Episode 2 Lose Weight for Love

Obesity in Britain has reached crisis level, but for many couples,

there's one thing that stops them from beating it -

each other.

You don't feel so bad, I think, if you've got a partner in crime.

Stuck in a rut of poor diets and overeating,

it's threatening not only their health, but their relationships.

You try to sabotage every time I try to lose weight.

It's causing us to have the relationship break-up,

-which is what we don't want.

-Yeah.

'I'm Professor Tanya Byron.

'I'm a clinical psychologist.

'I want to try something radical and new.'

My God!

Four overweight couples have agreed to live apart...

We're going to do this, aren't we?

I love you.

..because I'm going to separate them.

Couples stuck in an unhealthy rut can be each other's worst enemies,

so the theory is, dramatic change happens first

when we separate the couple.

I'm glad that he's a bit scared. I am.

Each week, I'll work with one couple

to try to get the root of what's behind their overeating.

'Only when they are away from each other

'can they start to tackle their demons...'

This is me worst nightmare, this.

..and through a health and fitness plan,

we'll try to change them for good...

Let's go.

I've got big feet, this is a disadvantage.

..and break their bad habits.

Broccoli.

Will living apart from each other for ten weeks

finally succeed when everything else has failed?

I've wanted to give up at least seven times a day every day.

If it doesn't work and he's not changed,

then me and Pete aren't going to work.

'I like food. I love it.

'And I love all, like, the bad stuff,'

all the dead fatty, like, junk food -

kebab...

chippy, Chinese...

Yeah, I like all that.

And Pete does too, so...

-SHE LAUGHS

-..perfect match.

Salesman Pete and his partner Celena live in Warrington with son Cameron

and Kayleigh, Celena's daughter from a previous relationship.

Food has been at the centre of their lives since they met.

'We met on the internet.'

Plenty of Fish, to be precise.

That first date, he spent a fortune on food.

I'm a feeder, so I am probably the worst.

Pete does most of the cooking at home and he's proud of his recipes.

We're having beans with half a tub of butter.

And loads of chips with everything.

That's going to fall everywhere. You gave me too much chips.

But there is one thing that is in none of his recipes.

He hates vegetables.

He's like a child.

'I don't do veg.'

If it's green, it's mean. I'm terrible for it.

Celena has put on 5st in the three years they've been together.

Now it is threatening not just her health, but also their relationship.

'Pete wants to get married,'

but there's absolutely no way that I'm going to get married this size.

No way.

It frustrates the hell out of me

because it's one excuse after another.

Don't know - it could split us up.

I hate what I see in that mirror. I hate it.

As a trainee midwife, she feels her whole future is at stake.

A big part of the midwife's role is health promotion.

I just look fat. I look unhealthy.

It's hypocritical.

And daughter Kayleigh fears that she and her mother are growing apart.

We don't spend quality time together.

Sport, activities like rock climbing, and all that...

We can't do it because of my mum's weight, so it's a bit upsetting.

I'm definitely stuck in limbo.

I want to get my life back.

Celena has tried to lose weight many times.

'I've been on every diet you can think of -'

Weight Watchers, Slimming World, Atkins...

Been on milkshakes, where you don't eat anything, cabbage soup...

'You name it, I've done it.'

So now she and Pete have made the brave decision

to separate for ten weeks.

My coping mechanism is going to be fishing.

I'm going to get as much of that in as I can.

-HE LAUGHS

-You're not going to lose much weight fishing, are you?

HE LAUGHS

It's not funny, love.

It isn't funny. I think it's going to be dead hard.

I wish you'd be bleedin' serious.

I'm a bit scared.

Reality's hitting now that this is it and...

..it is going to be hard.

Today they have come to London to meet me before they separate.

CELENA SIGHS

Since meeting three years ago, they haven't spent a single night apart,

but this could be the only way to fix their health

and their relationship.

'This, for me, is about couples

'who can become each other's own worst enemies

'and so, for Peter and Celena,

'we're going to begin with a ten-week separation,'

which is an incredibly brave and courageous thing

for them to agree to. But really to address their issues as a couple,

they first have to spend time understanding themselves.

It's massive.

-Massive.

-It's a massive thing.

This is the first day of the rest of our lives.

Helping me crack their deep-seated bad habits while they are apart

is behavioural scientist Paul Dolan

and physiologist Rick Shakes-Braithwaite.

Before they meet me,

they must first undergo a series of fitness and heath tests with Rick,

just to see how serious things have got.

-Celena.

-Hi, Rick.

Come on through.

-We're going to start off with a breath test.

-Right. That's fine.

-HE BLOWS OUT

-Hard as you can.

SHE INHALES

SHE BLOWS

Step up.

The tests will help us design a food plan and exercise regime

that will be tailor-made to both Peter and Celena

during the separation...

The body composition machine is calculating...

-MACHINE BLEEPS

-..not just what your weight is,

but water levels, muscle tissue.

-It's about what you're actually made of.

-Yeah.

-Now I want to do some fitness tests.

-Oh, God!

..and flag up any telltale warning signs of ill health

before it's too late.

-I think that's it.

-That's it?

-I've got a bit of a sweat on now!

SHE LAUGHS

More than 60% of people put on weight

when they're in a comfortable relationship.

