I love takeaways, I have at least one or two every day. Burgers, chips, curries, doner kebabs, all sorts. Takeaway food, it's what you eat when you're bored with your mates, that's the mentality: pass the time by eating.

When I won silver at the Olympics I got given a McDonald's platinum card. It was brilliant, I could go into any McDonald's in England and get a free meal. I used that card nearly every day. It's fatty food yeah, but I burn it off, in fact I can't train without it. If I don't eat takeaways for a few days I feel weak and tired, I don't feel myself. Moods is owned by my uncle and aunt. They are always asking me to help out taking orders, and working the till when it gets busy.

I had a nutritionist at the Olympics who put me on salads and pasta. I stuck to it for a couple of days but it didn't work for me and I haven't done it since. Once I did those food diaries, where you write down what you eat in a week. The nutritionist said I should change everything about my diet, that it would make me a better boxer. But I don't believe it; what I eat now is what makes me a good boxer.

I'm a big Bolton Wanderers fan and I train there sometimes. They've taken blood samples and had them tested to see what I was deficient in. They said my blood was normal. I do take supplements though - vitamins and fish oils.

My diet changes when I'm in training. A week and a half before the fight I'll cut down on the takeaways and have maybe just three a week. On the day of the fight I'll have a full English breakfast, but the meat has got to be halal and I don't eat pork. For lunch I have a curry or a kebab. At about 4pm I'll have a quick snack and then I don't eat until after the fight when I'll have a curry or a kebab again.

Last year I had a fight around Ramadan so I had to fast and train at the same time. Fasting makes you feel weak. You have to wake up at four or five in the morning to eat, but you're knackered and you don't feel like food, you have to force it down. I wouldn't fast on the day of a fight though.

I live at home but I hardly eat what my mum cooks for me because I'm always full from eating fast food. I don't eat fruit or vegetables - last time I ate fruit was about a week ago. It was an apple, I think. My mum has a go at me because of what I eat, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

Curries themselves aren't bad for you. The ones my mum makes have a lot less fat in them than takeaway curries because she uses vegetable oil rather than ghee. In a takeaway curry you can actually see the oil floating on the top.

I can't cook, but I make a good cup of tea: boil water, put in teabag, take it out with your fingers, put in two sugars and you're done. My favourite food? I like fish, chips and mushy peas. I like chilli chicken, lamb doners and lamb Korai, medium hot. I like lamb chops and roast chicken, I don't bother with the roast potatoes , that's far too posh; a bag of chips does it for me.

Sajid Mahmood, the cricketer, is my first cousin. He's on a proper diet but he's old, he's 23 (I'm 19), so his metabolism has stopped and he has to watch what he eats. In the future I'll have to do the same. Get a nutritionist and change my diet. But when I retire I'll stop all the exercising and eat whatever I like again. I'm going to put on loads of weight. It'll be great.

Moods Fast Food
69 Bradshaw Gate, Bolton (01204 399 933)

History
Moods is a family-run business that opened in December 2005 and is run by Femida Mahmood, her two sons Khalid and Rakeb and her son-in-law Imran Khurshid. Using traditional ingredients, Moods offers a variety of Asian dishes. It has quickly established itself as a popular local choice all day long.

Popular dishes
Lamb bhuna with chapatis or naan (£4.45), chicken tikka with naan (£2.50), strawberry, vanilla, mint or raspberry ice cream (£1.50).

Famous customers
Sajid Mahmood, England cricket player.

Open
Open from 11am to 3am, seven days a week.