There is an obesity epidemic in Britain and it seems that people are getting fatter each year! Despite that, any people remain mystified by their weight gain and believe that they have a healthy diet and lifestyle. Secret Eaters on Channel 4 follows a different household each week to find the truth behind their weight gain and what they really eat as opposed to what they claim. We all do this to a certain extent.

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It makes more some fascinating viewing that most of us can identify with. Serious exercise nuts who enjoy chocolate cake after a work out, huge breakfasts grabbed at cafes, too many ingredients in otherwise healthy meals.

Each episode reveals the truth. The couple who believe they eat healthily but just eat too much – one man eats 16 potatoes in one meal, a woman who is training for the marathon but can’t resist going out for social meals, a man with a gastric band who piles his plate high and then has to finish it.

As well as the featured household the Secret Eaters team set traps for the public and leaves fattening and tasty snacks to tempt the secret eater. Most people succumb and then do not admit (or even remember eating it)

At the end of each episode, the subjects are usually appalled at the extra calories they have consumed secretly and the Secret Eaters team offers advice and a healthy eating plan.
Secret Eaters on Channel 4 is an absorbing programme and if we laugh at some of the lengths that people go to lie themselves about their secret eating, most of us will identify with their situation.
 

Watch all episodes of Secret Eaters here. Secret Eaters is a tv-programme of BBC One. You can see all episodes of Secret Eaters here via Youriplayer.co.uk.