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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I first heard of this way of eating on a tv programme last year and this author basically goes over the basics and adds extracts from her own personal journey with this diet. Dinner: Our super-easy sweet potato pasta is also surprisingly good for you at 198 calories a portion. You've got 40 calories left for dessert.

And it’ll even save you money, with no specialist diet foods or supplements required. No wonder it’s as popular with men as it is with women – and with first-time dieters as with weight loss veterans. Breakfast: Perfect to grab on the go, an Alpen Fruit and Nut Bar starts your day off at 109 calories. Calories so far = 109Dinner:Try whipping up a low cal mushroom ragu with courgetti (125cals) and 25 blueberries for dessert (20cals).

Strong winds and heavy rain are on the way to the UK, as Storm Ciaran approaches. We share where it's expected to hit. Being a reasonably fit, young female, I was interested in the long- term health benefits of fasting. Book is very informative and very easy to read. Having previously read Dr Mosley's You can take a free trial of the wlr tools for an accurate estimate of your maintenance calories, they are shown in the food diary. (You also have the calories history report, which makes it easy to balance calories over a week.) If you are looking for a step-by-step programme to help support your lifestyle upgrades then our brand new digital programme may be for you. Find out more here.

Lunch:Chunky soups are a great way to fill you up at lunch, whilst still keeping the calorie count low. We love a bowl of Weight Watchers from Heinz Tuscan Minestrone soup (129 cals). Calories so far: 225. We asked Clinical Nutritionist, Mike Wakeman, when is the best time to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He says; ’Researchers from the University of Alabama conducted a study looking at the effect of time of eating on the benefits of intermittent fasting. In the controlled eating scenario, all meals were fitted into an early eight-hour period of the day (7 am to 3 pm), or spread out over 12 hours (between 7 am and 7 pm). 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. Grajower MM, Horne BD. Clinical management of intermittent fasting in patients with diabetes mellitus. Nutrients. 2019;11(4). doi:10.3390/nu11040873

Lunch:Heinz Weight Watchers Tomato Soup is just 76cals, and if you need a bit more filling up try munching on two rice cakes (70cals). Calories so far = 255. I read Michael Moseley and Mimi Spencer's book on this topic when it was first published, have been on the 5:2 ever since, but wondered if there was more to learn. Kate Harrison's book is a lively reminder of all the worthwhile material in what I think of as the original. It includes stories of weight loss which are heartening and some excellent advice. First off, does this diet work? Yes, it absolutely does! I can vouch for it, and Kate gets the science right! I have personally lost over 50 pounds and have been feeling much better ever since implementing, incorporating and welcoming Intermittent Fasting into my life. Lunch:For lunch, rustle up our crushed new potatoes and shoots (170 calories). Calories so far: 226 Lunch: One mini Quorn Sausage Roll (48cals) will stop you from missing comfort foods. Serve with a salad made up of 30grams of spinach (7cals), 4 cherry tomatoes (16 calls), and a medium cucumber (24cals). Calories so far = 193.My problems with the book are that I am not a fan of (obsessively) counting calories and much prefer fasting for a longer period of time, usually from dinner to lunch the next day. Therefore, a large portion of the book did not resonate much with me. I find the science bits interesting but would have preferred the explanations to be much more detailed and expansive; I also found the journal entries to be cursory and on the rudimentary side.

Allaf M, Elghazaly H, Mohamed OG, et al. Intermittent fasting for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021;1:CD013496. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD013496.pub2 Dinner: Pork pittas and mango salsa(222cals) and a small (120ml) glass of wine (80cals) will make dinner time a little more exciting! This super simple, grilled omelette is a great way to start your day, serve with baked beans for an extra hit of protein, or omit the beans and bank the calories for a later date. Dinner: Opt for a refreshing, filling salad for dinner. Our bean and pepper salad (137cals) is perfects served with two rice cakes (70cals).

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