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00:00I think we might have done it.
00:0190 days ago, I found out I was playing in the Sidemen charity football match,
00:05but I was the most out of shape I've ever been in my life.
00:08So I changed how I eat, I changed how I exercise,
00:11and I have used every single gadget I could possibly find that claims to upgrade your life.
00:15So here's how it's gone, and I'm going to rank exactly how effective each of these tools has been
00:20in transforming my body.
00:22So when I started this challenge at 84.6 kg, one thing became immediately obvious to me.
00:27Losing weight the way that I'd originally planned is miserable.
00:31I thought coming into this that motivation alone would be enough to carry me through
00:35dinner plates full of plain meat and vegetables,
00:38carrot sticks with some hummus as my little treat,
00:40and a glass of water being the only thing that could enter my body after 6pm.
00:45What I've learned is you can make it easier for yourself,
00:48and you actually have to make it easier for yourself if it's got any chance of working.
00:52No offense to carrot sticks.
00:54For instance, one product that became a very early game changer for me is the Ninja Creamy.
01:00I put it all the way up and ate it.
01:02Because it means I'll literally just make a protein shake,
01:05but then instead of chugging it on the spot,
01:07I'll freeze it so that the next day I can whack it into the creamy
01:10and it turns it into a full tub of ice cream that genuinely feels like a treat.
01:15That takes me a full 15 minutes to eat,
01:18as opposed to the 15 seconds that it would take me to down it in drink form.
01:22Not to brag.
01:23And this entire tub is 200 calories.
01:29They're so good.
01:30I shouldn't have done that.
01:31But that's tasty.
01:32But the thing that blows my mind is you have one of these tubs, that's 1100 calories.
01:38So assisted by the power of a few very simple diet substitutions,
01:41my weight was flying off at a rate that I've never experienced before.
01:45But the other place that I made a big shift early on was activity.
01:48For me to lose as much weight as I wanted to, I knew that I had to be burning a
01:52thousand calories
01:53per day from movement.
01:55But just like with the food, the only way to make new habits that you'll actually stick to
01:58is to make them fun.
02:00And it's 20 past 11 at night.
02:02I am on the treadmill.
02:04Am I tired?
02:05Yes.
02:06Am I bored?
02:08No.
02:09And that's not because I've turned into some sort of fitness-maxing psychopath.
02:13I just gave myself one simple rule.
02:15I can play as many games as I want, on my phone, on my Switch, as long as I'm doing
02:19it
02:19while getting my steps in.
02:21Also, every time I die in the game, I have to turn the speed up.
02:24That helps.
02:25It's horrible.
02:26Time just disappears when you're on this thing.
02:29So I cannot overstate how goated a treadmill is if you can get access to one.
02:33It's an S-tier.
02:34Because yeah, you can walk outside.
02:36I did plenty of that too, when the opportunities presented themselves.
02:39But compared to the 200 calories that you've burned doing that for an hour, it's hard to argue with
02:43the just over 400 that I've been burning walking on the consistent incline that one of these creates.
02:49Now you might be thinking, well, 400 calories is fantastica and well done.
02:53But even then, how on earth are you managing to get to 1,000 in a day?
02:57Well, one of the biggest things that surprised me was just how naturally the rest of it can just come
03:01if you take smaller opportunities to be a little more active.
03:05Drish is craving a sandwich, so kill two birds with one stone and actually run to get the sandwich.
03:12There's also the wellness ball and the under desk elliptical.
03:15They haven't ended up as game changers.
03:18I worked out that it takes about an hour of this half-hearted passive exercise to burn the calories
03:23that you can in like eight minutes of intense exercise.
03:26But then again, if you can trick yourself into thinking it's powering your computer monitor or
03:31something and you don't mind the discomfort, then it's still something.
03:34I'd slap them both into B-tier.
03:36And then probably the best subtle change that I made was to just buy an indoor football.
03:40I sound like a child, but it's insane how just having a ball to kick around right in front of
03:45me
03:45all the time was enough to make me actually want to get up after my meals each day,
03:49as opposed to carrying on sitting and having a chat.
03:52So with just a few tiny habit adjustments like this, combined with about an hour of proper focused exercise
03:58a day, sometimes treadmill, sometimes football, sometimes weight training too,
04:01because it was super important to me when cutting to not lose muscle.
04:05I have been every single day, I would say easily hitting over a thousand calories burned.
04:10And any days where I pushed myself a little harder, that figure only went higher.
04:15It's still pinchable.
04:17It's still pinchable.
04:18Not by much.
04:19I can't get a handful anymore.