Ten weeks apart and without the influence of each other,

Pete and Celena can finally tackle their individual bad habits

and so give themselves a greater chance

to lose weight and improve their health.

-It's very nice to meet you.

-You too.

You are, as a couple, your own worst enemies.

Is one of you more a problem than the other?

-PETE CHUCKLES

-Me - I'm a classic feeder.

Not in the way that he wants me to get bigger

because he likes bigger women. He just wants to make me happy.

-So it's how you show people you care for them.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Right.

If I say to Pete, "Pick us up a bar of chocolate,"

he'll get four or five different kinds.

He's, like, giving me permission then.

It's all right if I eat all them.

-Right.

-I've always been big, but never this big.

I'm going to ask Rick to talk through the test results.

Peter, I'm going to start with you.

I think your biggest downfall could be complacency.

Your current weight is 15st and 3lbs.

Of that weight, 40% of it is just fat.

A normal body mass index runs between 18.5 and 25.

At the moment you're at 32.7, so you're outside the normal range,

into the obese range.

You have a diet that's low in fibre,

very high in sugar,

with a lot of toxins in it.

That significantly increases your risk of getting cancer.

Celena.

CELENA CHUCKLES

-BMI runs from 18 to 25.

-Mm-hmm.

You're at 48.5.

You're not just in the obese range - you're on the highest category -

so you run the highest risk of developing diabetes,

heart disease and stroke.

-Mm-hmm.

-Your current weight at the moment is 21st.

-I'm absolutely mortified!

-PETE LAUGHS

-Are you?

-I'm mortified, yeah.

I'm absolutely mortified about it,

and embarrassed and disgusted with meself.

-Tell me why...

-Oh, don't!

-CELENA LAUGHS

Oh, I'm sorry.

-I'm sorry. Sorry.

-It's all right.

SHE SNIFFS

SHE SIGHS

Even being in your own body is a real challenge for you.

I hate it.

-Yeah.

-You hate it?

-Yeah, I hate it.

That is a really harsh thing for you to say.

The more you hate yourself, the less likely you are

to really make the changes we need.

-Yeah.

-Does it make you think any differently about Celena?

No. She knows I love her for who she is, not what she is.

This is a tough question.

If you know that the woman you love more than anybody else in the world

is seriously deeply unhappy with the way that she looks,

-why...?

-Why do I buy that chocolate?

-Why do you feed her?

I don't know, cos it's never been put in this light to me, has it?

What are you hearing?

That I'm not helping things.

Making things worse.

I've never thought of it along them lines.

It feels pretty brutal.

CELENA SIGHS But big behavioural factors

are really contributing to these issues.

Listening to Rick tell you your weights,

I've worked out, in the time that you've been with each other,

over the last three years -

Peter, you've gained about 1lb a month,

Celena, you about 2lbs a month.

God!

Without changing, in another 12 months, you're 24lbs heavier.

-And so it will go on.

-Yeah.

The 2lbs a month that you're gaining

come from the chocolate bars

-that are provided by the man that loves you.

-Yeah.

Which is preventing you making the commitment in marriage

that you so desperately want.

So what I'm seeing is a vicious cycle

and that's what my role will be - to help you break.

And now it's the separation. CELENA SIGHS

I'll go outside. Leave you together.

-HE LAUGHS AND SOBS

-You all right?

-You OK?

-Yeah.

It's only ten weeks, isn't it?

It's hard, though.

HE SIGHS

HE SNIFFS

-I'm all right. Yeah?

-Yeah.

-I love ya.

-Love ya.

From now on, Pete is off to live on his own.

Although he will get to see his son Cameron,

it'll be ten long weeks before Pete sets eyes on Celena again.

It's really surprised me.

I didn't think I'd get upset, I didn't think Peter'd get upset.

-What do you think has shocked him?

-I think he feels a bit guilty now.

-Me head's chocka.

-HE CHUCKLES

I feel angry with myself.

Put it one way - it's opened my eyes, big-style.

It's given us the kick up the bum that we both needed.

Now's definitely the time to change.

To help them focus on themselves,

Pete and Celena agreed to have no contact for the first three weeks.

Pete has moved into his sister's apartment

20 miles away in Liverpool...

I'm missing Celena immensely. I feel like I've lost a part of me.

..while Celena will stay at home in Warrington.

Today her best friend Jenny has popped round

to offer some moral support.

-Hello!

-Hello!

How was he when you left him?

Upset. He was crying.

Aww...

THEY LAUGH

No, it was, it was horrible. It was dead hard, you know.

But you've not had to worry thinking,

"Oh, will Peter like this, what I'm eating?" Cos he's not here.

Yeah.

To help them lose weight,

a dietician has given Pete and Celena a food plan.

There are no banned foods.

Home-made pizza - we could do that.

-What is falafel?

-Falafel?

I don't know.

Instead, they must count every calorie they consume.

-Have you seen the portion sizes?

-Yeah.

-CELENA LAUGHS

-You're going to starve to death.

-I know!

Before now, Celena would eat up to 3,000 calories a day -

1,000 more than the recommended daily allowance for a woman.

I'm going to use Cameron's bowl.

Oh, God!

THEY LAUGH

Rick wants them to lose an average of 2lbs a week

and, for Pete, his whole lifestyle has been turned upside down.

It feels extremely different.

