It's probably a good psychological shock factor to the people. They also may use it off camera too. And since the doctor needs all the food samples for the calorie metrics, they'd have it on hand anyway, I believe
Lol! Was thinking the same thing! All that build up behind secret walls at random places. Why not just say they are going to the lab to really see how much they ate??
@Luc that's not true at all. A majority of fat people are already in the obese range, in both BMI and body fat percentage. A majority of the average weighted people are in the overweight BMI range.
@@desertrose00 That's sadly true... not all but most. It's why there are more fat northerners vs southerners. I couldn't believe the size of people when I went to b Blackpool or Stoke (the latter isn't strictly north, but midlands is basically northern let's be honest..)
I dont get the experiment with the Plumbing company like it seems kind of pointless. Imagine everyday at work the canteen ONLY has bacon butty and then the one day you come in they suddenly have two new and very interesting dishes. Id try out the new meal just to give myself the option of choice instead of choosing the same sandwich i'll probably be getting for years to come from the canteen. Like wouldnt everyone???
I'd say the result was good, even, because everyone picked the meal that looks (and is) healthier out of the two new options! If they'd framed it that way it would be cute
I read it more as, if you switched to the higher calorie meal, you might gain weight and not realize why, because you’re still eating at the same place every day.
@@kimberlyoldschool But they didn’t know if this change of the menu was permanent or not. They took the opportunity while it was there. I don’t think the show did what you say they tried to or what they said they did.
I think it's a bit creepy that he has has his hands on her every single minute. Use some restraint in public, lad! Other than that, all these UK people are so charming. I would love to meet any and all of them...so pleasant, compared to us "cheeky" Americans!
I love how affectionate and gentle he is with her. He's not complaining about her weight at all, but wants to lose weight to make sure he's still attractive to her. Very sweet.
@@NoName-my1vk I don't think the kid lives with them. Never once do they show the kid and she went out partying. Unless they gave the kid to a family member for the week I don't think they have their kid.
”I’ve tried every diet, everything, to lose weight” says someone each episode. And yet, no one came up with the idea of counting calories, the easiest way.
Even counting calories, you've got to do it right. So many people guesstimate way off and forget to log "small" things that they think are unimportant but add up.
Shows like Secret Eaters, My 600lb life and Supersize vs. Superskiny really show that we need nutrition to be taught at schools. The sooner we start the more lifes will be improved.
@@kristagrym we do have a good culture it’s just different from the Med countries. Back in the day it was cold and so we ate a lot of fat and meat and dairy to keep the fat on in the winter.
I love how she says, “I was hungry that day” and also says, “We generally have 4 each”. So, which is it... were you really hungry, or eating what you normally eat? ... or are you normally just really hungry? 🙃🧐
@@taposherabeya7857 If she had two cold glasses of water (10 gulps each) and an apple an hour or 30 minutes before, I guarantee, it would have been about half that much.
This show actually helps so much if you have disordered thinking. People terrify me when they say “ I bare eat and I’m this size” and they’re like 15+ stone, but in reality they are actually gorging themselves and that explains the weight, it’s not just bad luck
People don’t realize that eating disorders don’t stop at anorexia and bulimia, and that when you have an ED your mind is completely off from reality which is why they don’t actually see or realize how badly/much they are eating.
Not always true..Plenty of skinny people EAT A LOT of food and find it difficult to gain weight. Metabolism also changes as you hit middle age..so many factors to look into. Please don’t assume that all overweight people are gluttons.
@@belindahutchinson5333your weight is calories in calories out. Metabolism doesn’t change it too much. You can’t be like 15 plus stone and say yeah I barely eat anything I survive off a lettuce leaf. That’s not how weight works. Weight isn’t difficult to control especially when you keep track of what you eat
sometimes the comparison is shocking like that one time they compared someones amount of snack with 3 HUGGEE plates of fried chicken.. that one was good, i was shocked myself lol but most of the other ones are so unnecessary and dumb lmao
Guy: So what’s your job Other guy: Private Investigator Guy: Oh..so you follow criminals and gather evidence Other guy: Well... sort of but instead of evidence chocolate wrappers and I follow them down supermarket isles
The kebab hoagie will go down in Secret Eaters history along with the pie butty, the shepherd’s pie pizza and the bowl of Special K with half a pot of double cream 😂😂😂
I am always stunned when someone overweight says they think they do not eat enough. Like, is there some kind of hope that that their bodies are special and they really are not eating enough?
My husband was not eating and was staying the same weight, he felt so sick that he couldn't physically eat, turned out he had an issue with his thyroid. Now he can eat again mostly and weight is falling off him....
If you’ve done a single course on diet and nutrition, clearly you know everything? As if. Thyroid, the master hormone regulator is actually extremely important for metabolic processes and can impact how the body uses food, stimulates hunger (hint, this is yet another hormone) and converts cholesterol into hormones. Leptin, grehlin, insluin all play a delicate balance in appetite and weight, screw one up and they are all a mess. If its just about eating calories, then how do you explain the weight gain caused by certain prescription medications? Why do people on steroids immediately gain weight? And certain antidepressants? This includes patients in confined settings who have no access to extra food? Maybe you need a course on biology and pharmacology to actually improve your knowledge of diet and nutrition. And that’s not even touching on the fact that everyone’s body releases differing amounts of insulin (the fat storage hormone) to different foods meaning a thin person without a metabolic disorder would release a small burst of insulin at the 45min mark post eating and it would quickly dissapate, yet someone else would generate 20x the same release that keeps going for two hours after a meal. This means that second person will continue to be storing all food intake as fat (removing glucose out of the circulatory system) and the other person would be using that meal for energy.
ron donnis the body clearly can produce its own energy - the process of gluconeogenesis is the very product allowing it to use components of the body (whether this be stored in the form of fat cells, amino acids, etc) to create glucose for use which is the basis of this. Otherwise the body would die when you stopped eating.
