Tom Kerridge

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Has a lucrative summer festival series for middle class spenders. Calls it Pub in the Park and the likes of Kaiser chiefs, Sophie Ellis Bextor provide the stage shows. Apart from the £60 ticket you pay a lot more for small plates of food in tents on paper plates. He knows how to relieve folk of their pennies does Tom.

My wife has been a few times, and speaks highly of it, but you've described it to a tee there.

This year local lad Tommy Banks (Black Swan at Oldstead, Roots in York and Abbey Inn at Byland Abbey) is participating, and so there's obviously some mileage in it for chefs to schlep halfway down the country to cook.

 

[sherlock]

All credit to him for giving up the booze and losing a huge amount of weight

 

[Zoophonic]

All credit to him for giving up the booze and losing a huge amount of weight

Indeed and having visited his pub in Marlow last year he relieved me of weight in my wallet too. His Sunday lunch 3 course offering is £175 pp without drinks.

 

[viv_andersons_nana]

All credit to him for giving up the booze and losing a huge amount of weight

I don’t want to make this all about myself but the amount of weight he lost is absolutely remarkable - I lost roughly the same amount of weight and went from over 20st to 11st between the ages of 22 and 26.

It was actually really easy to do. When you’re that big, any ‘healthy changes’ will see the first couple of stone drop off and then you feel good and it becomes fairly straightforward. There’s a Kevin Bridges routine where he talks about his own weight issues and weight loss, saying he spent his teenage years eating “anything that was yeller…” and mine was the same. Chips, fishfingers, crispy pancakes, waffles. Anything that came out of the freezer and turned yellow when you cooked it. Plus biscuits, sh*t bread and butter, frozen pizza. And then I discovered the Big Tute and takeaways and cheap lager.

It was only when I moved out I started losing weight. It wasn’t even a conscious decision at first. One day my mate said I looked like I’d lost weight and I then noticed some of my T-shirts were hanging slightly different. I realised I’d learned to cook fresh food, curries, loads of fresh vegetables, was eating yoghurt and fish all the time. There was no takeaways and I was walking from my house in Heaton to Northumbria Uni every day. And it just continued from there.

I bet he was the same. The first two stones just disappear. You don’t even have to really try. And it’s once you’ve noticed a small change in your body that you decide to keep it up. I always think lots of people who would like to lose weight are sort of convinced it’s really difficult by people and companies that have a vested interest in making you think it’s nigh-on impossible without their help, and without pushing yourself to the limit.

 

[sherlock]

I don’t want to make this all about myself but the amount of weight he lost is absolutely remarkable - I lost roughly the same amount of weight and went from over 20st to 11st between the ages of 22 and 26.

It was actually really easy to do. When you’re that big, any ‘healthy changes’ will see the first couple of stone drop off and then you feel good and it becomes fairly straightforward. There’s a Kevin Bridges routine where he talks about his own weight issues and weight loss, saying he spent his teenage years eating “anything that was yeller…” and mine was the same. Chips, fishfingers, crispy pancakes, waffles. Anything that came out of the freezer and turned yellow when you cooked it. Plus biscuits, sh*t bread and butter, frozen pizza. And then I discovered the Big Tute and takeaways and cheap lager.

It was only when I moved out I started losing weight. It wasn’t even a conscious decision at first. One day my mate said I looked like I’d lost weight and I then noticed some of my T-shirts were hanging slightly different. I realised I’d learned to cook fresh food, curries, loads of fresh vegetables, was eating yoghurt and fish all the time. There was no takeaways and I was walking from my house in Heaton to Northumbria Uni every day. And it just continued from there.

I bet he was the same. The first two stones just disappear. You don’t even have to really try. And it’s once you’ve noticed a small change in your body that you decide to keep it up. I always think lots of people who would like to lose weight are sort of convinced it’s really difficult by people and companies that have a vested interest in making you think it’s nigh-on impossible without their help, and without pushing yourself to the limit.

It's keeping it off that's the challenge though, and he's done that too.

I also have massive respect for people who give up drinking, especially when they have been drinking at such levels as he did. That won't have been easy at all.

 

[viv_andersons_nana]

It's keeping it off that's the challenge though, and he's done that too.

