Secret Eaters?

BR3ANDA

I've been watching a series called Secret Eaters, its really quite eye opening, with tips on how to control your eating habits, here's the link to the full season...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL85231D0F6E025D19

Blayzn10Tiffers

I cant YouTube, whats the scoop on this???"

pamelad77

It's a series that was run but either BBC or ITV where they take a family who say they CAN'T lose weight, must be medical etc etc and then secretly film them to find out what they have been eating.
Normally each person keeps a diary before hand where they think they're eating about 1800 cals a day, but in reality they're normally eating more like 3500. All those extra bits they didn't count soon add up!
Then they get put on a proper diet plan, and guess what? Suddenly they're not medical miracles after all and they lose weight when they're eating less!

ebony__

Oh I do want to watch this sounds good .

Blayzn10Tiffers

It's a series that was run but either BBC or ITV where they take a family who say they CAN'T lose weight, must be medical etc etc and then secretly film them to find out what they have been eating.
Normally each person keeps a diary before hand where they think they're eating about 1800 cals a day, but in reality they're normally eating more like 3500. All those extra bits they didn't count soon add up!
Then they get put on a proper diet plan, and guess what? Suddenly they're not medical miracles after all and they lose weight when they're eating less!

Interesting. I think this is typical of about everyone that is overweight. We find EXCUSES why we cant do what we NEED to do. Being overweight is embarrassing and not really socially acceptable. Its a tough thing to accept when you havent paid attention for years and all of a sudden you are in an uncomfortable place. I have to say I speak from experience on this one...

apocalypsepwnie

bump for watching laters. I LOVE the sound of this.

BR3ANDA

Its really informative, for instance, the people who "think" they eat well during the week, will splurge on the weekend saying they deserve it, but they dont realize that they eat upwards of 5000 cals each weekend day. They really believe they do well, and when faced with the evidence, they are overwhelmed. Thats part of the show also, they set up cameras in their house with their permission to record their eating habits at home, but they dont know that they are also being followed by PI's 24/7, recording everything they eat and drink.

geebusuk

I think think this is often the case for people who are underweight too, though the other way around, of course.

For instance my old flat mate would say "but I eat loads and don't put on weight; I just had a whole large bar of chocolate to myself" for instance. And sure, he did; but he skipped an entire meal too, where I'd have easily had it along with a much larger meal.

michay

bump

BR3ANDA

I think think this is often the case for people who are underweight too, though the other way around, of course.

For instance my old flat mate would say "but I eat loads and don't put on weight; I just had a whole large bar of chocolate to myself" for instance. And sure, he did; but he skipped an entire meal too, where I'd have easily had it along with a much larger meal.

Exactly! There is another series called Supersized VS Superskinny, it shows both sides of the story. Really good series too.

ebony__

It's a series that was run but either BBC or ITV where they take a family who say they CAN'T lose weight, must be medical etc etc and then secretly film them to find out what they have been eating.
Normally each person keeps a diary before hand where they think they're eating about 1800 cals a day, but in reality they're normally eating more like 3500. All those extra bits they didn't count soon add up!
Then they get put on a proper diet plan, and guess what? Suddenly they're not medical miracles after all and they lose weight when they're eating less!

Interesting. I think this is typical of about everyone that is overweight. We find EXCUSES why we cant do what we NEED to do. Being overweight is embarrassing and not really socially acceptable. Its a tough thing to accept when you havent paid attention for years and all of a sudden you are in an uncomfortable place. I have to say I speak from experience on this one...

I wouldn't say your speaking for everyone else though. There are lots of reason people are overweight or ways they have gotten there.

ebony__

Arrghh wish I had an Internet connection so I could watch this, I only have my phone ATM .

Alice_in_Wndrlnd

Bump to watch later.

apocalypsepwnie

I had a wake up call to myself this year... and I was doing this.
Yep, I eat like a champion... infront of others. Always chosing the best thing when I go out to eat, when I pack my lunch for work... but then get me at home and I'm standing infront of the fridge eating cake off the cake plate that SHOULD BE THROWN AWAY picking off the crusty bits. Or getting to the bottom of a box of crackers and being surprised and then dissapointed there wasn't more.
I always say 'Oh I play derby so it's ok'... yeah along with chips and gravy for lunch, the bag of chips I ate after that followed by the chocolate and the MASSIVE serve of pasta and cheap fatty meat for dinner. Pfft yeah right. Derby keeps me on maintenance technically for the cals I was eating but oh lord my poor organs.

