To think I'll lose weight on gousto?

[zekeandcamille]

Just received my first gousto box. I am a size 16/18 and 5ft 4 with about 5 - 6 stone to lose. I also have type 2 diabetes.

I have been reading the fast 800 book and so my plan is to just eat one meal a day these being the gousto meals. It's just easiest for me so I'm not at the shops being tempted.

The only thing is, the fast 800 book recommends a Mediterranean diet, some of the gousto meals have carbs in it. For instance one of my meals had 67g of carbs. But as that's all I'm eating all day that should be okay shouldn't it?

@BillyTodd thank you for the informed answer. Appreciate it. I was going to break my fast with a 300 calorie smoothie, this consists of natural Greek yogurt, small banana, 30 grams berries and chia seeds. Should have mentioned that.

Sorry name changed. I am the OP replying to @BillyTodd

[quote zekeandcamille]@SkyBlueKitchen yeah that would be fab thank you! Are you doing low carb ?[/quote]
Kind of trying, but finding it tricky as I'm cooking for the whole family who love carbs, plus I have dietary restrictions to factor in! And DH makes fresh homemade bread and tempts me with it.

I'm trying to make substitutions here and there so far. I need to knuckle down and really stick to the calories properly this week and also cut down on the carbs.

I'll PM the MC referral code! Anyone else is welcome to it but I think it gives my real details so will stick it in a PM.

Can I recommend the getfitwithrick website and YouTube channel op? You sound like you’re in a place ready for change and that is amazing! He explains a lot of the nutrition aspects behind going too low-cal and how that then backfires. Also has fantastic free content which you can then subscribe to if you choose. If you can start gentle walking workouts it will make such a difference to your muscle tone and subsequent health and weight loss. Slow and steady is absolutely the key. Good luck with your journey!

If you're only going to eat one meal a day and that meal is an appropriate portion you'll lose weight. Even if it has carbs in it. Doesn't seem terribly healthy to me though or sustainable

[quote kopingstrategy]@BillyTodd thank you for the informed answer. Appreciate it. I was going to break my fast with a 300 calorie smoothie, this consists of natural Greek yogurt, small banana, 30 grams berries and chia seeds. Should have mentioned that. [/quote]
So you'd be having that at say late lunchtime and Gousto (for 1) early tea time? I would think that would be reasonable. Not sure about the smoothie on the sugars front, but I trust you would know what you were doing with that. From what I've read about fasting, the ideal window for eating ends earlier in the evening, so that you're using some of the carbs in the evening and not going to bed with the carbs therefore energy) getting digested and made ready to use, but having nowhere to go apart from to turn to fat, while you sleep.

Good luck with it all, I hope you do well! I've got a risotto and a lasagne coming next week, and I'm already regretting getting two quite carby meals after a week of lovely lower carb ones.

The trouble with getting info like this from books, is that it's a bit like those shopping channels - you have one person selling you their "thing" with nobody questioning anything. After 10 mins of being told how awesome it is, you believe them totally and buy it!

So before you jump into ANY fasting diets, please read this www.webmd.com/diet/features/diet-myth-truth-fasting-effective-weight-loss#1
and ideally chat to your GP about it too! I'm NOT saying it's a bad thing as small (

Thank you

I think it will work. You could have a 500 calorie gusto dinner, the same the next day reheated for lunch. Then a do a different 500 calorie meal for dinner and repeat. It’s a way of getting into portion control and having about 1000 calories a day. Plus there will be lots of variety so you won’t get bored.

If you have a high carb gusto meal then it will make you more hungry later as you will get high then low blood sugar.

That will make it harder to fast as you won’t become fat adapted and go into ketosis.

So you will thwart your own weight loss attempts.

If you are eating one meal a day it’s much easier to eat high fat low Carb. Not no carb. Carb is not the enemy, it’s just you’ve been eating too much of them and too often for years and it’s affect your insulin.

Plus when you plateau ,you can't cut your calories further.

I would do the fasting,say 12 to 8.
Get your body used to that and gradually do omad.

And most who do omad still get at least 12 00 calories.
They basically eat for 1 hour everyday.
There's a great group on FB for this.
Join it.And the app

OP its interesting that more than one meal a day is problematic

I've always found if I don't have breakfast, I'm lightheaded and rambly by about 10.30am and if I miss lunch as well I'm stumbling over words.

I suspect this is more down to low blood sugar than a spike - indeed a couple of times I've been admitted to hospital(for another reason) and the nurses have rushed round trying to get me to eat as soon as they've seen my blood sugar levels - I remember one nurse who took it 5 times before saying "I'm not sure you should be conscious please eat something". I've never been found to have high blood sugar though - they did some other tests then made me monitor it for a month after that and if low, it always went back to normal after eating apparently, I'm just odd

HOWEVER... I'm on fairly strong medication for an ongoing condition (think about 3 - 4 months to build up to a full dose) and it maybe that I need to eat to deal with that / the the medication itself can cause problems.

I suppose everyone's metabolism is different.

Try M&S ready meals or something like that. Easy and pre portioned but they have low carb options. I know someone who lost lots of weight doing this

Do the 800 properly and the weight will fall off you very quickly. Even small amounts of carb will effect it as it is a ketosis based diet not just calories. I recommend you read the book.