The 5:2 Diet Book: Feast for 5 Days a Week and Fast for 2 to Lose Weight, Boost Your Brain and Transform Your Health

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Lunch: You can still enjoy small treats on fasting days! Try having one McCain oven-baked pizza finger (78cals) with a side of Tesco’s green side salad (12cals). If you need a sweet fix, have one party ring (29cals) Calories so far = 335. Make life easy and buy premade breaded fish from the supermarket and oven chips, super easy and super tasty.

Bought this on a whim because it sounded intriguing, and read it in one sitting. I haven't seen the Horizon programme that prompted Kate Harrison to write this book, but she's done a good job of selling this "diet" to me, so much so hat I'm going to try it for a month and see how it goes! You can still exercise on the 5:2 diet meal plan too – and in fact, you should. Exercising on 500 calories a day might sound daunting, but it can speed up weight loss and improve overall health and fitness. Some people even find that exercise alleviates hunger pangs. Although this regime had no different effect on weight loss compared to eating at 'normal' times in the 5:2 diet, just changing the timing of meals, by eating earlier in the day and extending the overnight fast, significantly benefited metabolism even in people who didn’t lose any weight at all. Moreover, the eight-hour group also had a significantly decreased appetite and weren’t as hungry."

Snacks, treats and drinks allowance on the plan

Michael looks at the Horizon special, "What's the Right Diet for You" and tells us which diet they say is best for him. Harvie M, Howell A. Potential benefits and harms of intermittent energy restriction and intermittent fasting amongst obese, overweight and normal weight subjects-A narrative review of human and animal evidence. Behav Sci (Basel). 2017;7(1):4. doi:10.3390/bs7010004 Studies so far have been fairly short term (3-12 weeks) and results show average weight loss of 4-8% over this period.

The 5:2 Diet will transform your body, your mind and your health. It’s the revolutionary part-time weight loss diet with lifelong health and anti-ageing results. This is the simplest, most flexible and most health enhancing weight loss programme you’ll ever follow – and with this book to guide you, you can start today. You’ll still get to eat all the foods you love but enjoy incredible health benefits, with positive effects on cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's and more. The Intermittent Fasting diet - is the 5:2 diet the new way to get slim and healthy? Popular Diet Plans Lunch:Young’s Cod Steak in Parsley Sauce (101cals) is perfect. Eat it on a bed of 60grams of lettuce (8cals). Calories so far = 261 However, if the diet suits you, it may be easier to continue longer term than diets that are more restrictive on a day-to-day basis. The Mediterranean Style Diet is inspired by the dietary and lifestyle patterns of Greece, Spain and southern Italy, as research was indicating that people living in these regions were experiencing a lower rate of heart disease, cancer and had an increased life expectancy.

Essentially, eat a plant-based, Mediterranean-style diet with lots of fruit and vegetables, legumes such as beans and lentils, along with whole grains, and healthy fats and protein sources. Not only will these be healthier, but they will also probably be more sustainable as well," says Mike. The 5:2 diet (and intermittent fasting in general) isn’t for everyone. Certain groups should avoid the 5:2 diet, including those who: Some of that advice is particular to the UK market as it details the products on sale in British supermarkets. The information about such products and their calorie count is extremely useful - not only is the information succinct and clear but the ideas suitable for those 500/600 calorie days are a real boost to dealing with them. Mosley, που εν ολίγοις είναι η τακτική νηστεία δύο ημέρες την εβδομάδα. Αν νηστεύετε ήδη τακτικά τότε μάλλον δεν χρειάζεστε το βιβλίο, εκτός αν είστε υπέρβαροι που σημαίνει ότι το είδος της νηστείας που ήδη κάνετε δεν σας βοηθάει. It was pretty time-consuming trying to find out the truth - I went online to read original research studies, and also set up a Facebook group with a few friends I knew were doing the same thing. That same group encouraged me to put the findings - and their own tips, recipes and approaches to what people started calling 5:2 (or 5/2, 5-2 or five-two) - into a book. And that's how The 5:2 Diet Book came about! Oh, and that group that began with six members, now has over 60,000... ( you can join in the fun here).