800 calories a day

[skyblue27]

So I've heard of a diet where for 8 weeks u have 800 calories a day. So can someone give me a few ideas of what 800 calories a day would look like?

For example I usually eat

Breakfast a bowl of apricot wheats cereal with semi skimmed milk

Lunch a Cornish pasty

Dinner might be a combo of snacks such as chocolates crisps and 2 cans of appletiser

I don't think you need to restrict your diet - just eat proper food instead of shit. Seriously - your evening meal is crisps and chocolate?

800 calories? Nah. Just eat properly.

Oh you're the weird one who asks what size they look then reveals they're heavily pregnant. I hope for the sake of your unborn baby your diet is better than that.

This is possibly the worst diet idea. You're neither restricting calories enough to trigger fat burning, i.e. as in the 5:2 or eating enough calories so that your body doesn't store fat.

You will definitely end up fatter. Sorry.

Why do you eat junk for dinner?

@supersleepybaby I dunno I just got into bad habits over the years. Sometimes it's a junk lunch then a decent dinner

You'd do beter by eating a healthy lunch and dinner tbh.

Bulk out grilled chicken breast with steamed veg, grilled fish salads or veg and chicken pita pockets.

Your diet is horrendous tbf very high in fat and not much else....

Skyblue are you still pregnant or breastfeeding? If you are you should be eating much more than 800 cals

If your not any of the above and want to do the 800 calorie diet a good place to start is The blood sugar diet by Dr Micheal Mosley.

What your eating at the moment is just sugar and refined carbohydrates which will do your body or hunger any good. 100 cals of refined carbs and a 100cals of protein act very differently within your body. Protein and good fats will keep you fuller for longer and give you important nutrients.

Read the book as a good starting place. On pintrest there are lots of low carb low cal meals.

But once again if you are pregnant or breast feeding you should be eating much more nutrient based foods

Lol. You call me fool - look a little closer to home!

I'm still preg and not considering starting any diet until after baby is born

not one decent meal a day in there. It's all just fat and carbs with lots of salt and sugar.
800 calories a day is far too little especially after giving birth.
Just eat healthily, smaller portions of actual meals, cut the crap and be active.

@skyblue27

I'm still preg and not considering starting any diet until after baby is born

Try and get some proper veg in your diet. Too much sugar when your pregnant can cause allergies and asthma - just a thought.

What I don't understand is I'm 5"2 weighing 11 stone 4 but I still fit into size 12?

Also the diet your talking about is the blood sugar diet - where you basically cut out all sugar and refined carbs, eat 800 cals for eight weeks

@skyblue27

What I don't understand is I'm 5"2 weighing 11 stone 4 but I still fit into size 12?

Depends where you got the clothes from. Lots of shops sell clothes that a few years ago should actually be a 14. It’s called vanity sizing.

All you'll do is put all the weight back on as soon as you go over the 800 calories a day when you realise that it completely unsustainable especially if you're knackered and have had no sleep because you've been up multiple times in the night with a baby.

Just start eating healthy meals with reasonable portion sizes and get used to that first. You need proper nutrition when pregnant and when you have a baby not only to keep yourself healthy but to show your child what a normal healthy diet is.

You could measure your sell with a tape measure and check U.K. sizing off that and it will give you a much more accurate of your sizing but that’s irrelevant as your pregnant. Pregnant women carry in different ways

Why not just exist on fags and coffee with the odd Gregg's sausage roll thrown in? That 'diet' is atrocious. You won't be able to breastfeed your baby eating a load of crap like that.

People who are prescribed diets like this are usually morbidly obese and need to try to reverse their diabetes. Hell, even Dr Now's diet, for people who weigh over 42st and need to lose weight for bariatric surgery is 1200cals/day.

I know exactly what it looks like. Due to a serious illness I had a total gastrectomy. It lead to not being able to sustain nutrition and being fed through a jtube. It hurts and I am connected 20 hours a day. That won't be much fun with a baby!

I'm a competitve bodybuilder who gets down to about 8% body fat. I never go below 1500 calories a day, 800 calories is ridiculous. Your diet just now is awful, there's absolutely no decent nutrition in any of that.

OP, you need to be eating a better diet now.

A cornish pasty is not really a great lunch. High calorie and not many nutrients.

What about:

Your bowl of cereal with semi-skimmed milk, some mornings have a boiled egg and toast or something.

Mid morning: an apple or some sticks of cucumber etc

Lunch: Sandwich of cheese, ham or tuna, good wholemeal bread. With some salad. Yogurt and fruit. Or a bowl of veg based soup with good bread, followed by fruit and yogurt.

Dinner:
Roast some chicken pieces, have with boiled potatoes, fresh broccoli, peas, gravy.

Have snacks of satsuma, maybe some oatcakes with hummus, or a slice of cheese, grapes,

What I don't understand is I'm 5"2 weighing 11 stone 4 but I still fit into size 12?

Does it matter?

What you need to understand is basic nutrition. You are growing an actual human. Eat proper food.

You are pregnant, and that list is what you 'usually eat'? You need to be eating way more and better quality food.