(flute blowing)
- I've clearly lost how I'm supposed to blow.
(bright upbeat music)
Hi, my name is Ada.
My life is boring as hell,
but I'm going to try and fix that
and live like a celebrity for a week.
I'm going to take somebody else's life
because celebrities seems to have a good life, right?
In the last episode of this,
I lived like Meghan Markle and trust me, it was not easy.
Mmm.
But this week I'm going to live like somebody
that I truly admire.
Someone that embodies everything I want to embody.
And someone I think is honestly overall,
just absolutely badass.
I'm going to be living like the great,
the one and only, Miss Lizzo.
Lizzo is amazing.
She is super confident.
She says what she feels.
She makes me feel good about myself
just watching her feel good about herself.
So during this week,
I'm going to take on her fitness,
her diet and her wellness.
Every morning, Lizzo, apparently speaks to her body.
She speaks to her stomach and tells herself
that you are great.
You are loved.
This is part of me. This is who I am.
And sometimes I think I avoid looking at my own body
just because I can't accept what I'm looking at,
or it somehow distorts in my own brain.
I want to take that on to try
and give myself a better and healthier understanding
of my body shape and my body type.
And then I'm going to do the exercise.
Lizzo is very big in fitness.
If you've ever been to a Lizzo concert,
you have seen her run up and down that stage
and sing it all the way through.
I can barely walk up the stairs and not be out of breath.
And also, Lizzo is vegan.
So I'm going to do one vegan meal a day.
I'm not going to do it for the whole week
because I do actually have a lot of food in my house.
And I don't believe in food waste,
but I am going to try a new vegan recipe every day.
And then hopefully my health will improve.
And with that comes improvements around my whole life.
So I'm going to take you with me.
We're gonna vlog for each day.
And hopefully I'm going to have a better life after this.
I hope.
(upbeat music)
Good morning. It's the first day of living like Lizzo.
I've just woken up.
I'm going to start the day with the positive affirmations
to my body.
Then this is going to be great
because I do believe positive affirmations
change your mental a bit,
change the way that you think about yourself.
And it's something that I do want to incorporate in my life.
So let's kick this off and see how it works.
I love you.
Thank you for keeping me safe and happy.
You deserve all the space in the world.
I love my body.
Lizzo does her routine with her belly out.
I'm not really there yet,
but maybe by the time I finish, I will be.
It's actually a decent day for once.
So I'm starting my day out on the balcony
catching up on some work.
And I've got a little fruit bowl
because I know Lizzo has talked about the importance
of just having fruit in your diet, keeping it fresh.
And also it's like a sweet thing
that doesn't add toxins to your body.
So that's why I'm starting with today.
I have a little hour break in between all my meetings.
I have a really busy day and I thought this is a time
where I can do Lizzo's workout.
Now, from what I've read, Lizzo skips for 10 minutes
every time she works out.
That's what I'm going to start incorporating in my workouts.
So, let's get skipping.
Shall we do it in the house?
(rope hits object)
Maybe I should be on the balcony.
(bright upbeat music)
Ah. (Ada winces)
Oh. Wait, I need shoes.
(bright upbeat music)
Does everybody know that skipping wasn't easy?
Because I used to bust that thing out in school
all the time.
I definitely wasn't sweating like this.
I don't feel like Lizzo yet
but if you do follow Lizzo, if you're a fan of Lizzo,
you will know that Lizzo has been TikToking.
She has been TikToking like nobody's TikToked before
in the pandemic.
And the one thing that I really noticed
that she brought on TikTok is her meals.
So I'm going to try one of Lizzo's vegan meals
and hope for the best.
It's going to be meatless meatballs with quinoa,
chickpeas and a side salad.
Okay. So here's what I've got.
I've got
these meatless
burgers
(car skidding)
because I couldn't find any meatless meat.
So it's going to have to be this.
And then got my salad stuff for a side salad,
some chickpeas.
I've never cooked chickpeas.