I'm the opposite, I think that lack of weight makes people look older, for some reason overweight people look younger to me but not obese people obviously
I think there are a lot of people who think that home cooked meals mean that the calories don't count as much, maybe because they don't have the label on the food saying specifically how many calories and how much fat there is etc
It's not even home cooked meal in strict sense if one ends up using mayo, sauces, readymade gravy base etc.... From scratch should be considered home cooked meal.
A lot of people are wrong. I was once one of them, saying it was because of "hormones and genetics". One friend challenged me: "write down every morsel of food you put in your gullet for a week, and you'll see it's purely calories in vs calories out". That night I made spaghetti. With the fatty minced meat, the cheese, and the big helping of pasta it came out to 2200 kCal. At the end of the week I averaged 3,700 kCal per day. I, too, thought I was smarter than the calories. I wasn't
I appreciate that, for once, this couple seems to be honest with themselves and make relatively little excuses for their behaviour. They admitted to eating fast food before the cameras started filming, and they seemed more than willing to identify their errors, take the feedback and make changes. I also liked how their food diaries were more or less normal, compared to some people on this show who claim to eat 1000 calories/day. Wishing them the best.
Can we stop for a moment and appreciate how the show reaches out to its audience and give nutritional advice througj the habitual examples of the featured secret eaters?
Yes the amounts they eat is helpful to see but some of the advice-drink diet cola instead of regular cola. Hmm that stuff is full of awful chemicals and all that gas. I think these days we gotten the message about drinking water. Easy for me though I hate the stuff
@@lizzie1897at the end of the day though, the bigger and more urgent problem is the person’s weight. so if diet soda helps you maintain your diet (which it does in a lot of cases-soda is addicting!), it will do more good than harm. that being said they should advise to eventually work on reducing ur intake
Regular vs. diet cola: 'I thought it was just a false thing to sell more, 'it's got less in it' " IT'S ON THE LABEL. None of these people read the labels and then they act like it's secret information.
Emma looks as though she is absolutely going to burst. She isn't built to be carrying that much weight, her hands are so swollen! I hope she lost the weight, she looks dangerously big for her frame.
@@blubbleebubbllleess4939 No one is "built to be chubby". It's just a question of changing the habits that made you chubby - permanently. It's hard but so worth it.
They could still eat their fajitas, just cut them down with a side of steamed veggies and salsa! Only eating fajitas for dinner without any textural context for the meal would be very easy to eat in large quantities.
I have never ever ever added raisins to ANY curry (I’m Indian)…she is a loon. “What would make this curry taste better? Oh raisins!” - Said Nobody ever
I really do love and appreciate his show. It is very insightful and I LOVE Anna's sense of humor. I watch the reruns over and over again. And, I do take full responsibility for my eating habits. I've lost about 13 pounds since watching this show.
Looking at him saying 'how can you eat that it's disgusting' ' I told you it's bad for you' but was filmed eating Mcdonalds and the rest.. Nothing like a high horse is there 😂😂
it's so funny, it always makes me laugh because she's like "you don't know why your overweight okay" "you think you should be skinny okay" and then she shows them the evidence and laughs
all these people are like "i've done EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to eat healthily and i JUST CAN'T lose weight" but they've never even counted the calories or amounts of what they eat, which is the simplest way to lose weight. lol
Wait a moment, they are a couple, have a daughter, supposedly are very in love, but they don't live together?! WTF!!! Also, when you are pregnant you don't need to eat for 2 people, you need to eat for two (you and the baby).... the baby doesn't need 2000 calories each day....duh
Yeah I don't get that at all. I guess it must be to do with benefits, cuz why would they both pay for their own place if they could share. I suppose the council pays her rent and the guy lives with his parents or something. It makes me sad, cuz I would've loved to have a kid at that age but I couldn't afford it.
@@SnowWhitewho how she supporting herself tho? Being a stay at home mom and everything. I'd be scrambling about to make ends meet if I had a child and live on me own
I think that's a huge thing though, when Emma said she didn't cut out anything, just portioned better. Eating what you want is fine, so long as you stick to what you need to intake for the days as opposed to just eating mindlessly. When you have a takeaway or plan one, just remember that you're having it and make sure you don't pig out and eat less calorie-dense foods the rest of the day. It's takeaway day in my house tomorrow. Lunch and breakfast will be small because I want Chinese and I won't eat it all but because I don't want to gain weight and I want something unhealthy, I need to be smart about it.
Totally OK with that. I indulge in fast Food sometimes too, But Just sometimes. I do cooking, i do a Bit of workout and hiking. ItS much about portioning and specific meal Times to keep.
If I were going to be on a tv show filming my own, I would make more of an effort to clean the area being filmed. Also, are coffee tables or dining tables difficult to find in Scotland? How can they eat on the dirty floor every night?!?
they said at the beginning that they don’t live together. her place was probably just more fit for her and the kid so having another person made it cluttered. we don’t have the full picture
I was a secret eater. Or maybe not secret…but mindless. I ate healthy foods, but was grazing and put on weight. I started eating one meal a day so I could know I was not mindlessly eating. I eat a very balanced large meal and the weight is coming off. I think for people who do this, it can really help to try one meal a day or a very strict type of eating window of 4-8 hours. Everyone tells you to eat lots of small meals, but this was a disaster for me. I had no true idea how much I was eating.
How bad is the health education in the UK? All these people have such crazy ideas about food. "I thought if it was homecooked it was less calories!" Well not if your homecooking uses a stick of butter and a pound of cheese. Like, how ignorant can you be
It's often about the way food is dealt with in the home. I used to teach healthy eating in primary schools. Then you would have children who were given pastries for breakfast and a Pot Noodle for dinner. They would bring in lunch boxes full of crisps and chocolate biscuits. In one job we tried to work with the families to encourage healthy eating, trying to support cooking with healthy food etc and we had families where the adults weren't interested and where they drank energy drinks all day and McDonald's in the evening. You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
My favorite is that one lady (who didn't do the final weigh in) that said "I was told salads are healthy and you could eat as much as you wanted." Meanwhile, she tops all of her salads with half a container of mayo.
