Radio 1's Adele gets SUPER honest about changing her whole life for 30 days

Our fave super early morning DJ Adele has been taking on something we all plan on doing but never actually are brave enough to: a hardcore 30-day fitness challenge.

TERRIFYING.

We snuck into the studios and grabbed her for a chat about what the dickens made her do it...

It was a 30 day challenge, training with a female body builder which involved me changing everything about my lifestyle. I used to be quite naughty before I started it. I had to get a whole new diet which I had to stick to daily and a training regime involving cardio and weight lifting. I wanted to see what female body builders go through with the rise of girls getting into the gym to be stronger. It finished yesterday and I’m so relieved.

The whole time I was doing it, I couldn’t wait for it to be over but now that it is I’m actually wanting to go to the gym today and have my porridge with water. I feel guilty that I’m not!

Years ago I did a body building show and some people in the office were like, ‘Well you’re a body builder’ and I’m really not! I did one show and after I finished I just went back to normal! It was for a personal reason as well. My auntie has sadly passed away and she was in the world of body building so I did it to honour her.

Then I noticed this trend of girls picking up the weights and wanting to sculpt their bodies. I thought that was really cool and wanted to see if I could still do it.

I get up at 2am so it made it that little bit tougher. Early breakfast is such a gruelling shift and I know it sounds silly but not seeing the sun and having to work while everyone else is still sleeping is a really weird thing. It’s draining and it tends to make you emotional.

So adding in the training regime was horrific. The first week, the wheels nearly came off. I thought there is no way I’m going to be able to do this. But I learned that it was just sugar and bad habits leaving my body.

Doing this thing called fasted cardio which I think has helped me get a lot of the fat off my body. You have to work out before you eat anything and so if I’m getting up at 2am and then staying at Radio 1 until 6.30am then popping in to see Grimmy, I don’t get home until 8am. So I haven’t eaten since I got up 6 hours before then I’ve got to work out for 45 minutes. The first week was a killer it was so horrible.

The hardest habit to kick was sugar. Not having sugar in my diet was really hard. I couldn’t even eat fruit or tomatoes and that killed me. I wanted to cry over the tomatoes. I imagine it’s like going cold turkey.

Just get through the first week and I know it’s tough but then you’re okay and your body gets used to it. I got a lot of inspiration from Instagram because there are a lot of girls and boys on there who are doing these diets and have been through this.

To be fair I wasn’t that active. I started off this year doing a seven minute work-out on my phone and I got about half way through the year and I was doing it religiously then there would be days when I just let the app play and I’d watch TV. Ha-ha. Then I just deleted the app.

Looking back I think food was a comfort thing for me. I would feel sad or emotional and my first go-to was eating. Now I’ve replaced it with going to the gym. People always said that it could make me feel good but I had never got to that point with the gym. But just being in your own space, listening to your music is really calming. The old me would have said no way but it’s true.

The old me is rolling my eyes but it says ‘You’ll never regret going to the gym but you will regret eating something bad’. And it’s so true. You always feel good after.

I think once my body started to change and I could see it that really helped. There was a point about two weeks in that I hadn’t noticed any difference and I was on the train with my friends and we were joking about how muscly I was. Which was ironic I thought, but I lifted up my t-shirt and did a bicep curl and for the first time in years I could see muscle. And I weighed myself once a week and took pictures and you can start to actually see the progress.

I don’t actually. I’ve always had a good relationship with my body and understand that I look different to other people. I more look at other people that I perceive to look good and just admire them rather than think I need to look like them. But from the challenge I do see that I look better. For me the best bit was feeling better.

Yeah totally. When I was younger I was silly and did fad diets. Being at school, I saw the perfect girls it made me so things that I shouldn’t have.

Substitute certain bad foods for a healthier version. If you get takeaways try to make it at home first and that immediately removes some of the badness. Do something small like swap sugar for honey. Or instead of getting the bus that short distance, walk it instead.

It’s just little things, you don’t need to change it all right away. Be kind to yourself.

Get through the tough times because the reward at the end is so worth it. Only do it if you want to do it in your heart because feeling good is the ultimate motivation. Nothing you do to make you feel good will make you look bad.