The Volvic water would've been bottles of Pepsi.

Really nice, that stuff, you know?

But it's not just their diet that needs to change.

Rick has calculated that Pete needs lose 4.5 stone in body fat

to be a functional weight.

But he is worried that Pete may be complacent about this challenge.

He hasn't exercised in three years.

I'm going to send him on a trip into the future - a year from now -

and show him exactly what will happen if he continues

to keep putting on weight the way he has since he met Celena.

-Buddy, how are you doing?

-I'm all right, Rick.

So...

-It's a Rocky movie.

-Aye!

-I'm Apollo Creed, you're Rocky.

-OK!

Second boat.

Steady jog. Go for it.

Breathe consistently.

PETE PANTS

He needs to understand, if he keeps eating badly and not exercising,

where he's going to be a year from now.

Welcome to your weight next year...

if you stay doing what you're doing.

Ohh...

How does it feel now?

-Heavy.

-Come on, bud, let's go.

Since he met Celena three years ago, Pete has put on around 1lb a month.

What he's put on there is another stone and a quarter.

Our projection was a stone, so I've put a little bit more

cos he's probably going to continue eating badly, not exercising more,

his metabolism is slowing down,

so I think a stone and a quarter is a fair estimate.

It's going to change him.

PETE SIGHS

-How are you feeling?

-Oh...

-PETE PANTS

Goosed!

So what you've put on... You feeling sick?

HE RETCHES

I can't...

-What the

-BLEEP?

-Can I take this off for a minute?

-Yeah, of course you can.

-It's...

-Stifling.

-Yeah, yeah.

Just bend down.

That's it.

-How does that feel?

-It feels better.

I want you to not forget how awful you feel,

just going down there and back. Not very far.

Not far at all. Do you get the point?

That if I don't start changing now, it's going to be that plus more that I am carrying.

I won't even be able to take me kids out for a walk.

-Couldn't take yourself out for a walk.

-No, no.

You need to eat properly now.

You need to take care of yourself for the rest of your life. Good.

Let's start doing some exercise.

-I was looking forward to this day.

-Push-ups.

I've never been able to do push-ups in my whole entire life. OK?

Push-ups with a difference.

Rick hopes that he has shocked Pete into action but, to make sure

he keeps it up, he sets him a series of exercises to do every day.

Now we're going to do butt taps.

The resistance training, combined with running, will help him not

only lose weight but also keep it off as it reduces stored body fat.

No pain, no gain, lad!

But changing bad habits built up over a lifetime

is not going to be easy.

Pete and Celena have always been a bad influence on each other

when it comes to food and they've piled on the weight.

But through separation,

I want to get to the root of what's caused this.

Today, I've come to Warrington to meet with Celena to try to

understand HER bad relationship with food.

-Hello.

-Hi.

-How are you?

-You OK?

-Yeah, I'm good.

I need to understand where this began.

I've always been the biggest out of all me friends,

even through school, and then I had Kayleigh quite young

and it was so hard bringing Kayleigh up on me own.

Presumably, if you're then at home

and your friends are out having fun, how do you comfort yourself?

-Getting a pizza, or...

-Get a pizza, yeah.

-So the whole thing becomes a self-perpetuating cycle.

-Yeah.

It's like a snowball rolling downhill -

-it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger.

-Yeah.

I hate how I look. I put on this big front that I'm happy

and it's easy to do. It is easy to do but I'm not happy.

Pete going out and buying the five chocolate bars -

-although he did it to make you happy...

-Yeah.

-..it was almost like he was your dealer...

-Yeah.

-..in a way.

-I'm dead angry.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

And the anger WILL sabotage this.

You'll go back to binge eating. We've got to get you happy now.

I feel like you're asking the impossible.

I think, if you come with it with a psychological mind-set

-"I'm doing a diet to lose weight", you'll fail.

-Yeah.

If you come at it with the psychological mind-set that is

-"I am changing my life and my lifestyle..."

-Yeah.

-"..and this is it now", you won't fail.

-Yeah.

I always find it really heart-breaking

when I talk to women like Celena,

who have such profoundly low self-esteem.

And obviously, in order for Celena to succeed at this,

she has to actually feel very positive and strong

and that's going to be tough for her, I think.

For now, nearing the end of the first week, Celena is sticking to

her food plan and making healthy meals and snacks to get her

through a shift at work.

As a trainee midwife, three days a week, she works the night shift,

but her body is fighting back.

Absolutely gagging for carbs -

crumpets with butter or...some toast.

But instead, I've got a fat-free yoghurt,

so I'm going to eat that instead.

And...like, try and fight my craving.

To help, I've asked Rick to pay her a visit.

Now I work in hospitals and I have this everywhere I go.

The resistance band!

Let's work the arms a little bit,

get the circulation flowing with the bicep curls.

Up and down. Up and down.

SHE STRAINS

Pump some blood into these arms.

I can use that at home as well.

People who take on the night shift don't realise just how much

havoc it will play with your body,

but there are some simple things that you can do.

Do some stretches. Doing a couple of stretches will help

improve the circulation and,

-by doing so, help you with the shift itself.

-Mm-hm.

Waiting for a patient, waiting for a phone call.

I've never thought about giving myself five minutes

and just looking after myself.

It can only be a good thing, can't it?

