TV chef James Martin has shared the one key change to his diet that helped him lose an impressive three stone.
Fans have noticed the star looking slimmer in recent months - and he looked even more trim as he appeared at a food festival at the weekend.
Appearing at the Bolton Food and Drink Festival, the chef, 50, wowed fans with delicious recipe demonstrations - but his weight loss was achieved without any change to the food he eats or his exercise regime.
A pretty "simple" lifestyle change was all it took for James to shed the pounds, and it's something that others may be keen to try, Manchester Evening News reports.
How did James Martin lose weight?
When he was asked about his recent weight loss, James explained that it was drinking water instead of fizzy juice that helped him.
He said: "I think when Covid hit, everyone started to re-evaluate their lives and what can you do better, and I think it was just a different focus on life. I lost three stone, and for me the main thing was cutting out fizzy drinks and I now drink 2.5 litres of water every day.
"When you get to 50, when you get the phone call and hear some of your mates are not very well, or that some some of your mates have passed away, you just have a different outlook on life. You still have the same drive, but how you achieve that, you do things slightly differently.
"I don't really drink much alcohol, only about three or four units a month anyway, so I'm not much of a drinker - it was cutting out the fizzy drinks was the main thing for me. I think the problem when you're travelling from A to B all the time, you need that sugar hit, I don't drink tea or coffee, so fizzy drinks was the way I got it."
The celebrity chef also explained how he's not had to make any changes to the food he eats, or take on an excessive exercise regime.
He said: "There's been no gym, no running or anything like that. I've been eating exactly the same things. It's just the water. It's true."
Glasgow Airport is home to one of four James Martin Kitchen bakeries and cafes. He also opened the restaurant James Martin Manchester in 2013.
But James warned of tough times ahead with the growing economic crisis and impending fuel price rises. He said the food and drink industry is also at the cusp of a further crisis with predictions that food prices are also set to rocket in the months ahead.
He said: "We've just got through Covid thinking that was bad enough, and then hit with these energy prices and you don't even know when it's going to end, so how do you manage that?
"It's the independent restaurants I feel sorry for, it's going to be such a struggle, but it's horrendous for everyone not just hospitality.
"The big tidal wave is the cost of food - there's not much talk about it now, but my god there will be next year. It's the perfect storm of everything right now."
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