{"id":713463,"date":"2026-07-27T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713463\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:29:21","slug":"cheap-snack-helped-me-lose-seven-stone-and-now-i-eat-10-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713463\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cheap snack helped me lose seven stone and now I eat 10 a day’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man says the \u00a32-a-day cupboard staple helped him to shift seven stone in less than a year. Adam Juniper was once known as the \u2018healthy fat man\u2019.<\/p>\n

While he would cycle seven miles to work each day, the 46-year-old would continuously skip breakfast and, instead, snack on whatever he could get his hands on; including cookies, chocolate bars and fast food burgers.<\/p>\n

At his heaviest, he weighed 19st 6lbs.The turning point came when his sex life became non-existent with his then long-term girlfriend and he began struggling to get up the stairs.He tried methods such as counting calories and eating only fruit.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, none of these worked, and he scoured for one final solution until he came across a winner \u2013 rice cakes.Now, he eats up to 10-per-day to satisfy his hunger.\u201cThere are so many rice cakes and they just seem so big and filling,\u201d said the managing editor from London.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that helped me on previous tries was fruit, but it never left me feeling full enough or gave me enough flavour variety.Mixing rice cakes with a lot of easy-to-eat fruit, like apples, made it possible to eat a lot of volume without taking on too many calories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam had been a \u2018big boy\u2019 at school, though he quickly lost weight naturally when he turned 16.Over the years, though, he noticed it slowly creeping back on due to his somewhat \u2018unhealthy\u2019 lifestyle.<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/p>\n

Adam used to weigh more than 19stone<\/p>\n

After moving to London in 2015, he gave up his aforementioned cycle to work and replaced it with the Tube.With temptation in every corner, he began purchasing quick calorific snacks to keep his energy levels up.He said: \u201cI hadn\u2019t quite appreciated how bad it was at first.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then my clothes kept getting bigger and bigger.As I spent a lot of my time in long-term relationships, I didn\u2019t really dress up for dates, so I didn\u2019t notice my looks much.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever I did have to go out, though, I\u2019d be embarrassed as the size of the shirt I needed to buy was either right at the back of the rail \u2013 or they didn\u2019t stock it.My sex life stopped, too.I did wonder if my appearance was connected to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/p>\n

Adam started eating rice cakes<\/p>\n

Adam used to get subtle comments, such as being called the \u2018big lad\u2019 by friends, or would often be involved in conversations surrounding his mates\u2019 health strategies, which, he now realises, were probably them making suggestions for him.But it was no use, as he would still stick to his daily habit of skipping breakfast, opting for a meal deal including sandwiches, crisps and a cola at lunch.<\/p>\n

For dinner, he\u2019d have big meals with pasta or Greek pies.And snacking-wise, he was always pulled in by \u2018gimmick\u2019 temporary flavours, such as coffee-flavoured Mars bars, which he felt obliged to get so he wouldn\u2019t miss out.<\/p>\n

Now, instead, he mixes up the flavour of rice cakes, going between sweet and savoury.It\u2019s costing up to \u00a32 per day; roughly \u00a310 less than he was spending before.He said: \u201cI very much enjoy good food, but I really saw the need to hit calorie targets.<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/p>\n

Adam Juniper was once known as the healthy fat man<\/p>\n

\u201cThese filled me up and I don\u2019t remember feeling in any way ill.I also wasn\u2019t too embarrassed to be seen eating them, as it didn\u2019t seem silly.And the results became apparent after just a few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

A typical day in his diet involves a bowl of sugar-free muesli, followed by cheese for lunch and then rice cakes for the rest of the day.Adam lost over 7st in just seven months and currently weighs a trim 11st 8lbs.He added: \u201cMy wife says I\u2019m gorgeous and she\u2019s basically a sex icon; so I\u2019m feeling a lot happier about it.<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/p>\n

Adam eats 10 rice cakes a day<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s hard to get rid of that \u2018fat boy\u2019 instinct.I do feel better and I\u2019m able to keep up with my son, too.My advice is to find something that works for you.It might take a while, but it\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man says the \u00a32-a-day cupboard staple helped him to shift seven stone in less than a year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}