All I've Eaten For 28 Years Is Cheese (Food Addiction Documentary) | Eataholics | Only Human

are you going to bug me i might get a mug you it's that gorgeous one and i believe i can run for decent marathon download valee now [Music] thirty-two-year-old vickie zukovitz seems to have it all married to her high school sweetheart she lives in a beautiful home in swindon and juggles raising their two-year-old daughter with running her own business selling healthy food supplements but behind closed doors she's hiding a guilty secret vicki is addicted to cheese my love for cheese is just something i've had since i was a child after 28 years of bad eating vicki can now only eat cheddar cheese sandwiches or cheese and tomato pizzas having a plate of vegetables put in front of me it's like having dog poo on a plate her addiction is so severe that woe betide anyone who stands in the way of her cheesy fix pizza helping vicky combat her addiction will be psychological coach felix economakis and nutritionist charlotte watts they've got just four weeks to reverse over 28 years of bad eating so much too soon i need to get some cheese it's an extreme case feel like an alcoholic that requires extreme intervention you're going to be up there where that lady is will vicky be up to the challenge [Music] [Applause] 32 year old vickie zukovitz has two loves in her life the first is her family two-year-old daughter ella and her partner of five years damien the second is cheddar cheese i get through a packet of cheese every single day it's always been my life really for over 28 years vicky has lived on a cheese-based diet refusing to even try vegetables fish or meat vicky when pushed her barriers go up straight away and vicki tends to push in the opposite direction uh sheer bloody mindedness more than anything else sticking her heels in also extends to the couple's social life vicky refuses to eat anywhere other than in her own home and even a takeaway is a problem unless it's round with cheese on smells wheely okay right so what do you think this this is the um the special fried rice um don't like this sort of stuff don't like it it's got legend that looks like it's come out of the bin it just looks absolutely disgusting it looks horrible it's true being sprayed no no no no no no hey no damien no no no it's all this stuff if it was a pee on its own without no one piece that has been damien my relationship with food is completely different to vicki's i truly truly enjoy to eat uh and eat well um i think it is one of life's little pleasures with vicky failing to share damian's love of food family life is now seriously under threat how can you eat them because they taste good pork chops taste good bacon tastes good married last year vicky refused to go on honeymoon and despite five years of trying damian still can't get vicky to eat out for our anniversary we wouldn't go out for a meal i don't know what we'll do probably get domino's pizza in but with three-year-old daughter ella eating more than mum there's a real need for change i miss out on so many things and i and i don't want my daughter to notice and start picking up bad habits from me i have to do something about it [Music] it's day one of a month-long dietary makeover for vicky she's in london to meet the experts we'll be helping her confront her food fears okay i'm face so vicky how are you feeling about being here i'm really really nervous today actually okay so we'll start with taking you in here and showing you something you ready yeah okay let's go to kick things off charlotte and felix have arranged a wake-up call from vicki's family and friends right vicky the next four weeks are gonna be really tough but you're gonna have our help and support along the way but what we really need you to be able to do when we're not there to help you is dig deep so we want to show you something today just to keep with you as a source of inspiration okay good luck vicki we'll see you soon thank you thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] hi vicky after putting me through all this i hope at the program's end that we'll be able to sit down and have a good cooked meal together hi vicky i just wanted to say i am slightly concerned that ella does look to you as a role model and so she might be picking up on the kind of foods that you're eating which could have a negative effect on her in the long term hi vicky i just wanted to say well done for taking this step um you're definitely making the right choice how nice it would be for us to be able to be a family unit and do the other things that families need to do and do together without the planning that goes into it or the limitations that we have in place so i love you dig deep and stick with it and i'd like to see when you come from the other side hi vicky hello uh how was that for you watching it it was it's everything that i know but obviously what it's put in front of you it reiterates the problem and that everyone knows it's a problem for me so do all the comments about ella and her health and seeing you as a role model is that something that you feel really motivates you absolutely you know i'm not in a position to just play around now um if it's always like the the dual die card has been dealt to me if i don't try now well we'll never change well we've got a lot of work ahead of us now vicky so are you ready for it yep well let's begin okay let's go felix and charlotte have organised a surprise for vicky one that they hope will shock her into action [Music] this way look at this what a waste of pizzas we've taken a look at your diet done a few calculations in total you eat 550 pizzas a year which quite frankly is a lot of pizza and makes me feel slightly nauseous it does look absolutely terrible and smelly and smells really bad and one of the things that's predominant about this