Freaky Eaters (2007) s03e08 Episode Script
Addicted to Meat
NARRATOR: '21-year-old Katy Walker | from Stockport loves a flutter.
So much so that she works nights | as a croupier in a casino.
But the biggest gamble Katy takes | is with her health.
She's addicted to diet cola.
' I probably drink | about three litres of it a day.
'And she bulks this up | with a diet of stodgy white bread.
Fruit and veg terrify her.
' Just put it on your lips.
'Helping her to change | her freaky food habits will be the job of our experts - psychologist Felix Economakis | will force her to face the music' I mean, on a scale of one to ten, | which is maximum fear, where would you rate yourself | right now? About nine.
'.
.
while nutritionist Charlotte | Watts struggles to get her off cola and onto healthier foods.
' Oh! It came back.
| That's horrible.
'But with only four weeks | to transform Katy's diet' Oh, it's spitting at me.
'.
.
will Charlotte and Felix be up | to their toughest challenge yet?' Try and be more positive.
| I can't.
I'm having my doubts | about Katy's commitment.
Ugh! Blah! At this rate, I'm not that confident | she's going to do it.
THEME MUSIC Argh! '21-year-old Katy Walker | is an adventure-seeker with a taste for extreme sports.
' I would say | I'm quite an adrenaline junkie.
I have bungee-jumped, skydived - anything where there's | a bit of danger.
I just love it.
She's brave, she's full of courage.
| She's so confident.
'She's fearless | in most areas of her life, except for when it comes to food.
' I'm scared of | experiencing anything new when it comes to eating or drinking.
I don't really like the idea | of trying anything that I don't consider to be safe.
'And her list of safe foods | is extremely limited.
' My meal, most days, | will be bread in some form - like toast, crisp butties, ketchup.
I do the whole bread with ketchup on | now and again.
Sweets, chocolate, anything | fun and childlike.
'And she washes it all down | with a daily deluge of diet cola.
' I drink Diet Coke from getting up, | first thing in the morning, till when I go to bed.
I don't drink anything else at all.
'And panic sets in | when she's without her fizzy friend.
' Wherever I am, there's usually | some Diet Coke around.
I usually sort of carry one around | with me, just in case, you know? 'When pressured to try new foods, | it's always the same old story.
' She says she doesn't like something | before she's put it in her mouth and she willshe'll gag, really, | if you try to Or she'll touch it | with her tongue and then Ugh! I don't like it.
You didn't even get it on your | tongue.
It squidged to my teeth It is difficult to understand, | for other people, but I can't physically do it and, you know, | it is too stressful for me and I would rather just | avoid the situation completely.
'Katy grew up in Stockport and is | the youngest of three children.
' We definitely did spoil her a bit | because she was the youngest because she was the girl, you know, | and she was really cute.
'Her fussy eating started early.
' We'd bribe her, we'd threaten her, we'd do just about anything | to get her to eat the right things.
But then, in the end - and probably | the end wasn't a very long time - it became easier just to think, "Well, at least we're getting | something down her.
At least she's eating something.
" It was always tears and tantrums | at meal times.
So we thought the easier option | would be to stay calm, because she's going to | grow out of this.
But, unfortunately, she never has.
'Katy recently moved into | her own flat, but her bizarre eating habits | still affect her family.
' Meal times can be stressful, because we've got to make sure | that it's comfortable for Katy.
There doesn't seem to be anything | on here that is remotely normal.
(SIGHS) We can't just have | the meals that we want without having to consider, | you know, mollycoddling Katy.
'Patience is starting to wear thin.
' I think it's becoming less tolerable | for everybody else now, because it was always OK | when I was 15 - "Oh, she doesn't want that.
| She'll have this.
" But now it's a bit more like, | "You're 21.
Just try it.
" 'And Katy's white bread | and three-litre-a-day habit has also started to take its toll | on her health.
' I have had | a couple of occasions where I've had, like, stomach pains | and ended up in hospital and it's been undiagnosed | and I get to thinking about that and thinking, | "It's probably something to do with all the crap I put in there.
" 'But 21 years of freaky eating | won't be easy to change.
' I think you're going to have | a real battle on your hands.
I think the real hard part will be | convincing her to stay that way.
If it was anything else | other than food, I'd say, "Yes, she'll overcome this.
| She'll do it.
" With it being food, | it's a whole different ball game.
I feel like it's now or never, | really, because I've waited long enough and now I'm at the point where | if I could change it now, I'd never had to look back.
'Starting today, Katy will have just four weeks | to revolutionise her diet and she's in London for her first | meeting with nutritionist Charlotte and psychologist Felix.
' Hello, Katy.
| Hello, I'm Charlotte, this is Felix.
Hi, Katy.
Good to meet you.
| How are you feeling? Bit nervous, but excited to see | what's gonna happen.
OK, don't worry, we're going to | take good care of you.
OK, well, come this way.
| OK.
OK, Katy, | so the next couple of weeks are going to be | a tough challenge for you, changing your dietary habits.
Felix and I have put | something together for you to use as a motivational tool | in the next couple of weeks.
We're going to leave you to watch | that and we'll come back after and have a chat to you about it, OK? | OK.
All right, good luck, Katy.
| Thanks.
Kate, just here to wish you luck and tell you to get a grip | and start eating food.
You need to fix this.
It's a big problem | and I'm not entirely sure I believe you can do it, but | if you can, please prove me wrong.
Hiya, chicken.
| Do this thing for me.
You know, let's get it over with, | let's get past it.
If it helps, you ditch Diet Coke and I'll ditch chocolate.
| How's that? Cos you know how important | chocolate is to me.
But I'll manage without that as long | as you'll manage without Diet Coke.
You can do this because you're gutsy | and you're awesome.
Hi, Katy.
First of all, | I'd like to say how pleased I am that you're finally doing something | about your eating problems.
It's you that's decided | to do something about it and you're doing it for you.
We all love you | and we all want you to be healthy.
And the way you are at the moment, it's gonna cause you serious | health problems in the future.
So stick with this, please.
Katy, what was it like for you to | listen to your friends and family? It wasn't very nice, just because a lot of those things | haven't been said before.
It's upset me to hear them | say that kind of stuff, so it should be a good motivator | to try and focus on how happy they all will probably be, | you know, if I do manage to do it.
And make yourself happy as well.
| Yes.
That's important.
Don't forget that.
OK, let's go | and make a start, then.
'Felix and Charlotte begin their work with something | to shock Katy into action.
' Come over here.
(LAUGHS) Oh, my God.
Yeah.
| So, Katy, we've looked at your diet and we're quite astonished to see | that you are living on a diet of mainly diet cola and white bread.
So what do you think | this here represents? I would go for, like, maybe | how much I've drunk in my life.
Interesting.
| Interesting.
What a load.
Well, you drink | three litres of diet cola a day, so this is 1,095 litres, which is the amount you drink | in one year alone.
Wow.
It's a lot and it looks really, | like, black.
This is a huge amount of chemicals | for your body to process.
This is really, | really serious stuff.
Oh.
'Katy eats over 1,000 bread rolls and over 1,500 slices | of white bread a year, but that's not all.
' What a lot of people don't realise | about white bread is how much sugar it contains.
And we have this to show you.
If you come over here, Katy 'A slice of white processed bread contains a quarter | of a teaspoon of sugar, so Katy consumes well over | the recommended daily allowance.
' Ready? Just to show you, | this is all going into your body.
Now, sugar in this form is not | something your body needs and it will just give you | a really big spike, surge of energy, and then you get those drops.
I'm just shocked, for now, because I thought bread might have | a bit of something in it that wasn't great, but I didn't even | think it had sugar in it, really.
Obviously, to move you | from this type of food to a more healthy way of eating is going to take | a lot of work from you.
We're going to need a lot of | commitment.
Are you ready for that? Yeah.
| OK.
Let's get to work.
OK.
'Over the next four weeks, Charlotte and Felix | will work with Katy to transform her dire diet.
' I think Katy's particular problem | here is a very large challenge.
I think there's a lot | of addictive qualities to the type of diet | that she's having and she has a lot of emotional | attachment to those as well.
The bread was the worst thing | to see and to smell, because it smelled | absolutely disgusting.
You know, seeing it all laid out | was just You know, it just makes me realise | how big the problem is, really.
'But old habits are hard to break.
Back at the hotel, | a tired Katy finds comfort in a pack of sugary sweets.
' I think I am feeling | quite emotionally drained today, just because I think it's | all sort of got quite serious now and it's all probably got a bit much and I'm sort of ready for the next | few days to be over with, I think.
'Charlotte's keen to find out | if Katy's shocking diet has done any damage to her health, so she's brought her to | a London clinic for blood tests.
' Hi, Katy.
How are you feeling? Katy's diet is truly awful and I really don't think | that she understands the extent to which | the chemicals in the diet cola and the bread | are really affecting her health.
I'm hoping that | today the session with Dr Pixie is really going to galvanise her, | motivate her into changing her dietary habits.
'Dr Pixie McKenna is a GP with a particular interest | in eating disorders.
She has analysed Katy's test results | and has some concerning news.
' The most worrying thing, for me, was that your liver function | was abnormal.
Do you know anything about your | liver? Do you know what it does? Um, I know if you give it | too much, like, alcohol it fails and doesn't work properly.
Everything thinks that, | "Oh, it's just alcohol," but, actually, | the liver has so many jobs to do.
And in that cola, | you've got all those E numbers, you've got the citric acid, | phosphoric acid and you're giving it | excessive amounts.
'The liver is one of | the largest organs.
It protects the body from poisoning by filtering the toxins | that go through it.
Katy's liver is being forced to work | much harder than it should due to her large cola consumption.
Chemical sweeteners | and phosphoric acid consumed in large quantities | are hard for the liver to break down.
Overworked liver cells | become saturated and this can lead to | cirrhosis of the liver, which is potentially deadly.
' Because you're drinking | so much cola, what you forget is that | there's caffeine in that and that's dehydrating you.
You're like someone who's in | a permanently hungover state.
Your liver's up, you're dehydrated, | you're wrecked.
It's not brilliant to, obviously, | find out that there's things | that have come up already that are just through this diet.
The other worry that I have, | your fertility, because caffeine will | adversely affect your fertility.
And, also, | when you do fall pregnant, your risk of miscarriage | is increased.
And I think the other worry | in terms of the amount of cola | that you're consuming is your teeth, actually.
Would that be a reason that, maybe, | you might stop, pure vanity reasons, | if your teeth looked like this? Put them up the right way around.
| My God.
I mean, I would hope that my teeth | would never get that bad, cos, obviously, | I keep brushing them.
You can be sure | that the early stages of this are happening in your mouth.
It's obviously another | sort of thing to push me on, really.
'With a lot on her plate, | Katy heads back to Stockport to break the news | to her mum and dad.
' Come on.
How are you doing? | Ah, not too bad.
Katy, she's missed you.
Haven't you? Was there anything that was a worry | or that we need to know about? From my blood tests, | they discovered that my liver's not working as it should do.
I can't believe somebody so young could be starting | with liver problems.
