Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones reveals one food she cut from diet to lose 4 stone

Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones has revealed the one thing she cut out from her diet to help her lose four stone.

The 58-year-old who co-wrote the beloved BBC sitcom with James Corden, insists she lost weight the "old fashioned way" and decided to go on a calorie deficit after trying "loads of diets".

Ruth, who is better known as Nessa, reduced her intake to around 1200 - 1500 calories per day with the recommended amount for women being 2000 calories each day, Surrey Live reports.

This decision saw the actress slim down to a size 12 but there is one sugary food she eliminated from her eating plan altogether to achieve this - chocolate.

Speaking about her weight loss journey on the Table Manners podcast with Jessie and Lennie Ware, Ruth revealed she sought help from hypnotherapist Paul McKenna. She said: "One of the techniques he showed in this workshop, he asked us what our aims were and I said that if I could stop eating chocolate, I would be fine.

"So he said ‘ok I’m gonna show you all a technique - if you want to stop eating it, this is what’s gonna stop it for good’. I was a bit cynical but did this whole process and one of the elements of this process was aversion therapy.

"He said think of something that you would hate eating and what you do is think of eating that then you think about eating the chocolate and you keep alternating. My thing was mushy peas. I used that as my aversion and it worked.

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"I did not eat chocolate for five years, I couldn't stand the smell. And when James [Corden] and I were writing, some of the hotels that we’d stay in, sometimes they’d put a little bit of complimentary chocolate on the pillow and I always used to test myself to see if I was still put off the chocolate, and I was."

Ruth, who has also starred in hit ITV shows such as Little Britain and Fat Friends decided to unsubscribe from the Paul McKenna workshop email list. However the next day she found herself reaching for another sweet treat.

She recalled: “I swear to god, the next day, we were writing and there were chocolates on the bed in this hotel room and I picked them up.”

Her co-star James Corden also recollected the moment he returned to the hotel where the pair were penning a final episode of the sitcom to find Ruth with the chocolates.

He said: "I went into the bathroom, came back and Ruth was like ‘oh my God’ and you were holding them near your mouth and it was the day after that, we’d had a bit of an argument and we decided to go for a walk and we bought two giant Cadbury's Easter eggs and we lay on the bed, open them and just lay with the chocolate on our faces and it was shortly after that that we wrote Dawn and Pete’s vows, the bit when when she changes the words to Ben."

The Gavin and Stacey finale, which aired on Christmas Day, is the final ever episode of the comedy sitcom. Fans are able to watch the ending along with all other episodes on BBC iPlayer.

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