I just love this show! common it is amazing watching people eat crazy amounts of food and realize it and it also helps you to check what you are eating. Love it!
We don't tend to eat dinner around tables in the UK, bar perhaps the Sunday lunch, holidays and special occasions. We tend to live in smaller houses, by virtue of that a dedicated dining room is not a common thing. I only have a six seat table in the garage to be brought out when the need arises for example.
@@TheMaximus997 thanks for enlightening me. Didnt know that. In germany people usually have dinner tables in their living rooms. 😊 Ive noticed in the past few years that more people tend to eat in front of the tv though. Prefer watching tv instead of talking to each other i guess.
Kloetenhenne it’s much nicer to eat looking at the TV than looking at the walls. In the other hand, in a family with kids, it’s better to eat and talk to each other without the TV on
Secret eaters staff: what did you eat today? Them: half a Brussels sprout. Staff: we have film of you eating a candy bar, an ice cream sandwich, a bag of Doritos, an entire cake and a bowl of warm lard with extra butter. Them: yeah but that's all healthy stuff! Edit: apparently manners are a thing of the past. Smh.
I'm 5'9 and was about 97kgs a while back, something more than what Emma was weighing. The weight was taking a huge toll on me despite my height. Emma looks 5'2, idk how she was handling all that weight. I'm now 80something kgs and still working to shed off some more. I really hope she managed to lose it all.
Poor Alan stood there the whole time holding her hugging her hiding her face when she was embarassed and the moment they showed his videos she joined in with making fun of him telling him he’s a liar 😦 I hope Alan does better all the way around in his life we’re all rooting for him
Hoagie in USA is a sandwich on a bun, generally containing meat, cheese, Mayo, and a bit of toppings such as lettuce, tomato, onion. A Scottish hoagie is a wrap on a chapati with fries/chips, some sort of meat and softened/melted cheese.
I think losing 8 of about 220 pounds might not qualify as a return to hourglass figure. It seems like more the difference between "definitely cannot get pants on" and "can almost get pants on."
Coke Zero actually has no calories (less than 4kcal per 100ml is allowed to call something calorie free) so it gives you a different taste every now and then. I do agree that it should be limited to like, 1 glass per day. If you are thirsty, just get water or tea. :)
I mean, sometimes I like a really cold, fizzy, soda, but I consider it food. If I'm going to have pretzels and Coke as a snack, it's a small glass of Coke and a few pretzels, not a big serving of both.
I dont care what anyone says: seeing the caloire equivalent really beats it in their heads how bad the food is. It's easy to forget how bad something like wine and sauces can be til you see that you could've just had 2 small cheese pizzas instead of the " healthy" meal. Edit: something to add as a casual researcher on the internet. This show is, in all technically, exposure therapy. Facing your problems head on is a common practice in this brand of therapy.
They blurred the graphic on his Coca-Cola hoodie when he went into the secret room (but they missed it at 12:10) and then made him take it off to film the rest of the confrontation. Little details, at least we know the surprise is real 🤷🏻♀️
Helena Smagala Depends on how it was dried. If the grapes were dried naturally underneath the sunlight then they won’t have as much sugar as the ones you buy in supermarkets.
it’s fascinating watching this with a restrictive eating disorder. i wildly over exaggerate what i eat, everything feels like overeating which results in my under eating, i have the opposite problem so in a way i can completely understand why they think they are eating not a lot.
The fajita’s might have had ‘a lot of vegetables’, but they were swimming in sauce. And cheese has a lot of calories. I eat a lot of vegetables. But I never add sauce; I would rather have a bigger portion, than have a slightly nicer tasting meal XD I love having big meals, and have a full stomach, practically bursting :p
Saaaame. I always have huuuge portions of vegetables, without fatty sauce. I count calories and to me this is really worth it because I can eat a lot and get that feeling of a vERy full belly 😂
Caitlinmorrisxx Not really. She can always burn 100 calories easily during the day, doing her daily routine. Also there’s a thing called BMR, the amount of calories your body burns just existing and while at rest without physical exercise. Anyway it’s just 100 calories. Now if it was wayyy over then she would be gaining weight.
Phoebe The Great hmm I guess every body is different I wouldn’t know for short height I am tall and lose weight easily. I am also 6 days active. I eat 2000 calories a day, it’s my recommendation for 1lb weight loss per week. Myfitnesspal is the best lol
A show like this, but for spending. Secret spenders. For those who don't know where their money goes
Have you tried shop well for less? Not exactly the same but along those lines
@@lizanna6390 hadn't hear dof it. Will check it out. Thanks!
Yesss
Oh that would really expose my horrible secret shopping obsession
Spendaholics - it s a bit different premise. You can also see won t pay, we ll take it away for the money-debt-related issues
I love how pointless the secret room is 😂😂😂😂
Lol I hate it 😂
It's probably a good psychological shock factor to the people. They also may use it off camera too. And since the doctor needs all the food samples for the calorie metrics, they'd have it on hand anyway, I believe
the secret room kills me every episode hahahaha
Vishwas Singh
They actually first aired the show after season 3
Lol! Was thinking the same thing! All that build up behind secret walls at random places. Why not just say they are going to the lab to really see how much they ate??
These people are skinny legends compared to the people who appear on my 600lb life .
I think that's the good thing about the show, it encourages people who are in a similar situation to take a real look at their eating habits
Everybody in my 600lb life was once as light as them. If these two don’t stop they might need surgery too.
we don't want it to get as bad as the usa lmao
@Luc that's not true at all. A majority of fat people are already in the obese range, in both BMI and body fat percentage. A majority of the average weighted people are in the overweight BMI range.