But if she is really going to reach Rick's target

of losing 2lbs a week, she'll need to do more.

So the key thing with your programmes

-is to have them really short and succinct...

-Right.

-..so it's more manageable.

-OK.

So come on down.

Can't do these.

-Just start from this position and it's...

-HE BREATHES

That's it. Perfect. That's exactly it.

That's excellent. That's fine.

Rick gives Celena an eight-minute workout

specifically designed for her needs.

One last time.

Oh, my God! He's going to kill me!

We're going to hold back for 30 seconds.

It's not going to be easy but, if she follows this routine every day,

she should start to see a change in her body shape.

I need like a safe word!

SHE LAUGHS

After just two weeks apart,

the separation is beginning to take its toll on Pete.

I'm feeling at the moment that it's an uphill battle on my own.

It's killing me being away from her

-and it's killing me being away from the kids.

-Yeah.

It's just doing my head in.

With the help of best mate Danny, he's trying to follow Rick's

exercise programme.

One more.

But it doesn't come naturally.

HE LAUGHS

-Don't, I'm getting

-BLEEP

-off!

-It hurts. I know it hurts.

-It's just this

-BLEEP

-stretch, mate.

When we were kids in school, when it came to PE or anything like that,

he was always the one that used to sit out of everything.

At home, he is sticking to the food plan,

but the concept of eating less is all a bit alien to him.

I've never stood like this making a meal, thinking that

I'm proper starving. It's only since doing this,

so I don't know whether it's portion size or what.

I'm just going to have to go through it all properly.

I feel it's about time I paid Pete a visit

to try and understand HIM a bit more.

There's issues around habits and behaviour

that have to be thought about, have to be understood,

because understanding is fundamental to behaviour change.

-How are you?

-Nice to see you.

-Yeah, really nice to see you.

-Yeah. Go through.

-Thank you.

I wanted to sort of ask you about your own childhood.

Do you have any pictures?

Some childhood photographs.

Have you?

Oh, so how old are you here?

-Around 16.

-And already you can see you're carrying some extra weight.

Terrible, this one, you know!

How many years ago is this?

13 years ago, so I would have been around about 21 there.

-So you're quite big there.

-Yeah.

It's in the family. It's been in the family, you know.

My dad's been big from what I can remember.

Now me dad is in constant pain with his back and his knees.

He's a poorly man.

There's a history of weight within the family.

So clearly, if we look at that photo,

-there's also a history of...

-Bad habits.

-..bad habits.

Every Friday, we had a chippy tea.

Did you have a treat cupboard?

Yeah, we had a box in the fridge with chocolate in.

-A box?

-No, just like a little... You know, like the drawers that are meant to be for veg.

So the vegetable drawer in the fridge was filled with chocolate and stuff?

"If it's green, it's mean" is my theory.

-You're like a four-year-old...

-Yeah, I am.

-..with vegetables.

So you can see, over the years,

how it's having this really negative knock-on effect.

I need to get you to drag it to the front of your mind

so you're really, really aware, all the time,

of the choices you're making.

It's make or break, so it's got to be make.

After three weeks living apart,

Celena seems more determined than ever.

Yeah, I love it.

Inspired by Rick's fitness regime, she has signed herself up

-to regular training at boot camp.

-Oh, my God!

She is going swimming twice a week and is sticking to the food plan.

I am not going to give up.

And the reason that I am not going to give up is because Pete

is learning to change his behaviour, as well.

Whereas before, when I've done really well,

erm...Pete would suggest, you know, we go out or

"You have been really good. Let's have a takeaway tonight."

But he's not going to be doing that.

I am confident that Pete won't let me down.

No pressure, like!

I'll kill him!

RAP MUSIC

But for Pete, temptation is just round the corner.

I've got me summer ball for work tomorrow.

Been drumming my brain over what to drink,

cos obviously, I'm thinking about calories.

So, I think I'm going to drink vodka and slimline tonic.

At me summer ball, I ended up on the pints and I had quite a few more

than what I intended on.

So, I ended up having a takeaway on Saturday.

I'm not going to lie, like! I did enjoy it a little bit,

but I just felt like I had let myself down

and, obviously, I have let Celena down, as well.

No, no!

Celena and Pete have separated,

so that they can work on their individual issues.

In this process, honesty is key

and so it's important that the couple

share both their successes and their slip-ups.

Oh, me stomach is proper killing, like.

It's proper doing backflips.

Today, they get to talk to each other for the first time.

I'm excited to speak to him and see what he has been up to.

RINGTONE

-Hello.

-Hello! You all right?

-Yeah, are you?

-Yeah.

Have you been missing me?

Yeah, a little bit.

I've been missing you loads. It's horrible, because...

-SHE LAUGHS

-I have, like.

-How are you doing?

-I've been doing well,

except, I had a little bit of a slip, at the weekend.

Oh, was it your works do?

I ended up on the pints and I had a few more than what I expected to.

-Oh, did ya?

-About 15.

-15 pints?!

-Yeah.

-Shut up!

-Yeah.

I ended up getting a takeaway.

-You had a takeaway.

-Yeah.

-What did you have?

Fried rice, chips and beef curry.

-Shut up!

-Yeah.

-I thought you were going to try dead hard?

I have tried dead hard. I've done dead well, other than that.