04:21Now, not everything that I tried during this journey was a success, mind you.
04:24Like the Woojah Mat.
04:26They said that if I connected up my earphones and listened to some music while lying down on this,
04:31that it would vibrate in tune with that music and send me into an extremely restorative slumber.
04:37But I forgot to mention the fairly important detail,
04:42that this is what it sounds like to the confused wife trying to sleep next to you.
04:49To be fair, it is an amazing experience for the user.
04:52Probably the most fun I've ever had listening to music.
04:55It just didn't help my sleep.
04:56Hour sleep.
04:58Hour sleep, yes.
05:01The Luminette glasses were better.
05:03So I've just got up at 7.45am and usually I'm like morning groggy for about 20 minutes.
05:11Let's see if this can speed that up.
05:19You know what? It's been four minutes.
05:24I actually do feel very awake.
05:26They're actually so bright first thing in the morning that you can't not be woken up.
05:31It's just, I never felt that wake up translate to a better sleep,
05:35like the things promised it would.
05:36So, beat it.
05:37In fact, the funny thing about sleep is there's an entire industry of stuff
05:41that is purely focused on helping you sleep better, right?
05:44There's multivitamins, there's gummies, there's pillow sprays.
05:46There's so much tech.
05:48And I feel like I've tried it all this last three months,
05:50trying to get my sleep score up to the mythical 100 out of 100.
05:54But what I realized is I had it the wrong way around.
05:57I was so focused coming into this on fixing my sleep,
06:00thinking that that was the center of everything.
06:02And if I fixed it, everything else in my life would fall into place,
06:05that I missed how, if I instead focused on the other things, that great sleep was a result.
06:11And I actually achieved this, by the way.
06:12When I started this challenge, my sleep was averaging 76 out of 100.
06:16This is my sleep now.
06:18It's 100, 100, 97.
06:21And I'm achieving that with very minimal products.
06:24I stopped using the vibrating mat.
06:25I stopped using the Luminet glasses.
06:27I was testing this headband that was meant to help me sleep faster.
06:30Even things like this essential oil mix
06:32that you're meant to dab onto your skin before going to bed.
06:35It does smell good, but none of it has made any measurable difference.
06:39Here's what really helped.
06:39One, losing weight because it stopped my snoring.
06:43This wedge pillow I tried at the start did also help,
06:46but I see this as a temporary solution because it's just so damn uncomfortable.
06:51But cutting fat, that works.
06:53Pretty much the day after I got myself under 80 kilograms,
06:57the snoring stopped automatically, like magic.
07:00And to be honest, the snoring was just a bonus.
07:01I was excited enough that day.
07:03Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.
07:0779. I broke the 79 barrier.
07:10I just realized I can like, I can see it in my face.
07:13The second thing is eating well and not eating too late.
07:16This genuinely feels like it has calmed my body from the inside out.
07:21And then three is becoming fitter, which has allowed my resting heart rate to come way, way down.
07:26I actually can't believe I'm saying this, but mine has dropped all the way down from 53 beats
07:31per minute while sleeping to 39.
07:34Which means my body does not have to work very hard when it's at rest.
07:38And I guess it's all being slightly assisted by things like a nasal spray.
07:41This stops me getting congested.
07:42And then the eight-seat bed.
07:44Just because being able to control temperature increases the likelihood that you're going to
07:48sleep through the night.
07:49I could tell things were working by the simple fact that in just the first 50 days,
07:53I'd lost more weight than I had in the entire hundred days of my previous transformation a few
07:58years ago.
07:58I had already become the lightest I have ever been as an adult.
08:02And I'd also passed an even more momentous benchmark.
08:06I was, for the first time in my life, slimmer than Drisha.
08:17Drisha's pregnant.
08:20We're having a baby.
08:26So yeah, there are some gimmicks that do help, but the further that I went into this challenge,
08:31the more that I kept coming back to one core principle, which is just focus on the basics.
08:37Like the most important thing by an absolute mile is just what food do you put through your mouth?
08:43And so I could pretty much summarize the first month of this transformation with
08:47Every night I'm lying in bed here, so hungry.
08:51But I think I saw my first ab today.
08:54First sign of an ab.
08:57I should not feel top of the world.
09:01Show us.
09:03I was hungry all the time.
09:05I would just sit there next to Drisha in bed while she's munching and I'd be in pain.
09:09Or we're out with the entire team.
09:11They're eating burgers and I've only got enough calories for a black coffee.
09:15I'm tired of this.
09:16I just want pancakes, waffles, to eat until I'm full.
09:25This is hard.
09:27But then I started to learn one of the most important lessons, which is volume eating.
