Top of the drops: Jamie Theakston shows off amazing body transformation
RADIO DJ, 45, has told how his waist ballooned to 38inches after tucking into curries for breakfast - but the weight dropped after he changed his bad food habits
Sparked on by London Embody Fitness Gym and Men’s Fitness magazine, he embarked on a gruelling fitness and diet regime to shed the pounds.
Now the Heart FM presenter has banished his beer gut - and the results are impressive.
He has lost over three stone and his body fat has gone from almost a quarter, at 24.1 pr cent to just 10.4 per cent.
He told Men’s Fitness magazine how his weight crept on after getting into a routine of eating more than he should while at work.
He said: “There’s always some kind of ‘week’ on. Curry week, pie week, pizza week – we’d get sent that stuff, and so we wouldn’t feel bad about eating it first thing in the morning.”
Despite playing cricket in the past, Jamie told how he ate whatever he liked, not thinking of the consequences.
He said: “When you’re 6ft 4in [1.93m] your height can hide a multitude of sins, but at the end of last year I was struggling to fit into anything I could buy off the peg.
“I had a 38in waist: I remember thinking, ‘That’s quite big’.”
Clueless about nutrition, he told how he relied on eating several breakfasts to keep himself going through his radio shows.
He said: “I’d be in the studio at 5am, then I’d have a breakfast at 6.30 and maybe another one at 8.30, and it was sausage or bacon sandwiches, tonnes of coffee... looking back it’s kind of shocking.”
Swapping his big breakfasts for eggs and porridge instead, he overhauled his diet while working out at the gym.
Doing a series of squats and kettle bell swings, the presenter said he found the first weeks difficult.
But despite fearing he he was “physically unable to do the things” his trainer wanted, he said he started to notice a difference.
He told how his complexion is better and he can manage running up the stairs now with ease.
Jamie, who said he is in the best shape he has been in a decade, shed at least three stone and instead of a podgy gut, he now displays a pair of finely-tuned abs.
He said: “You see it in the little things, like running upstairs.
But while it is tough, he told people not to give up at the first hurdle.
He said: “Don’t be afraid of the challenge. The hardest bit is the first couple of weeks. Then it keeps getting better.”
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Images from Men's Fitness magazine. To read the full article pick up a copy of the October issue, out now.