Tom Watson has been promoting Fizz Free February this month. The politician hopes that Britons can shape up by ditching sugary drinks. Watson has displayed an impressive weight loss himself, revealing he shed nearly seven stone after being diagnosed with diabetes. His diet saw the Labour Party MP cutting down on sugar, taking up a keto diet and drinking Bulletproof coffee. “Since last summer I’ve taken off 86lbs through a regime of cutting out sugar, eating better and exercising,” he told GMB’s Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan in September 2017.
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The Labour MP’s website currently promotes cutting down on sugar-packed fizzy drinks as part of the Fizz Free Feb campaign.
“Fizzy drinks make up an average of 29 per cent of daily sugar intake,” he wrote on the site. “If you drink a can of Coke every day for a month you’ll eat the equivalent of a bag of sugar.”
Watson’s council of Sandwell is running the campaign and is encouraging others to follow suit.
He explained his secret of drinking Bulletproof coffee in his New Statesman column, saying it was key to his slimming.
“This morning started with what the LA set call a “bulletproof coffee,” he said.
“It’s basically butter from grass-fed cows blended with fresh coffee – the idea is to get saturated fats into your diet so that you’re not as