09:32Okay, let me show you something.
09:37So that is 400 calories of nuts.
09:41This is 400 calories of strawberries.
09:43There are a lot of foods like nuts, for example, that I think it's fair to say are generally considered
09:49healthy, but that are actually ridiculously high calorie.
09:52Like, I bought this bag of trail mix a while ago.
09:55I literally bought it in a health store.
09:57I bought it in the section of the store that was specifically foods that are good for you.
10:01And all the packaging talks about is the supposed benefits.
10:05But you want to see something crazy?
10:06If I were to make my entire diet just supposedly healthy dried fruit and nuts like this,
10:13then this would be the entire amount of food I could have in a day.
10:19That's ridiculous, isn't it?
10:21How on earth could you possibly be full?
10:23And that's assuming that I'm only drinking plain water too.
10:27So if you're trying to lose weight, the best thing that you can do is to find foods that you
10:31can eat enough of so that you won't be hungry.
10:34Some of my favorites are 0% fat Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, sugar-free jelly.
10:39But to be honest, the best one is actually just fresh fruit.
10:42Because of how much water and fiber is in them, and combine multiple of these high volume foods,
10:47you've got an entire meal that you can eat to your heart's content.
10:50Bad for a weight loss diet, right?
10:54How many calories is that?
10:56250.
10:57Not every health alternative was a hit.
11:00But the more I tried things, the more I realized what I liked.
11:02And the better I was able to turn the 300 calories that you get in three tiny normal chocolates
11:08into things like one giant bowl of jelly trifle that I actually enjoyed.
11:13As soon as I realized that I can have an entire box of really sweet, really satiating strawberries
11:18for like 65 calories, the same as you get in about six tiny cashew nuts or one minuscule square of
11:24chocolate,
11:25I became obsessed with fruit.
11:26Just trying to find the freshest, juiciest, most exotic flavors of the stuff.
11:31Which tasted even sweeter, with the knowledge that this was actually helping me lose weight.
11:35And suddenly, any time I ended up in another one of those situations where someone's sitting in front of me,
11:39eating something that I want but I can't have,
11:42I was okay.
11:43A, because I started to spend most of the day actually full because of all these high volume foods I've
11:48been eating.
11:48But also B, because if I have to now, I know that I can just pop to a local store
11:53and pick up anything in this aisle that I want.
11:56This challenge also made me super aware of oil.
11:59So what's this?
12:00This is one egg, right?
12:02If I was logging my calories, it would be super easy for me to go onto my app, search for
12:06how many calories one medium egg has.
12:0866, okay.
12:10And then tell myself that that's what I've consumed.
12:12But if I did that, I would actually start putting on weight instead of losing it.
12:16And I'd have absolutely no idea why.
12:18Because this egg also has 30 calories worth of oil in it too, that we used to fry it.
12:24Which means A, you always have to remember to count that oil.
12:27But also B, if you actually still enjoy the taste of the egg while using less of that oil,
12:32then you can literally have up to 40% more food for the same amount of calories.
12:37It makes a huge difference.
12:39So I think volume eating needs to go on this tier list.
12:42And it needs to go on as a straight S.
12:45But it was really when I combined that concept with another concept, intermittent fasting,
12:50that the weight loss went way beyond what I even thought was possible.
12:54So I've been having my last bite of food at around 6pm each evening for the whole journey.
12:58But then for the second half, I've also delayed my first bite of food the next day until 12pm lunchtime.
13:04So all of my eating happens within these six hours each day.
13:08Which means, yes, I've been hungry in the mornings.
13:10I love breakfast.
13:11And I've still had to keep up with all the exercise every morning, even without the food.
13:15So I'm not going to sit here and tell you that this was easy.
13:18But here's why I still think it's been a game changer.
13:20Intermittent fasting means that as soon as you can eat,
13:23you can eat pretty much anything and stay in a calorie deficit.
13:26It means you enjoy food like crazy.
13:39Daddy, chill.
13:40And it means when you combine it with volume eating, you will definitely feel full.
13:45So while you do have to exert a couple of hours of willpower to get through those mornings,
13:49there's something nice about how that's the only willpower needed.
13:52Because as soon as the food floodgates open at 12pm, you can be completely satiated right up until
13:58the next morning.
13:59Which I think is actually a lot easier than just persistently wanting to eat more food
14:03throughout the entire day, but needing to exert consistent willpower to stop yourself.
14:08Esther.
14:09I couldn't believe the progress.
14:11I thought I was going to bottom out at like 78 kilos this challenge.
14:14I was now at 75.9, still with time to go.
14:17Oh my god.