I also have massive respect for people who give up drinking, especially when they have been drinking at such levels as he did. That won't have been easy at all.

The volume of drink he was putting away is absolutely mad. I listened to the podcast yesterday evening and he was asked how he isn’t dead. He was doing it for years and years but stopped completely when he turned 40.

 

[Nano]

I don’t want to make this all about myself but the amount of weight he lost is absolutely remarkable - I lost roughly the same amount of weight and went from over 20st to 11st between the ages of 22 and 26.

It was actually really easy to do. When you’re that big, any ‘healthy changes’ will see the first couple of stone drop off and then you feel good and it becomes fairly straightforward. There’s a Kevin Bridges routine where he talks about his own weight issues and weight loss, saying he spent his teenage years eating “anything that was yeller…” and mine was the same. Chips, fishfingers, crispy pancakes, waffles. Anything that came out of the freezer and turned yellow when you cooked it. Plus biscuits, sh*t bread and butter, frozen pizza. And then I discovered the Big Tute and takeaways and cheap lager.

It was only when I moved out I started losing weight. It wasn’t even a conscious decision at first. One day my mate said I looked like I’d lost weight and I then noticed some of my T-shirts were hanging slightly different. I realised I’d learned to cook fresh food, curries, loads of fresh vegetables, was eating yoghurt and fish all the time. There was no takeaways and I was walking from my house in Heaton to Northumbria Uni every day. And it just continued from there.

I bet he was the same. The first two stones just disappear. You don’t even have to really try. And it’s once you’ve noticed a small change in your body that you decide to keep it up. I always think lots of people who would like to lose weight are sort of convinced it’s really difficult by people and companies that have a vested interest in making you think it’s nigh-on impossible without their help, and without pushing yourself to the limit.

Yes, must be easier to lose weight if you can reduce your daily calorie intake by 3,000 calories just by stopping drinking 20 cans of beer per day without even changing what you eat.

If I want to lose weight I have to drop to about 1,500 calories per day (from 2,200) so it can be challenging but if you are on 6k a day then you can drop to 2.5k, which is quite a lot, and still lose weight.

I've had times in my life when I've gained weight and it is so easy and I could have just continued. The food that is really bad for you is really easy, and cheap, to eat and you can add so many calories with things like biscuits, crisps and fizzy drinks without trying.

 

[Nero]

I don’t want to make this all about myself but the amount of weight he lost is absolutely remarkable - I lost roughly the same amount of weight and went from over 20st to 11st between the ages of 22 and 26.

It was actually really easy to do. When you’re that big, any ‘healthy changes’ will see the first couple of stone drop off and then you feel good and it becomes fairly straightforward. There’s a Kevin Bridges routine where he talks about his own weight issues and weight loss, saying he spent his teenage years eating “anything that was yeller…” and mine was the same. Chips, fishfingers, crispy pancakes, waffles. Anything that came out of the freezer and turned yellow when you cooked it. Plus biscuits, sh*t bread and butter, frozen pizza. And then I discovered the Big Tute and takeaways and cheap lager.

It was only when I moved out I started losing weight. It wasn’t even a conscious decision at first. One day my mate said I looked like I’d lost weight and I then noticed some of my T-shirts were hanging slightly different. I realised I’d learned to cook fresh food, curries, loads of fresh vegetables, was eating yoghurt and fish all the time. There was no takeaways and I was walking from my house in Heaton to Northumbria Uni every day. And it just continued from there.

I bet he was the same. The first two stones just disappear. You don’t even have to really try. And it’s once you’ve noticed a small change in your body that you decide to keep it up. I always think lots of people who would like to lose weight are sort of convinced it’s really difficult by people and companies that have a vested interest in making you think it’s nigh-on impossible without their help, and without pushing yourself to the limit.

Good going that. Plenty of others would benefit from such an approach. Easier said than done of course.

 

[viv_andersons_nana]

Yes, must be easier to lose weight if you can reduce your daily calorie intake by 3,000 calories just by stopping drinking 20 cans of beer per day without even changing what you eat.

If I want to lose weight I have to drop to about 1,500 calories per day (from 2,200) so it can be challenging but if you are on 6k a day then you can drop to 2.5k, which is quite a lot, and still lose weight.