Everything is bigger in Murica
i can never understand how people can eat an *obviously HUGE* meal and be so oblivious to it thinking they don't eat enough lol
Edellea their stomachs are so stretched out they don’t connect it in their heads.
i have realized fat people are mostly also dumb.
Katie B I was like this! I couldn’t understand. I didn’t get the whole notion of calories
@@desertrose00 That's sadly true... not all but most. It's why there are more fat northerners vs southerners. I couldn't believe the size of people when I went to b
Blackpool or Stoke (the latter isn't strictly north, but midlands is basically northern let's be honest..)
they’re too busy watching tv or talking while eating to pay attention
I dont get the experiment with the Plumbing company like it seems kind of pointless. Imagine everyday at work the canteen ONLY has bacon butty and then the one day you come in they suddenly have two new and very interesting dishes. Id try out the new meal just to give myself the option of choice instead of choosing the same sandwich i'll probably be getting for years to come from the canteen. Like wouldnt everyone???
Agreed
I'd say the result was good, even, because everyone picked the meal that looks (and is) healthier out of the two new options! If they'd framed it that way it would be cute
I read it more as, if you switched to the higher calorie meal, you might gain weight and not realize why, because you’re still eating at the same place every day.
I thought the same.
@@kimberlyoldschool But they didn’t know if this change of the menu was permanent or not. They took the opportunity while it was there. I don’t think the show did what you say they tried to or what they said they did.
"To put it into context, that's the same as these 236 marzipan figures of scooby doo with a chocolate chip nose."
Bhahaha
Haha
Is that funny
It doesn’t make any sense and then I wonder what they do the food..throw it?
Best. Comment. Ever 👏👏👏
They are such a lovely couple, he’s so in love with her 😭
I know right. Why cant all men just have eyes for their partner n love them just like that!
Jesus christ you are beautifull
@ema dayes And lets her deal with the child ....
Not cool.
ema dayes BENEFITS
I think it's a bit creepy that he has has his hands on her every single minute. Use some restraint in public, lad!
Other than that, all these UK people are so charming. I would love to meet any and all of them...so pleasant, compared to us "cheeky" Americans!
I love how affectionate and gentle he is with her. He's not complaining about her weight at all, but wants to lose weight to make sure he's still attractive to her. Very sweet.
he said he needed to lose weight to keep his job.
@@seidnettzueinander9122he said both
*’Allen doesn’t usually live with Emma’*
Now I know why they’re still in the honeymoon phase.
They don’t live together 24/7 😐
I heard that and was like, huh?
@@itzasweater9621 Yea was wondering how they afford all that, him being a doorman and her not working
I’ve probably watched this like 3 times and just now noticed that.... like, what?! They have a kid together!
that ring cant be real diamonds and sapphire, when she doesn't work...…...
@@NoName-my1vk I don't think the kid lives with them. Never once do they show the kid and she went out partying. Unless they gave the kid to a family member for the week I don't think they have their kid.
”I’ve tried every diet, everything, to lose weight” says someone each episode. And yet, no one came up with the idea of counting calories, the easiest way.
I know! 🤦♀️
There's a lot of tasting and snacking going on which they ignore, too.
And booze, or pop/juice.
Even counting calories, you've got to do it right.
So many people guesstimate way off and forget to log "small" things that they think are unimportant but add up.
...other than exercising and eating well 🤣
That’s what I’m doing and lost 8 pounds in 10days.
Shows like Secret Eaters, My 600lb life and Supersize vs. Superskiny really show that we need nutrition to be taught at schools. The sooner we start the more lifes will be improved.
In UK and USA for example because they don't have culture of food. Spanish ,Italians, Portuguese and Italiand we know hot to eat healthy.
Healthy eating should be taught in the home and reinforced at school. School is where students learn academics not behavior.
They DO teach nutrition in UK schools 😂 Its taught in primary school and again in secondary. Or was when I was a teen from 2006-2011
@@kristagrym we do have a good culture it’s just different from the Med countries. Back in the day it was cold and so we ate a lot of fat and meat and dairy to keep the fat on in the winter.
True
I love how she says, “I was hungry that day” and also says, “We generally have 4 each”. So, which is it... were you really hungry, or eating what you normally eat? ... or are you normally just really hungry? 🙃🧐
Hmm, yes, I will eat exactly as much as someone taller than I. Makes sense.
TY BROWN no kn
She felt embarrassed that’s why she said it. But 4 wraps is a bit too much in one sitting
@@shadowednightsky And a man, they burn way more calories.
@@taposherabeya7857 If she had two cold glasses of water (10 gulps each) and an apple an hour or 30 minutes before, I guarantee, it would have been about half that much.
im too early these shows arent the same without the comments to read while watching them
I'm saying
stay 😂😂😂
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Come back and rewatch. There's no way a person can remember this randomness of a show
This show actually helps so much if you have disordered thinking. People terrify me when they say “ I bare eat and I’m this size” and they’re like 15+ stone, but in reality they are actually gorging themselves and that explains the weight, it’s not just bad luck
People don’t realize that eating disorders don’t stop at anorexia and bulimia, and that when you have an ED your mind is completely off from reality which is why they don’t actually see or realize how badly/much they are eating.
Not always true..Plenty of skinny people EAT A LOT of food and find it difficult to gain weight. Metabolism also changes as you hit middle age..so many factors to look into. Please don’t assume that all overweight people are gluttons.
@@belindahutchinson5333your weight is calories in calories out. Metabolism doesn’t change it too much. You can’t be like 15 plus stone and say yeah I barely eat anything I survive off a lettuce leaf. That’s not how weight works. Weight isn’t difficult to control especially when you keep track of what you eat
And they’re not “ struggling with their weight “
This programme is brutal!!