is the amount of cheese on top but this is not the only cheese that you're eating in your diet i mean vicky you eat a twelfth of this every month at 12th is is a huge chunk of this and the idea of having still wade through that seems like an ordeal to me is this a year then yeah this is a year how does i mean how does that make you feel looking at that it's very solid isn't it it makes me feel sick to smell good good i think it's awesome it smells like fats it does actually yeah you're right yeah it does smell like fat i think we need to just maybe further illustrate that point if we lead you over here what do you think this is ew ew that's disgusting it's like purse it's like puffs well this is pure animal fat and we worked out that this is a the amount of animal fat in your diet over a year which is twice as much as a healthy person should be consuming that looks putrid ah so we've got a lot to be working with here and i need you to remember all of this yeah you wait till my husband sees this i'm never gonna live it down now i think today's exercise really shocked vicki she only shops for pizzas daily to avoid seeing how much she actually really eats and the accumulation of what she eats is truly appalling to see in its entirety to have that kind of diet for some 28 years suggests a very strong-willed person and i haven't seen that yet but i expect some resistance some controlling behavior so i still think we've got a lot of work ahead of us 24 hours later and vicki is still coming to terms with the truth about her appalling diet i went to bed and it was just mulling over this information and i just couldn't stop thinking about the lard the cheese the pizzas and i was nearly physically sick quite a few times last night i just couldn't sleep it made me feel so poorly um that i think it actually did more it affected me more than i actually realized i really want vicky to succeed at this uh it's it's crucially important that she does um for all our sakes i mean for her more so than anybody but also for for ella and uh for me as well i guess [Music] vicki was born into an affectionate loving family in ebervale south wales a middle child she was a real daddy's girl but at the age of three she began to show the first signs of an eating problem she was very stubborn she always wanted her way or no way at all so that was a little bit of difficulty she would never sort of toe the line [Music] vicki's father worked away from home so it was left to her mum eleanor to try and get her to eat they had the same personalities which meant they continually disagreed about everything i just remember lots of arguments i was just being fussy i was just trying you know being a little madam and everyone was always so frustrated with me at age nine vicki began retreating from family meal times choosing to eat in her room by herself when we had family meals her meals were always yeah always very separate from ours as she became a teenager that's when she became more stubborn um and would decide on what she wanted to eat when vicki left home her relationship with her mum improved but her eating deteriorated sadly vicky's mum died three years ago and never got to see her daughter eat a full meal [Music] in less than a month vicki will face her final challenge her first meal out in years charlotte wants to kickstart her dietary makeover so send her some homework in the form of a healthy hamper we need you to wean you off your favorite food cheese start by clearing all the blocks of cheese from your fridge now in here is mummy's cheese mummy's not allowed cheese anymore and that one well done bit gutted because it smelled really nice threw it away um but it's got to be done so got rid of all the cheese in the house so it better be a good replacement what was this i don't know to replace her cheese-free fridge charlotte's provided a hamper of fresh vegetables to eat over the next week and has even suggested the first recipe of carrot and swede mash mummy's got to put some carrots look and some swede and make mash what do you think that's going to taste like um is it going to be yummy oh yeah i've never ever cooked any of anything in here in my life [Music] faced with the prospect of a dramatic change it's not long before vicky's stubborn side reveals itself the thing is i wouldn't eat this in a million years i'm just gonna taste it like that i don't like it anyway [Music] you know what it's not going to mash it's too hard i don't find that very appetizing [Music] why don't you taste them tell me what you think is it nice couldn't taste it yeah it's lovely this is going back to my childhood this is exactly what you said at the dinner table i think that they would keep saying you know try have a few more mouthfuls you know and then i just end up sort of just squishing it all down and sort of moving it around my plates so it looked like i've ever loads something like that and then yeah be put in the bin halfway through the first week and vicki is showing signs of falling at the first hurdle charlotte calls her to london for her first one-on-one nutrition session it's really important from this exercise that i really gauge where vicky's boundaries lie and where we need to move her to and how we're going to do that it's also really important that vicky sees those issues as well with vicky reluctant to eat vegetables in the confines of her own home charlotte is keen to see how she'll cope with a bit of encouragement hello is that your first reaction when you um see this array of foods only because i see salmon and i remember my first memory of food going off of food with salmon that's the first thing i've got the memory of the the reason that these foods are here particularly is because i wanted to find foods that really plugged holes in your current diet and also tries to make amends for some of the ills