They're saying about not being able | to conceive children.
That would have scared you.
| Yeah, that was the bit that got me.
That's got to make you | want to give up if you think it's going to | affect your fertility.
Yeah.
That was the one thing | they said where it was like .
.
and I didn't say much after that, | I just sat there like 'Before Felix can begin his work, he wants to uncover what lies at | the root of Katy's eating problems.
' Katy, what's your understanding | of what's going on here with these eating | and drinking habits? I can't remember when | it sort of first became a problem.
I can just remember never really | being interested at all in food.
You know, | sort of being offered things and just thinking, | "No, I don't like that" because I've not had it before, it's | not safe, it's not what I'm used to.
You know, it's either I don't like | the look of it, the smell of it, just there's something about | nearly everything that I just think, "I don't like it.
" What I'd like you to tell me | a little bit more about is think back in the past to a really typical scenario | around the dinner table.
Mum would make the dinner.
| We'd all stay out of the kitchen.
She usually made different meals.
Like, | she'd make me something separate.
I don't really remember that much | drama about it, to be honest.
I can remember the odd times | when it was, you know, "Sit there and eat that," I would have just, you know, | plainly refused and sat there and cried about it.
If I didn't want to eat something, | I weren't going to.
But you said that | if they did pressurise you, you would cry quite easily | and then they'd back off.
So it sounds like | your parents' strategy was to not nag you, | but what it did in your case, it just allowed you to keep doing | the same behaviour.
Let's put aside | the diet and eating for a moment and tell me who you are as a person.
My best friend would probably say | I'm quite confident.
I've got a bit of a daring side.
| So you're a real daredevil.
Yeah, with most things, | I'll sort of try anything, but just not food-related.
What specifically prevents you | from trying new foods? I've got all | the good intention of doing it and I get it up to my mouth and then | it's like I can't physically do it and it's just embarrassing to have | everybody sort of thinking that I'm, you know, | acting like a child or I just think people think | I'm a bit stupid.
OK.
Now, this sounds | a little bit odd, but what's the problem with people | thinking you're a little bit stupid? I don't want people | to think I'm stupid.
I know this sounds odd, | but I'm going to ask you again, cos if they did think | you were a little bit stupid, what would that mean to you? It would upset me that, you know, | friends and family and things and people, you know, | have that opinion of me.
I would rather everybody just think | I was fine and normal and just see the sort of | happier side of me all the time.
With Katy, | her problems seem to be twofold.
To avoid tantrums, | her parents never really pushed her, so her eating patterns have been | maintained into adulthood, then there's her fear of looking | stupid when trying new foods and this is | also blocking her progress and definitely something I'd like | to explore with her further.
'Back at her hotel, Katy's had | some time to reflect as well.
' I think, after speaking with Felix, I've realised that maybe I shouldn't | put quite as much emphasis on being ashamed of the problem.
Because I think I honestly could | have got the problem sorted out a long time ago | if instead of being ashamed of it and denying it for so long, if I would have recognised | that it was a problem.
'Katy has her first | one-on-one appointment with nutritionist Charlotte | to start the process of getting her to eat | healthier foods.
' Before I start my work with Katy, I need to see | where her boundaries lie, how far I can push her | with new foods.
I suspect there's going to be quite | a lot of resistance on her part.
Now, what's your first reaction, | looking at this spread here? There's a lot of | green things around here.
That's the stuff | that's catching my eye, and the tomato over there.
| I'm trying not to look at them.
Of all the foods you can see | in front of you, which looks | least problematic to you? The bread that's over there | doesn't look too bad.
Are you prepared to step up and have | the one that's less processed? It just doesn't look nice at all.
I think it is.
Let's try it.
What are your first impressions? It's just, like, full of seeds.
That stuff you have to chew is the stuff | that's good for your liver.
Hmm.
Don't like that bit.
(LAUGHS) | Go for it.
Blah! That's horrible.
| In what way? It's likeugh! I think this is the bit | you have to learn to do.
This is the bit you're not used to.
| At the moment, it's just unfamiliar.
'Next up, those essential greens that are so desperately lacking | in her diet.
' Stick it in.
The whole thing? | Oh, yeah.
Just stick it in.
Oh! | Go on.
You're thinking.
Stop thinking.
(SIGHS) Right.
Ugh! | No! Oh, no! Really.
(LAUGHS) It goes a little bit further | each time.
If I could swallow it | without chewing it, maybe.
I just don't want to chew it.
I'm afraid you and that leaf | need to become friends.
Commit to your leaf.
| Right.
Ugh! Oh! The leaf came back.
| That's horrible.
OK, what was horrible about that? It's just, like, | the most I chewed it, the more it tasted like - | I don't know, what is it? Cabbage? Yes.
It tasted like cabbage? | Yeah.
My God, cabbage tastes like cabbage.
Yeah.
| Yeah.
(LAUGHS) 'If veg is a struggle, then maybe | fruit will tempt her sweet tooth.
' Quite bitter and sour.
It's actually | a very, very sweet fruit.
Hmm.
No, I don't like that one | very much.
OK.
I feel that that's one | that you might like in the future.
I've just got a feeling.
'For over ten years, Katy has drunk | nothing but diet cola, so Charlotte has to find her | a healthy replacement and fast.
' Apple juice.
That's miles stronger | than I thought it would.
Don't like that very much.
Let's tryI'm going to go for - I'm not going to tell you | what it is.
Oh, what is it? | It smells like bleach.
That's grapefruit.
Yeah, I don't like that one.
Have a go on that.
Hmm.
| Go for it.
That's a cranberry drink.
Yeah, it's all right, actually.
Excellent.
OK.
That's really good.
She surprised me in the fact that | she put a lot of stuff in her mouth.
There were no tears and no tantrums.
But it might be a very different | scenario when she's at home alone.
What I feel she needs to do | is keep pushing the boundaries and just keep going, | then I think she's got a really, | really good chance of changing.
I used to sit there for long enough | that people would give up and I kind of thought at first | that she might give up, cos she might get bored | of telling me to eat it.
The only way out was to | eat something to shut her up.
'Charlotte and Felix | have set Katy the challenge of eating a healthy meal | in just four weeks time.
To get Katy started, | Charlotte sends her off with a homework hamper | filled with unfamiliar foods and tasks for the week ahead.
' (READS) "Reduce your daily intake | of diet cola from three litres a day | to two litres a day only.
No white bread at all.
Replace your white bread | with healthier alternatives.
" Oh, no.
This looks awful.
'And Charlotte has also asked Katy to | ditch all her sugary kiddie treats.
' I'm not really enjoying this, | to be honest.
It's like throwing all my food away.
| It's just a waste.
'Katy's lack of enthusiasm | doesn't go unnoticed.
' Try and be a bit more positive, | please.
I can't, because I'm throwing away | all the food that I eat and I don't yet | like any of the new food, so I'm gonna starve.
'And with Mum around, | it's not long before Katy reverts to her childlike ways.
' I don't see | how I can eat any of this.
Likeeverybody goes away and leaves me | with a house full of this food and I'm hungry and it's like, | "What am I supposed to do?" I'll just randomly cut up an onion | and some broccoli and put it on a pan | and try to eat it? I don't like cooking and I can't do | it.
You've never cooked, that's why.
Give it a try.
You might like it.
It seems like so much effort | when you could just spend ã3 Do you not think it's worth it? | Do you not think it's worth it? Yeah, but I just think | it's just easier To carry on drinking diet cola | and chocolate and crisps and biscuits and feeling unhealthy | and being unhealthy? You don't think it's worth a little | bit of effort? I think I'm going to spend | an hour a day cooking food just to sit on the settee | while I'm watching telly and eat a bowl of soup, like, | "This is fun" and then wash up.
Once you get into | a routine of doing it, it'll just become normal, | it'll become a way of life that when you come in, you'll get | what you've got in the cupboard and start cooking it | instead of grabbing a bag of crisps.
Come on, positive.
Think positive thoughts.
'And later that night, things still | don't get any easier for Katy.
' At the moment, | I've got a house full of vegetables and I don't | really like any vegetables and I don't know how to make them | and I'm not in the mood.
And I've got a splitting headache.
| It's, like, here.
It's killing.
So, I mean, the easy thing to do now would be to go get | a big bottle of Coke, sit and watch TV for a bit and chill | out and, you know, enjoy myself, but then I'm back to square one, | I'm back to where I was.
'It's the start of week 2.
Katy's managed | to cut down on the cola, but she's still struggling | to eat new foods.
Felix has asked her to meet him | at a local youth centre for their next session.
' Katy needs to be pushed out of | her comfort zone to face her fears | of looking stupid, as she calls it, when trying new foods.
Now, Bollywood dancing is something | totally foreign to her and probably quite frightening, so I've got a challenge in mind | to give her the push she needs.
Hi, Katy.
Nice to see you again.
'By facing her fears | of embarrassment, she may realise that trying | something as simple as fruit or veg is not as scary | as she thinks it is.
' BHANGRA MUSIC That's brilliant.
| OK.
Here we have, today, what we're | actually going to have you do is learn to do | some Bollywood dancing.
And it's probably something | you've never done before, which is the whole point of it.
If you'd have said ballet or | something, it would have been worse.
No, it's Bollywood.
| OK, let's get set up.
All right then.
So your hands are here.
| You go one, two.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
'Katy's clearly embarrassed.
' .
.
five, six, seven, eight.
'But she's not about | to suffer on her own.
' Aren't you doing it with us? | Do you want me to? I think you should.
| OK, let's do it.
(TEACHER LAUGHS) BHANGRA MUSIC CONTINUES Now, you see, that is awesome.
| Well done.
You feeling good? Yeah, it's getting easier | as I go on.
'And just when she thinks | the end is in sight, Felix steps up | the embarrassment factor.
' We're going to take this | one stage further, cos we're going to perform this | in front of some people.
Like, real people? | Yeah, kind of real people.
Not experts in Bollywood, just people who are there | to experience and have a laugh and to really enjoy the moment.
(LAUGHS NERVOUSLY) Are you OK? | Yeah.
Are you up for it? Well done.
| Well done, Katy.
That's brilliant.
'So it's out of the frying pan | and into the fire as Katy makes her Bollywood debut in the middle | of her local shopping centre.
' How are you feeling right now? Um, I'm not loving it, to be honest.
| I'd be surprised if you were.
On a scale of one to ten, | which is maximum fear, where would you rate yourself | right now? Probably about nine.
| A nine.
OK.
The aim of today | is for you to focus on the dance and being with it and let these people go by, | you know.
They'll probably get into it | and stuff.
It's gonna be great.
Yeah? | Yeah.
BHANGRA MUSIC (BOTH LAUGH) People in Katy's position focus on | what everyone else is thinking and how they're judging them | and forget to think about their own feelings.
So the aim of today was to get her | to focus on the experience and just forget | everyone else around her, which we'd like her | to apply to her diet.
Oh, my God.
| Katy, Katy, Katy.
Come here.
Well done.
Well done.
| You were brilliant.