Don't know how to cook chickpeas.
And I've never cooked keen, kwahn, quin, quinoa.
And I can't even say it 'cause I've never even cooked it.
So we're going to hope for the best.
So it says on the keen, quin, kwinwah, quinoa,
30 minutes.
Well, 30 minutes then. That's a lot longer than I thought.
I'm actually quite hungry.
(bright upbeat music)
(water pouring)
It's not even been 20 minutes yet.
All the water's already gone.
I'm just going to pour more in. Oh. That is burnt.
That is burnt on the bottom.
(bright upbeat music)
(commentator talking in the background)
This quinoa is flavorless.
And the chickpeas,
aren't popping.
But we move.
(soft music)
I love you. I love my body.
You bring me life.
You are keeping me alive.
As much as I may not be happy about my body image,
the body image is not what you are.
You are a human being. You are functioning human being.
You are a healthy human being.
And that is what's most important.
I feel good. I look good.
Oh, there she is.
That B.
I wasn't going to tell you guys this,
but I thought, "You know what?
"This whole thing is about honesty."
After my vegan adventure yesterday, I vomited.
And I'm not saying
I'm allergic to the vegan journey,
but that was a big sign.
Or maybe I'm allergic to soy.
I bet Lizzo doesn't have to deal with working
in the same place her washing machine is
but I'm eating my fruit and there's a lot to do today.
But I'm trying to get that coin,
I'm trying to get that bread.
I'm trying to do that bitch that Lizzo always wants to be.
So let's push through it and let's go guys.
Ow.
I just bit my tongue.
So like every other celebrity,
it seems like Lizzo also enjoys a green juice.
And because I need to leave the house,
I'm going to make a green juice and take it on the go.
(upbeat music)
I can't wear my glasses and mask in peace.
(indistinct chatter)
Having this on the go is like,
it's good.
And at least I can drink my lunch on the go,
but it didn't come out smooth.
And I put way too much lemon in it.
It's time to skip.
I'm not going to do it at my apartment this time.
Because I just thought,
"Ada, you have a gym in your building.
"Go and skip there."
(upbeat music)
It really isn't easy.
But I'm enjoying the skipping.
Now I can continue with the rest of my workout.
Look at that. Oh, sunset glow.
Yeah. Love it.
Anyway, I have accidentally been vegan all day.
Is Lizzo run enough of me? I don't know.
But anyway, because of that and it's already quite late,
I'm just going to have a quick snack.
And not going to really concentrate on the meals and stuff
and then kick off come tomorrow.
So move on to day three.
(soft music)
I love you. Thank you for giving life.
Thank you for keeping the sane.
Thank you for keeping me healthy, fit and well.
I love my body in the state that its in.
This is
my body.
And its nobody else's body.
Good morning. It is day three of living like Lizzo.
And I actually got the confidence...
Oh my God. I've got sleep in my eye.
I finally got the confidence to look at my actual body
while doing the affirmations.
I think that's progress, you know?
I'm going to kick start the day with skipping.
And I like small Pilates like workout.
I just want to get that out of the way.
I have a couple of meetings and stuff
that I think it's just going to take up way too much time.
Let's start the day with some exercise.
This might be another mistake again
but I don't want to leave my house.
So I'm going to have to skip right here.
♪ Let me take you to a place that's nice and quiet ♪
(rope hits object)
Oh.
♪ I just want to take it nice and slow ♪
♪ So baby tell me what you wanna do with me ♪
Yeah.
That was painful. That was painful for me to do.
That was painful for my neighbors to listen to.
I just kept hitting myself.
Anyway, I'm going to do a full body workout,
do some hooping and then get on with my day.
(upbeat music)
It's breakfast time and like I said previously,
Lizzo has been Tik, TikToking.
And one of the things that she put on TikTok
was that she has a green juice
and coconut yogurt for breakfast.
I've actually never had coconut yogurt.