Other than your 15 pints and your Chinese,

to get over your hangover and stuff? Tell Daddy to work harder.

Bit harder.

-Work harder. Say, "No more beer."

-No beer.

-"No Chinese."

-No Chinese.

-"Be a good boy."

-Be a good boy.

Good boy. Love you.

-Say, "I love you".

-Love you.

Love ya. Ta-ra. Ta-ra.

Ta-ra. Ta-ra.

I need to get things sorted.

From the 15 pints he drank, Pete will have consumed around

-2,800 calories...

-I feel stressed.

..and that doesn't include the takeaway.

He is supposed to be on around 1,450 a day.

I'm dead annoyed!

I'm dead annoyed that he has had a Chinese!

I'm fuming.

I'd love a Chinese.

I'll kill him.

Honestly, if he doesn't stick to this, I will go mad,

cos what is the point in us being apart for, like, ten weeks,

if he is not going to give it 100%?

-Your daddy is well naughty.

-All... All gone!

Oh, I like it.

Oh, can we go for a cocktail after this?!

-THEY LAUGH

-No!

Did I tell you that Pete said he had, like, 15 pints

on his night out and a Chinese? He's well cheated, hasn't he?

If he's not changed, it will be like, what's the point?

As Pete is struggling without Celena,

I want to give him something else to focus on.

One of our big challenges

'is to help him shift his eating habits for good,

'so I've gathered the team to discuss what to do.'

Celena has taken this and she is really running with it.

Pete, it is taking him time to really get his head around it.

If there's a mismatch, in terms of how she's working on this

and how he is quite far behind her, at the moment, is that going

to have an impact on their relationship moving forward?

-I think we've got to catch him up, in that sense, as well.

-I agree.

Even if Pete doesn't care about himself, he should care about

his family, cos he makes all the food.

He loathes eating vegetables.

-I don't think he ever eats them.

-Ever.

I reckon I could work on that with him.

Paul Dolan is an expert in behaviour change.

He knows that Pete is not alone in his struggle with vegetables.

In fact, one in seven of us don't eat our greens.

-Why don't we try some veg?

-Oh, no!

But with Pete, we have an opportunity to change that

and get him eating his five-a-day, before he gets back with Celena.

-Broccoli.

-This may seem a bit cruel,

but research has shown that this method can get children

who hate greens to learn to eat them.

A study in Louisiana asked 300 schoolchildren,

who said they hated vegetables, to eat them every day for two weeks.

It just tastes bland to me. Won't be eating them again, mate.

By simply exposing them to vegetables, little and often,

for a period of time, two-thirds of the children

started to enjoy their greens.

-Rocket.

-I've never tried it.

-You don't actually know, then.

-If you haven't tried it, you don't like it.

-You're a man who hates

something that he's not yet tried.

If it can work for children, it might just work for Pete.

That's all right, isn't it? Wow!

-It's not as bad.

-Look at that!

-OK, what have we got there?

-Oh, mushrooms.

Paul ends the session with a food Pete fears the most.

Not a vegetable, but a fungus.

When was the last time you had a mushroom?

10, 15 years ago.

That's quite a long time.

-And I proper vomited, like.

-OK, well, I'm going to stand back,

while you do that.

Oh. No way.

It's a mushroom, Pete. What could be so bad about it?

Just the smell of them, the feel of them.

Stop dithering and get your hand in that bowl.

Go on, you are there now.

It's a mushroom, for God's sake. Put it in.

I know what it is. Trust me, I know what it is!

Good man.

-Eugh!

-Nice then, yeah?

-No!

To test the theory, Paul sets Pete a challenge.

I want you to eat a whole piece of broccoli, a whole carrot

and a whole mushroom every day, for the next two weeks.

PAUL GIGGLES

If we can get him in to good habits, this will be a long-lasting,

long-term impact on Pete, Celena, the children

and their children's children - that's how much this matters.

You can only learn by your mistakes, can't you?

You can't live and regret your past, so it's all about the future now.

And it's not just Pete who is thinking about the future.

After nearly five weeks apart, Celena is starting to think about

when they come back together.

We can't go back to the way that we were. I wasn't happy.

I wasn't happy, Peter weren't happy, the kids weren't happy.

I'm hoping that Pete is in the same mind-set. That's the hardest part

about all of this.

The exercise, the diet - all that is easy,

compared to not being able to physically see Pete

and have the conversations that I want to have with him.

If it doesn't work and he comes back and he's not determined on, like,

keeping this lifestyle, then me and Pete aren't going to work.

Today, Rick has summoned both Pete and Celena to attend a weigh-in.

They haven't seen each other, or a set of scales, for five weeks.

If they have both been sticking to the diet and exercise,

by now, each of them should have lost almost a stone in body fat.

I'm extremely nervous.

Alcohol and takeaway consumption probably hasn't helped matters.

Peter falls into my category of excusers.

Why he has binged, there is always an excuse.

When you come on the scale and I measure exactly what's inside

the body, there are no excuses.

Step onto there for me.

You have lost 9.5lbs.

'Disappointed, because it could have been so much more.'

The plus point is, Celena won't find out,

so I won't get SUCH a verolocking.

My key worry with you is that you are a little bit complacent.

Time is running out.

I genuinely don't feel like I have done enough.

I know I could have done more. Time is running out.