‘Despite her best efforts, all she’s serving up is the bitter plate of dissapointment!’ 😂😂
The writing is SO good. "Surreptitious Scoffing" 💀
I love how she makes them say it. "Are you a secret eater?" It's like "my name is ______ and I'm an alcoholic"
I love the crazy equal in calorie food comparisons. 26 Chocolate eggs? I cant. 😂😂😂😂😂
Vi0let.ski3s
I suppose it helps visualise it 😂
I’d be like sweet. Can I eat the eggs now?
sometimes the comparison is shocking like that one time they compared someones amount of snack with 3 HUGGEE plates of fried chicken.. that one was good, i was shocked myself lol but most of the other ones are so unnecessary and dumb lmao
Ikr. Had to go eat a CCE for some reason 😆
Thats like half ur daily intake whut
Guy: So what’s your job
Other guy: Private Investigator
Guy: Oh..so you follow criminals and gather evidence
Other guy: Well... sort of but instead of evidence chocolate wrappers and I follow them down supermarket isles
Most PI's do stuff like catch cheating spouses, or bust fraudulant disability claimants.
The Best Private Investigators in the business... Yeah, because they're the only private investigators following people eating xD
The kebab hoagie will go down in Secret Eaters history along with the pie butty, the shepherd’s pie pizza and the bowl of Special K with half a pot of double cream 😂😂😂
Don't forget the porkpie sandwich or baby's head. Yes that's right, a porkpie in between two slices of bread squished up and devoured 😂
I still think about that bowl of cereal 😂 He put a tablespoon of jam in too and was convinced it was the breakfast of champions 😭
"But why am I fat?" They cried
Oh I want to see the one with the special k and cream now!!
Or 16 roast potatoes in one meal!
I am always stunned when someone overweight says they think they do not eat enough. Like, is there some kind of hope that that their bodies are special and they really are not eating enough?
My husband was not eating and was staying the same weight, he felt so sick that he couldn't physically eat, turned out he had an issue with his thyroid. Now he can eat again mostly and weight is falling off him....
@ron donnis do you know anything about thyroid?
@ron donnis I didn't say anything like that, Jesus wept, I was demonstrating that sometimes there can be a reason ...
If you’ve done a single course on diet and nutrition, clearly you know everything? As if. Thyroid, the master hormone regulator is actually extremely important for metabolic processes and can impact how the body uses food, stimulates hunger (hint, this is yet another hormone) and converts cholesterol into hormones. Leptin, grehlin, insluin all play a delicate balance in appetite and weight, screw one up and they are all a mess. If its just about eating calories, then how do you explain the weight gain caused by certain prescription medications? Why do people on steroids immediately gain weight? And certain antidepressants? This includes patients in confined settings who have no access to extra food? Maybe you need a course on biology and pharmacology to actually improve your knowledge of diet and nutrition. And that’s not even touching on the fact that everyone’s body releases differing amounts of insulin (the fat storage hormone) to different foods meaning a thin person without a metabolic disorder would release a small burst of insulin at the 45min mark post eating and it would quickly dissapate, yet someone else would generate 20x the same release that keeps going for two hours after a meal. This means that second person will continue to be storing all food intake as fat (removing glucose out of the circulatory system) and the other person would be using that meal for energy.
ron donnis the body clearly can produce its own energy - the process of gluconeogenesis is the very product allowing it to use components of the body (whether this be stored in the form of fat cells, amino acids, etc) to create glucose for use which is the basis of this. Otherwise the body would die when you stopped eating.
26?? I think weight makes people look older .
I've noticed they often seem to look older than they are on this show
Too much sugar and Alcohol, fatty food will give them skin problems too.
I'm the opposite, I think that lack of weight makes people look older, for some reason overweight people look younger to me but not obese people obviously
@@Anal_Flute both. they look overall older but fat fills up wrinkles...thin people look more wrinkly and bony like an old person
I look much younger with weight off. I think it's just an individual thing and genetics.
This show needs to come to the U.S.
Claire Futrell nah people would lie and hide things and then react horribly when confronted. Americans are too sensitive
@@angmeg4343 I'm American and I agree. This show wouldn't last a week, people would be screaming fat shaming from the roof tops.
Needs to come to Australia lol
would be more exciting though. brits are boring
Ang Meg I’m American and I agree 😂 it would be entertaining though
I think there are a lot of people who think that home cooked meals mean that the calories don't count as much, maybe because they don't have the label on the food saying specifically how many calories and how much fat there is etc
Eleanor Mason. Having 4 fajitas is pure greed!!
I would agree but clearly people don't read labels anyway.
@@bzebee5979 2 is definitely enough
It's not even home cooked meal in strict sense if one ends up using mayo, sauces, readymade gravy base etc.... From scratch should be considered home cooked meal.
A lot of people are wrong. I was once one of them, saying it was because of "hormones and genetics".
One friend challenged me: "write down every morsel of food you put in your gullet for a week, and you'll see it's purely calories in vs calories out".
That night I made spaghetti. With the fatty minced meat, the cheese, and the big helping of pasta it came out to 2200 kCal. At the end of the week I averaged 3,700 kCal per day.
I, too, thought I was smarter than the calories. I wasn't
"I've tried absolutely everything to lose weight" *Proceeds to eat like a 250lb male wrestler*
Also why would you not clean your apartment if you know it’s gonna be all over the tv? Like at least pick up some of the junk off the floor 🤷🏻♀️
Imagine they probably DID clean some wouldn't you think? So what it looked like before was probably horrendous.
Yes! I am shocked a lot of people has this mess at home! Eating on sofa, on the floor.. 😱
Kat Fairbanks 😂😂😂😂😂
Exactly. Stop with the takeaways, save the money for a vacuum cleaner. That poor baby is going to be crawling on that grubby carpet.
@@RetroRegan suggest a rug cleaner or dark brown rug if it won't come clean.
Eat at a table, please. It's just gross to eat on the floor.
They seem like they genuinely care for each other. I love how he comforts and soothe her during the secret footage reveal.