I probably should 'cause I am actually lactose intolerance
so I don't know why I'm so against this vegan life.
I think my body's actually made for it, but you know,
us lactose people don't really listen to our own bodies.
So this is my breakfast. A green juice.
And to be honest, I did ask for coconut yogurt.
I don't know if this is coconut yogurt.
It's probably just coconut flavor.
I don't know. Can anyone tell me.
It doesn't really say. It's in French.
Why is it in French?
(upbeat music)
If I say I was just naked on the bathroom floor,
does everybody understand what that means?
Yeah, I really don't feel well.
That yogurt has f'd me up,
but I actually have a meeting outside.
So I have to get my ass in gear.
And because the yogurt messed me up
and has basically completely dispelled anything I ate today,
I'm now starving.
But I heard Lizzo likes to snack on some rice cakes.
I forgot they actually tastes quite nice.
So anyway, I need to leave, go to my meeting
and hopefully not shit myself.
I know you're probably thinking,
"Ada, Ada, Ada, are you well?
"Are you well?"
The answer is no.
But I'm going to do something
that's going to make me feel a lot better.
And it's very on brand for Lizzo.
(flute blowing)
(Ada laughing)
I haven't played the flute since I was like 11
and I've clearly lost how I'm supposed to blow.
(flute blowing)
Okay. I've got it back.
(flute blowing)
Couple more days of that
and I'm going to be right back to my 11 year old level self.
Sat my balcony to get some fresh air
because if you're lactose intolerant, you'll know the vibes
but sometimes you just end up,
even after all the business happened,
you just still feel really groggy and sick.
Damn you Actimel and your French ingredients.
(bright upbeat music)
Morning.
It is the fourth day and I think this is going well.
(bright upbeat music)
Yeah, I think I'm really getting used
to doing these morning affirmations.
It is a great way to start your day
and it is something I've always wanted to do.
So I'm happy this challenge has pushed me to do so.
And I think it probably will be something
that I continue to take on for like everything.
One thing I love about having a gym in my building
is that you can look crazy and nobody cares.
So I'm going to go in my Justin Beiber shirt.
So from what I've seen on Women's Health,
Lizzo likes to skip rope, she likes to do the bike
and then she likes to do a circuit workout.
I can't find her exact circuit workout
but I do have some so I will be doing that.
So let's get to it.
I'll be super honest
and I will say that
cycling is probably,
I hate this machine.
I find it so boring.
Oh Jesus. Time for skipping.
(rope whirring)
Damn, I'm really sweaty.
So now I'm going to get into the circuits.
(upbeat music)
(Ada exhaling sharply)
Now I'm in pain,
but it's good pain, so, you know.
(upbeat music)
(train engine roaring gently)
I just ran to go and get my sister
who's visiting me for the first time.
Here she is. Say hi.
And now we're going to make Lizzo's ice cream bread.
I saw some of these on Lizzo's TikTok.
She really doesn't give any ingredients.
And it just seems like she makes a bread mixture
and puts ice cream into it.
So I hope that's going to work
and we're going to hope for the best.
- Yeah. - Yeah. Okay, cool.
I've also never made bread before.
So I just got a typical BBC recipe
that just says you need flour, salt, oil and yeast.
Why you laughing?
- I'm not laughing. - Do you not think
it's going to go well? - No.
- Okay, cool, Fay. Well, I can cook.
(beeping)
(upbeat music)
We've obviously got vegan ice cream.
(upbeat music)
(Ada laughing)
Okay. We'll leave this outside for an hour.
Tan tan tan tan.
Okay.
It's time to put this bread in.
The bread is ready.
Okay. It definitely looks like bread.
- [Ada's Sister] It's look nice.
- It looks nice. - I don't wanna say
it looks nice and it's just rubbish.
You should have called mum.
- Mum doesn't know how to make bread.
I don't know why you keep saying that.
(beeping)
Right, are you ready?
It's actually good, innit?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Okay. Okay.