This was new.
| You didn't like it, but you did it and we want to apply that learning to deal with trying new things | in your diet, for example, yeah? Before you come across them, | you probably think, "No way! That's not for me.
| That's not part of my reality.
" Then you try them and think, "OK, I | didn't enjoy it the first time, but now I'm OK with it.
" Yeah.
I'm feeling better | now it's over and done with.
I'm glad I've done it.
| It was just a bit scary, the idea of, you know, | someone I know seeing me.
I just don't want to look stupid.
'With the morning session over, Felix goes to meet Katy's mum.
' Lovely to meet you.
I'm Felix.
| Hi, nice to meet you.
Hello, Felix.
'He's keen to see what she'll make | of Katy's Bollywood bravado.
' Katy, what have they done with you, | sweetheart? Have you noticed | something different about Katy? I do.
| That's called a bindi, I believe.
And I've got some bangles.
I take it we've been doing | a bit of dancing, have we? Yeah.
Like Bollywood-type dancing? How do you know this? | Well, cos I can just tell.
Yeah.
And? | Guess where.
The Precinct.
| Not Stockport Precinct.
They didn't take you | to Stockport Precinct.
(LAUGHS) | Oh, Katy! Were you on your own? No, there was | two professionals there.
Did you see anybody you know? I saw one person | who I've seen in work a few times.
OK.
Was it horrible | while you were doing it? Yeah, I couldn't look up | cos I thought there was going to be people | staring at me.
How do you think you might have | reacted if you saw Katy there in some obvious distress? She would have been looking down.
| What might you have done? Worried about her.
She probably would have | looked young and vulnerable.
I'd have taken you off.
I can't understand | what that's got to do with picking up a piece of food | and putting it in your mouth and not liking the taste of it.
Katy's lesson is to | stick through it and realise, "It's not going to be as bad | as I thought it would be.
" And while she's experiencing that, everybody has to allow her | that experience.
OK.
Katy's mum was very concerned about, | "Who saw you at the centre?" and what was going on and, in some ways, she's teaching | Katy what to be afraid of.
So what's important for us | as psychologists is to let people know that the best | way, sometimes, to help a person is actually to help them | stand the distress, get through it, and realise they | can do that time and time again.
'It's halfway through | Katy's 4-week challenge and she's still struggling | with her new diet, but she has managed to reduce her | diet cola intake by 14 litres a week and replace it with juice and water.
Trouble is caffeine withdrawal | has really kicked in.
' I'm not feeling very well today.
So I've had a day off.
I woke up about four this morning feeling really sick | and hot and cold and, like, I've had this headache | for a couple of days and I think that's just, you know, | not as much caffeine and stuff and then just | basically feeling like rubbish.
'Finding it hard to cope, Katy temporarily moves | to her parents' house and into the loving arms of Mum.
' Hiya.
| Hey, Mum.
'But given her history | of mollycoddling, could this be a big step | in the wrong direction?' Yes, she's struggling.
She perhaps | thought it was going to be easier.
It's hard to wrap your mind | around how, instead of having diet cola drinks and crisps | and bread, you've suddenly got | a lot of root vegetables and she's struggling | wrapping her mind around that.
And, yes, she perhaps needs | to put more effort in to reading her homework | and the tasks that she's been given.
If she maybe | gave a bit more to that, she possibly would do better.
'Katy's energy levels | have dropped dramatically and she's finding it harder than ever | to motivate herself.
But it's not just caffeine withdrawal | she's suffering from.
What neither Katy, | nor anyone else knew at this moment was that she was, in fact, pregnant.
' (YAWNS) Seeing Katy so low is too much | for mum Susan, so she perks her up | with a fix of bread.
' I was supposed to do | a couple of tasks last week, but I've not been doing any of them.
I've just been in bed and sleeping.
So I've fallen behind a bit.
That's why I'm trying to get | a lot done over the next few days now I'm feeling a little bit better.
'Charlotte decides | the only way to engage Katy is to make food fun, | so she's devised a session that will challenge her | in a way she usually enjoys.
' I think Katy's really struggling.
She has cut down the diet cola, but she's not actually eating much and she really needs to put | some variety into her diet.
Now, I know she loves gambling, so I want to use that | to move her on a bit.
Hello.
Have a seat.
How have you been getting on | with your new diet? I've managed to cut things out, but | haven't managed to replace them.
Aha! | I'm a bit hungry and grumpy, but.
Oh, we're here to help you | with that today.
We know you love gambling.
So this is your environment.
| OK.
You're going to bet on | either red or black.
If you lose, then I get | to choose what you eat.
Oh, no! That's horrible.
(LAUGHS) | I never win.
No more bets now.
Thank you.
Oh, no.
| Seven red.
Oh, it's me.
(LAUGHS) | I knew I was going to lose.
I'm going to go for | a little bit of that one.
'With her luck out, she's forced | to try her bet rouge - a tomato.
' That's just gross.
OK.
Ugh! I just hate tomato.
You're not gonna give up, are you? | No.
Quick, quick! | OK, OK, OK.
Ah! | Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite! Ugh! Chew, chew, chew.
Look at me.
Chew.
Just look at me.
Chew.
| Look at me and chew.
Ugh! It just doesn't taste nice.
OK.
Move on from that.
| Oh, man.
Place your bets, please.
Hey! | Four black.
'Again, Katy loses and this time, | she's faced with a cucumber'.
You need to do half of it.
I can't eat half of that in one go.
How are we going to get you to a | meal if you can't eat half of that? I can eat a normal-person mouthful.
Half a bite of those | is a normal-person mouthful.
You wouldn't just shove | that much food in your mouth.
Yeah, you would.
Yeah, you would.
| People do.
Chew, chew, chew, chew.
| Tongue, tongue, tongue.
Relax your face.
Look at me.
Ugh! | Chew.
Ugh.
Ugh! | So you're not used to that texture? But it's not doing | anything bad to you, is it? What is it doing that's bad to you? Ugh! (CHOKES) What is it doing that's bad to you? It's just making my mouth upset.
How is it making your mouth upset? Cos my mouth doesn't like it.
There were quite a few points | throughout that where I just thought, "Just eat it.
| Just put it in your mouth.
Just eat it.
" And not because | I was being non-sympathetic.
I can really see the difference | when someone's truly not having a good time and just making it a bit | for the sake of a battle.
'It's the penultimate week | of Katy's dietary makeover.
With her commitment to change | now seriously in question and still unaware | that she's also pregnant, Charlotte and Felix meet up | for a coffee bar case conference.
' All right.
| OK.
I just wanted to have | a quick catch-up, really, cos I've had | quite a frustrating time with Katy.
We did this game with roulette, | which was supposed to be fun, which was supposed to engage | with her love of gambling and she was still doing | all the making faces and beingkind of going back | to the little girl thing.
You know, if you're not cooperating, | engaging, it makes the job ten times harder.
I've got to come up with some way of | holding up a mirror to her behaviour so she realises she's acting | a like a child.
We know she's moved back home, which | means she's been sucked back into that environment where she doesn't | have to look after herself.
Mum's always diving in | to rescue Katy from any kind of duress.
I think I need | to go and see the mum.
I think I need to see them together.
| Hmm.
Hi, Katy.
Nice to see you again.
| Hey, you right? 'Felix has asked Katy to meet him | at a local nursery for their next session.
' What I hope to do today is for Katy to have an experience | of working with children and realise she's a bit like | a child herself with her behaviours.
If she can see that | in their behaviour, she realises, "I'm doing that too | and I need to grow up a bit.
" CHILDREN TALK OVER ONE ANOTHER 'It's lunchtime and a room full | of hungry 3-year-olds need feeding.
The class teacher | shows Katy the ropes.
' The trolley will be coming in here | with all the meals and the plates.
What I want you to do is give out | the cutlery to the children and then it's always a good thing | to eat with the children, cos we encourage healthy eating | and good eating.
I don't want a fork.
What's wrong with it? We'll just put it there | for a minute.
OK, I'll have it.
You have no fork.
Then you won't | be able to eat your dinner.
'Katy's normally the one | resisting at mealtimes, but she'll have to be the adult | in this situation.
' What's wrong with this fork? Why don't you like it? Why don't you just try it? | I like it.
I'm not having a fork.
If you get a spoon and a knife, | then you can have that fork, yeah? But you don't need your spoon | until you've got your dinner.
No.
So it'll be OK.
'An adult Katy is coping, but can she keep it up | when lunch is served?' Katy.
Whoa.
| That's a ginormous plate of food.
'Food arrives | and the children tuck in, but someone isn't eating.
' Why are you not eating it? How are you doing, Katy? | Fine.
They've asked you why you're not | eating your food.
What did you say? I am, it's just too hot.
It's up to you, obviously.
I'd rather just help them | eat theirs and then me not have them | necessarily notice.
Well, they do notice.
| That's the thing.
I don't want them to look.
I don't want to set, like, | a bad example.
It's about trying to override | that instinctive resistance.
Hmm.
| No-one can do it for you but you.
Oh! You're doing good, aren't you? You can eat mine as well | if you want.
Do you want to eat all mine? | (LAUGHS) 'Katy's struggle to eat | is even greater than a 3-year-old's, which is frustrating | for the class teacher.
' They're seeing | that you're not eating, so you've got to | try and eat something.
You can see Sameet is a little bit | reluctant to eat his food, so if you show him that | you're eating it, it's nice, that way, you're encouraging him | so he might eat.
Eat, baby.
Look, | Katy's got to have some dinner.
It's very nice, Sameet, | so please eat your dinner, baby.
And if you eat some first, | and then he can see you eat it, and then he may be | encouraged to eat.
Can you eat some food for me? There was just some plain rice, | there were some other vegetables.
She could have had a bite | and grinned and beared it out, but she didn't.
So that's disappointing because I felt she could have | tried harder with that.
At this stage of our work together, to be frank, I'm having my doubts | about Katy's level of commitment and this doesn't bode well | for therapy.
You need somebody who's really | willing to give it their all, to try the things | that are suggested to them.
If they're not interested in trying, | that's always a problem.
'With little dietary improvement | in sight, Charlotte makes a visit to Susan, | Katy's mum.
' Hiya.
Come in.
| Hi, Mum.
'She suspects Katy's temporary move | back home into the loving arms of Mum | may be hindering her progress.
' Katy's been pretty terrible | at doing any of her homework.
Part of the problem is that her mum just steps in any time | that Katy finds something difficult or uncomfortable, which means | Katy doesn't have to go through any struggle on her own at all.
Her mum Susan's going to have to | learn to let go, step back, and really let Katy | find her own way.
The fact that, potentially, together you want to be able to enjoy meals has to be an end point.
You know, you've got to truly | believe you can - and you will - be eating food that's good for you.
So in terms of | how you can help Katy, ultimately, you have to step back | and do what I'm doing, which is go, | "Her health is going to suffer if she doesn't eat this," so it's that important that even if | she goes through a bit of trauma to do it, she has to stand | on her own two feet to do that.
OK.
I think Charlotte's got a point about my mum | sort of backing down on me.
