Chris Kent did not come to a glucose monitor to lose weight. The Cork comedian had picked up a gut problem. He put on a Nico sensor to keep himself honest on the road, where his diet had become Supermac's on the way to Supermac's and jellies inhaled on long drives.
Two videos came out of it. In the first, Chris tells the story himself. In the second, we got our ear in and translated the whole thing.
What the sensor changed
Chris says he could normally put a handful of jellies in his mouth and think, probably all right. Now he watches it happen live on his phone, and it turns out to be not all right at all. Which is a very different thing from being told, in the abstract, that sweets are bad for you.
The weight came off as a side effect, about three kilos in two weeks, which is the right way round for us. Nico is not a weight-loss product; weight is what usually moves once the metabolic picture improves and someone starts making different calls on the way past Supermac's. Chris noticed his energy before he noticed the number on the scale, and that order tells you something about what changed first.
The translation
The second video is the one we had the most fun with. Chris speaks fluent Cork, and a good chunk of the internet does not, so we annotated him.
Chris is heading into a tour, and by his own reckoning he will be in the best shape of his life for it. He called it a Rocky montage, and we are not going to argue with him. You can follow him at @chriskentcomic. None of this began with a diet. It began with a gut problem, a decision to look at the data instead of reaching for the antibiotics, and the rest followed on its own.