Ed Gamble has spoken about his complicated relationship with food after his significant weight loss. The comedian, 38, who was once 19 stone with a 42-inch waist, dropped seven stone in his early twenties and subsequently developed “obsessive” tendencies with “evil” bathroom scales . Gamble – who has Type 1 diabetes – admitted he is still “constantly” thinking about what foods he should or shouldn’t be consuming and is “always ready to binge-eat”.
Speaking to The Times , Gamble said “I’m always thinking, ‘I shouldn’t eat that.’ I’m always ready to binge eat. “But now I’ve got an extra layer to my thoughts where I can think about how food makes me feel in future,” he added.
“I can think about the next few hours as opposed to the instant gratification. But, definitely, I think a fat man brain is what I’ve got.” Gamble, who is a judge on the BBC’s Great British Menu and has co-hosted the food comedy podcast Off Menu with James Acaster since 2018, criticised claims obesity costs the NHS many millions of pounds each year.
“It’s such a bullshit argument,” he said. “It’s people who want to be angry with other people. ‘You’re costing the NHS a lot’.
Everyone costs the NHS money.” Last year, Gamble admitted he became fixated with his image and couldn’t stop checking his weight on the scales in his house. “After losing weight, I got more obsessed with my image.
You do feel different, wondering, ‘Oh, maybe I’m att.