in your diet i want to try with a cucumber first let's just get in there okay yeah that's one of my worst that's probably you know that's why you're giving it to me oh very good okay i'm just not gonna smell it yeah yeah smell it what's your feeling about cucumber oh do you know even if somebody's got this on their breath it makes me feel sick when was the last time you ate this i've never actually eaten it oh okay so it might not actually taste the way you believe it tastes no okay then you should taste it to find out i think okay do i have to [Music] on a scale of one to ten how much would you say you dislike that i'd say about five oh that's right that's kind of hedging your bets either way really let's try you on red pepper after over two decades of claiming she can't eat vegetables actually it's quite nice vicky's positive reaction to the foods do you eat the whole thing yeah it's surprising to say the least that's nice oh god nervous but that's a real mouthful having come so far charlotte decides to test the true extent of vicky's boundaries right so what's your thoughts when you see this i hate fish and um i won't even let my husband cook it in the house can you cut a piece off salmon is one of the dishes that completely put vicky off food this is the first time she's come this close to eating it in three decades i don't think i'm gonna like this but you don't know [Music] that's really nice [Laughter] it almost seems like she's two people there's the one who has really boxed herself in into this tiny constricted bland diet and then there seems to be someone in there who's quite curious about things and then quite open-minded when she does try things so i'm going to be very interested to see where these two people meet and i think where they meet is where we're going to meet the resistance [Music] vicky's proved that she can eat vegetables and fish with charlotte watching over her but the biggest test will be coping on her own charlotte's homework for vicki is to eat two new veg a day but it's not long before she demonstrates that the next few weeks won't be easy i'm going against the wishes of charlotte this evening and i'm going to have cheese on my jacket potato this evening i need to get some cheese this evening and i'm having it with my jacket potato i feel like an alcoholic it's like a secret mission off to get the cheese i have to do it into the cover of darkness [Music] demonstrating that her problem is less about a phobia and more about mindset the next day vicky has her first session with psychologist felix he wants to delve into her past and find out where her eating problems first began so vicky can you tell me a little bit about how your diet is a problem for you in your life well the main problem i have with it is the fact that i can't go out for a meal um i don't have dinner with my family i can't go abroad because i won't like the food every time there's any any family get-togethers then i've i've always got to be sort of segregated off and to get the things that i like that sounds really constraining doesn't it yeah absolutely absolutely um but it's it is for everybody who who be around me perfectly honest so it's tough on you and tough on others as well yeah yeah okay so it makes sense then just avoid it if it's a negative experience yeah absolutely okay i have been told that um when my parents went away on holiday um i was staying with my nan and i wouldn't eat at all um and then apparently when they come back my dad asked me if i wanted some food and then i'd just start eating um and if he was away apparently i'd just lie on the sofa and and cry wouldn't do anything until i could speak to him on the phone but i've pretty much got have my own way about nearly everything what would happen if you didn't get your own way i'd be so angry because what would it mean to you because i wouldn't like it would have been my decision like it's no it's not even it's not about that it's that i like what i like right and if somebody changes that it would be something that would just forever annoy me when her father was absent vicki revealed she would actually go on hunger strikes that's exactly the time when she started trying to really control her food i think unless vicky's really willing to look at some of those underlying childhood issues she's unlikely to ever embrace eating new foods it's the end of the first week and without charlotte next to her the stubborn vicky is refusing to embrace any kind of changes to her diet i want pizza yeah i really do want pizza um all right well how about you savor that pizza what other day pizza why don't you have some damian stop trying and pizza stir fry some breaded chicken no all right okay um just try and think outside you know the pizza box i have i'm just not in the mood to i'm hungry i just want to eat some stodgy food and get nice and full don't order a large one for a star did you get the ass yet yeah you get really pissed off in a minute yeah well i've voiced my concerns for you i am gonna order a pizza i don't feel guilty i don't feel guilty don't feel guilty don't feel guilty can i order a large cheese and tomato pizza please [Music] when i'm at that point that i'm hungry and i've made my decision that this is what i want there's no way i am going to be sold a different food when i want a pizza and i'm really hungry i will have one [Music] no stopping me really [Music] it's the start of week two charlotte is concerned that vicky is losing the commitment needed to conquer her cheese habit so she's brought her to london for an appointment on harley street today we're meeting dr pixie and i really hope that what we're going to discuss is going to shock vicki into understanding the long-term health implications of her diet [Music] dr pixie mckenna is a gp with a special interest in eating problems she's performed