Cheese-lover sheds four and a half stone scoffing up to two kilos weekly
A cheese-lover has shed four and a half stone by scoffing up to two kilos of Cheddar, Camembert and Comte a week. Alan Pender – known online as Joe Bangles CBE – admits that around 75 percent of his diet consists of the milk-derived product. Despite this, the 36-year-old has lost an astonishing 4.5 stone – dropping from 17 stone at his heaviest during the pandemic to 12.5 stone when he got married in November.
The construction manager credits his sleek physique on strictly following a Keto diet – which sees him eat fatty foods like cheese while shunning pretty much anything with carbohydrates in.
He said: “If you’re on Keto you can’t eat anything with it so I’m just having slabs of cheese. I’ll probably have gout. But then I suppose if you live like Henry VIII it’s inevitable.
“I heard that no one has ever actually died from gout which is quite reassuring.
“Externally I may look good but internally I’m shot to pieces.
“Saying that, if I can eat a kilo of cheese and lose half a pound then I’m not changing for anyone.
“Up until the point I perish of congested arteries or heart failure that is.
“Something’s got to kill you and I’d rather go happy.”
Alan – who went viral during the pandemic for asking the likes of Piers Morgan, Elon Musk and John Cleese for their favourite cheeses – says his usual breakfast consists of 200grams of hard cheese like red Leicester because it is too “decadent” to “polish off Stilton at 5.30am”.
Instead, he goes for something “quite light and not too strong” before he enjoys a morning cardio-based gym session.
For lunch, he has another 250gram “slab of cheese cut into chunks” while at work – where he often walks up to 20 miles a day inspecting various building sites.
Then when he returns to his home in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, to see his wife Kirsty Pender, a 33-year-old makeup artist, and their one-year-old daughter Orla – the pair tuck into a cheese board three or four times a week.
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