14:19But we should probably talk about the elephant in the room.
14:22The entire reason that I'm doing this fitness transformation is because of the Sidemen Charity
14:26Football Match.
14:27So naturally, a decent chunk of my activity has also come in the form of football training.
14:32Every single morning right now, I wake up and I face my enemy.
14:38Cones.
14:38I spent a lot of time over the last few months kicking balls through cones.
14:42Rain or shine, but let's be honest, mostly rain.
14:45I've had blisters, lots of blisters, and also a leg injury.
14:48I basically took so many shots at goal one training session that I tore my main shooting
14:53muscle.
14:54That was bad.
14:55It took me two weeks of rehab and having to take things painfully slow to get that back
14:59up and running again.
15:00It's very frustrating because I've got so much pent-up energy to just go for it, but I can't.
15:06But the best thing I did, noticed a bit of a pattern here by the way, was
15:10realised that the most fun that I had playing football was just beating my friends,
15:15and then turning that into a once-a-week thing I would do without fail.
15:18It started off with five-a-side cage matches, and then we progressed up to a full-on official
15:23eleven-a-side, which is what the real thing's going to be.
15:28Oh, it's better than when it started.
15:30And if you're wondering how our camera person suddenly developed the ability to fly,
15:34we actually shot all of it using an anti-gravity A1 drone, our sponsor.
15:38We literally had Drisha standing in the corner wearing these goggles.
15:40She was having the time of her life.
15:42It's actually really fun.
15:43Because she's seeing the live view from the drone on what looks like a 200-inch screen in front of
15:49her.
15:49She could just look wherever she wanted by moving her head, point anywhere with this controller,
15:53and then hold a trigger to fly in that direction.
15:56But here's the kicker.
15:56This thing is light enough to be flown basically anywhere without permission,
16:00and it records in 8K resolution in 360 degrees.
16:04So she didn't even have to once think, I better make sure I'm turning to face Arun.
16:08It's all captured.
16:09And with the code MrWhosTheBoss, this is 20% off with an extra free gift.
16:13And there's two other pieces that were never far from me while I was footballing.
16:17The spottle.
16:18This two-litre water bottle that's kind of like a progress bar
16:21for everything that you need to drink in a day.
16:23I'd put it in B tier.
16:24It's not the most durable thing.
16:26I actually managed to break my handle.
16:28But has this allowed me to drink an extra half a litre of water per day?
16:33Yeah, probably.
16:34And that's a pretty valuable thing.
16:35And then the Aerofit Elite.
16:38Okay, I think it's fair to say already, this is amazing.
16:40I can breathe.
16:41I can breathe in a way that I didn't realise I could before.
16:46And it makes it so easy for you, because you put it in your mouth,
16:49and the app dictates to you when to breathe in and out.
16:52So you could just be doing your work as usual,
16:55but while restricting air to build up your lung strength
16:58in this really carefully planned out regimen,
17:01the results were noticeable.
17:10The more I stuck to my habits, the easier everything became.
17:13But that brings me to yesterday.
17:15Because the time had finally come to confirm just how much I'd managed to change.
17:19At the very beginning of this transformation, I got a DEXA scan done.
17:22I lay on this bed and got told by a machine in no uncertain terms that I was overweight.
17:27And in case there was any doubt, it even printed me this slightly too detailed image of exactly in what
17:33way.
17:34I've been waiting to do this for so long.
17:44No one said it's easy to shred fat, but I did the scan again.
17:49It was pretty good.
17:51So in three months, we've come down from 21% body fat to 13.2.
17:56So we've gone from average all the way past fit and straight to athletic.
18:00And then for the visceral fat around my organs, while I was 79th out of an average 100 people at
18:06the start, I'm now 15th.
18:08I won't lie to you, I had no idea what this scan was going to say about this.
18:11So when I saw the number, I actually started tearing up.
18:15I've just put so much of myself into this and I can't believe it worked.
18:19And it's kind of the same thing for fitness.
18:21I did a VO2 max test at the start, which came out as fair.
18:25And so I was actually pretty taken aback by the fact that when I just redid that test,
18:30I've managed to move all the way from fair past good and straight into excellent.
18:34So is 90 days enough to transform your body?
18:38Turns out the answer is hell yeah.
18:40From 84.6 kilos, I'm all the way down to 72.2.
18:44Which honestly is beyond my wildest dreams for this.
18:48From here to here.
18:50And I've learned so much on the way on how to keep myself healthy.
18:59What have you got in your hands?
19:01No.
19:01How many strawberries do you need?
19:02That's wine.
19:04I see you on the pitch.
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