The Diets That Time Forgot Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Measuring Up

Tue, Mar 18, 2008 48 mins

100 years ago, the average woman's waist was around 10 inches smaller and the average man was a stone and a half lighter. Sir Roy Strong champion of the age of elegance and former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, thinks history holds the answer to the nation's obesity epidemic. To prove it, he's conducting an experiment. He's taken a magnificent Victorian Country House and transformed it into a health spa of period.

Episode 2

Burning It Off

Tue, Mar 25, 2008 48 mins

Offal's on the menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with cold plunges and exercise in this second phase of Sir Roy Strong's historic slimming experiment. Under his tough love regime, nine volunteers compete to lose weight on diet and keep fit regimes that were popular with the Victorians, Edwardians and the flappers of the 1920s. As the volunteers groan with hunger, Sir Roy decides it's time to test their powers of self restraint.

Episode 3

The Great Outdoors

Tue, Apr 1, 2008 48 mins

Episode 4

The Great Insides

Tue, Apr 8, 2008 48 mins

Episode 5

The Slimming Drill

Tue, Apr 15, 2008 48 mins

Episode 6

Extreme Measures

Tue, Apr 22, 2008 48 mins