This is actually banging.
It's late, but I smashed it.
- [Ada's Sister] Yeah.
(bright upbeat music)
- It's the final day and I feel great.
We're going to blast through,
I'm going to do these affirmations.
Thank you for keeping me fit and healthy.
Then I'm going to go to the gym.
Skipping is really no joke.
I do like it though.
My sister's here so we're going to do some touristy tings
and then I'm going to make another vegan delight.
We've gone round London now. We've been a bit touristy.
I'm going to make my final Lizzo meal, which is a spicy,
wait, let me get this right.
Spicy cashew vegan chicken and lettuce wraps.
I think I've said this before,
but Lizzo's recipes are all done in TikTok.
So they're super quick, no measurements, no real timings.
It's just bing bang bong.
So I'm going to try and replicate what she's done.
I'm not feeling too confident,
but we're going to do our best.
(soft music)
Right, so I got this vegan chicken
called the What The Cluck.
Soy. Oh, soy.
Well, we've seen what issues we've got with that before.
I've had vegan chicken before,
but I think that was Seitan meat,
which was actually really nice.
So,
we'll see how this goes.
Looks chickeny.
Maybe I should have shredded it.
I probably should have shredded it.
Okay, so I've got my, washed my lettuce leaf,
and you're supposed to sit in there.
I'm gonna just take this,
with a bit of asparagus in it as well
and hope for the best.
I think it's nice. It's definitely hot.
Let's get another verdict.
(lettuce crackling)
(dog barking)
- I like it.
- So,
it's yes, no, maybe so,
but at least it didn't taste like shit.
That was the main thing.
So I think we've ended the week on a high
so well done guys, high five.
And we're finished. I lived like Lizzo for a week.
It wasn't actually as hard as I thought it was going to be.
I thought I was really going to struggle
with the vegan dishes.
I thought I was really going to struggle
with looking at my own body, but it went really well.
This challenge was probably the one
that was best suited to me.
The Meghan Markle challenge
was maybe a little bit too extreme with the timing.
But like I said, somebody like Lizzo
is somebody that I look to
and I feel like I see you and I see me.
And I feel like we could be like besties in a sense.
Her vegan recipes weren't as hard
as I thought they were going to be.
I probably could have done every meal in a day,
but like I said,
I just had so much food already in the house.
I wasn't going to waste it.
However, I did feel that I ended up
naturally not eating meat anyway.
The last dish, the lettuce wrap dish
was probably the hardest one to make
because the lack of measurement, the lack of timing,
and all that stuff but I think in the end
it came out quite well.
The ice cream bread though,
I'd never had ice cream bread before,
but I will be having it again 'cause it tasted great.
One thing I'm definitely going to take
throughout this week is the daily affirmations.
I suffer from body dysmorphia
and I have an anxiety disorder.
And I think sometimes I have to trick my brain
into thinking that everything's all right.
I'm not tricking my brain to be honest.
Everything is all right.
It's the body dysmorphia that's telling me
that everything is not all right.
And it's my anxiety that's telling me,
"This is the worst thing in the world."
Whether I believe it or not at the time,
if I say it, maybe it will come to fruition.
Seeing is believing,
speak it into existence, all that good jazz.
And if I'm fit and I'm healthy
and I don't have any health problems,
why am I stressing about it?
Thank you Lizzo for that.
Especially in this time,
because we've been through a really, really crazy year
and to be alive and standing and well right now
is really the most important.
The next week I'm going to do
is going to be the hardest one of them all.
I'm going to cry. I'm going to die.
I'm going to question my life.
I'm probably going to swear a lot.
It's not going to be pretty,
but I think it's something I really want to do.
Like I said, I'm doing this challenge to shake up my life,
to shake up my routine and just try other things.
I just want to try something different,
but this next one is just one that,
yeah, it's going to be hard guys,
but I'm going to take you on the journey with me.
So next week I'm going to be a...
(upbeat music)