It brought back memories of the time my mum took me to the doctor at 18 as she was worried I'd die in my sleep. I was overweight at 75kg/165 lbs but no where near the 'die in my sleep stage' however the doctor asked me to keep a food diary. When I returned it he flat out told me I was lying and I swore at him and left. Truth was, I was lying. Well, I was eating fabulously for that week as I just couldn't bear writing down what I was actually eating or lying about it on paper.

Any time I've lost weight without fad/crash dieting is because there's nothing in the fridge to snack on. I don't have a job where I can shovel food endlessly into my mouth or hide at the end of a shift making myself a staff lunch when noone is around, scoffing half and taking the other half home and pretending it's all I'd had (wow THAT really hurt writing that!)

I on and off watch The Biggest Loser but when those 'we follow them on secret cams and see what they really eat' eps are on I have to turn them off. I just feel so bad for them when they try so hard and they don't really know they are being watched. And it triggered that feeling I had when I did it and KNEW what I was doing. It was like an all day binge.

However, I've addressed that now. Anything I eat gets logged. I carry my phone on me most of the time so I'll check MFP before putting it in my mouth. If it's not going to work, it doesn't go in. Mostly, it doesn't. I also don't keep the crap in the house that I used to. Bye bye crackers. See you later cakes. Adios chippies!

jerbear1962

I was a secret eater at my worst, I'd eat a healthy meal at my parents. Then on the way home I'd hit anywhere between 1 and 3 fast food places bringing home a bunch of food. I'd get some for right then and some to have later that night too. I was terrible and even now fight that feeling as I drive past places. One place I'd hit a lot closes for the season and closed yesterday and for the first time in many years I didn't stop there at all.

jenilla1

Thanks! Sounds like an interesting show. I bet many of these people are totally underestimating their portions when they are keeping their diaries. I never realized what proper serving sizes were until I started MFP and got a food scale. It's amazing the difference between reality and perception. I'm pretty good at judging now, but I've been doing this for a couple of years... Logging food on MFP is less effective for people who guesstimate instead of measuring and weighing. :flowerforyou:

Tixxie

It's a series that was run but either BBC or ITV where they take a family who say they CAN'T lose weight, must be medical etc etc and then secretly film them to find out what they have been eating.

It was Channel 4 so if you're in the UK it's still available on 4oD - not sure if people outside UK can view it, soz.

Definitely worth a watch.

Blayzn10Tiffers

It's a series that was run but either BBC or ITV where they take a family who say they CAN'T lose weight, must be medical etc etc and then secretly film them to find out what they have been eating.
Normally each person keeps a diary before hand where they think they're eating about 1800 cals a day, but in reality they're normally eating more like 3500. All those extra bits they didn't count soon add up!
Then they get put on a proper diet plan, and guess what? Suddenly they're not medical miracles after all and they lose weight when they're eating less!

Interesting. I think this is typical of about everyone that is overweight. We find EXCUSES why we cant do what we NEED to do. Being overweight is embarrassing and not really socially acceptable. Its a tough thing to accept when you havent paid attention for years and all of a sudden you are in an uncomfortable place. I have to say I speak from experience on this one...

I wouldn't say your speaking for everyone else though. There are lots of reason people are overweight or ways they have gotten there.

Please quit taking things people say to heart, this is the internet and Im not slandering anyone so theres not need for a rude rebuttal.

subcult

No idea what I was eating prior to logging since now even when I go quite a bit over a day or two I still lose weight, instead of gaining like before. Even when I was lifting weights and jogging I just ate more prior to logging.

subcult

Unless of course this site sounds out signels that burn calories.

Skinnymunkii

Thanks for posting this! It's a good reminder of how calories can sneak into our lives without us even realizing it....before I started MFP I would go to Starbucks and get a Venti Frappuccino with whipped cream, the works. Thanks to MFP I realized that was a huge hunk of calories right there. Needless to say, I don't have those anymore.

BinaryPulsar

Sounds good. I'll watch it!