They literally make me feel so single. I love there love so much tho 😂
I appreciate that, for once, this couple seems to be honest with themselves and make relatively little excuses for their behaviour. They admitted to eating fast food before the cameras started filming, and they seemed more than willing to identify their errors, take the feedback and make changes. I also liked how their food diaries were more or less normal, compared to some people on this show who claim to eat 1000 calories/day. Wishing them the best.
Can we stop for a moment and appreciate how the show reaches out to its audience and give nutritional advice througj the habitual examples of the featured secret eaters?
Yes the amounts they eat is helpful to see but some of the advice-drink diet cola instead of regular cola. Hmm that stuff is full of awful chemicals and all that gas. I think these days we gotten the message about drinking water. Easy for me though I hate the stuff
@@lizzie1897at the end of the day though, the bigger and more urgent problem is the person’s weight. so if diet soda helps you maintain your diet (which it does in a lot of cases-soda is addicting!), it will do more good than harm. that being said they should advise to eventually work on reducing ur intake
Regular vs. diet cola: 'I thought it was just a false thing to sell more, 'it's got less in it' "
IT'S ON THE LABEL. None of these people read the labels and then they act like it's secret information.
Emma looks as though she is absolutely going to burst. She isn't built to be carrying that much weight, her hands are so swollen! I hope she lost the weight, she looks dangerously big for her frame.
she's about to split like a hot sausage
I weigh heavier than her but if you look at me you wouldn’t think that. When they said she was 15 stones I was like impossible!!
Bro I was build to be chubby.
I always will be chubby lol
@@moonlight2197 i think compared to her height her weight is wayyy overblown
@@blubbleebubbllleess4939 No one is "built to be chubby".
It's just a question of changing the habits that made you chubby - permanently.
It's hard but so worth it.
They could still eat their fajitas, just cut them down with a side of steamed veggies and salsa! Only eating fajitas for dinner without any textural context for the meal would be very easy to eat in large quantities.
"I add raisins to curry, I mean how much healthier can it get?"
Fml where to begin with that one 🤣🤣🤣
I laughed so hard 🤣🤣🤣
unbelievable🤣
I have never ever ever added raisins to ANY curry (I’m Indian)…she is a loon.
“What would make this curry taste better? Oh raisins!”
- Said Nobody ever
"Can I have a cuddle?" - they are actually really cute together.
@@myspringtime8592 his mom’s house
I'm surprised they don't live together, he should've brought a table and a couple of chairs when he came over 😂 they are a really cute couple though.
I was a little confused by the fact that they don't live together? They seemed like a married couple, they seem to love each other a lot!
she might be getting single parent payments? I know quite a few people that are dating but claim single parent payments
@@rl7090 shes not a great look for single parents
Probably for benefit reasons
Maybe it has to due with his work situation?
As long as I home cook my bucket of lard and throw some veg on it, it must be healfy!
Kiyoka Tamesue 😂😂😂😂
LMFAO 😂😂
I really do love and appreciate his show. It is very insightful and I LOVE Anna's sense of humor. I watch the reruns over and over again. And, I do take full responsibility for my eating habits. I've lost about 13 pounds since watching this show.
how the hell do you eat 4 fajitas and then think you eat small portions???
Food addiction. Fat, sugar, salt makes you eat more and not get full. For some people it's combinations of things: fat AND sugar...
You really can't figure that out?
Yeah, I thought 1 fajita is the norm?
Looking at him saying 'how can you eat that it's disgusting' ' I told you it's bad for you' but was filmed eating Mcdonalds and the rest.. Nothing like a high horse is there 😂😂
He is so gentle with her stroking her hair, the cuddles defo in love x
I love the presenter of this she's so iconic 😂
it's so funny, it always makes me laugh because she's like "you don't know why your overweight okay" "you think you should be skinny okay" and then she shows them the evidence and laughs
she is SHADY
The cat sees everything
Two cats, actually.
all these people are like "i've done EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to eat healthily and i JUST CAN'T lose weight" but they've never even counted the calories or amounts of what they eat, which is the simplest way to lose weight. lol
Everyone know that Free food does't have calorie
Duh!! Common sense 😹😹
Dietlynn
Eve Exley Hahahaha weightwatcherlynn
Nice, thank you for licensing and uploading these Secret Eaters episodes, they're really helping me motivate myself to eat healthier! :D
How the cat is running behind him as he received the hoagie 🤣
ichwillein Boot saw it! Thought he was also happy for the package
Wait a moment, they are a couple, have a daughter, supposedly are very in love, but they don't live together?! WTF!!!
Also, when you are pregnant you don't need to eat for 2 people, you need to eat for two (you and the baby).... the baby doesn't need 2000 calories each day....duh
Benefits
Yeah I don't get that at all. I guess it must be to do with benefits, cuz why would they both pay for their own place if they could share.
I suppose the council pays her rent and the guy lives with his parents or something. It makes me sad, cuz I would've loved to have a kid at that age but I couldn't afford it.
Not everybody wants to live together and there is nothing wrong with that.
@@SnowWhitewho how she supporting herself tho? Being a stay at home mom and everything. I'd be scrambling about to make ends meet if I had a child and live on me own
i assumed her daughter was from a previous relationship, but i could be wrong
Why are they eating on the floor with the sauce pan and cheese on the floor omg 😔😔😔
no room for a table and chairs? especially with a child
@@harkerx9029 I dont have a table or chairs but eat on my lap on my SOFA!!!!!
It's not like they put it on the carpet?
Zoe D oh😳 I didn’t see that
And packets of tobacco with a child around
I wish they’d vacuumed the floors. Eating dinner on the carpet is different.
Eh, they’re not eating off the carpet 🤷🏻♀️😂😂
The floors were pretty gross
@@corgisrule21 15:15 they are sitting on the floor, eating that stuff right out of the box with a cat runnimh around them.
