The fastest, easiest way to a healthy 2021: Dr Michael Mosley's Fast 800 diet just got faster, thanks to his wife Dr Clare Bailey, whose new book is full of delicious, nutritious meals based on the essentials we all have in our store cupboards
The fastest, easiest way to a healthy 2021: Dr Michael Mosley's Fast 800 diet just got faster, thanks to his wife Dr Clare Bailey, whose new book is full of delicious, nutritious meals based on the essentials we all have in our store cupboards. Dr Clare Bailey shared a selection of delicious recipes and her top tips for losing weight. Pictured: Clare with her husband Michael Mosley With long queues at our local supermarket, shortages of fresh ingredients and my husband Michael and three of our 20-something children to feed, I was finding it as tricky as many others to prepare healthy meals at home in the early months of the first lockdown last spring. Once again we're facing the challenge of how to put a healthy meal on the table under increasingly harsh Covid restrictions, but the good news is that it is possible to find plenty of delicious ways to eat nutritiously and lose weight using the contents of your store cupboard and freezer - as we've discovered in the Mosley household. Back in March, I began experimenting with ways to create quick, nutritious meals using ingredients such as a can of chickpeas, some tinned tomatoes or some frozen spinach. This rapidly turned into a Mosley family challenge with everyone taking it in turns to create a healthy lunch, based on foods we already had at home. The kids helped out too, with the cooking as well as with providing very honest feedback! These were trying times for everyone, but it was satisfying to discover that when a trip to the shops was not an option, we could still conjure up simple versions of the low-carb Mediterranean-style Fast 800 meals that normally form the basis of the way we eat at home. The Fast 800 diet, which I helped my husband devise, involves eating a low-calorie, low-carb diet for an initial period to trigger rapid weight loss before switching to intermittent fasting and a sustainable Mediterranean-style way of eating. I began posting our family lunches on Instagram (@drclarebailey), sharing recipes featuring ingredients that were likely to be found at the back of everyone's cupboards. I was amazed by the positive response. Messages poured in from busy working mothers like me, people living alone and younger people too, all wanting inspiration for easy, affordable ways to lose weight the Fast 800 way. And eating a healthy diet has never been so crucial as it is now - as Covid-19 has so dramatically illustrated. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next A very VEGGIE new year! High street chains unveil new vegan... Australians can now get Nutella BARS after the treat took... Costa delights fans with its new menu for 2021 - including a... Oreo announces new limited-edition 'brookie' flavor - which... You've been making curry all wrong! Experts share six steps... Foodies go wild over a baker's epic Caramilk and Lotus... Share this article Share 104 shares If you're overweight - as two-thirds of British adults are - research shows you're more vulnerable to becoming seriously ill if you contract coronavirus. You're also at an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes and dementia - something that, as a GP, I have sadly seen too regularly.