an analysis of vicky's blood and has some serious news for her i'm very surprised you're looking so well actually now we've worked out that you're taking twice the amount of salt that you should be in your diet a well-known medical fact that that will push up your blood pressure a cheese-based diet is high in salt and saturated fat an adult should not consume more than six grams of salt a day vicki consumes nearly twice this this high salt intake puts vikki at greater risk of high blood pressure dr pixie wants to shock vicki into action so she gives her some double vision goggles and makes you dizzy to simulate the symptoms of high blood pressure [Music] now you want to step up how are you feeling now dizzy you could also have nausea headache giddiness sickness buzzing in your ears and you feel really really really unwell would you be able to cut a piece of cheese and eat it no do you feel like you could do much no i think i need to lie down yeah that's exactly how you would feel if you had really high blood pressure while cheese does have some health benefits in vast quantities it can be a killer a diet high in saturated fat can create a build-up of arterial plaque in the veins leading to circulatory problems and eventually even stroke or heart disease [Music] we researched and we actually found especially for you a picture of a heart of a man in his forties who had a diet very similar to yours now can you say that bloody hell so is that actually a layer of fat completely around the heart that's strangling it insulating it but strangulating it yeah it's not very nice it's not very nice is it vicky was very frightened by the fatty heart is it enough to get her to change her diet she's so happy-go-lucky and easy-going i'm not sure [Music] 24 hours later and the session with dr pixie still has vicki upset but not about the fatty heart i wasn't particularly happy about how it went um i felt that the way that i was being spoken to was as if i had complete control of the situation and that i could have eaten a healthy diet off of my own back quite easily and i was just choosing not to i'm well aware that of my my problem and there's just for some reason i've been unable to go and eat vegetables and meats and everything else so i sort of felt that she didn't take that into consideration i felt like i was a bit just a bit more lazy and that's how it came across to me [Music] over halfway into the process and vicki is still failing to let go of her old habits concerned that they have less than two weeks to inspire any kind of change charlotte and felix meet up in london to compare notes she's not doing the homework particularly well i mean she will eat lots of different foods when she's with me but when it comes to being on her own and doing her homework there's such a resistance to change there she's still got this childhood mentality yeah and we need to really move her from childhood adulthood absolutely and i don't think she realized fully how difficult this was going to be and how much effort she was going to have to put in we are really going to have to push her outside her comfort zone and i think there's a danger that we could push her so far that she shuts down really charlotte and felix believe that vicky's relationship with food is trapped in childhood for a second healthy hamper challenge charlotte wants to bring out the parent in vicky bloody hell i bet it's recipes she's not only got to prepare meals for herself but her daughter ella and husband damian as well right you have been provided with eight recipes your aim for this week week is to cook a meal for ella each day for the selection of recipes provided cooking a family meal will be a first for vicky having always relied on husband damien to do all the cooking salmon and prawns no way i don't think i'd eat any of those everything in here personally this you know i know it's for ella everything's very chunky which i don't like these are all completely different things now so the control aspect sort of comes in and i just i feel like i don't want to try it i don't want to try them especially if i'm cooking because i'm rubbish at cooking [Music] this is the first time she's ever come to me it is a massively significant moment because from this point on muggins isn't doing all the kicking damon like can you just turn off damian thoughts this is for me i think you'd be right i think you'd be right there do you want to make it for me right i need to make it for me bloody hell [Music] for her first meal she plumps for vegetable chili [Music] my major problem and batter with vegetables has always been it being lumpy not taste texture that is just horrible well you've just got the hunt because you don't want to do it that's that's bottom line i hate food i really do but that's why we're here vicky you know that was vicky's typical reaction that she normally has to feed i've been surprised it's been quite held in for so long she's managed to stop herself from doing it i guess up until now but you could see as soon as she was set the challenge today uh for the week that she was determined almost to to set herself to a failure because of her mindset um i just don't want to do any more cooking i don't i'd rather not do it to be honest at this moment in time because you know it's all right things got a bit worse as you went along but you know i just think that that is just that's going to set me right back [Music] felix believes vicky's problems with food are rooted in her childhood so wants to find out more hi paul he heads to swindon to meet up with her father paul thank you this particular photo the teacher or whoever was taking the photograph told her to pose like that because i was quite i said well that's vicky that's not your pose very angelic that's right yes and that wasn't vicky this is when she's in her teens now