Josie Gibson, who is fronting new ITV show How to Clean Up for Cash, has opened up about her weight loss journey, revealing four factors that helped her to lose five stone in six months
Josie Gibson has turned heads with her weight loss transformation in recent months, with the star crediting her slimmed down physique to eating less and moving more.
Ahead of her new ITV series How to Clean Up for Cash arriving on our screens on Monday night, we’ve taken a look back at how the 41-year-old This Morning presenter shed more than 31kg in a remarkably short period of time.
Josie outlines the four key steps she took in her book, ‘The Josie Gibson Diet’, writing: “I didn’t get a gastric bypass; I got off my big a**e, moved more, ate less, and educated myself on what I was stuffing into my body.”
This isn’t the first occasion Josie has opened up about her weight loss journey. In 2024, she revealed that a significant lifestyle change followed the birth of her son, Reggie, in 2018.
She disclosed that she eliminated refined sugars from her diet altogether, opting instead for only those naturally occurring in fruit.
Speaking to the Mirror, Josie acknowledged that being too rigid wasn’t sustainable and that allowing herself some flexibility was essential to truly enjoying life.
She said: “So I did the six-day plan on Do The Unthinkable, which entitled me to one day off.”
“Now on that one day off, I had one cheat meal – I didn’t go crazy and drink 10 bottles of wine and binge all day on food and chocolate and all the naughty things I haven’t been having, I just had my one cheat and that was it.
“So if you’ve got that one day off, don’t undo all your hard work. Just have your one cheat meal and enjoy it. Don’t have a day binge.”
Josie also revealed that intermittent fasting played a role in her weight loss, incorporating an eight-hour window during which she consumed no food whatsoever.
While intermittent fasting has been shown to offer certain advantages, nutritionists caution that it is no miracle solution for overall health and weight management.
In a piece for The Standard, nutritionist Louise Pyne advised against placing too much reliance on the practice, cautioning that it can occasionally prove counterproductive.
She explained: “While it can achieve good results for some, researchers have found that it doesn’t work for everyone.
“One intermittent fasting study, which restricted participants to intersperse daily caloric restriction with unrestricted eating actually found that participants ended up eating more on the unrestricted days in anticipation of having to fast the following day, and furthermore, they also ended up exercising less.”
Meanwhile, Josie appeared on This Morning on Monday to reveal some details about her “dramatic” new series, which sees the star secretly infiltrating cluttered homes.
Whilst the home owners think they are part of a fake show, Josie and her team get to work boxing up their belongings and finding out how much money it’s all worth, before selling it on if the owners agree.