It's time to go hard now. Go hard or go home, isn't it?

Celena, she is a perfectionist. The problem with perfectionists is,

if they don't meet their 100% expectations, they give up

and they will continue to do this vicious cycle for years.

I want to have lost at least a stone.

If not...I'm going to be gutted.

How are you feeling?

-All right. Will you just tell me?! I just want to know!

-OK.

You lost...2st.

-Shut up! 2st?!

-2st.

-So, it's double what you expected.

-Serious?

-Yeah.

-Fantastic.

-Thank you.

-Good.

I was dead shocked when he said 2st, because I thought that

I would be able to tell. It sounds dead stupid.

If anybody else had lost 2st

and they say, "I can't tell".

I, seriously, cannot tell.

It's probably a job for Tanya, that, innit?!

Celena should be on a high. 2st is incredible.

-Oh, my God.

-But it seems it's impossible for her to see herself

in a positive way.

This is really, I think, the core issue that underpins

the struggles that she has been having.

Self-medicating with food - it's a, kind of, obvious cycle

that just grows and grows, with anxiety kicking up alongside it.

I feel like someone is going to jump out and get me.

I'm going to encourage her to take part in an activity that

I hope will really help her begin to think differently about her body.

-Hello.

-Hello.

-You are doing scary face at me.

Yeah, I'm a bit scared.

All right, well, let me talk to you.

I have set up a situation. It is about body image

and appreciating you for who you are now.

We have got to get there now, not when you have lost all the weight -

-and you have done amazingly.

-Oh, God. Right.

-Why are you getting tearful?

-Because I don't know what it is.

Well, let's go and have a look and if you don't like it,

-then, we don't do it.

-OK.

-All right. Let's go. It's round here.

People come here and they draw bodies.

They want to draw you.

-You're shaking.

-I know!

I don't know, because they are going to be looking

at everything, aren't they? I feel sick.

SHE LAUGHS

No-one else is going to judge you. Only you.

OK.

-OK, let me go and get them.

-Oh, my God!

I feel sick.

This is me worst nightmare, this. Absolute worst nightmare.

-This is Celena. This is Brian.

-Hi!

-This is his studio.

-You OK?

-Yeah, I think so.

-Good to meet you.

-Changing room? See you in a bit.

Thank you very much.

-I'm going to kill you!

-You're going to kill me? Oh, my God!

I'm not getting me boobs out!

No-one is telling you to get your boobs out.

I think, if I don't laugh, I will cry.

I wish I had, like, worn good knickers.

-Right, OK.

-Oh, my God!

I feel like I'm taking you...an execution.

I never stand still long enough for anyone to, like, look at me.

Even with Pete.

You have got to start to appreciate this now,

your body that has lost 2st.

-Let's go in there and...

-I'll do a Titanic pose.

Hello! Right.

-Happy with that?

-Yeah.

The phobia of her own body that Celena has,

here, she is just learning to be relaxed,

while having people look at her in a non-threatening way.

And actually, she is getting so much more relaxed,

as the class goes on.

She looks really serene.

She looks really beautiful.

It makes me happy.

-Oh, they're good!

-They are good.

I thought it would be bigger, as well. They are like...

-That they'd do a huge...

-Yeah, like, bigger.

I just thought I would look bigger.

What does that tell you about your perception of yourself?

That it's wrong!

Like, off-the-charts wrong, isn't it?

Yeah. I need to ease up a little bit, because what I see

isn't what other people see.

I'm really proud of you.

-I can't believe I have just done that.

-You can't?

-No.

I actually thought you were going to throw up on me when you walked in.

Either that or I thought I was going to hit you!

Oh, I'm glad you didn't do that.

I would have preferred if you had thrown up on me! Oh, dear Lord!

She smashed it!

She is an awesome woman and that is what she needs

to hold on to, because she will now absolutely succeed in this process.

Little steps towards the bigger goal.

The bigger goal being going on holiday, being in the sun

and putting on a wedding dress.

I did it. I am well proud of myself.

It's good, innit?!

That's it.

Having lost only nine pounds in the first five weeks,

Pete knows that he's got a lot of catching up to do

before he sees Celena again.

He's now making the time to run for 15 minutes, three times a week.

He can burn up to 150 calories for each mile.

Wow, Daddy's got one.

He is also beginning to realise just how important this change

in lifestyle is.

Daddy have a bite and then you have some.

Today, he is with his son, Cameron.

Mmm!

The biggest motivation any person can have is their kids.

What would it be like for the kids if I weren't here,

if my health did take a turn for the worst? I have never really thought

about it that way, but I have been through it, personally,

where my dad struggled with health.

It's not nice. I never want any

of my kids to have to go through seeing me

what I seen my dad go through.

Tickle! Tickle, tickle, tickle!

A long, healthy, happy future.

That's all I ever want for my family.

With a heightened understanding of what's at stake, for the past week,

Pete has been following Paul's instructions and eating

raw vegetables once a day, but is still finding it hard.

The theory is, the more times he eats them, the more he will

train himself to like them.

I never thought that I would be sat on a bench in my lunch hour

eating healthy food, such as green food.

Looking at this mushroom, I'm dreading it.

I can't stomach it. I really do not like it.

Beetroot's nice, though.

With just two weeks left, Celena is feeling more self-confident...