you've got a finger up there so you know although you're taking a photograph of me as vicki's mother eleanor passed away three years ago it's left to paul to fill in the missing pieces well i i suppose when vicky was born um being the second child i was rather hoping it would be a boy right so for a millisecond i had i was a little disappointed however um vicky didn't disappoint me to a certain extent because she was into cars little cars garages and things like that and she would be fighting boys to a certain extent that she had the traits i thought of a boy and that i i spent a little more attention to her and we've got a very glamorous photo here yes vicky suddenly decided that she wanted to do modeling oh i think she throws herself whatever project she's in or whatever she wants to do she throws herself 100 into it can you tell me what were your earliest memories of vicky sunny starting to have sort of slightly unusual eating patterns yes i i suppose i i can remember i have to say vaguely because um i was at work um you know i had sort of long working day and my job also meant that i was away for for periods of time however i i can't recollect that you know there was um a concern about her eating whether she was eating sufficiently enough to sustain herself because there was some mention that vicky would go on these kind of hunger strikes when you're away yes yes i understood whenever my phone call came in to the home there was vicky who had been lying on the city all day wouldn't move then suddenly when that phone call came through and it was me she became animated and grabbed the phone and there she was talking away as soon as the conversation was finished she would just go back and lie down on the settee hmm bit of a hard situation my father have a little girl yeah i think part of me be secretly delighted if my daughter's kicking up with us because i'm not there it felt good that you know that somebody so small would would be missing you would understand that you know a lot of vicky's problems do stem from her childhood and especially around the times paul was away on work i think what vicky seems to have done is started started to control her eating as a way of getting attention to make up for the loss of the father and now that she has her own family that's really getting in the way from what she really wants to do with ricky failing to embrace the challenge of cooking for her family charlotte has arranged to meet her at a soup kitchen in reading she wants to inspire her by getting her to cook for the homeless i'm really hoping that today vicky starts to understand how nurturing cooking can be and then when she starts to cook for herself understand the process of making food and giving it to other people that she connects that with nourishing and enjoyment and pleasure charlotte sets her to work [Music] on making a nourishing ministry ministering the soup she can serve to the homeless for lunch do you think this is something ella would like yeah yeah she would she'd be open to trying this oh yeah will she enjoy making it with you yeah i suspect that if you made this without then you would get enjoyment out of this process as well and it would help you i think she could really help you move forward i am going to start setting time aside at the weekends a bit more because we need a bit more family times yes you know maybe it would be something that i can start doing as part of a sunday dinner you know something for the soup or something and my and bob damian can cook the roast [Music] i've always looked at food this is a real negative experience but today it was you know it was quite an honor i suppose to be able to cook for people and to know what i was doing was a real positive impact on somebody else's life back at home and with a renewed sense of enthusiasm vicky attempts to make her family a stir-fry and completely fails that's horrible okay the noodles are okay it smells like it doesn't like a bin my mine is bigger that mommy ah that is disgusting what do you think of it oh i'm stir fry hey excuse me that's horrible and it's called cold i don't think i like that with her final challenge looming in less than a week felix believes the only way to cure vicky is to tackle her control issues head on he feels the best way to do this is to strap her to the wings of this plane and launch her 500 feet into the air she's going to be in a situation of high stress she's going to have no control but i'm hoping at the end of it she realized it can be a positive experience for her okay vicky oh my god this is your next challenge and this is what i want you to do how do you feel about that [ __ ] what you're going to be up there where that lady is [Music] once in a lifetime experience are you up for it yeah well done vicky well done i know you can do this i have faith in you so let's get you kitted up and then you're gonna have an amazing experience learn something really positive from it i've just been to the toilet so should be that's always useful okay for me to do this today is absolutely massive right let's get you scrapped okay right foot and then step up i've got so many layers i can't get my leg by doing this i think what i'll achieve is being able to put my the controls given to somebody else i'm excited [Music] i'm gonna be holding on for dear life if i can do this i'll be able to do pretty much anything well hey i think something of this magnitude is a kind of breakthrough moment because if vic is willing to do this and just to trust in the process and just see what happens then then that really is something of a landmark [Music] [Music] hey [Music] [Music] [Music] she's actually giving the signal to do slightly more dangerous stuff so the plane's tilting and it's dipping and she's really going for it see therapy can also be a lot of fun [Music] oh wow look at this