I've had times in my life when I've gained weight and it is so easy and I could have just continued. The food that is really bad for you is really easy, and cheap, to eat and you can add so many calories with things like biscuits, crisps and fizzy drinks without trying.

Biscuits are my biggest issue even to this day. They are so entrained into my brain, I think about buying and eating them way more than I imagine is typical or even healthy. We can’t have them in the house.

I can see a time in the next 5-10 years when they’re all but banned because there’s no food in them. There seems to be a lot of reports and studies into these kinds of industrial-scale, ultra-processed foods gaining traction at the moment. It’s been coming for years. Some of these things are as bad for your health as drinking and smoking.

 

[sherlock]

I can see a time in the next 5-10 years when they’re all but banned because there’s no food in them

Ban biscuits on that basis and there are dozens of other things that would have to go with them.

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

see a time in the next5-10 years when they’re all but banned because there’s no food in them. There seems to be a lot of reports and studies into these kinds of industrial-scale, ultra-processed foods gaining traction at the moment. It’s been coming for years. Some of these things are as bad for your health as drinking and smoking.

Over my cold, dead fat body!

 

[AytonMews]

No way we’re banning bourbon bickies just because some greedy fcukers can’t say no!

 

[JackG]

Biscuits are my biggest issue even to this day. They are so entrained into my brain, I think about buying and eating them way more than I imagine is typical or even healthy. We can’t have them in the house.

I can see a time in the next 5-10 years when they’re all but banned because there’s no food in them. There seems to be a lot of reports and studies into these kinds of industrial-scale, ultra-processed foods gaining traction at the moment. It’s been coming for years. Some of these things are as bad for your health as drinking and smoking.

I can't remember the last time I opened a packet without eating all of them. No biscuit barrels in my house!

 

[Nano]

When I was a student I used to have a cup of tea just so I had something for my biscuits. I'd eat a full pack in one sitting and there'd be barely a swig of tea left. They were the 20p custard creams or bourbons and I'd buy about 8 packs a week.

If I didn't have the shame from my wife judging me I think I'd still do the same. Sometimes she just has half a biscuit and I don't know how anyone has the discipline to do that. I'm proud of myself if I only have 6.

 

[El Guapo]

Lost 12 stone.

He’s done well the lad

 

[viv_andersons_nana]

When I was a student I used to have a cup of tea just so I had something for my biscuits. I'd eat a full pack in one sitting and there'd be barely a swig of tea left. They were the 20p custard creams or bourbons and I'd buy about 8 packs a week.

If I didn't have the shame from my wife judging me I think I'd still do the same. Sometimes she just has half a biscuit and I don't know how anyone has the discipline to do that. I'm proud of myself if I only have 6.

That’s eerily similar to my behaviour between the ages of 14 and 20, 21. I could eat a whole packet within 7 or 8 minutes. I heard a Nick Frost interview recently where he was saying that when he was a teenager he would go downstairs when everyone was in bed and take a full packet of digestives out of the cupboard, wrap it in a tea towel so the packet didn’t crinkle or rustle as he took them upstairs, and then he’d eat the whole lot in bed. And I thought, I used to do EXACTLY the same thing. Literally wrapping packets of biscuits in T-shirts and towels so nobody heard and then whole lot. I don’t know how I justified to myself that my parents would obviously notice the things missing though.

It’s an illness. It must be. There’s a thing about biscuits containing a chemical that ‘tricks’ your brain into thinking it’s getting protein, but that protein never comes so it tells you to eat more biscuits and more of that chemical. I haven’t looked into it very deeply but my mother-in-law was talking about it last week.

I thought I had it fully under control for years but then one day, about ten years ago, I bought a packet of chocolate digestives and they were all gone in less than 10 minutes. It’s like alcohol or smoking in that whatever that chemical in biscuits is, whatever it does to my brain, I just can’t have it in my life. It sounds dramatic but it’s completely how I feel about it. It’s genuinely dangerous.

