Christopher Biggins weight loss: Pantomime king lost 16lbs in preparation for panto season
CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS, 71, the beloved English entertainer and pantomime king has confessed that he wanted to slim down in preparation for the pantomime season, what did he say about his weight loss?
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Christopher Biggins is an beloved English actor and television presenter with an impressive career, spanning nearly 50 years, in the entertainment industry. He is best known for breathing life into his comedic pantomime characters that are loved by many Britons. In preparation for the panto season, Biggins confessed to having chosen to go thought a weight loss transformation to slim down, what did he do?
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In recent years, beloved actor, Christopher Biggins has gone through a dramatic weight loss transformation, what has he said about his weight loss?
Christopher Biggins is best known for being the ultimate pantomime king, his most well-known roles include Widow Twankey in the pantomime production of Aladdin and Lukewarm in the sitcom Porridge. He also won I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here in 2007.
Previously it was revealed that the 71-year old actor shed an impressive 16 pounds after “constantly going to funerals” forced him to contemplate his own mortality.
After being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2010 and fearing he could suffer a heart attack at any given moment, the pantomime king did one thing to trim down and overhaul his lifestyle - what has he said about his weight loss journey?
“It rather depressed me and I very rarely get depressed,” the entertainer said of his type2 diabetes diagnosis. “I thought, ‘Oh dear, this is sort of the beginning of the end’.
“Knowing that I’m twice as likely to have a stroke or a heart attack because I have type 2 diabetes is sobering,” he confessed.
However nine years after his diagnosis and after making significant dietary changes, Christopher has lost weight and now pays studious attention to the foods he eats.
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He said: “I’m obviously overweight but I try to keep it in a good parameter.
“I’m quite good at the moment. I’ve lost weight – about 16 pounds.
“I can bend down and put my shoes on easier.
“It’s very good and I feel so much better.”
Biggins revealed previously that he had given up sweet treats such as sugar and Diet Coke in a bid to get in shape just in time for the highly anticipated annual pantomime season to begin.
As reported in Diabetes.co.uk last year, the pantomime king visited a medically supervised health spa in Germany, which originally encouraged him to ditch sugary treats, where he shed an extra stone in the process.
“When you’re diagnosed you of course don’t realise that sugar is everywhere.
“I used to drink fresh orange juice in the morning, which is like drinking two pounds of sugar.
“Now I drink coconut water, and I don’t get cravings.”
He added, “Now I pick items up in the supermarket and I look how much sugar the food contains.
“If it contains 54 percent sugar, for example, then I put it back.
“On a daily basis, I do this now, whereas before I didn’t.”
As well as watching what he eats, Biggins also incorporates light exercise into his weekly routine to stay in shape.
Funnyman, Jimmy Carr, has also gone through a weight loss transformation in recent years.
The 47-year-old comedian has been very open about his weight loss and revealed there is a particular diet he followed to trim down.
Noting his weight loss in the past, he shared a highlight video of his career on Twitter and said: “Worth a watch if only for the weight loss.”
He has also said that an intermittent fasting diet plan worked for him when it came to his weight loss.
Instead of cutting out food groups, the plan focuses on the time that food is eaten.
Jimmy said: “I stopped eating after six in the evening.”