look at this [Music] oh my gosh what's lumpy food in comparison something like this you're amazing me too you're amazing well done that was really really brilliant so vicky after braving the sky on this plane how do you feel about braving lumpy food i thought i can go for it now yeah completely yeah it was absolutely amazing one of those experiences that you think if i can do this i can pretty much do anything so um amazing amazing day [Music] the following morning vicky receives her next healthy hamburger challenge from charlotte [Music] for the next seven days i want you to surrender control of your life to someone else from now on damian will be in charge he will decide what you eat on a daily basis and we'll also and also any activities he would like to you to do come on what i want you to learn from this exercise is that it's okay to not always be in control of everything around you good luck well you can eat what i eat now no no no it doesn't mean i have to eat like steak i do believe it says from now on damian will be in charge yeah but full stop we all know that men aren't fully in charge we're just giving you a little bit of the research read that again from now on damien will be in charge your first task is to shh uh on chapter bits with it really that's a that's a really good um it's gonna be a good week for me i don't like cooking so okay but it's not just about the cooking is it it's about letting go i am letting go and letting you cook yeah you have to do what i say for the next seven days result you pass me the remote please [Music] uh tonight i thought vicky would be introduced to curry that's like vinegar lovely neck there is a big oak you know i don't like lamb i sort of feel that that might be a bit of a lump next up is homemade stilton and mushroom tart right babe what's in there stilton and mushroom oh no all right they're magic should you put some salad on yeah just a little bit the meal that damian cooked for me today was um it was really nice actually over the last sort of couple of weeks i've found it quite negative and hard work and stressful um but today it sort of showed me that i could have a meal a new meal of things i've never had before and to enjoy it vicki continues to build on the success of damien's choices well i forgot the filming of the preparation of the food but i've had a roast dinner this is damian who cooked the roast dinner and that's his plate and here's mine and as you can see i have that pretty much everything on there so i can't believe what a fantastic result that is um she's done incredibly well um on that i'm stoned you know it's like an inspirational moment for me if i can if i can conquer that and i like it i think it'll be all leaps and bounds from here [Music] vicky's finally embracing a more varied diet but felix wants to address the root of her problems with food vicki has repressed the emotion she felt as a child and felix feels this is holding her back felix has asked vicki's dad to choose the place to come and talk about the past the silent valley is a cemetery near where vicki's mother grew up and where her immediate family members are buried vicky's never actually spoken to her father about her problems with eating and i know that a lot of vicky's anxiety around eating was because her father was absent working away alone and so today i'm hoping that by bringing her here to this special neutral place they can feel comfortable and safe enough talking about their feelings about their relationships in the past when vicky's problems started surfacing and after that i'm hoping they'll get some sort of closure on what happened and be able to move forward okay so paul and vicky um here we're in a place of special significance to you both we want to get some closure for what went on at the time even though it's happened in the past it's never too late to get some new clarity on it during that time that vicky developed this problematic relationship you're working away a lot that's right what is it you needed h4 to hear from dad that if you heard this you wouldn't have needed to dig your heels in and react that way i think having stress at four is very difficult to handle and you you know i suppose i know i was quite an aggressive kid and i think that's probably where a lot of it stem from is just you know if i had my time over again it would have been more sensitive to the issues of the family if i could have looked forward and seen that we would have been very positive and done something about it and we spent more energy and made it more of a priority so yes if i had time back again i certainly would have spent a lot more time in dealing with what was a fussy eating and then take a more a serious view of it so there is a concession from paul that had to work but i do apologize for not being around and what your dad is saying now is in hindsight i'll have more of an input in that what would that feel like differently i think it would just uh you know be an elevating feeling i suppose my life wouldn't be so um i do control things because i wouldn't like to think that i'd have a negative experience at the hands of somebody else so i think it you know it would just be it'd make life a lot easier for me just to go and be that price today you can just have a hug and let that forgive us just be expressed vicky is trying to lay her problems to rest so her father is also inspired to take a step at embracing the future coming back here there was always something i i wanted to do but never got rain to it and it's been three years since eleanor died and this is where she came from and i wanted to scatter some of her ashes here to return her to her home [Music] it does feel better it feel it does feel liberating it definitely um feel that i don't know the past has gone to bed i suppose in a way i think the penny may have finally