks ago she wouldn't have even
48:35put them near her mouth two days before the final challenge joanne turns 20.
48:53she may be leaving her teens behind but can she let go of her childish diet too
48:57i feel like i've learned a lot about myself and the diet that i was eating i'm not going to make
49:08excuses anymore and i'm not going to eat like a child anymore
49:14it's the morning of the final challenge and as every young girl knows
49:18it's not what you eat but what you wear that matters most
49:21i decided if i want to feel confident i'm gonna have to look good so i got a new jumper dress
49:28a new bag and some high shoes you feel good when you're walking in high shoes i think
49:34if i like struck towards that table i'm gonna feel like good about it
49:39my fears about today are is that joanne just doesn't go through with it
49:42and my other fear is that she decides to split it out all over the table when there's all these
49:47strange is that okay i'm ready
50:00arriving at the restaurant with boyfriend tom and family joanne knows that today she faces a lifetime
50:06first eating the same meal as everyone else getting a vodka orange for a bit of courage a bit of confidence
50:13natalie and stephen arrive to give some last minute words of encouragement are you feeling
50:18optimistic about eating your meal today yeah i'm a bit nervous about it the vegetables are the worrying
50:24thing i've got a few like strategies in my mind like thinking just go for it and just do it it won't
50:29hurt me it's just food that's what i keep saying to myself yeah but absolutely what you say is right
50:33you know don't overthink it and just go for it right you've done a lot of hard work joanne and we're both
50:38confident that you can clear your plate all right so best of luck good luck yeah the worst scenario is
50:44if she gets upset and storms off or something like that but even if joanne starts to falter we'll be
50:50there to make sure that she steadies herself up and gets back on the straight and narrow all right
50:55hello guys i think your table is ready because of joanne's restricted diet her in-laws and her parents
51:02have never been able to eat together before in fact today they're meeting for the first time
51:10come on joanne this is it
51:13all right joanne good luck we'll see you later good luck see you how joanne does today i think
51:18depends entirely on which part of her personality wins out because if we get the dependent helpless
51:24bit of her that we're used to seeing in relation to food then she's probably doomed but on the other
51:29hand if we see the steelier harder more determined bit of her then i think she could just make it
51:35on the menu is a roast with the old familiar mashed potatoes but the biggest challenge for joanne will
51:41no doubt be the side order of vegetables a drawn portion of veggies
51:55the chicken's good taste good with the skin on actually
52:05the mash is quite all right i know it's not dead dry like oh
52:10two hands going where no joanne adams has been before shall we all eat broccoli together one two
52:15two three so far i am it's a bit big you can cut them you know i can't use a knife and fork hardly
52:23have i got them in the right hands but that just shows how strange it is she doesn't even know what
52:27to do with the knife and fork straight down go on no way what did you think i think it's better when
52:34i just shove the whole thing in right i've had enough now i'm full i just can't believe how well
52:48you've done today so the meal is over it's mostly gone and what about the veg i struggled with it but
52:55i got it down and did you have any other mashed potato it wasn't bad it was all right it was safe
52:59even though it wasn't made by your mum yeah so it sounds like you really have taken everything
53:05on board and i think of my old diet as stupid now i didn't want to say so at the time but now you
53:10mention it i just can't believe how well joanne's done today i've got to give it all to her 100
53:19she really did it it's going to be good going for like restaurants and stuff it's going to cost me a
53:23bit more money but i'm not really too bad because i mean she won't feel daft when we're ordering
53:27stuff so it's brilliant we didn't realize the problem that joanne had it came as quite a shock
53:32and she's done remarkably well i think i've done really well with it and the strategies that i've
53:37used have worked as well i got quite full i think it was a big plate so i didn't i didn't finish the
53:42whole plate off but i'm really pleased with what i did one month on and has joanne left her potato
53:51field diet behind for good her supermarket visits are no longer restricted to the crisp aisle and
53:56she's excited to see what else is on offer what about just trying the pineapple ones try one of
54:04them yeah days seem to go by where i don't even think about crisp chips and mash i'm more like
54:09i fancy a cheese toastie now when we go to the supermarket we don't buy 100 packs of crisps a week
54:15we'll maybe buy 20 at the most so it's really good potatoes haven't been banished for good but at
54:22family meal times they've taken a back seat i still eat crisps chips and mashed sometimes but i never
54:28have them on their own anymore and i enjoy other things better than them now they're all boring
54:33foods it's new ones to make me more excited her new diet means tom can romance his lady like never
54:40before can i have the two-piece chicken and chips classic meal please it's really good for our
54:45relationship because we can eat the same things and we don't feel like daft and we feel like it's
54:49good about going out so that's helped us i love chicken if i get chicken and chips i prefer the chicken
54:54and i don't even eat all the chips they don't taste as good anymore strange and socializing with uni
55:02friends is a fun rather than a fearful experience i think it's a life-changing the way i can eat now
55:09especially find that my university friends are quite adventurous with food i can go to places
55:13they'd go as well now and at home mum can have some time out as joanne loves nothing more than cooking
55:20up a cheese toastie i never ever would i go back to my old diet of crisps chips and mashed it was so
55:25bothered i can't believe i was even doing it i think it's really stupid now
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