And I know that my mum will give in and I don't tend to try stuff | when she tells me to, which is just me being horrible, | I suppose, to my mum.
But I kind of know that I can | get away with it with her, so why not, if you can, | and get away with it? Oh.
Instructions.
'With another hamper of goodies | and tasks waiting, Charlotte is keen to see | if Katy and her mum really get the point she was making.
' (READS) "Time to vary | the soup you make.
Inside this hamper, we have provided | you with the ingredients and instructions | on how to make a new soup - chicken and vegetable soup.
" Ooh.
(ALL LAUGH) I'll give you the stuff | that we need.
OK.
Carrot.
'But mum Susan finds it hard | to let Katy take the reigns.
" (READS) "Cut it up, wash it.
" Don't start on that.
This is the start of it.
But first we have to decide how much | of everything there you need.
I'll just go along.
Can't I start | here and do it as I go along? No, you can't, | because however many it says there, you take that out | and put that separately.
Is this you not butting in? | Yeah.
(LAUGHS) I was waiting for it.
OK.
Katy, have you | ever touched raw chicken? No.
I'd wash your hands first.
Just watch your fingers.
| I'm watching my fingers.
They're nowhere near it.
I'm stressed out now.
She's in | the kitchen with sharp knives.
I'll use the other, then.
| No, no, no.
Katy, that small knife's fine.
She's having her own | little personal thing over here.
She just wants to jump in and | No, you use the small knife.
You're doing well.
Push, turn and push that button.
| I know how to do an oven.
.
.
until it's brown.
| Fill the bottom of the pan.
See, if you leave her, | she works it out.
OK.
Fair enough.
Argh! | Oh, it's spitting at me.
When you're stirring it, just | leave it for a minute on the heat so it gets time to cook | before you start to turn it gently.
Yeah? | That's nice.
There's a big difference between | showing someone what to do - yeah.
So that's you teaching her to do it, | rather than doing it for her.
If I thought she was in the house | cooking like this, I'd be so pleased | and so proud of her.
Her instinct, which she's | obviously had strongly for 21 years is to jump in and help Katy | at all the times.
But I think we saw progress and, | hopefully, she can see the merits | of getting past that.
How's the chicken? | Yeah.
Yeah? Good, isn't it? I was quite surprised that she | put it in her mouth and tried it and actually swallowed it.
Charlotte was right when she said | that I take over and I probably fuss about it | too much and make too big a thing of it, whereas she's an adult now and, as Charlotte said, | she's got to do it for herself and she's got to get on with it.
'There are just a few days left | before Katy's final challenge.
For this, she's decided | that she'd like to cook a meal and eat it with her family.
After four weeks of caffeine crashes | and a resistance to change, Katy has started to see the light | at the end of the tunnel.
' A couple of months ago, | I was quite You know, it was easy to upset me | and I was easily grumpy and hyperactive | and I just used to go from one extreme to the other | really easy.
And now I think I am a bit more | emotionally stable.
I'm actually probably looking | forward to the final challenge now because the actual idea of it before was quite scary because it was, | you know, everybody might be looking at me and wanting me to eat these things | what if I don't manage it and what if it | all goes wrong in the kitchen? And I was worried about it, but now I'm thinking of | the good things that could happen.
You know, already, | she's reaching for other food now to fill in that gap.
She's reaching for fruit, | she's reaching for the yoghurts, she's having wholemeal bread.
So she's already taken | a huge step forward.
I'm looking forward | to my random fruit salad.
It looks almost as good | as a really big chocolate bar.
'Although Katy isn't eating | as many new foods as Felix and Charlotte | might have liked, she has started to feel | the physical benefits of lowering her | cola and bread consumption.
' I actually weighed myself and in the last four weeks or so, I've actually lost, like, | nearly a stone.
And, you know, | I've not been starving and I've been losing | a few pounds here and there and it's just mad because before, | I was just eating - it was like I was never full up.
But, obviously, this food now, | although there's less of it and it's not quite as nice, yet, it does actually keep you going | for longer.
'It's the day of the final challenge.
For this, Katy's decided she'd like | to prepare a special meal for her family.
' Oh, my God.
'But has she progressed far enough | over the last four weeks to be able to sit down with them | and clear her plate?' It will be nice.
I think | I'll feel like more of a grown-up because in the past, you know, | I've had something different.
But I think us all sitting down | having something grown-up, then that's a turning point, then, and saying goodbye | to the way things used to be.
'Katie's been provided | with the ingredients and recipes for tomato soup | and a chicken dish with vegetables.
' Argh! I have to say, I'm a little bit | nervous about this meal because Katy has never been | the best cook in the world.
But we're all going to give it a go.
I'm waiting for it | to stop attacking me with its spit.
It's been a surprise that | she's decided to make a meal, cos she's never been interested | in cooking.
So I think it's been a challenge | for her to get in the kitchen and get stuck in, | especially with fresh fruit and veg, you know, to get her hands in there | and start making stuff.
Yeah, that's been | a bit of a surprise.
I think it's now going to be | spicy onions.
This is doing my head in.
| This was a stupid idea.
'But forgetting | Charlotte's words of advice, it's not long before | mum Susan takes the reigns from a flustered Katy.
' I'll start | chopping the vegetables for this.
No, you need to make the soup.
| Can't you do it? That's going to be ready, | in eight minutes, to eat.
It'll stay warm.
It just means in | eight minutes, it'll be ready.
Well, we'd best do the soup | and put it in the blender.
Careful, it's going to be hot.
| I'd spoon it in.
'As the pressure mounts in the | kitchen, Katy takes a breather.
' I honestly, honestly did not think | it was going to be this hard and I've been | really looking forward to it.
I could happily give up now | and go home and let my mum clean up, but this is the final challenge | and if I don't do this, then I've not passed | my final challenge.
'Mum, Dad and brother Ben are seated | as Katy pulls herself together and serves the first course.
' Dun, dun, dun! Thank you, Katy.
Well done.
| Cheers, Katy.
Well done.
Cheers.
| Cheers.
Yeah, it's good, that, Katy.
This is really tasty, Katy.
Very nice.
| What's the matter? 'Her family may like the soup, | but it's Katy who has to eat it.
' Try it without the bread, yeah? | Do you like it, Katy? Don't know yet.
Don't know yet? | Having a bit of bread.
I'm sure it's not boiling now.
It's very | Tomatoey? (LAUGHS) | Hmm.
I'm not majorly liking the taste | of it, to be honest, but Oh, Katy, you've got to try some.
I'm trying it.
(LAUGHS) Come on.
I'm doing the whole - | I'm tasting it.
Are you going to try a spoonful? | No.
Try a spoonful at least.
| I don't - can you please not? I've had some.
Right.
Do you want some help | with the main course? Oh! Bit short of space.
Quite stunning that Katy made that | with her own fair hands.
Yeah, it was really good.
Would have been even better | if she'd eaten some.
I think she's just not | trying properly and it's still .
.
still all in her mind, | I think, that, unfortunately.
I'm a bit disappointed there.
| I thought she was gonna eat that.
Yeah, I thought she would.
And I'm quite surprised | she wouldn't try any more, but I think she's a bit hot and | bothered after being in the kitchen, so I let her off a bit.
We'll | see how she goes with the main, see if she'll eat that.
This is chicken | What kind of chicken? .
.
made in a pot.
| Thank you.
This is it.
| OK.
All right, well, dig in, then.
What do you think of that chicken | that's cooked in a sauce? It's got a zing to it | in a better way than the soup had.
OK.
Maybe that is just my tastebuds.
You wouldn't be frightened | of ordering this in a restaurant.
It's really nice to see | Kate getting stuck into a meal.
Have you enjoyed it? I'm not going to lie | and say I really like this, cos I don't, but at the same time, after I tried the first mouthful and thought, "I don't | really like that very much.
" But I've had 20 more mouthfuls since and each one's, like, a bit easier.
And then I think if someone said, if you said next week you were | cooking the exact same meal, I'd probably eat | 20% more than I had today.
It's been a really hard struggle | for her, this.
It's been a lot tougher | than she thought it would be and so tonight | was a big thing for her and she's probably proud of herself, | in some ways, but then probably | a little bit let down that she didn't | eat more than she did.
If she did what she did tonight | in a restaurant, nobody would notice.
But because everybody | were focusing on her tonight, it's been more difficult.
I think, tonight, | it would have been great if she'd polished off everything | that was put in front of her, but I think a reality check | for me there is that what she didn't do | was run away, she didn't baulk at anything, | she didn't cry and she didn't upset anybody else or ruin the experience | for anybody else.
So the fact is she's trying things.
There's been a lot of times | when I felt like just giving up because it's not | the easy thing to do, but I haven't done and I am proud | of that fact that I carried on and I ate what I wanted to eat, | but I could do that again, maybe a little bit more.
And it is, you know, | since the first time you got me to try something, | it has just gone upwards.
'One month later, Katy's diet | and health are still improving.
She's told her parents | about her pregnancy, but wants to set the record straight | with Charlotte.
' Katy's asked me to come and see her.
I'll be quite interested to see | what it is that Katy wants to say because, at times, | she was quite difficult and even | really kicking her heels back and it seemed to be | a bit of a battle of wills and it was quite confusing | to deal with.
So I'm intrigued to find out | what she's got to say.
Heya.
| Hello.
Come in.
| Ahh! Hello.
Lovely to see you.
How have you been, then? I've been really good.
I've, um I thought I'd get you up here to | have a bit of a chat, obviously.
I see now, you know, I could have | taken more advice on board and sort of tried a bit harder.
It was kind of a battle, | rather than feeling like I was working with people, | with you and Felix.
You seemed quite shut down at times and became almost defensive.
It seemed like you were almost | saying what you wanted us to hear kind of to make us go away a bit.
I was kind of feeling sickly | all the time and really, really tired | and part of me thought, you know, if changing my diet | for a healthier one, you know, | is going to make me feel worse.
I did think I was going to | feel better, but I never did.
But then, um, another - | you know, the reason I wanted to sort of bring you | up here today and tell you is that I actually found out | just after finishing - well, just before | my final challenge Yeah.
.
.
that I'm actually | expecting a baby.
(LAUGHS) You're joking! So all that time, you were pregnant? Yes, the whole time.
So, obviously, all the symptoms | that go along with being pregnant - the feeling sick | and sort of being a bit fed up and thisyou know, | all those things were happening.
What timing.
I mean, you know, | sustaining a pregnancy and having a baby | with the diet you were on would have been not a good idea, | to say the least.
(LAUGHS) It's quite scary, actually.
Oh, yeah.
I've just managed | to sort it out just in time.
But I've had my scan now and Oh! Have you got a picture? | Yeah.
(LAUGHS) | It's a dinky little picture.
That was then.
| Wow.
And when the baby is born, obviously, | I've got a lot of work to do making sure that Baby eats better | than I did.
Oh, thank you, Katie.
| No problem.
It was lovely to see you.
| It's nice to see you, too.
Wow! What a revelation.
That explains so much | about how she was feeling and about how she was reacting | through the whole process.
