Lunch: Take half of Weight Watcher’s Mediterranean Veg Quiche (156 calories), and a Tesco side salad (12 calories) for a midday meal to give you a real energy boost. Calories so far = 178 Breakfast: Get fruity with a 75g low-fat peach yogurt and top with 30g raspberries. Calories so far: 100. It’s simple. For two days each week, you eat no more than 500 calories. The other five days, you eat normally. You should lose around 1.5lb a week – more if you have a lot of weight to lose. Breakfast: Make a fruity concoction with a strawberry and almond yogurt, using 25g low-fat Greek Style yogurt, 50g strawberries, and 4g ground almonds. Calories so far: 56. Those on the 5:2 achieved 5% weight loss in 59 days compared to 73 days by those on the calorie restriction diet. Results also showed that:

Many of you will be aware of the 5 2 Diet developed by Michael Mosley almost 5 years ago, which became a world wide phenomenon, embraced by thousands of people. It appeals to me because its not actually a famine diet - you eat around 500 cals twice a week and then eat what you want the rest of the time. Currently I've been eating 1400 five days a week and 1700 twice a week (Wednesday pub night and Saturday) and that feels quite comfortable for me - and while I'm often under the limit, I do end up beating myself up when I go over. So I'm going to have tues and thurs as my fast days and then just be sensible - but not restrictive - the rest of the week - and we'll see!

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Breakfast:A banana (90cals) is ideal for breakfast on the go and will give you plenty of energy for the rest of the day. Calories so far = 9 Collier R. Intermittent fasting: the next big weight loss fad. CMAJ. 2013;185(8):E321–E322. doi:10.1503/cmaj.109-4437

My first introduction to this hyped diet. Provided some information and I liked how there were finnish products mentioned in the translation. It's mainly information you can get online too and then some stories by people who've tried it. Another study by researchers at the University of Surrey examined the impact of the 5:2 diet on the body’s ability to metabolise and clear fat and glucose after a meal in 27 participants. (5) Breakfast:Enjoy a medley of 100g hulled sliced strawberries, 100g cubed watermelon and 50g halved seedless grapes. Calories so far: 88. Zhang J, Zhan Z, Li X, et al. Intermittent fasting protects against Alzheimer's disease possible through restoring aquaporin-4 polarity. Front Mol Neurosci. 2017;10:395. doi:10.3389/fnmol.2017.00395 This book works as a good introduction if you are new, hesitant or simply would like to know more about this diet (though it is, as she says herself, more a lifestyle or a way of eating than a form of dieting). The book is quite short, concise and easy to read and offers a number of ideas and recipes as well as personal anecdotes and testimonies of people following this way of eating.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. Lunch: Low-calorie foods don’t have to be boring. Pop to Prêt and grab a Simple Tuna Salad (170cals) and two rice cakes (70cals). Calories so far = 240. Good book with insight on the 5:2 diet, from someone who has been doing it for a few years now. Good tips on how, when and what to eat, discussion on health indicators (to BMI or not?!). The benefits of 5:2 are not only weight loss but more energy, sharper brain and reduced risk of range of diseases. Mosley "The fast diet" (το διάβασα στα αγγλικά αλλά νομίζω εκδόθηκε και στα ελληνικά ως "Δίαιτα κάθε μέρα; Όχι ευχαριστώ!") είναι καλύτερο από αυτό εδώ. Αν μπορείτε να πάρετε ένα μόνο βιβλίο, σας συνιστώ εκείνο, εκτός αν βρείτε αυτό εδώ πολύ πιο φτηνά (όπως συνέβη σε μένα).