..and seeing the benefits of Rick's exercise regime,

she's now taking it one stage further.

It's Celena's boot camp. Got all my mates involved!

They hate me!

It will be fun, when Celena is screaming at you(!)

When we get back together, Pete will have no choice

but to do this with me. He will be a member of my boot camp

and I'll have pleasure in beating him.

-Girls, focus!

-I think I am going to break my back!

Clench your bum and your pelvic floor, as you come up.

-Argh!

-It's all in the hips.

I hope nobody is watching us out the windows!

All done, girls!

I think you have got the bug now, haven't you?

I enjoy it.

Kayleigh is here, so the kids can get involved

-and it doesn't cost money.

-It's like a new mum.

It's like we are getting to know each other again!

Kayleigh, break my heart, why don't ya?!

-Don't cry, Mum. Come on.

-I won't cry.

Aww.

That's the first time I have hugged my mum properly, in ages.

I can't even remember the last time we hugged like that, properly.

So, it's so nice to be able to feel like

I am getting my mum back, so I'm excited for the future.

Really excited for the future.

With just one week to go, Pete's thoughts are turning

to being reunited with Celena.

It's important for me to make sure that I look my best when I see her,

cos I need to prove her, obviously, this time apart

has been well worth it.

Just been horrible, just being away from her.

You know, the old saying, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder".

But it's true. It does.

I'm dying to see her, see the difference in her.

Hopefully, she notices the difference in me,

because there has been a big change. I can notice where I've lost weight

on my stomach, where I'm wearing pants that used to be tight.

I'd never ate veg, but I enjoy it now, like.

So, I just can't wait to see her, like.

Feel like a kid at Christmas.

-I'm liking it, mate. It's good having a fringe back again.

-Yeah?

Celena will be seeing Pete in just five days,

but there is a final fear that I'd like to help her face.

Having spent time with Celena, looking at body image,

now that she has begun to shift how she sees herself,

it feels to me that it's now time to help her really challenge

this phobia she has of being a bride.

-Nice to see you!

-Yeah.

-You are looking at me with such suspicion!

I don't trust you now! What you are going to make me do?

-I'm taking you to a shop.

-Yeah?

-A bridal shop.

-Oh, no!

-Oh!

-Do you want to hold my hand or do you want to run?

-Oh! Right, all right. Yeah.

-Yeah? OK.

Oh! Hiya!

-I want to kill her!

-Oh, no, no!

I just don't know. It's stupid, isn't it? It's a dress. I know...

It's not stupid. It's anxiety. So, let's just go.

-Thank you.

-Oh!

-All right, so we are going to try this one?

-Yeah.

-OK.

I don't know. Right, OK.

-Shall we do it?

-Yeah, I'll get in it.

This is called systematic desensitisation.

Take yourself to the thing you're afraid of,

expose yourself to it, keep doing it,

it's not a problem any more.

Argh!

What is the psychology behind this? Why are we doing this?

That don't look as bad as I think I'm going to look.

To challenge that negative self-belief. Yeah.

Do you want to have a look?

No!

-Yeah, yeah. Go on, then.

-Go on, then.

Oh, God!

What do you think?

Yeah, I look nice.

-Why is this making me feel quite emotional?

-Aw.

-Why, though?

-Don't know.

Well, go on. You help me, you be my psychologist.

Because it is big, this.

It is like a big thing for me.

Definitely.

Pete would have an heart attack if he'd seen me in a dress like this.

-He would.

-Well, we don't want to induce that.

I never thought I'd be a woman who'd cry in a bridal shop.

Good. Good.

She'll continue to lose weight, she's changed her lifestyle,

she's doing really well,

but she is happy with who she is now

and that's the way the process has to work.

You can't wait to become happy...

..because, if that's what you're doing, you'll never get there.

After ten long weeks apart,

tomorrow, Pete and Celena will be reunited.

It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my whole entire life.

Stood here tonight looking out there at the sunset,

it's made me miss her even more. Even the little things,

when she's going on at me and doing my head in, I miss that.

She keeps me in check, don't she?

Now that they have worked so hard on their individual issues,

I hope that, by coming back together,

they can make a fresh start.

The biggest change I want is her to feel more at ease with herself.

She comes across to people who know as though she's dead confident

and bubbly and full of herself

but I know she does suffer because of the way she looks.

So, if she's changed the way she feels about herself,

we can start moving forward, then.

If this is making me happy, then he'll go all out,

but there's a little part of me that thinks that he's going to get bored

and that the novelty is going to wear off.

I don't want us to want different things,

I want us both to want the same things.

I do think about him all the time.

It's like we split up.

That's how it feels.

It feels like we've split up.

And I'm a bit nervous about seeing him.

It's like a first date.

Mm.

It's the end of the separation.

Judgment day.

Today, Celena and Pete finally get to see each other.

I'm excited and nervous at the same time.

Obviously, I hope she's going to be made up to see me.

If he's not took it serious,

I won't be happy

and I'll tell him.

Pete and Celena have made big changes,

they're not the same people they used to be,

but this is a crucial moment

and, when they come together, will they struggle

or will their relationship be stronger

because of the time they've spent apart?

Being apart from the person who you love

and you want to spend the rest of your life with

is the most difficult thing anybody could do.