BR3ANDA

Before I started MFP, I thought I had a pretty decent diet, picking whole grains, lowfat dairy, lean meats, making sure I eat plenty of veggies. Sounds good, right? Well, I logged my food for 2 days before I started my nutrition change, I was even trying to make wise choices about what I ate, and I had 3700 cals one day and 4300 the next, no wonder I put on 45 lbs in the past year alone, tipping the scales at 257 lbs when I committed to my nutrition change. I havnt been under 200 lbs in over 10 years. My weight gain is due 100% to overeating and undermoving.

meshashesha2012

when i logged my meals before i started i wasnt too surprised with what i got, in fact i thought i was eating more.

but this sounds like a good program. i know a few people like this who are supposedly trying to lose weight but they are completely against logging their food which is fine BUT everyday they are "rewarding" themselves with some high calorie treat because they went to that one boot class on Sunday and maybe took a spin class on thursday and think they need the extra calories. then a month later it's like " i don't understand why i'm not losing weight. nothing i do works".

i've stopped giving them advice and just started shrugging my shoulders and going "yeah i can't imagine why either"

ebony__

It's a series that was run but either BBC or ITV where they take a family who say they CAN'T lose weight, must be medical etc etc and then secretly film them to find out what they have been eating.
Normally each person keeps a diary before hand where they think they're eating about 1800 cals a day, but in reality they're normally eating more like 3500. All those extra bits they didn't count soon add up!
Then they get put on a proper diet plan, and guess what? Suddenly they're not medical miracles after all and they lose weight when they're eating less!

Interesting. I think this is typical of about everyone that is overweight. We find EXCUSES why we cant do what we NEED to do. Being overweight is embarrassing and not really socially acceptable. Its a tough thing to accept when you havent paid attention for years and all of a sudden you are in an uncomfortable place. I have to say I speak from experience on this one...

I wouldn't say your speaking for everyone else though. There are lots of reason people are overweight or ways they have gotten there.

Please quit taking things people say to heart, this is the internet and Im not slandering anyone so theres not need for a rude rebuttal.

I'm sorry I didnt think I was being rude at all, just point out that as much as this is a huge issue, there are a lot of varied stories behind people weight gain. Not everyone fits in the same category.

BR3ANDA

It's a series that was run but either BBC or ITV where they take a family who say they CAN'T lose weight, must be medical etc etc and then secretly film them to find out what they have been eating.
Normally each person keeps a diary before hand where they think they're eating about 1800 cals a day, but in reality they're normally eating more like 3500. All those extra bits they didn't count soon add up!
Then they get put on a proper diet plan, and guess what? Suddenly they're not medical miracles after all and they lose weight when they're eating less!

Interesting. I think this is typical of about everyone that is overweight. We find EXCUSES why we cant do what we NEED to do. Being overweight is embarrassing and not really socially acceptable. Its a tough thing to accept when you havent paid attention for years and all of a sudden you are in an uncomfortable place. I have to say I speak from experience on this one...

I wouldn't say your speaking for everyone else though. There are lots of reason people are overweight or ways they have gotten there.

Please quit taking things people say to heart, this is the internet and Im not slandering anyone so theres not need for a rude rebuttal.

I think its pretty typical too, because I'm heavy and I know it, and the only way I got like this is making excuses for overeating (my fav excuse to use since last December was the death of my MIL, helping to care for her during her last couple months battling cancer was very emotional, so I turned to food to help comfort me), sure its a good excuse, but an EXCUSE it still is! The only thing I would add is KNOWLEDGE of portion sizes. Its not enough to guesstimate the portion size of what your eating, you have to weigh and measure.

mandys65

I had a wake up call to myself this year... and I was doing this.
Yep, I eat like a champion... infront of others. Always chosing the best thing when I go out to eat, when I pack my lunch for work... but then get me at home and I'm standing infront of the fridge eating cake off the cake plate that SHOULD BE THROWN AWAY picking off the crusty bits. Or getting to the bottom of a box of crackers and being surprised and then dissapointed there wasn't more.
I always say 'Oh I play derby so it's ok'... yeah along with chips and gravy for lunch, the bag of chips I ate after that followed by the chocolate and the MASSIVE serve of pasta and cheap fatty meat for dinner. Pfft yeah right. Derby keeps me on maintenance technically for the cals I was eating but oh lord my poor organs.

It brought back memories of the time my mum took me to the doctor at 18 as she was worried I'd die in my sleep. I was overweight at 75kg/165 lbs but no where near the 'die in my sleep stage' however the doctor asked me to keep a food diary. When I returned it he flat out told me I was lying and I swore at him and left. Truth was, I was lying. Well, I was eating fabulously for that week as I just couldn't bear writing down what I was actually eating or lying about it on paper.