I'm really pleased for her and I hope that she can make | even more changes, cos this is such a crucial time | for her and her baby.
I wish her the best of luck.
So much so that she works nights | as a croupier in a casino.
But the biggest gamble Katy takes | is with her health.
She's addicted to diet cola.
' I probably drink | about three litres of it a day.
'And she bulks this up | with a diet of stodgy white bread.
Fruit and veg terrify her.
' Just put it on your lips.
'Helping her to change | her freaky food habits will be the job of our experts - psychologist Felix Economakis | will force her to face the music' I mean, on a scale of one to ten, | which is maximum fear, where would you rate yourself | right now? About nine.
'.
.
while nutritionist Charlotte | Watts struggles to get her off cola and onto healthier foods.
' Oh! It came back.
| That's horrible.
'But with only four weeks | to transform Katy's diet' Oh, it's spitting at me.
'.
.
will Charlotte and Felix be up | to their toughest challenge yet?' Try and be more positive.
| I can't.
I'm having my doubts | about Katy's commitment.
Ugh! Blah! At this rate, I'm not that confident | she's going to do it.
THEME MUSIC Argh! '21-year-old Katy Walker | is an adventure-seeker with a taste for extreme sports.
' I would say | I'm quite an adrenaline junkie.
I have bungee-jumped, skydived - anything where there's | a bit of danger.
I just love it.
She's brave, she's full of courage.
| She's so confident.
'She's fearless | in most areas of her life, except for when it comes to food.
' I'm scared of | experiencing anything new when it comes to eating or drinking.
I don't really like the idea | of trying anything that I don't consider to be safe.
'And her list of safe foods | is extremely limited.
' My meal, most days, | will be bread in some form - like toast, crisp butties, ketchup.
I do the whole bread with ketchup on | now and again.
Sweets, chocolate, anything | fun and childlike.
'And she washes it all down | with a daily deluge of diet cola.
' I drink Diet Coke from getting up, | first thing in the morning, till when I go to bed.
I don't drink anything else at all.
'And panic sets in | when she's without her fizzy friend.
' Wherever I am, there's usually | some Diet Coke around.
I usually sort of carry one around | with me, just in case, you know? 'When pressured to try new foods, | it's always the same old story.
' She says she doesn't like something | before she's put it in her mouth and she willshe'll gag, really, | if you try to Or she'll touch it | with her tongue and then Ugh! I don't like it.
You didn't even get it on your | tongue.
It squidged to my teeth It is difficult to understand, | for other people, but I can't physically do it and, you know, | it is too stressful for me and I would rather just | avoid the situation completely.
'Katy grew up in Stockport and is | the youngest of three children.
' We definitely did spoil her a bit | because she was the youngest because she was the girl, you know, | and she was really cute.
'Her fussy eating started early.
' We'd bribe her, we'd threaten her, we'd do just about anything | to get her to eat the right things.
But then, in the end - and probably | the end wasn't a very long time - it became easier just to think, "Well, at least we're getting | something down her.
At least she's eating something.
" It was always tears and tantrums | at meal times.
So we thought the easier option | would be to stay calm, because she's going to | grow out of this.
But, unfortunately, she never has.
'Katy recently moved into | her own flat, but her bizarre eating habits | still affect her family.
' Meal times can be stressful, because we've got to make sure | that it's comfortable for Katy.
There doesn't seem to be anything | on here that is remotely normal.
(SIGHS) We can't just have | the meals that we want without having to consider, | you know, mollycoddling Katy.
'Patience is starting to wear thin.
' I think it's becoming less tolerable | for everybody else now, because it was always OK | when I was 15 - "Oh, she doesn't want that.
| She'll have this.
" But now it's a bit more like, | "You're 21.
Just try it.
" 'And Katy's white bread | and three-litre-a-day habit has also started to take its toll | on her health.
' I have had | a couple of occasions where I've had, like, stomach pains | and ended up in hospital and it's been undiagnosed | and I get to thinking about that and thinking, | "It's probably something to do with all the crap I put in there.
" 'But 21 years of freaky eating | won't be easy to change.
' I think you're going to have | a real battle on your hands.
I think the real hard part will be | convincing her to stay that way.
If it was anything else | other than food, I'd say, "Yes, she'll overcome this.
| She'll do it.
" With it being food, | it's a whole different ball game.
I feel like it's now or never, | really, because I've waited long enough and now I'm at the point where | if I could change it now, I'd never had to look back.
'Starting today, Katy will have just four weeks | to revolutionise her diet and she's in London for her first | meeting with nutritionist Charlotte and psychologist Felix.
' Hello, Katy.
| Hello, I'm Charlotte, this is Felix.
Hi, Katy.
Good to meet you.
| How are you feeling? Bit nervous, but excited to see | what's gonna happen.
OK, don't worry, we're going to | take good care of you.
OK, well, come this way.
| OK.
OK, Katy, | so the next couple of weeks are going to be | a tough challenge for you, changing your dietary habits.
Felix and I have put | something together for you to use as a motivational tool | in the next couple of weeks.
We're going to leave you to watch | that and we'll come back after and have a chat to you about it, OK? | OK.
All right, good luck, Katy.
| Thanks.
Kate, just here to wish you luck and tell you to get a grip | and start eating food.
You need to fix this.
It's a big problem | and I'm not entirely sure I believe you can do it, but | if you can, please prove me wrong.
Hiya, chicken.
| Do this thing for me.
You know, let's get it over with, | let's get past it.
If it helps, you ditch Diet Coke and I'll ditch chocolate.
| How's that? Cos you know how important | chocolate is to me.
But I'll manage without that as long | as you'll manage without Diet Coke.
You can do this because you're gutsy | and you're awesome.
Hi, Katy.
First of all, | I'd like to say how pleased I am that you're finally doing something | about your eating problems.
It's you that's decided | to do something about it and you're doing it for you.
We all love you | and we all want you to be healthy.
And the way you are at the moment, it's gonna cause you serious | health problems in the future.
So stick with this, please.
Katy, what was it like for you to | listen to your friends and family? It wasn't very nice, just because a lot of those things | haven't been said before.
It's upset me to hear them | say that kind of stuff, so it should be a good motivator | to try and focus on how happy they all will probably be, | you know, if I do manage to do it.
And make yourself happy as well.
| Yes.
That's important.
Don't forget that.
OK, let's go | and make a start, then.
'Felix and Charlotte begin their work with something | to shock Katy into action.
' Come over here.
(LAUGHS) Oh, my God.
Yeah.
| So, Katy, we've looked at your diet and we're quite astonished to see | that you are living on a diet of mainly diet cola and white bread.
So what do you think | this here represents? I would go for, like, maybe | how much I've drunk in my life.
Interesting.
| Interesting.
What a load.
Well, you drink | three litres of diet cola a day, so this is 1,095 litres, which is the amount you drink | in one year alone.
Wow.
It's a lot and it looks really, | like, black.
This is a huge amount of chemicals | for your body to process.
This is really, | really serious stuff.
Oh.
'Katy eats over 1,000 bread rolls and over 1,500 slices | of white bread a year, but that's not all.
' What a lot of people don't realise | about white bread is how much sugar it contains.
And we have this to show you.
If you come over here, Katy 'A slice of white processed bread contains a quarter | of a teaspoon of sugar, so Katy consumes well over | the recommended daily allowance.
' Ready? Just to show you, | this is all going into your body.
Now, sugar in this form is not | something your body needs and it will just give you | a really big spike, surge of energy, and then you get those drops.
I'm just shocked, for now, because I thought bread might have | a bit of something in it that wasn't great, but I didn't even | think it had sugar in it, really.
Obviously, to move you | from this type of food to a more healthy way of eating is going to take | a lot of work from you.
We're going to need a lot of | commitment.
Are you ready for that? Yeah.
| OK.
Let's get to work.
OK.
'Over the next four weeks, Charlotte and Felix | will work with Katy to transform her dire diet.
' I think Katy's particular problem | here is a very large challenge.
I think there's a lot | of addictive qualities to the type of diet | that she's having and she has a lot of emotional | attachment to those as well.
The bread was the worst thing | to see and to smell, because it smelled | absolutely disgusting.
You know, seeing it all laid out | was just You know, it just makes me realise | how big the problem is, really.
'But old habits are hard to break.
Back at the hotel, | a tired Katy finds comfort in a pack of sugary sweets.
' I think I am feeling | quite emotionally drained today, just because I think it's | all sort of got quite serious now and it's all probably got a bit much and I'm sort of ready for the next | few days to be over with, I think.
'Charlotte's keen to find out | if Katy's shocking diet has done any damage to her health, so she's brought her to | a London clinic for blood tests.
' Hi, Katy.
How are you feeling? Katy's diet is truly awful and I really don't think | that she understands the extent to which | the chemicals in the diet cola and the bread | are really affecting her health.
I'm hoping that | today the session with Dr Pixie is really going to galvanise her, | motivate her into changing her dietary habits.
'Dr Pixie McKenna is a GP with a particular interest | in eating disorders.
She has analysed Katy's test results | and has some concerning news.
' The most worrying thing, for me, was that your liver function | was abnormal.
Do you know anything about your | liver? Do you know what it does? Um, I know if you give it | too much, like, alcohol it fails and doesn't work properly.
Everything thinks that, | "Oh, it's just alcohol," but, actually, | the liver has so many jobs to do.
And in that cola, | you've got all those E numbers, you've got the citric acid, | phosphoric acid and you're giving it | excessive amounts.
'The liver is one of | the largest organs.
It protects the body from poisoning by filtering the toxins | that go through it.
Katy's liver is being forced to work | much harder than it should due to her large cola consumption.
Chemical sweeteners | and phosphoric acid consumed in large quantities | are hard for the liver to break down.
Overworked liver cells | become saturated and this can lead to | cirrhosis of the liver, which is potentially deadly.
' Because you're drinking | so much cola, what you forget is that | there's caffeine in that and that's dehydrating you.
You're like someone who's in | a permanently hungover state.
Your liver's up, you're dehydrated, | you're wrecked.
It's not brilliant to, obviously, | find out that there's things | that have come up already that are just through this diet.
The other worry that I have, | your fertility, because caffeine will | adversely affect your fertility.
And, also, | when you do fall pregnant, your risk of miscarriage | is increased.
And I think the other worry | in terms of the amount of cola | that you're consuming is your teeth, actually.
Would that be a reason that, maybe, | you might stop, pure vanity reasons, | if your teeth looked like this? Put them up the right way around.
| My God.
I mean, I would hope that my teeth | would never get that bad, cos, obviously, | I keep brushing them.
You can be sure | that the early stages of this are happening in your mouth.
It's obviously another | sort of thing to push me on, really.
'With a lot on her plate, | Katy heads back to Stockport to break the news | to her mum and dad.
' Come on.
How are you doing? | Ah, not too bad.
Katy, she's missed you.
Haven't you? Was there anything that was a worry | or that we need to know about? From my blood tests, | they discovered that my liver's not working as it should do.
I can't believe somebody so young could be starting | with liver problems.
They're saying about not being able | to conceive children.