@@dude988 Yuck. You know where the cat goes...
bruh without these extra segments like "glutton nation" the episode would only take about 15-20 minutes lmfao
I skip them bits and watch at x1.75 speed 😂
I think that's a huge thing though, when Emma said she didn't cut out anything, just portioned better. Eating what you want is fine, so long as you stick to what you need to intake for the days as opposed to just eating mindlessly. When you have a takeaway or plan one, just remember that you're having it and make sure you don't pig out and eat less calorie-dense foods the rest of the day. It's takeaway day in my house tomorrow. Lunch and breakfast will be small because I want Chinese and I won't eat it all but because I don't want to gain weight and I want something unhealthy, I need to be smart about it.
Totally OK with that. I indulge in fast Food sometimes too, But Just sometimes. I do cooking, i do a Bit of workout and hiking. ItS much about portioning and specific meal Times to keep.
If I were going to be on a tv show filming my own, I would make more of an effort to clean the area being filmed. Also, are coffee tables or dining tables difficult to find in Scotland? How can they eat on the dirty floor every night?!?
Justin Nathaniel such a gross living situation, seems like they’re slobs all around
they said at the beginning that they don’t live together. her place was probably just more fit for her and the kid so having another person made it cluttered. we don’t have the full picture
I was a secret eater. Or maybe not secret…but mindless. I ate healthy foods, but was grazing and put on weight. I started eating one meal a day so I could know I was not mindlessly eating. I eat a very balanced large meal and the weight is coming off. I think for people who do this, it can really help to try one meal a day or a very strict type of eating window of 4-8 hours. Everyone tells you to eat lots of small meals, but this was a disaster for me. I had no true idea how much I was eating.
SCOFFLAND
HELFY
Everybody knows how charming are the yankees accents...yup
1:48
Cat: I know the truth...
Dude this show is great, I like how they're actually helping these people.
It’s hard to believe that he didn’t know that there is a huge difference between DIET and full sugar coke lmao
Plus diet coke tastes better anyway
@@trappnest4490 hallelujah, amen! I think I'm addicted to diet coke😅 LMAO
Diet may be less cals but it’s actually worse for u if u look into the science
@@melaniequai1504 Aspartame is the most studied food product on Earth but somehow this myth keeps circulating. Just stop omg.
Annie B what myth???
I would not weigh myself wearing metal chains..lol
Sandra C Lol I don’t even with clothes, seriously they add several pounds on.
And I'm pretty sure they ate or drank before weighing in
When we're talking about 230lb ppl wanting to lose 70lbs, a few pounds isn't a big deal. It's not a competitive weight loss.
@@chrisjeremy8109 Bull. Sorry. Try again.
Clothes don't add "several pounds." See for yourself. :)
Great video! I’ve lost 111lbs. It’s a difficult road.
Congratulations! You are doing great!
Wow well done 😊👏🏻👏🏻
Congrats girl.
Wow amazing keep it up
She's trying to eat an apple 😂😂 you don't fool us.
Ahaah my boyfriend watched 2 minutes of this show and said.. Ok I'll do 50 push ups right now.. 😂😂
This show is amazing.. Keeps you right on track 😁😁
How bad is the health education in the UK? All these people have such crazy ideas about food. "I thought if it was homecooked it was less calories!"
Well not if your homecooking uses a stick of butter and a pound of cheese. Like, how ignorant can you be
Yes it's bad..
I don't remember having any nutrition education at school but fortunately I took a nutrition course willingly as an adult and learnt a lot then.
It's often about the way food is dealt with in the home. I used to teach healthy eating in primary schools. Then you would have children who were given pastries for breakfast and a Pot Noodle for dinner. They would bring in lunch boxes full of crisps and chocolate biscuits. In one job we tried to work with the families to encourage healthy eating, trying to support cooking with healthy food etc and we had families where the adults weren't interested and where they drank energy drinks all day and McDonald's in the evening. You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
@@carolynjanesutton4932 Teach the kids how to grow the plants. Then, it's very likely they'll eat the food you maje.
My favorite is that one lady (who didn't do the final weigh in) that said "I was told salads are healthy and you could eat as much as you wanted." Meanwhile, she tops all of her salads with half a container of mayo.
I just love this show! common it is amazing watching people eat crazy amounts of food and realize it and it also helps you to check what you are eating.
Love it!
Why do almost all of the secret eaters people eat in front of the tv? No wonder they eat more
We don't tend to eat dinner around tables in the UK, bar perhaps the Sunday lunch, holidays and special occasions. We tend to live in smaller houses, by virtue of that a dedicated dining room is not a common thing. I only have a six seat table in the garage to be brought out when the need arises for example.
@@TheMaximus997 thanks for enlightening me. Didnt know that. In germany people usually have dinner tables in their living rooms. 😊
Ive noticed in the past few years that more people tend to eat in front of the tv though. Prefer watching tv instead of talking to each other i guess.
I'm in UK and we Always eat around a table as a family, as does pretty much everyone I know 😅
we don't all have the space for tables, especially in tiny flats
Kloetenhenne it’s much nicer to eat looking at the TV than looking at the walls. In the other hand, in a family with kids, it’s better to eat and talk to each other without the TV on
anyone else enjoy the cut away shots of the cats? hahah
Secret eaters staff: what did you eat today?
Them: half a Brussels sprout.
Staff: we have film of you eating a candy bar, an ice cream sandwich, a bag of Doritos, an entire cake and a bowl of warm lard with extra butter.
Them: yeah but that's all healthy stuff!
Edit: apparently manners are a thing of the past. Smh.
So cute, when Alan said: “I’m scared” and preparing like for a bungee jump before the final weight check….😂😆
their relationship makes my heart melt
I'm 5'9 and was about 97kgs a while back, something more than what Emma was weighing. The weight was taking a huge toll on me despite my height. Emma looks 5'2, idk how she was handling all that weight. I'm now 80something kgs and still working to shed off some more. I really hope she managed to lose it all.
