5:2 diet

hannoja

silvasava wrote: »

OK - does a 'full house' & nothing for the rest of the day count?:rotfl:

Lol. I'd say go for the full house, but... for tea the night before.
Or if you really want to start the day with it, don't eat till ~4pm the next day!

adamb89

please dont restrict yourself of that many calories its not good for you, a real eye opener is this book changed the way i perceive diets!!
its called why we get fat and what to do about it, google it or go on amazon

Verbatim

Well at the GP yesterday I had lost all of 1kg since early August. As expected. Rather more upsettingly my BP is no better either but probably due to "white coat syndrome".
I have given up until the New Year and will start again then. Did not fast last week so basically I'll have a month off.

hannoja

adamb89 wrote: »

please dont restrict yourself of that many calories its not good for you, a real eye opener is this book changed the way i perceive diets!!
its called why we get fat and what to do about it, google it or go on amazon

Did you read the article linked to in the OP?

It's not good for you if you do it continuously. However there is growing belief to suggest that it is beneficial to health when done intermittently!

Research shows that severe calorie restriction for two days per week switches off the liver’s production of a growth promoter called IGF-1, allowing DNA repair and new cells to grow. Animal research has shown an improvement in cognitive function and a slowing of Alzheimer’s.

(above quote from here)

P.S: If you want to follow a low-carb diet, that's fine. I'm a fan of that. However that's a totally different topic.

Irony

Can someone help with the time-scale pls.
If I ate a normal meal lastnight, say 6pm & 0 calories the rest of the night, does the "diet" day end 6.15pm next evening or is it dawn to dusk on any given day.

Couple of recipes that may help some folks. What we really need is 5:2 for Dummies.
http://www.london-unattached.com/recipes-for-one/

melbury

I told a work colleague about the 5:2 diet and she decided to give it a try. She saw her GP last week for a routine BP check and told him she was going to try it and lo and behold he said that he is on it himself - thinks it is really good:)

Gloomendoom

Irony wrote: »

Can someone help with the time-scale pls.
If I ate a normal meal lastnight, say 6pm & 0 calories the rest of the night, does the "diet" day end 6.15pm next evening or is it dawn to dusk on any given day.

It's really what suits you. There are no hard and fast rules.

The recommendation is that you eat a max of 500 calories on your fast days. So, to use your example you could eat your normal full meal at 6.15pm on day one and then nothing until 6.15pm on day two when you eat a 500 calorie meal and then nothing until breakfast on day three, if you eat normally eat breakfast. Day four would be a repeat of day two.

plastichead

My wife and I have been on a 5:2 regime for 3 months now and am going to have to shift to a 6:1 due to to much weight loss.

We tried to up our consumption on the none fast days but unless we eat junk food cannot stop the weight loss.

Mado

hannoja wrote: »

Did you read the article linked to in the OP?

P.S: If you want to follow a low-carb diet, that's fine. I'm a fan of that. However that's a totally different topic.

The new scientist article said that there appeared to be a link between high protein consumption and the degenrative conditions the 5:2 diet helps prevent; it hinted at a serious rethink in general diet advice (ie,we eat too much protein) . I can see that to be a real issue with a low carb diet.

plastichead wrote: »

My wife and I have been on a 5:2 regime for 3 months now and am going to have to shift to a 6:1 due to to much weight loss.

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That is interesting. I was wondering at what point the regular weight loss stopped!

Jei70

Irony wrote: »

Can someone help with the time-scale pls.
If I ate a normal meal lastnight, say 6pm & 0 calories the rest of the night, does the "diet" day end 6.15pm next evening or is it dawn to dusk on any given day.

My "diet" day is a whole day during which I eat 500 kcals only. For example, I eat normally on a Sunday; I may finish my dinner at 7pm, or I might go out and finish eating/drinking around midnight, doesn't matter. On Monday, I only eat 500 kcals (I prefer to do it in a single meal around 4pm, but other people have a big breakfast, or 3 tiny meals, or any combination). On Tuesday, I have a normal breakfast and eat regular meals.

Marking the hour when you eat is more useful in the other type of intermittent fasting, promoted by leangains, not the 5:2. In that variation, you fast for about 16 hours every day (i.e. have dinner at 6.30pm, then don't eat for 16 hours, then have a meal, and dinner at 6.30pm, and so on, day in day out). Sometimes this "eating window" is even shorter, 6 or only 4 hours. Personally, this system is too proscribed for me - I absolutely adore the variety of the 5:2 (in my case 4:3) way of eating! But it does work for some people, some have even posted on this thread.