Any time I've lost weight without fad/crash dieting is because there's nothing in the fridge to snack on. I don't have a job where I can shovel food endlessly into my mouth or hide at the end of a shift making myself a staff lunch when noone is around, scoffing half and taking the other half home and pretending it's all I'd had (wow THAT really hurt writing that!)

I on and off watch The Biggest Loser but when those 'we follow them on secret cams and see what they really eat' eps are on I have to turn them off. I just feel so bad for them when they try so hard and they don't really know they are being watched. And it triggered that feeling I had when I did it and KNEW what I was doing. It was like an all day binge.

However, I've addressed that now. Anything I eat gets logged. I carry my phone on me most of the time so I'll check MFP before putting it in my mouth. If it's not going to work, it doesn't go in. Mostly, it doesn't. I also don't keep the crap in the house that I used to. Bye bye crackers. See you later cakes. Adios chippies!

Well done for admitting this, sometimes I personally feel once you admit this out load then this makes your weight loss so much easier, (if that makes sense), good luck for the rest of your weight loss journey

ebony__

Just watched the first episode, it was great. Makes me want to be really careful with my loging

Vailara

I thought that the people they chose were to the extreme end (not so much in how much they ate, but in that they didn't notice that they'd eaten whole meals). I think that for many of us, we're not somehow forgetting that we've eaten a hamburger and chips, but we might be forgetting little bits and pieces - a slightly too large portion, tasting things while cooking, underestimating "healthy" foods, etc.

There was another TV programme a couple of years ago that claimed something similar, that people are just not aware of how much they eat. I remember one woman on the programme who lived mainly off fruit and couldn't lose weight. It turned out she really was eating a lot of fruit, enough to maintain her high weight. I know I've sometimes had it in the back of my mind that fruit doesn't "count", so I was in the habit of eating it as an extra - but five portions a day of fruit really stacks up the calories! I've become more aware since logging it on Mfp.

BR3ANDA

I had a wake up call to myself this year... and I was doing this.
Yep, I eat like a champion... infront of others. Always chosing the best thing when I go out to eat, when I pack my lunch for work... but then get me at home and I'm standing infront of the fridge eating cake off the cake plate that SHOULD BE THROWN AWAY picking off the crusty bits. Or getting to the bottom of a box of crackers and being surprised and then dissapointed there wasn't more.
I always say 'Oh I play derby so it's ok'... yeah along with chips and gravy for lunch, the bag of chips I ate after that followed by the chocolate and the MASSIVE serve of pasta and cheap fatty meat for dinner. Pfft yeah right. Derby keeps me on maintenance technically for the cals I was eating but oh lord my poor organs.

It brought back memories of the time my mum took me to the doctor at 18 as she was worried I'd die in my sleep. I was overweight at 75kg/165 lbs but no where near the 'die in my sleep stage' however the doctor asked me to keep a food diary. When I returned it he flat out told me I was lying and I swore at him and left. Truth was, I was lying. Well, I was eating fabulously for that week as I just couldn't bear writing down what I was actually eating or lying about it on paper.

Any time I've lost weight without fad/crash dieting is because there's nothing in the fridge to snack on. I don't have a job where I can shovel food endlessly into my mouth or hide at the end of a shift making myself a staff lunch when noone is around, scoffing half and taking the other half home and pretending it's all I'd had (wow THAT really hurt writing that!)

I on and off watch The Biggest Loser but when those 'we follow them on secret cams and see what they really eat' eps are on I have to turn them off. I just feel so bad for them when they try so hard and they don't really know they are being watched. And it triggered that feeling I had when I did it and KNEW what I was doing. It was like an all day binge.

However, I've addressed that now. Anything I eat gets logged. I carry my phone on me most of the time so I'll check MFP before putting it in my mouth. If it's not going to work, it doesn't go in. Mostly, it doesn't. I also don't keep the crap in the house that I used to. Bye bye crackers. See you later cakes. Adios chippies!

Well done for admitting this, sometimes I personally feel once you admit this out load then this makes your weight loss so much easier, (if that makes sense), good luck for the rest of your weight loss journey

What she said! Very well done!

PrincessNikkiBoo

I've been watching it too, its great!