Jamie Oliver is known and loved for his amazing culinary skills. He first rose to fame with his BBC show The Naked Chef in 1999. Since then, he’s been gracing our screen with his multiple cooking shows, including Chanel 4’s Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals, and his TV appearances, after becoming the face of Sainsbury’s from 2000 to 2011.In recent years the 44-year-old has lost 27 pounds – just one pound away from the two stone mark. So what did he change?
The dad-of-five – to Poppy, 17, Daisy, 16, Petal, 10, Buddy, eight, and River – revealed he’d managed to slim down by swapping meat-heavy meals for an extra serving of vegetables.
Speaking in an interview with Radio Times, he said: “I pushed meat down, pushed veggie up, got more sleep and more movement.”
Instead of eating dishes containing lots of meat, Jamie opted for nuts, saying: “They make you half as likely to have a heart attack. Feed them to your kids as well.”
As well as exercising and getting regular sleep, Jamie admitted that he also went teetotal during the week.
He said: “Your average Brit drinks booze. I’m not telling you what to do, but my rhythm now is only to drink at the weekend.
“It’s about a consciousness and knowing you’re doing something and being more mindful.”
Surprisingly the 44-year-old found that he actually ate more than he did before while dieting.
“I lost 12 kilos quite quickly and I didn’t do it through not eating. I ate a lot, more than I was used to,” he explained.
One food the dad-of-five used to speed up weight loss was seaweed.
Seaweed may help lose weight because it contains few calories, filling fibre and fucoxanthin, which contributes to an increased metabolism.
In an interview with the Mail Online, he said: “I thought seaweed was hippy, globetrotting stuff but our ancestors ate seaweed. It has got a load of iodine and is the most nutritious vegetable in the world.”
The dad-of-five decided to slim down after realising just how unhealthy his life was.
“I got toward my 40th birthday and I realised I hadn’t spent much time looking after myself,” he said on Loose Women in 2015.
“I went back to school and started studying nutrition, started travelling to parts of the world to where people live the longest lives and started looking at their lifestyles. That was the journey and it’s been amazing,” he added.
Fellow TV chef Gordon Ramsay recently caught the attention from fans for his weight loss.
The 52-year-old managed to shed 3st 8lb by embarking on a new diet plan.