Chris Hipkins

Yeah, no, I'm good.

You can probably see I lost a little bit of weight since I last spoke to you.

Well, I'll have to confess, you know, because I had a bit of an exercise regime in the first part of last year and I just wasn't losing any weight at all.

And then I had to change my diet.

I actually did less exercise, but better dieting.

It's all nutrition.

And it was totally nutrition.

Way too much sugar.

Way too much sort of just rubbish in, rubbish in.

And so I focused on hydration.

So it's amazing.

I didn't know...

that part of my hunger wasn't actually hunger it was thirst and so when I started drinking a lot more water my appetite started to sort of dial back a bit which was a huge thing for me and especially it's a high pressure job you're in you know so high stress so you've got to look after yourself

Yeah.

And so, I mean, I focused, I still try and do a bit of exercise, eat better.

I adopted a rule that one of my old colleagues said to me, my old boss, Trevor Mallard said to me, if you're going into politics, don't eat while standing up.

If you don't eat when you're standing up, you'll be all right.

Because what happens is you go to places and you're always on the move and there's always food and stuff.

And if you just restrict yourself to just three meals a day, then actually it's not so bad.

So that's what I've been trying to do.