That would have scared you.
| Yeah, that was the bit that got me.
That's got to make you | want to give up if you think it's going to | affect your fertility.
Yeah.
That was the one thing | they said where it was like .
.
and I didn't say much after that, | I just sat there like 'Before Felix can begin his work, he wants to uncover what lies at | the root of Katy's eating problems.
' Katy, what's your understanding | of what's going on here with these eating | and drinking habits? I can't remember when | it sort of first became a problem.
I can just remember never really | being interested at all in food.
You know, | sort of being offered things and just thinking, | "No, I don't like that" because I've not had it before, it's | not safe, it's not what I'm used to.
You know, it's either I don't like | the look of it, the smell of it, just there's something about | nearly everything that I just think, "I don't like it.
" What I'd like you to tell me | a little bit more about is think back in the past to a really typical scenario | around the dinner table.
Mum would make the dinner.
| We'd all stay out of the kitchen.
She usually made different meals.
Like, | she'd make me something separate.
I don't really remember that much | drama about it, to be honest.
I can remember the odd times | when it was, you know, "Sit there and eat that," I would have just, you know, | plainly refused and sat there and cried about it.
If I didn't want to eat something, | I weren't going to.
But you said that | if they did pressurise you, you would cry quite easily | and then they'd back off.
So it sounds like | your parents' strategy was to not nag you, | but what it did in your case, it just allowed you to keep doing | the same behaviour.
Let's put aside | the diet and eating for a moment and tell me who you are as a person.
My best friend would probably say | I'm quite confident.
I've got a bit of a daring side.
| So you're a real daredevil.
Yeah, with most things, | I'll sort of try anything, but just not food-related.
What specifically prevents you | from trying new foods? I've got all | the good intention of doing it and I get it up to my mouth and then | it's like I can't physically do it and it's just embarrassing to have | everybody sort of thinking that I'm, you know, | acting like a child or I just think people think | I'm a bit stupid.
OK.
Now, this sounds | a little bit odd, but what's the problem with people | thinking you're a little bit stupid? I don't want people | to think I'm stupid.
I know this sounds odd, | but I'm going to ask you again, cos if they did think | you were a little bit stupid, what would that mean to you? It would upset me that, you know, | friends and family and things and people, you know, | have that opinion of me.
I would rather everybody just think | I was fine and normal and just see the sort of | happier side of me all the time.
With Katy, | her problems seem to be twofold.
To avoid tantrums, | her parents never really pushed her, so her eating patterns have been | maintained into adulthood, then there's her fear of looking | stupid when trying new foods and this is | also blocking her progress and definitely something I'd like | to explore with her further.
'Back at her hotel, Katy's had | some time to reflect as well.
' I think, after speaking with Felix, I've realised that maybe I shouldn't | put quite as much emphasis on being ashamed of the problem.
Because I think I honestly could | have got the problem sorted out a long time ago | if instead of being ashamed of it and denying it for so long, if I would have recognised | that it was a problem.
'Katy has her first | one-on-one appointment with nutritionist Charlotte | to start the process of getting her to eat | healthier foods.
' Before I start my work with Katy, I need to see | where her boundaries lie, how far I can push her | with new foods.
I suspect there's going to be quite | a lot of resistance on her part.
Now, what's your first reaction, | looking at this spread here? There's a lot of | green things around here.
That's the stuff | that's catching my eye, and the tomato over there.
| I'm trying not to look at them.
Of all the foods you can see | in front of you, which looks | least problematic to you? The bread that's over there | doesn't look too bad.
Are you prepared to step up and have | the one that's less processed? It just doesn't look nice at all.
I think it is.
Let's try it.
What are your first impressions? It's just, like, full of seeds.
That stuff you have to chew is the stuff | that's good for your liver.
Hmm.
Don't like that bit.
(LAUGHS) | Go for it.
Blah! That's horrible.
| In what way? It's likeugh! I think this is the bit | you have to learn to do.
This is the bit you're not used to.
| At the moment, it's just unfamiliar.
'Next up, those essential greens that are so desperately lacking | in her diet.
' Stick it in.
The whole thing? | Oh, yeah.
Just stick it in.
Oh! | Go on.
You're thinking.
Stop thinking.
(SIGHS) Right.
Ugh! | No! Oh, no! Really.
(LAUGHS) It goes a little bit further | each time.
If I could swallow it | without chewing it, maybe.
I just don't want to chew it.
I'm afraid you and that leaf | need to become friends.
Commit to your leaf.
| Right.
Ugh! Oh! The leaf came back.
| That's horrible.
OK, what was horrible about that? It's just, like, | the most I chewed it, the more it tasted like - | I don't know, what is it? Cabbage? Yes.
It tasted like cabbage? | Yeah.
My God, cabbage tastes like cabbage.
Yeah.
| Yeah.
(LAUGHS) 'If veg is a struggle, then maybe | fruit will tempt her sweet tooth.
' Quite bitter and sour.
It's actually | a very, very sweet fruit.
Hmm.
No, I don't like that one | very much.
OK.
I feel that that's one | that you might like in the future.
I've just got a feeling.
'For over ten years, Katy has drunk | nothing but diet cola, so Charlotte has to find her | a healthy replacement and fast.
' Apple juice.
That's miles stronger | than I thought it would.
Don't like that very much.
Let's tryI'm going to go for - I'm not going to tell you | what it is.
Oh, what is it? | It smells like bleach.
That's grapefruit.
Yeah, I don't like that one.
Have a go on that.
Hmm.
| Go for it.
That's a cranberry drink.
Yeah, it's all right, actually.
Excellent.
OK.
That's really good.
She surprised me in the fact that | she put a lot of stuff in her mouth.
There were no tears and no tantrums.
But it might be a very different | scenario when she's at home alone.
What I feel she needs to do | is keep pushing the boundaries and just keep going, | then I think she's got a really, | really good chance of changing.
I used to sit there for long enough | that people would give up and I kind of thought at first | that she might give up, cos she might get bored | of telling me to eat it.
The only way out was to | eat something to shut her up.
'Charlotte and Felix | have set Katy the challenge of eating a healthy meal | in just four weeks time.
To get Katy started, | Charlotte sends her off with a homework hamper | filled with unfamiliar foods and tasks for the week ahead.
' (READS) "Reduce your daily intake | of diet cola from three litres a day | to two litres a day only.
No white bread at all.
Replace your white bread | with healthier alternatives.
" Oh, no.
This looks awful.
'And Charlotte has also asked Katy to | ditch all her sugary kiddie treats.
' I'm not really enjoying this, | to be honest.
It's like throwing all my food away.
| It's just a waste.
'Katy's lack of enthusiasm | doesn't go unnoticed.
' Try and be a bit more positive, | please.
I can't, because I'm throwing away | all the food that I eat and I don't yet | like any of the new food, so I'm gonna starve.
'And with Mum around, | it's not long before Katy reverts to her childlike ways.
' I don't see | how I can eat any of this.
Likeeverybody goes away and leaves me | with a house full of this food and I'm hungry and it's like, | "What am I supposed to do?" I'll just randomly cut up an onion | and some broccoli and put it on a pan | and try to eat it? I don't like cooking and I can't do | it.
You've never cooked, that's why.
Give it a try.
You might like it.
It seems like so much effort | when you could just spend ã3 Do you not think it's worth it? | Do you not think it's worth it? Yeah, but I just think | it's just easier To carry on drinking diet cola | and chocolate and crisps and biscuits and feeling unhealthy | and being unhealthy? You don't think it's worth a little | bit of effort? I think I'm going to spend | an hour a day cooking food just to sit on the settee | while I'm watching telly and eat a bowl of soup, like, | "This is fun" and then wash up.
Once you get into | a routine of doing it, it'll just become normal, | it'll become a way of life that when you come in, you'll get | what you've got in the cupboard and start cooking it | instead of grabbing a bag of crisps.
Come on, positive.
Think positive thoughts.
'And later that night, things still | don't get any easier for Katy.
' At the moment, | I've got a house full of vegetables and I don't | really like any vegetables and I don't know how to make them | and I'm not in the mood.
And I've got a splitting headache.
| It's, like, here.
It's killing.
So, I mean, the easy thing to do now would be to go get | a big bottle of Coke, sit and watch TV for a bit and chill | out and, you know, enjoy myself, but then I'm back to square one, | I'm back to where I was.
'It's the start of week 2.
Katy's managed | to cut down on the cola, but she's still struggling | to eat new foods.
Felix has asked her to meet him | at a local youth centre for their next session.
' Katy needs to be pushed out of | her comfort zone to face her fears | of looking stupid, as she calls it, when trying new foods.
Now, Bollywood dancing is something | totally foreign to her and probably quite frightening, so I've got a challenge in mind | to give her the push she needs.
Hi, Katy.
Nice to see you again.
'By facing her fears | of embarrassment, she may realise that trying | something as simple as fruit or veg is not as scary | as she thinks it is.
' BHANGRA MUSIC That's brilliant.
| OK.
Here we have, today, what we're | actually going to have you do is learn to do | some Bollywood dancing.
And it's probably something | you've never done before, which is the whole point of it.
If you'd have said ballet or | something, it would have been worse.
No, it's Bollywood.
| OK, let's get set up.
All right then.
So your hands are here.
| You go one, two.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
'Katy's clearly embarrassed.
' .
.
five, six, seven, eight.
'But she's not about | to suffer on her own.
' Aren't you doing it with us? | Do you want me to? I think you should.
| OK, let's do it.
(TEACHER LAUGHS) BHANGRA MUSIC CONTINUES Now, you see, that is awesome.
| Well done.
You feeling good? Yeah, it's getting easier | as I go on.
'And just when she thinks | the end is in sight, Felix steps up | the embarrassment factor.
' We're going to take this | one stage further, cos we're going to perform this | in front of some people.
Like, real people? | Yeah, kind of real people.
Not experts in Bollywood, just people who are there | to experience and have a laugh and to really enjoy the moment.
(LAUGHS NERVOUSLY) Are you OK? | Yeah.
Are you up for it? Well done.
| Well done, Katy.
That's brilliant.
'So it's out of the frying pan | and into the fire as Katy makes her Bollywood debut in the middle | of her local shopping centre.
' How are you feeling right now? Um, I'm not loving it, to be honest.
| I'd be surprised if you were.
On a scale of one to ten, | which is maximum fear, where would you rate yourself | right now? Probably about nine.
| A nine.
OK.
The aim of today | is for you to focus on the dance and being with it and let these people go by, | you know.
They'll probably get into it | and stuff.
It's gonna be great.
Yeah? | Yeah.
BHANGRA MUSIC (BOTH LAUGH) People in Katy's position focus on | what everyone else is thinking and how they're judging them | and forget to think about their own feelings.
So the aim of today was to get her | to focus on the experience and just forget | everyone else around her, which we'd like her | to apply to her diet.
Oh, my God.
| Katy, Katy, Katy.
Come here.
Well done.
Well done.
| You were brilliant.
This was new.
| You didn't like it, but you did it and we want to apply that learning to deal with trying new things | in your diet, for example, yeah? Before you come across them, | you probably think, "No way! That's not for me.
| That's not part of my reality.