Today is dead important because it will show me how serious Pete is

about changing our lives.

Celena's seized this opportunity to change her life.

Pete, on the other hand, was a bit slow off the mark

but now, returning as a family, this is a chance for them

to champion each other's efforts

and not sabotage each other like they did before.

I have arranged for their friends and family

to surprise them at the venue.

I'm just excited for them both.

I can't wait for them to see each other now.

I am just a little bit nervous now.

My stomach's just doing backflips.

I feel a bit sick.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Take the dummy out and give me a kiss.

Big one! Big one! Mwah!

Aw! Cuddle!

What do you think Celena will think when she sees you?

I don't know. Hope she'll be happy!

Would you like to see her?

Yeah, I'd love to.

MUSIC: Higher Love by James Vincent McMorrow

Oh, no way! Oh, no way!

No way!

Look at you! Oh, my God!

Hello, babe.

-You all right?

-Yeah.

-You OK?

-Yeah. Are you?

You've got lippy all over you!

-You look ace!

-Thanks. So do you, babes.

-Ta.

-Hello, gorgeous!

-I can't believe all you lot are here!

-What do you think about...?

-Yeah, he's fit.

-Back on track for tonight, then!

-All right, steady on!

We've got some work to do. Steady on.

-You look ace!

-Thanks. So do you. You look amazing.

-Have you missed each other?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-I've missed the earache.

-You've missed the...

-Yeah, yeah.

-All right, he'll get plenty of that later.

-Earache!

What is going through your mind now?

I'm just made up cos the last time that I'd spoke to him,

he was still, like, reeling from when went on his works do

and he had, like, 15 pints and then a Chinese.

I just felt like he wasn't working as hard as I was.

Pete, why don't we show Celena what we did?

Thank you very much.

So, broccoli.

Look, everybody.

Look at you.

-Are you going to cook with those vegetables now?

-Yes.

So how fit and healthy are you?

Well, there's somebody here who can tell you.

Pete, you've lost 2.5st of fat

but the reason you feel so much stronger

is because you've almost put on a stone of muscle

and that's an amazing achievement.

APPLAUSE

Bloody hell!

Well done, Pete.

-Are you happy?

-Oh, yeah.

-Celena...

-Oh, God!

-When we met ten weeks ago, you were 21st.

All right, thank you for that!

She's going to kill you!

Sorry!

You've lost almost 3st in ten weeks.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Can you both tell each other

what you want from each other moving forward?

I pledge here obviously not to be feeding you unhealthy foods,

putting you in jeopardy by trying to keep you happy.

The last ten weeks, I've learnt to eat healthily

so, moving forward, we're going to bring that together,

not only for myself, but for us and for the family, as well.

I won't be the Pete from ten weeks ago ever again.

I pledge that I'm not going to use my weight as an excuse any more

not to go on holiday and not to go to any social events,

and, like, the biggie - getting married,

I pledge that we'll start looking at venues

and get something booked.

When she came through the gates, I just filled up,

and I was like, "My mum's beautiful

"and she can finally see that she's beautiful."

I asked her to marry me because I want to marry her,

because I want to grow old with her,

because I want to spend the rest of my life with her and now we can.

-Can't we?

-Yeah, we will.

They've blossomed into this couple

who are ready to embrace this moving forward,

and that, for me, is a proper love story

with a really, really happy ending.

You do look amazing.

Going my hotel now!

Get your shoes off.

I never, ever thought in a million years

that Pete would change the way that he acts so much.

It's proper shocked me.

Pete now weighs 12st 6lbs,

nearly 3st less than before the separation,

while Celena has lost an overall 3st 8lbs.

It's just changed us loads.

We're back to the way we was when we first got together.

We're all kissy and cuddly and all that

because you feel more confident in yourself.

He's like a dog on heat. Honestly!

He is!

I've kept in touch with Pete and Celena

and I'm really pleased to hear of their progress

but I want to know why they think it worked.

Hello!

Nice to see you!

-So, how's it going since you've been back together?

-Good.

Can't keep his bleeding hands off me!

Would you have done this without the separation?

No, I don't think we could.

The separation was the main part in us changing.

Not just the eating habits and stuff like that -

the way you feel about yourself,

I don't think you could have changed that totally if I was around.

No, we both had totally separate issues

and they had to be tackled separately.

Are you saying that, being together, you just hadn't got the headspace

-to really work out what the issues were?

-Yeah.

I didn't think that I had issues. I thought I was all right.

We've all got issues!

It's so empowering to see a couple completely shifted

in terms of the previous rut that they were in

and, now they've come back together,

you can see this fresh perspective for both of them

is enabling them as a couple now to be really healthy.

And that's brilliant.

Go! Whoo!

They're big kids again.

They are big kids again and I love it.

Like, they're a lot healthier and happier in themselves.

It's like they're falling in love all over again.

Kiss me, quick!

Next time, Bob and Jane's unhealthy lifestyle...

-Get off!

-Hang on, hang on.

..has meant their relationship has hit a standstill.

She wants me to give her love all the time

but she can't give it herself.

-This is about saving your relationship.

-Yeah!

Will separating them for ten weeks get them back on track?

I drink to try and block it out.

It's not drinking in here.

You will never give me anything like this again, right?

I need the truth all the way through.

It defeats the object of why we're doing all this in the first place.