Season 4
You Are What You Eat is a British reality dieting programme in which presenter Gillian McKeith uses shock tactics to get the participants to lose weight.
The series originally aired in the UK on Channel 4 from 2004-2007. The fourth season was entitled You Are What You Eat: Gillian Moves In.
You Are What You Eat airs in South Africa on DStv's BBC Food channel.
Season 4 originally aired on BBC Food from 10 March to 28 April, 2008, on Mondays at 16h00.
A rebroadcast of Season 4 premiered on BBC Food on Friday 1 August 2008, at 22h30. There are eight hour-long episodes in the fourth season.
Repeats
Saturdays: 08h30, 14h30
Season 4 Synopsis
You Are What You Eat has just got bigger as Gillian McKeith is back with a new season of hour-long episodes. The dinky diet detective has traveled the UK holding open auditions to find more desperate cases, and now she's found them, they've got a very big shock in store.
Over the years she's shouted at the overeaters and condemned the under-exercisers, but now the Chunky Monkeys are moving in. They don't know it yet, but the McKeith treatment means living under her roof, following her house rules, with no escape.
If that weren't bad enough, Gillian will even invite herself to stay at theirs if they've fallen off the wagon.
Each show will be crammed with as many nutritional tips as ever as Gillian pushes her skills to the limit with more shocking demonstrations of the dastardly effects of our dietary habits.
Methods
The show often uses shock tactics to get the participants to lose weight.
In each episode all food eaten in one week by the person(s) taking part is placed on a table to highlight problem areas of their diet.
Another technique is the analysis of the participant's faeces by McKeith to detect certain problems and make them known to the person involved. This aspect of the show gained McKeith the nickname "The Awful Poo Lady".
Emphasising the possibility of the participant's death is sometimes used, with references to children they might not see growing up or a mock grave being prepared.
Generally, editions would have these scenes in the first part followed by the participant's attempts to follow McKeith's diet and exercise regimes in the second.
The fourth season was expanded from half-hour to one-hour episodes, with the contestants moving to McKeith's London house and being visited overnight at their homes for inspection.