dropped for fakie it's never been the food itself that's caused the problem it's the circumstances in which those anxieties rose that's always been the problem [Music] after four weeks vicki is at the end of her dietary makeover felix and charlotte invite vicki and her husband damien to london where they have one final challenge for her all the holding hands hello hello hi hello hello hi davian nice to meet you now i know it's your wedding anniversary today and i also know that you've never been abroad together or had a real romantic meal together that's true [Laughter] your final challenge is that you're going to paris and damien is going to choose a restaurant for you to eat in nice damien is also going to choose the meal that you have no cheese or pizza [Laughter] [Music] [Music] i wonder what she's going to eat [Music] how far will he push her [Music] this will be the first time vicky and damian have ever traveled aboard together or even simply been out for a romantic meal arriving in paris first stop for vicky is not the sites but determining what food they serve if they got vegetarian you're in france vicki so i can't eat anything vegetarian you can but the french you know they they think vegetarian seems a bit wishy-washy so am i supposed to eat that well this is kind of the point isn't it which one looks the worst for you on that [Music] snails snails all the oysters okay so what about the sea urchins no okay well i have some languages in you know it's prawns i don't it's not fish it's seafood it's different that isn't a fish is it like anything like that [Music] after two hours damien finally decides on a restaurant vicky approves of serving asian and mediterranean cuisine unfortunately all in french i don't understand a lot of it uh vegetarian [Music] yeah [Music] just kisses just a bowl of veg vegetables right if you wouldn't go for sausage you wouldn't go for beef you're not gonna go for fish so i think that well it just whips it down to chicken really doesn't it yeah you try that let's go to that then pulley i think you'll be right i think you'll be pleasantly surprised well i've got faith in you so i think you'll be able to do it as long as you just set your mind set salute [Music] for the first time in over two decades vicky has ordered a meal that doesn't involve cheese or pizza [Music] having initially resisted changing will charlotte and felix's makeover be the beginning of a new dietary door okay yeah thank you very [Music] there we go look much nice oh it's good there's apples in here so you've got apples yeah you've got rice there's probably i think that's pineapple or something like that [Music] what you think um it's okay i can explain it this doesn't really do it for me although i could eat it it's about being able to enjoy other foods it's not a question of just dismissing it as no it's not as good as pizza is it nice in its own right is what i'm trying to say uh yeah it's okay it's okay okay it's not um would you like to try some black lanterns nothing no i don't i don't want to train i'm really dizzy so don't be forced food i'm small sir don't eat anymore all right so just try it no i don't i just you don't keep asking me babe you're not gonna have any more curry we're gonna try damian why are you pushing me if i say don't want something why we gotta keep going try something else on the menu and that was why i particularly chose this one because i thought you would try the lentil sorry i'm a little bit annoyed that she backed out of trying the lentils but as soon as i started to push that was it there's no way she was going to change my mind today i've taken out that i don't want to go out for a meal again all it is i suppose is that if you don't like something or you know like uh you try it you don't like it it's a continuous thing i suppose it's more it's frustrating it's every time it's like a waste of time really mine was lovely [Music] despite vicky's despondency the fact that the couple are eating out at all on their wedding anniversary in paris is success enough for damian i just want to say well done for getting this far i know your final challenge was one of the hardest that you've had to do um but don't beat yourself up about it you know that was baby steps you know we achieved what we wanted to do we actually went out for a meal together and we've actually gone to the front country together as well okay do you know what sometimes i look back and i think i've come really really far cheers [Music] and then other days i don't think i've moved before and where i want to be is a million miles away from where i am now and it's going to take me a long time to get where i want to be [Music] it's two weeks after her final challenge has vicki strayed off the path to healthy eating forever the week after i i got to admit that it just went to potter and i just went back to pizzas and cheese but despite vicky slipping back into some of her old eating habits she has introduced some new foods into her diet i have some these salads have some carrots and have some jacket potatoes still having the cheese but whether a more balanced diet vicky is now introducing fresh vegetables into all of her daily meals something she hasn't done for over 28 years i think it's wonderful that vicky's come this far it'll make a massive difference to the family because we can now concentrate on enjoying what we're doing instead of having to worry about vicki's eating from where i was beginning to where i am now i'm having vegetables on my plates i'm eating things like neverett before so it's you know it's been an amazing thing really [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music]

Channel: Only Human

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Id: 9HhDNiZGXKw

Length: 56min 59sec (3419 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 15 2022