 

[JackG]

That’s eerily similar to my behaviour between the ages of 14 and 20, 21. I could eat a whole packet within 7 or 8 minutes. I heard a Nick Frost interview recently where he was saying that when he was a teenager he would go downstairs when everyone was in bed and take a full packet of digestives out of the cupboard, wrap it in a tea towel so the packet didn’t crinkle or rustle as he took them upstairs, and then he’d eat the whole lot in bed. And I thought, I used to do EXACTLY the same thing. Literally wrapping packets of biscuits in T-shirts and towels so nobody heard and then whole lot. I don’t know how I justified to myself that my parents would obviously notice the things missing though.

It’s an illness. It must be. There’s a thing about biscuits containing a chemical that ‘tricks’ your brain into thinking it’s getting protein, but that protein never comes so it tells you to eat more biscuits and more of that chemical. I haven’t looked into it very deeply but my mother-in-law was talking about it last week.

I thought I had it fully under control for years but then one day, about ten years ago, I bought a packet of chocolate digestives and they were all gone in less than 10 minutes. It’s like alcohol or smoking in that whatever that chemical in biscuits is, whatever it does to my brain, I just can’t have it in my life. It sounds dramatic but it’s completely how I feel about it. It’s genuinely dangerous.

I suspect the chemical is just sucrose/sugar. It causes dopamine rushes and addiction, like many other drugs. Here's a paper:

Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake​

 

[Nano]

That’s eerily similar to my behaviour between the ages of 14 and 20, 21. I could eat a whole packet within 7 or 8 minutes. I heard a Nick Frost interview recently where he was saying that when he was a teenager he would go downstairs when everyone was in bed and take a full packet of digestives out of the cupboard, wrap it in a tea towel so the packet didn’t crinkle or rustle as he took them upstairs, and then he’d eat the whole lot in bed. And I thought, I used to do EXACTLY the same thing. Literally wrapping packets of biscuits in T-shirts and towels so nobody heard and then whole lot. I don’t know how I justified to myself that my parents would obviously notice the things missing though.

It’s an illness. It must be. There’s a thing about biscuits containing a chemical that ‘tricks’ your brain into thinking it’s getting protein, but that protein never comes so it tells you to eat more biscuits and more of that chemical. I haven’t looked into it very deeply but my mother-in-law was talking about it last week.

I thought I had it fully under control for years but then one day, about ten years ago, I bought a packet of chocolate digestives and they were all gone in less than 10 minutes. It’s like alcohol or smoking in that whatever that chemical in biscuits is, whatever it does to my brain, I just can’t have it in my life. It sounds dramatic but it’s completely how I feel about it. It’s genuinely dangerous.

Dipping them in tea/coffee also makes them feel like you aren't even eating them. It's almost a liquid by that point and you can drink a lot of liquid easily.

Luckily I've moved on from that behaviour and I now just eat spoonfuls of biscoff spread instead.

 

[viv_andersons_nana]

Dipping them in tea/coffee also makes them feel like you aren't even eating them. It's almost a liquid by that point and you can drink a lot of liquid easily.

Luckily I've moved on from that behaviour and I now just eat spoonfuls of biscoff spread instead.

With chocolate digestives, I tended not to dip them in anything. I would just eat them straight from the packet. There were times when I would take one out, eat it whole and then do that continuously until the packet was gone. And then I’d open the second packet and do the same thing again. Whenever I’m shopping in Aldi I always glance at the double pack of McVities chocolate digestives for £2.65. Not giving in and buying them is an ongoing dialogue I’m having in my own head that can last for 10-15 minutes.

My other half has absolutely no understanding of it. At all. I’m only actually understanding how ridiculous my relationship with biscuits is by writing out these posts. I remember the times I’d get acid reflux, when it would actually wake me up during the night, the burning and the horrible taste. I have to try and summon those feelings whenever I’m tempted to put some in my basket. I do sort of think of them as drugs sometimes tbh.

 

[Unravel_Morrison]

Not sure if this has been posted already so apologies if so. I think I’ve read a few people on here saying they like his work. I saw this morning he’s on the latest episode of Grace Dent’s Comfort Eating podcast.

He says he used to drink a pint of negroni - A PINT! - followed by two pints of lager, then he’d go out and drink 20 pints of lager, two more pints of negroni AND a pint of gin.

A PINT OF NEGRONI!

Jesus Christ.

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