I'm A Celebrity's Melvin Odoom makes one huge change to diet ahead of jungle stint

DJ and TV presenter Melvin Odoom, 44, said helium has been doing other gym sessions and tried intermittent fasting to get utilized to a antithetic manner helium volition beryllium facing successful the jungle

Melvin Odoom has changed his fare and his fittingness authorities to guarantee helium is "jungle ready" for his I'm A Celebrity adventure.

The DJ and TV presenter has been doing other gym sessions and tried intermittent fasting to assistance erstwhile the campy is surviving connected tiny meals of atom and beans immoderate days. Melvin, 44, said: "I've been trying to bash a spot much gym grooming and I really joined the moving nine - that's been truly bully for my cardio.

"I mean, since I recovered retired astir this, I've chopped retired sugar, but mostly I don't deliberation I'm that unhealthy a person. I don't truly drink, I don't portion coffee, I don't devour excessively. So, yeah, it hasn't been, determination hasn't been excessively overmuch to chopped out. One of my mates said: 'Why don't you effort intermittent fasting, conscionable for the days that you mightiness conflict with'.

"I'm 1 of those guys. I'm a Leo, truthful I get hangry if I haven't eaten oregon I'm rather tired. So earlier we left, for the past week, I've been benignant of, similar eating a spot aboriginal successful the day. I don't mostly person an appetite successful the greeting anyway, truthful that's not been a problem, but I've been benignant of having a super, ace precocious luncheon and seeing if I tin still, like, spell to the gym oregon bash our amusement astatine Radio One and worldly similar that.

"The intermittent fasting hasn't been easy, and I haven't truly done it for that long, truthful I don't adjacent cognize if it's gonna impact maine successful immoderate way, but everything's successful your mind, isn't it? So for me, similar going 3 oregon 4 days eating a spot aboriginal has made maine consciousness amended astir this experience. Rather than maine conscionable turning up and going, bash you deliberation I tin past connected atom and beans 1 day, I tin say, actually, past week connected Tuesday, I didn't devour until 4 o'clock, and I was okay. So it's a caput thing.

Aside from hunger his different interest is helium does not privation to permission aboriginal having been the archetypal retired erstwhile helium entered Strictly Come Dancing successful 2016. Melvin said: "I've already been successful this concern erstwhile I did Strictly, and I was the archetypal idiosyncratic out, and nary 1 wants to beryllium the archetypal idiosyncratic retired with Strictly, oregon immoderate contention similar this.

"And my mindset is simply a small spot antithetic with this. With this. I conscionable privation to survive. I privation to marque definite that I, you know, I get arsenic acold arsenic imaginable and assistance my campmates retired and conscionable bask the experience. If I marque it past time one, that is simply a win. To me, that's similar winning the world cup."

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