" Then you try them and think, "OK, I | didn't enjoy it the first time, but now I'm OK with it.
" Yeah.
I'm feeling better | now it's over and done with.
I'm glad I've done it.
| It was just a bit scary, the idea of, you know, | someone I know seeing me.
I just don't want to look stupid.
'With the morning session over, Felix goes to meet Katy's mum.
' Lovely to meet you.
I'm Felix.
| Hi, nice to meet you.
Hello, Felix.
'He's keen to see what she'll make | of Katy's Bollywood bravado.
' Katy, what have they done with you, | sweetheart? Have you noticed | something different about Katy? I do.
| That's called a bindi, I believe.
And I've got some bangles.
I take it we've been doing | a bit of dancing, have we? Yeah.
Like Bollywood-type dancing? How do you know this? | Well, cos I can just tell.
Yeah.
And? | Guess where.
The Precinct.
| Not Stockport Precinct.
They didn't take you | to Stockport Precinct.
(LAUGHS) | Oh, Katy! Were you on your own? No, there was | two professionals there.
Did you see anybody you know? I saw one person | who I've seen in work a few times.
OK.
Was it horrible | while you were doing it? Yeah, I couldn't look up | cos I thought there was going to be people | staring at me.
How do you think you might have | reacted if you saw Katy there in some obvious distress? She would have been looking down.
| What might you have done? Worried about her.
She probably would have | looked young and vulnerable.
I'd have taken you off.
I can't understand | what that's got to do with picking up a piece of food | and putting it in your mouth and not liking the taste of it.
Katy's lesson is to | stick through it and realise, "It's not going to be as bad | as I thought it would be.
" And while she's experiencing that, everybody has to allow her | that experience.
OK.
Katy's mum was very concerned about, | "Who saw you at the centre?" and what was going on and, in some ways, she's teaching | Katy what to be afraid of.
So what's important for us | as psychologists is to let people know that the best | way, sometimes, to help a person is actually to help them | stand the distress, get through it, and realise they | can do that time and time again.
'It's halfway through | Katy's 4-week challenge and she's still struggling | with her new diet, but she has managed to reduce her | diet cola intake by 14 litres a week and replace it with juice and water.
Trouble is caffeine withdrawal | has really kicked in.
' I'm not feeling very well today.
So I've had a day off.
I woke up about four this morning feeling really sick | and hot and cold and, like, I've had this headache | for a couple of days and I think that's just, you know, | not as much caffeine and stuff and then just | basically feeling like rubbish.
'Finding it hard to cope, Katy temporarily moves | to her parents' house and into the loving arms of Mum.
' Hiya.
| Hey, Mum.
'But given her history | of mollycoddling, could this be a big step | in the wrong direction?' Yes, she's struggling.
She perhaps | thought it was going to be easier.
It's hard to wrap your mind | around how, instead of having diet cola drinks and crisps | and bread, you've suddenly got | a lot of root vegetables and she's struggling | wrapping her mind around that.
And, yes, she perhaps needs | to put more effort in to reading her homework | and the tasks that she's been given.
If she maybe | gave a bit more to that, she possibly would do better.
'Katy's energy levels | have dropped dramatically and she's finding it harder than ever | to motivate herself.
But it's not just caffeine withdrawal | she's suffering from.
What neither Katy, | nor anyone else knew at this moment was that she was, in fact, pregnant.
' (YAWNS) Seeing Katy so low is too much | for mum Susan, so she perks her up | with a fix of bread.
' I was supposed to do | a couple of tasks last week, but I've not been doing any of them.
I've just been in bed and sleeping.
So I've fallen behind a bit.
That's why I'm trying to get | a lot done over the next few days now I'm feeling a little bit better.
'Charlotte decides | the only way to engage Katy is to make food fun, | so she's devised a session that will challenge her | in a way she usually enjoys.
' I think Katy's really struggling.
She has cut down the diet cola, but she's not actually eating much and she really needs to put | some variety into her diet.
Now, I know she loves gambling, so I want to use that | to move her on a bit.
Hello.
Have a seat.
How have you been getting on | with your new diet? I've managed to cut things out, but | haven't managed to replace them.
Aha! | I'm a bit hungry and grumpy, but.
Oh, we're here to help you | with that today.
We know you love gambling.
So this is your environment.
| OK.
You're going to bet on | either red or black.
If you lose, then I get | to choose what you eat.
Oh, no! That's horrible.
(LAUGHS) | I never win.
No more bets now.
Thank you.
Oh, no.
| Seven red.
Oh, it's me.
(LAUGHS) | I knew I was going to lose.
I'm going to go for | a little bit of that one.
'With her luck out, she's forced | to try her bet rouge - a tomato.
' That's just gross.
OK.
Ugh! I just hate tomato.
You're not gonna give up, are you? | No.
Quick, quick! | OK, OK, OK.
Ah! | Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite! Ugh! Chew, chew, chew.
Look at me.
Chew.
Just look at me.
Chew.
| Look at me and chew.
Ugh! It just doesn't taste nice.
OK.
Move on from that.
| Oh, man.
Place your bets, please.
Hey! | Four black.
'Again, Katy loses and this time, | she's faced with a cucumber'.
You need to do half of it.
I can't eat half of that in one go.
How are we going to get you to a | meal if you can't eat half of that? I can eat a normal-person mouthful.
Half a bite of those | is a normal-person mouthful.
You wouldn't just shove | that much food in your mouth.
Yeah, you would.
Yeah, you would.
| People do.
Chew, chew, chew, chew.
| Tongue, tongue, tongue.
Relax your face.
Look at me.
Ugh! | Chew.
Ugh.
Ugh! | So you're not used to that texture? But it's not doing | anything bad to you, is it? What is it doing that's bad to you? Ugh! (CHOKES) What is it doing that's bad to you? It's just making my mouth upset.
How is it making your mouth upset? Cos my mouth doesn't like it.
There were quite a few points | throughout that where I just thought, "Just eat it.
| Just put it in your mouth.
Just eat it.
" And not because | I was being non-sympathetic.
I can really see the difference | when someone's truly not having a good time and just making it a bit | for the sake of a battle.
'It's the penultimate week | of Katy's dietary makeover.
With her commitment to change | now seriously in question and still unaware | that she's also pregnant, Charlotte and Felix meet up | for a coffee bar case conference.
' All right.
| OK.
I just wanted to have | a quick catch-up, really, cos I've had | quite a frustrating time with Katy.
We did this game with roulette, | which was supposed to be fun, which was supposed to engage | with her love of gambling and she was still doing | all the making faces and beingkind of going back | to the little girl thing.
You know, if you're not cooperating, | engaging, it makes the job ten times harder.
I've got to come up with some way of | holding up a mirror to her behaviour so she realises she's acting | a like a child.
We know she's moved back home, which | means she's been sucked back into that environment where she doesn't | have to look after herself.
Mum's always diving in | to rescue Katy from any kind of duress.
I think I need | to go and see the mum.
I think I need to see them together.
| Hmm.
Hi, Katy.
Nice to see you again.
| Hey, you right? 'Felix has asked Katy to meet him | at a local nursery for their next session.
' What I hope to do today is for Katy to have an experience | of working with children and realise she's a bit like | a child herself with her behaviours.
If she can see that | in their behaviour, she realises, "I'm doing that too | and I need to grow up a bit.
" CHILDREN TALK OVER ONE ANOTHER 'It's lunchtime and a room full | of hungry 3-year-olds need feeding.
The class teacher | shows Katy the ropes.
' The trolley will be coming in here | with all the meals and the plates.
What I want you to do is give out | the cutlery to the children and then it's always a good thing | to eat with the children, cos we encourage healthy eating | and good eating.
I don't want a fork.
What's wrong with it? We'll just put it there | for a minute.
OK, I'll have it.
You have no fork.
Then you won't | be able to eat your dinner.
'Katy's normally the one | resisting at mealtimes, but she'll have to be the adult | in this situation.
' What's wrong with this fork? Why don't you like it? Why don't you just try it? | I like it.
I'm not having a fork.
If you get a spoon and a knife, | then you can have that fork, yeah? But you don't need your spoon | until you've got your dinner.
No.
So it'll be OK.
'An adult Katy is coping, but can she keep it up | when lunch is served?' Katy.
Whoa.
| That's a ginormous plate of food.
'Food arrives | and the children tuck in, but someone isn't eating.
' Why are you not eating it? How are you doing, Katy? | Fine.
They've asked you why you're not | eating your food.
What did you say? I am, it's just too hot.
It's up to you, obviously.
I'd rather just help them | eat theirs and then me not have them | necessarily notice.
Well, they do notice.
| That's the thing.
I don't want them to look.
I don't want to set, like, | a bad example.
It's about trying to override | that instinctive resistance.
Hmm.
| No-one can do it for you but you.
Oh! You're doing good, aren't you? You can eat mine as well | if you want.
Do you want to eat all mine? | (LAUGHS) 'Katy's struggle to eat | is even greater than a 3-year-old's, which is frustrating | for the class teacher.
' They're seeing | that you're not eating, so you've got to | try and eat something.
You can see Sameet is a little bit | reluctant to eat his food, so if you show him that | you're eating it, it's nice, that way, you're encouraging him | so he might eat.
Eat, baby.
Look, | Katy's got to have some dinner.
It's very nice, Sameet, | so please eat your dinner, baby.
And if you eat some first, | and then he can see you eat it, and then he may be | encouraged to eat.
Can you eat some food for me? There was just some plain rice, | there were some other vegetables.
She could have had a bite | and grinned and beared it out, but she didn't.
So that's disappointing because I felt she could have | tried harder with that.
At this stage of our work together, to be frank, I'm having my doubts | about Katy's level of commitment and this doesn't bode well | for therapy.
You need somebody who's really | willing to give it their all, to try the things | that are suggested to them.
If they're not interested in trying, | that's always a problem.
'With little dietary improvement | in sight, Charlotte makes a visit to Susan, | Katy's mum.
' Hiya.
Come in.
| Hi, Mum.
'She suspects Katy's temporary move | back home into the loving arms of Mum | may be hindering her progress.
' Katy's been pretty terrible | at doing any of her homework.
Part of the problem is that her mum just steps in any time | that Katy finds something difficult or uncomfortable, which means | Katy doesn't have to go through any struggle on her own at all.
Her mum Susan's going to have to | learn to let go, step back, and really let Katy | find her own way.
The fact that, potentially, together you want to be able to enjoy meals has to be an end point.
You know, you've got to truly | believe you can - and you will - be eating food that's good for you.
So in terms of | how you can help Katy, ultimately, you have to step back | and do what I'm doing, which is go, | "Her health is going to suffer if she doesn't eat this," so it's that important that even if | she goes through a bit of trauma to do it, she has to stand | on her own two feet to do that.
OK.
I think Charlotte's got a point about my mum | sort of backing down on me.
And I know that my mum will give in and I don't tend to try stuff | when she tells me to, which is just me being horrible, | I suppose, to my mum.
