'Meal Prep King' went from spending £60 A DAY on food to £17.34 in a week after losing nine stone

09.04.2022 - 21:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

A man who used to weigh almost 22 stone and would be left in tears in changing rooms turned his life around after discovering ‘meal prep’. Bolton-based John Clark, who managed to lose nine stone, says he went from spending £60 a day on food to spending just £17 on his weekly shop for him and his partner.

John spends six hours each Sunday with his fiancée Charlotte Deniz preparing every single meal for the working week ahead, and credits this organisation with them both keeping off the pounds and sustaining their balanced diets. The 42-year-old made the transition 20 years ago after he struggled to fit in clothes. He was working as a lorry driver, stopping off at service stations for hot lunches, and going to the pub for his tea.

Now, he still eats all of his favourites, including kebab fakeaways, chocolate donuts, and pizzas, but all made from scratch in healthier ways in his kitchen. The meals are then stacked neatly in his fridge in Tupperware, which has impressed millions of users on TikTok.

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“I was extremely unhappy,” John told the Manchester Evening News . “I started to want to lose weight because I was sick to death of not being able to fit into clothes, it got to the point where nothing would fit, and I’d be in tears in the store changing rooms.

“I used to eat as much as I wanted whenever I wanted. I would order massive baguettes at service stations, then eat steak and chips from pubs for my tea.”

Eager to make a drastic change, John began to batch cook meals to take on the road with him - saving him time and money - and at the time ensured he was in a calorie deficit. He lost nine stone in 18 months, and