What happens when you start eating healthy?

Welcome to ZOE Science and Nutrition, where world leading scientists explain how their research can improve your health. The new year feels full of potential, fresh routines, ambitious plans, and a quiet promise to ourselves. This year will be different. For many of you listening to this podcast, your focus is making lasting changes to your diet to improve how you feel, how you look, and how many more healthy years you live. But setting big ambitions is easy. Following through is the tricky part. So to give you the biggest boost on achieving this year's resolutions, we're doing something we've never done before. We're bringing on two everyday people who started their journey two years ago to show you what's possible. Because once you can see the goal, it's much easier to score. In today's episode, I'm joined by Becky Tucker and Mark Payne, two individuals we found by putting out a call to our community. Each of them has spent the past two years consistently putting ZOE nutrition principles into practice through busy seasons, stressful weeks, celebrations, setbacks, life. And somewhere along the way, both of them hit a moment where everything changed, Where becoming people who simply eat well became part of their identity. In this conversation, we'll learn how they stayed motivated and on track. And the lessons learned and strategies used that worked for them. And the unexpected ways that everything changed. If you're trying to make a change this year or trying to stay committed to one, perhaps today's episode could be the spark you need. And we're not doing this alone. In our fully packed studio today, our professor Tim Spector and professor Sarah Berry, two of the world's leading experts on gut health and nutrition science, here to explain the science behind Becky and Mark's success and how Zoe's principles can support long term health in the real world. Becky and Mark, happy new year, and thank you both for joining me today. Thank you. Pleasure to be here. And Sarah and Tim, thanks for being here, and I hope you didn't overindulge last night. Oh, I'm such a good girl, Jonathan. It's Tim that was on the tequila. It's far too many. Shouldn't be telling secrets. So, Becky and Mark, I think you know this, but we have a tradition here at Zoe on the podcast where we always start with a quick fire round of questions. And we ask you to give us a yes or a no or a one sentence answer if you have to. You willing to give it a go? Definitely. Sure. Alright. Becky, in your experience, do diet plans work? Yes and no. They work in the short term, and then they absolutely do not. Mark, can you transform how you feel by changing what you eat? Yes. Tim, to lose weight, should you count calories? Absolutely not. Sarah, can food affect your mood? Absolutely. Yes. Mark, is it possible to eat healthily without feeling …