But I kind of know that I can | get away with it with her, so why not, if you can, | and get away with it? Oh.
Instructions.
'With another hamper of goodies | and tasks waiting, Charlotte is keen to see | if Katy and her mum really get the point she was making.
' (READS) "Time to vary | the soup you make.
Inside this hamper, we have provided | you with the ingredients and instructions | on how to make a new soup - chicken and vegetable soup.
" Ooh.
(ALL LAUGH) I'll give you the stuff | that we need.
OK.
Carrot.
'But mum Susan finds it hard | to let Katy take the reigns.
" (READS) "Cut it up, wash it.
" Don't start on that.
This is the start of it.
But first we have to decide how much | of everything there you need.
I'll just go along.
Can't I start | here and do it as I go along? No, you can't, | because however many it says there, you take that out | and put that separately.
Is this you not butting in? | Yeah.
(LAUGHS) I was waiting for it.
OK.
Katy, have you | ever touched raw chicken? No.
I'd wash your hands first.
Just watch your fingers.
| I'm watching my fingers.
They're nowhere near it.
I'm stressed out now.
She's in | the kitchen with sharp knives.
I'll use the other, then.
| No, no, no.
Katy, that small knife's fine.
She's having her own | little personal thing over here.
She just wants to jump in and | No, you use the small knife.
You're doing well.
Push, turn and push that button.
| I know how to do an oven.
.
.
until it's brown.
| Fill the bottom of the pan.
See, if you leave her, | she works it out.
OK.
Fair enough.
Argh! | Oh, it's spitting at me.
When you're stirring it, just | leave it for a minute on the heat so it gets time to cook | before you start to turn it gently.
Yeah? | That's nice.
There's a big difference between | showing someone what to do - yeah.
So that's you teaching her to do it, | rather than doing it for her.
If I thought she was in the house | cooking like this, I'd be so pleased | and so proud of her.
Her instinct, which she's | obviously had strongly for 21 years is to jump in and help Katy | at all the times.
But I think we saw progress and, | hopefully, she can see the merits | of getting past that.
How's the chicken? | Yeah.
Yeah? Good, isn't it? I was quite surprised that she | put it in her mouth and tried it and actually swallowed it.
Charlotte was right when she said | that I take over and I probably fuss about it | too much and make too big a thing of it, whereas she's an adult now and, as Charlotte said, | she's got to do it for herself and she's got to get on with it.
'There are just a few days left | before Katy's final challenge.
For this, she's decided | that she'd like to cook a meal and eat it with her family.
After four weeks of caffeine crashes | and a resistance to change, Katy has started to see the light | at the end of the tunnel.
' A couple of months ago, | I was quite You know, it was easy to upset me | and I was easily grumpy and hyperactive | and I just used to go from one extreme to the other | really easy.
And now I think I am a bit more | emotionally stable.
I'm actually probably looking | forward to the final challenge now because the actual idea of it before was quite scary because it was, | you know, everybody might be looking at me and wanting me to eat these things | what if I don't manage it and what if it | all goes wrong in the kitchen? And I was worried about it, but now I'm thinking of | the good things that could happen.
You know, already, | she's reaching for other food now to fill in that gap.
She's reaching for fruit, | she's reaching for the yoghurts, she's having wholemeal bread.
So she's already taken | a huge step forward.
I'm looking forward | to my random fruit salad.
It looks almost as good | as a really big chocolate bar.
'Although Katy isn't eating | as many new foods as Felix and Charlotte | might have liked, she has started to feel | the physical benefits of lowering her | cola and bread consumption.
' I actually weighed myself and in the last four weeks or so, I've actually lost, like, | nearly a stone.
And, you know, | I've not been starving and I've been losing | a few pounds here and there and it's just mad because before, | I was just eating - it was like I was never full up.
But, obviously, this food now, | although there's less of it and it's not quite as nice, yet, it does actually keep you going | for longer.
'It's the day of the final challenge.
For this, Katy's decided she'd like | to prepare a special meal for her family.
' Oh, my God.
'But has she progressed far enough | over the last four weeks to be able to sit down with them | and clear her plate?' It will be nice.
I think | I'll feel like more of a grown-up because in the past, you know, | I've had something different.
But I think us all sitting down | having something grown-up, then that's a turning point, then, and saying goodbye | to the way things used to be.
'Katie's been provided | with the ingredients and recipes for tomato soup | and a chicken dish with vegetables.
' Argh! I have to say, I'm a little bit | nervous about this meal because Katy has never been | the best cook in the world.
But we're all going to give it a go.
I'm waiting for it | to stop attacking me with its spit.
It's been a surprise that | she's decided to make a meal, cos she's never been interested | in cooking.
So I think it's been a challenge | for her to get in the kitchen and get stuck in, | especially with fresh fruit and veg, you know, to get her hands in there | and start making stuff.
Yeah, that's been | a bit of a surprise.
I think it's now going to be | spicy onions.
This is doing my head in.
| This was a stupid idea.
'But forgetting | Charlotte's words of advice, it's not long before | mum Susan takes the reigns from a flustered Katy.
' I'll start | chopping the vegetables for this.
No, you need to make the soup.
| Can't you do it? That's going to be ready, | in eight minutes, to eat.
It'll stay warm.
It just means in | eight minutes, it'll be ready.
Well, we'd best do the soup | and put it in the blender.
Careful, it's going to be hot.
| I'd spoon it in.
'As the pressure mounts in the | kitchen, Katy takes a breather.
' I honestly, honestly did not think | it was going to be this hard and I've been | really looking forward to it.
I could happily give up now | and go home and let my mum clean up, but this is the final challenge | and if I don't do this, then I've not passed | my final challenge.
'Mum, Dad and brother Ben are seated | as Katy pulls herself together and serves the first course.
' Dun, dun, dun! Thank you, Katy.
Well done.
| Cheers, Katy.
Well done.
Cheers.
| Cheers.
Yeah, it's good, that, Katy.
This is really tasty, Katy.
Very nice.
| What's the matter? 'Her family may like the soup, | but it's Katy who has to eat it.
' Try it without the bread, yeah? | Do you like it, Katy? Don't know yet.
Don't know yet? | Having a bit of bread.
I'm sure it's not boiling now.
It's very | Tomatoey? (LAUGHS) | Hmm.
I'm not majorly liking the taste | of it, to be honest, but Oh, Katy, you've got to try some.
I'm trying it.
(LAUGHS) Come on.
I'm doing the whole - | I'm tasting it.
Are you going to try a spoonful? | No.
Try a spoonful at least.
| I don't - can you please not? I've had some.
Right.
Do you want some help | with the main course? Oh! Bit short of space.
Quite stunning that Katy made that | with her own fair hands.
Yeah, it was really good.
Would have been even better | if she'd eaten some.
I think she's just not | trying properly and it's still .
.
still all in her mind, | I think, that, unfortunately.
I'm a bit disappointed there.
| I thought she was gonna eat that.
Yeah, I thought she would.
And I'm quite surprised | she wouldn't try any more, but I think she's a bit hot and | bothered after being in the kitchen, so I let her off a bit.
We'll | see how she goes with the main, see if she'll eat that.
This is chicken | What kind of chicken? .
.
made in a pot.
| Thank you.
This is it.
| OK.
All right, well, dig in, then.
What do you think of that chicken | that's cooked in a sauce? It's got a zing to it | in a better way than the soup had.
OK.
Maybe that is just my tastebuds.
You wouldn't be frightened | of ordering this in a restaurant.
It's really nice to see | Kate getting stuck into a meal.
Have you enjoyed it? I'm not going to lie | and say I really like this, cos I don't, but at the same time, after I tried the first mouthful and thought, "I don't | really like that very much.
" But I've had 20 more mouthfuls since and each one's, like, a bit easier.
And then I think if someone said, if you said next week you were | cooking the exact same meal, I'd probably eat | 20% more than I had today.
It's been a really hard struggle | for her, this.
It's been a lot tougher | than she thought it would be and so tonight | was a big thing for her and she's probably proud of herself, | in some ways, but then probably | a little bit let down that she didn't | eat more than she did.
If she did what she did tonight | in a restaurant, nobody would notice.
But because everybody | were focusing on her tonight, it's been more difficult.
I think, tonight, | it would have been great if she'd polished off everything | that was put in front of her, but I think a reality check | for me there is that what she didn't do | was run away, she didn't baulk at anything, | she didn't cry and she didn't upset anybody else or ruin the experience | for anybody else.
So the fact is she's trying things.
There's been a lot of times | when I felt like just giving up because it's not | the easy thing to do, but I haven't done and I am proud | of that fact that I carried on and I ate what I wanted to eat, | but I could do that again, maybe a little bit more.
And it is, you know, | since the first time you got me to try something, | it has just gone upwards.
'One month later, Katy's diet | and health are still improving.
She's told her parents | about her pregnancy, but wants to set the record straight | with Charlotte.
' Katy's asked me to come and see her.
I'll be quite interested to see | what it is that Katy wants to say because, at times, | she was quite difficult and even | really kicking her heels back and it seemed to be | a bit of a battle of wills and it was quite confusing | to deal with.
So I'm intrigued to find out | what she's got to say.
Heya.
| Hello.
Come in.
| Ahh! Hello.
Lovely to see you.
How have you been, then? I've been really good.
I've, um I thought I'd get you up here to | have a bit of a chat, obviously.
I see now, you know, I could have | taken more advice on board and sort of tried a bit harder.
It was kind of a battle, | rather than feeling like I was working with people, | with you and Felix.
You seemed quite shut down at times and became almost defensive.
It seemed like you were almost | saying what you wanted us to hear kind of to make us go away a bit.
I was kind of feeling sickly | all the time and really, really tired | and part of me thought, you know, if changing my diet | for a healthier one, you know, | is going to make me feel worse.
I did think I was going to | feel better, but I never did.
But then, um, another - | you know, the reason I wanted to sort of bring you | up here today and tell you is that I actually found out | just after finishing - well, just before | my final challenge Yeah.
.
.
that I'm actually | expecting a baby.
(LAUGHS) You're joking! So all that time, you were pregnant? Yes, the whole time.
So, obviously, all the symptoms | that go along with being pregnant - the feeling sick | and sort of being a bit fed up and thisyou know, | all those things were happening.
What timing.
I mean, you know, | sustaining a pregnancy and having a baby | with the diet you were on would have been not a good idea, | to say the least.
(LAUGHS) It's quite scary, actually.
Oh, yeah.
I've just managed | to sort it out just in time.
But I've had my scan now and Oh! Have you got a picture? | Yeah.
(LAUGHS) | It's a dinky little picture.
That was then.
| Wow.
And when the baby is born, obviously, | I've got a lot of work to do making sure that Baby eats better | than I did.
Oh, thank you, Katie.
| No problem.
It was lovely to see you.
| It's nice to see you, too.
Wow! What a revelation.
That explains so much | about how she was feeling and about how she was reacting | through the whole process.
I'm really pleased for her and I hope that she can make | even more changes, cos this is such a crucial time | for her and her baby.
I wish her the best of luck.