Gordon Ramsay has lifted the lid on what he typically eats in a day. Being one of the best-known chefs in the world, you might think it consists of fancy ingredients and decadent dishes.
But Scottish-born Ramsay is also a huge fitness fanatic. Despite once tipping the scales at 18 stone, he is now super-fit and loves endurance training. He has completed marathons, ultra-marathons, and even Iron Mans and, at 58 years of age, he is as fit as he has ever been.
So what does he eat to keep his taste buds tingling but also fuel for endurance challenges and stay in shape? He sat down with Jason Fox from SAS: Who Dares Wins for a Men's Health interview where he revealed all. He said: "Good food doesn't have to be boring food, and healthy food never has to be fad food.
"I love eating. We have a protein shake in the morning, scrambled eggs for lunch, and then something poached for dinner, whether it's poached chicken or fish. We don't do lots of salads but it's finding that balance."
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But it is not just eating healthily that helps Gordon stay in shape. The celebrity chef, who once had hopes of becoming a professional footballer at Glasgow Rangers, also has an unusual trick to make sure he does not consume too many calories.
Ramsay admitted that long hours and a stressful job make a healthy lifestyle difficult for a chef. He also said that constantly tasting exquisite food made it hard to eat healthily, so he now has a 'painful' trick to make sure he does not take too many calories on board.
He said: "The role of a chef today is way more prolific than it was 20-30 years ago and we need to be fit, we need to be smart, and we need to set that example to the team.
"We are super disciplined as well. I'll eat two mouthfuls of a delicious dish and then ignore it, and it's painful. You sit there like a green-eyed monster desperate to devour that whole plate and i'll discipline myself to two mouthfuls, then i'll get out of that plate and it pains me because I know if I eat a fourth, fifth, or sixth mouthful, then that's it, it's game over.
"It's the discipline that drives me, the discipline of saying 'two mouthfuls, then get out of there'."
Despite starting to lose weight and get fit in his early 30s, Gordon said it was not until he hit 40 that he realised he had always wanted to be really fit. It was an ambition of his to do an Iron Man - a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile cycle, and a 26.2-mile run - by the time he was 40.
"I got to the age of 40, and I had no time; I was seven days a week, restaurants opening all over the place, Michelin Stars coming out of my arse, and all of a sudden, my life got consumed. So I took a good look at myself and realised I was overweight, out of control, and I'd forgotten my time. I'd forgotten the most important part of the day, and that was that 90-minute session five days a week to myself," he explained.
"Taking up triathlon wasn't just about running, I had to go for a swim, I had to get on the bike. It made me more disciplined. Wherever we were filming in the world, wherever we were opening a restaurant in the world, I could either swim, go for a quick hike, or a run on a sh***y machine that could barely hold me weight. Clawing that time back was crucial."
