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10/01/2025

Tom Holland | Eat Like

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00:00So right now I am actively trying to put on as much weight as possible so for me

00:05a cheap meal is actually a really good thing so I have cheap meals all the time

00:09to the point where I can't even call them cheap meals they're just really

00:12meals meals. Hey what's up guys I'm Tom Holland and today I will be talking

00:16about my diet and how it informs my training.

00:22My philosophy behind my diet is that my diet is far more important than what

00:29I do in the gym. I would say for me to see results it's 80% diet and 20%

00:35fitness. I try to be strict and healthy I travel a lot so I find it really

00:41difficult to get into a routine of cooking for myself but yeah so dieting I

00:45wouldn't call it dieting but eating healthy is a big part of me staying in

00:50shape. I always try to have a healthy amount of vegetables and when I say

00:55healthy I just mean a lot. My girlfriend's a vegetarian which is

00:58really helpful because it means that more often than not I'll be having a

01:01veggie meal but yeah I'm mindful about what I eat especially this past year my

01:07brother and I we live together and work together and we famously have had the

01:13worst diets ever especially when we're working so we've both taken an active

01:18decision to to really try and make a difference in our in our diet or a

01:22calorific intake. Typically for breakfast I will have a bowl of porridge with a

01:28bunch of fruit and nuts accompanied with a shake. The reason I do that is I

01:32like to get up early and I like to get the day started and if I have to cook

01:36something I feel like it really slows down the day. The berries give me a bunch

01:40of fiber, the nuts give me the fats that I need and that I feel like sets me up

01:44for a great day. The carbs from the oats give me that nice long-lasting energy so

01:50that would be that. Lunch typically if I am not bulking I'll skip lunch. I very

01:56rarely will eat lunch and then for dinner I'm so lucky my brother Sam is a

02:01really talented chef so he's been building all of these amazing recipes so

02:05really every night I'm going over to my brother Sam's house and eating whatever

02:09it is that he's been cooking which can range from sticky bao buns to a

02:14traditional roast dinner to you know a chicken veronique so it's very very fun

02:19stuff so that's what I've been doing recently. I'm very lucky that my default

02:24setting of my body is that if I don't train and eat I lose weight. I have to

02:30really consciously think about maintaining size so for me a cheap meal

02:35is actually a really good thing and yeah I'm a sucker for for an in-and-out

02:39burger. I go for a double-double with raw onions. I don't like their fries. I don't

02:45understand why their fries taste like cardboard and so I'll go for two

02:49double-doubles with raw onions. That's my order yeah. I take supplements depending

02:54on my fitness goals so right now I'm on a pretty steady flow of creatine and

03:00protein. I also take a protein shake in the morning which is filled with all the

03:04minerals and vitamins that you need to be living a healthy healthy lifestyle.

03:08Yeah that's kind of about it right now. I did a film called Uncharted with Mark

03:13Wahlberg and something that came out of that movie is we came to work together

03:17the movie shut down because of Covid and in that interim period where we had

03:21four months off I noticed how much bigger Mark was than myself so in that

03:26four months I just peddled to the metal went as crazy as I could in the gym and

03:31in the kitchen and got to the heaviest I've ever been which isn't that heavy to

03:36be honest like by my standards it is and it was really cool I felt really strong

03:40I felt like I had a lot of power within me so that was a drastic change.

03:44Spider-Man 3, Jack who's a mate of mine and Duffy who is our trainer we just

03:51really really got into CrossFit I'd never done it before and I just really

03:55loved the kind of competitive edge of it setting goals trying to beat your

04:01personal best I just I really really enjoyed that and we got very fit for

04:04that job so that was a big lifetime lifestyle change as well.

04:08The hardest thing I've done in terms of dicing for a role is somewhat a

04:12contradiction to what I've been saying throughout this interview but I cut as

04:15much weight as I could for a film called Cherry. Incredibly proud of that movie

04:20it's one of my favorite and best experiences I've ever had as an actor I

04:24was trying to keep below 500 calories a day I was working out like a crazy

04:28person I was dropping weight really really quickly I then did it again for a

04:33TV show called Crowded Room and I've kind of vowed to myself now that I'll

04:39never do that again just because it's not worth it and it can actually promote

04:43quite considerable health concerns down the line so I wouldn't do that again.

04:50There's a whole bunch of different things really the thing I've been

04:53cooking the most because it's a really easy thing to like batch cook and it's

04:58also really good for me with what I'm trying to do right now is I do a chili

05:01but with lentils rather than a mince it's very flavorful it's really tasty

05:07it's healthy and it's ultimately full of all the things that I need to put some

05:12weight on so that's kind of what I'm doing right now.

05:16Yeah I wouldn't consider it a date night it was a regular night in the household

05:20but it was a nice chili we sat down I'm currently watching Grey's Anatomy and we

05:26watched about seven episodes of Grey's Anatomy and ate chili and yeah I was

05:30probably farting a lot because it was very gassy.

05:33My favorite carb is potatoes I absolutely love potatoes I'll have a

05:38potato in any form it comes even raw I love them I absolutely love them it's

05:43the Irish in me.

05:44My favorite protein would either be cod or chicken the

05:49reason why I like cod is because to cook it is really easy I just bake it in a

05:53bit of tinfoil with chilies lemon garlic in the oven and then that's kind of it

05:59you don't have to cut it up you don't have to season it really it tastes

06:02really good and then chicken you know in a whole plethora of different ways

06:06stir-fries roasts all that sort of stuff.

06:09I do not dip my pizza crusts in

06:12anything a friend of mine that I play golf with actually is the guy

06:16responsible for the garlic dip at Domino's that's what he does he like

06:21makes sauces and like all the McDonald's sauces he makes them at his factory I

06:25guess so he'll be very disappointed to find out that I don't partake in his

06:30sauce but my brothers do they love the garlic dip.

06:35If I had to have one meal with a character I've played I would have it

06:39with Peter Parker and we would get to the restaurant by mode of swinging there

06:43you know he's my hero he changed my life so I probably like to sit down with him

06:47hey guys I'm Tom Holland and thank you for listening to my diet I guess I

06:52really appreciate it I hope it's insightful in some way on what not to do

06:58maybe but thank you for listening

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