Poor Alan stood there the whole time holding her hugging her hiding her face when she was embarassed and the moment they showed his videos she joined in with making fun of him telling him he’s a liar 😦 I hope Alan does better all the way around in his life we’re all rooting for him
Anyone else work-out while watching these? Is that bad? I find it motivating because it's a good reminder that the human body was made to move.
I’ve seen this one multiple times : *sits patiently*
This is the last one sadly, there are 3 seasons with 8 episodes each.
I need more. Can’t watch the seasons over and over again..
He was comforting her the whole time, how cute❤️
Oh God, Emma was so gorgeous when she was slimmer. I hope she gets to her healthy weight.
Hoagie in USA is a sandwich on a bun, generally containing meat, cheese, Mayo, and a bit of toppings such as lettuce, tomato, onion. A Scottish hoagie is a wrap on a chapati with fries/chips, some sort of meat and softened/melted cheese.
I live in Scotland and a hoagie is a long roll
I think losing 8 of about 220 pounds might not qualify as a return to hourglass figure. It seems like more the difference between "definitely cannot get pants on" and "can almost get pants on."
This is the sweetest episode I have seen 😂😫❤️
Don't have soda at all, man. Why do people still drink soda? I don't get it.
Coke Zero actually has no calories (less than 4kcal per 100ml is allowed to call something calorie free) so it gives you a different taste every now and then. I do agree that it should be limited to like, 1 glass per day. If you are thirsty, just get water or tea. :)
I know, I find thet fizzy water had helped me overcome my addiction to soft drinks. I don't drink any sort of pop at all, TG.
It's all good. We're all supposed to be different and like different things.
I mean, sometimes I like a really cold, fizzy, soda, but I consider it food. If I'm going to have pretzels and Coke as a snack, it's a small glass of Coke and a few pretzels, not a big serving of both.
Honestly its delicious, its also addictive...same way people still smoke.
Are we all just gonna ignore the fact that she adds RAISINS to CURRY? 😳
Lydia Micha : We South Africans add raisins to curry on occasion, so it didn't look unusual to me.
Golden raisins in curry is delicious! :)
Or apple 🤗
Lydia Micha she did , no no no that should be illegal
It's a thing
You can see he adores her 😭 They're so sweet.
"I've done everything humanly possible" 🤣
I dont care what anyone says: seeing the caloire equivalent really beats it in their heads how bad the food is. It's easy to forget how bad something like wine and sauces can be til you see that you could've just had 2 small cheese pizzas instead of the " healthy" meal.
Edit: something to add as a casual researcher on the internet. This show is, in all technically, exposure therapy. Facing your problems head on is a common practice in this brand of therapy.
They blurred the graphic on his Coca-Cola hoodie when he went into the secret room (but they missed it at 12:10) and then made him take it off to film the rest of the confrontation. Little details, at least we know the surprise is real 🤷🏻♀️
Wow true ...amazing attention to detail😮
did anyone else see her put rasins in with the peppers in the beginning??? like what
Curry
Lmao yeah and she tried to pull it off like "It's fruit its healthy!"... but dried fruit has a LOT of sugar!!!
Helena Smagala
Depends on how it was dried. If the grapes were dried naturally underneath the sunlight then they won’t have as much sugar as the ones you buy in supermarkets.
Theodora Lazy didn’t actually know that but of course it makes sense! Thank you ☺️
Rasins in a curry is more common then you think especially in proper Indian culture uk curry’s don’t count lol there not authentic
Lol, this show has much of the same background music as Kitchen Nightmares, I keep expecting Gordon Ramsey to show up 🎶😆
It's RAW
The state of their house! 🤮 Why are they sitting on the floor instead of the sofa?!
Everything aside their relationship is sooo cute lol
it’s fascinating watching this with a restrictive eating disorder. i wildly over exaggerate what i eat, everything feels like overeating which results in my under eating, i have the opposite problem so in a way i can completely understand why they think they are eating not a lot.
The fajita’s might have had ‘a lot of vegetables’, but they were swimming in sauce. And cheese has a lot of calories. I eat a lot of vegetables. But I never add sauce; I would rather have a bigger portion, than have a slightly nicer tasting meal XD I love having big meals, and have a full stomach, practically bursting :p
Saaaame. I always have huuuge portions of vegetables, without fatty sauce. I count calories and to me this is really worth it because I can eat a lot and get that feeling of a vERy full belly 😂
Everything imaginable to lose weight doesn’t include fast food, cokes and no exercise.
if my diet was this couple's I wouldn't be laughing..I'd be crying...crying HARD.
The subjects who get caught losing weight during surveillance are always just delightful to speculate on.
this show always makes me want to eat the most unhealthy things...
They both seem like such nice people. I hope they succeed
Emma’s fingers are like mini chipalatas!!!
2100 calories for a woman are already a bit much if she doesn't exercise.
Bobs Uruncle well to maintain the weight a woman has to eat 2000 so 100 over isn’t that much of a difference
100 calories is still more than what she would need and overtime that would lead to gaining fat
Caitlinmorrisxx Not really. She can always burn 100 calories easily during the day, doing her daily routine. Also there’s a thing called BMR, the amount of calories your body burns just existing and while at rest without physical exercise. Anyway it’s just 100 calories. Now if it was wayyy over then she would be gaining weight.
@@ritabos7162 it depends on her height. I'm short so, factoring in moderate exercise, I can't eat more the 1700 calories or I'll gain weight.
Phoebe The Great hmm I guess every body is different I wouldn’t know for short height I am tall and lose weight easily. I am also 6 days active. I eat 2000 calories a day, it’s my recommendation for 1lb weight loss per week. Myfitnesspal is the best lol
The PIs are having so much fun it's adorable
When she greeted " Hell O ladies" like Lucifer Morningstar 🤗
I love this devotion to each other and to being healthy
I like to watch this in the sofa with snacks and i dont feel bad....
I can never understand why they call it "full fat" Coke. There's no fat in Coke...they clearly mean sugar, but then why not just say that?
"I think that I eat less than I should"
🤣the sheer amount of denial