P.s. I’ll be 65 years old this year! And I’m losing!

Slogan, here is the link to the interview with Dr. Mosley in the Telegraph.

I don’t count calories at all on non fast days, but hopefully this article will be helpful to you. Here it is:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/12/good-news-dieters-52-relaxes-rules-allows-800-calories-day/

I should have added that I also follow an overnight fast of 14 hours every day.

For example, if I stop eating at 8 p.m., I won’t eat again until 10 a.m. the following morning, I do that every day, but do the 800 calories only twice a week. I choose consecutive fasting days, because I believe it lowers your insulin and burns fat more.

As far as I know there are only two new books out that discuss the revised 5:2 (aside from Dr. Mosley’s wonderful 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet). The first is a book by Kate Harrison called 5:2 Veggie (a 5:2 book for vegetarians). I wasn’t crazy about that book because it’s a bit passive aggressive for me – first telling us about Dr. M’s revised calories for 5:2, then going into reasons why it might not work, with the rest of the book really supporting 500 calories on 5:2. And her website is even less enthusiastic, in my opinion. But this can be because the books she wrote are of a 500 calorie focus and wants them to sell. Who knows.

The second book, the one I truly recommend, is titled The New 5:2 Diet Cookbook by Jacqueline Whitehart. This book enthusiastically supports the “new” 5:2, giving you options of doing both the “old” and the newer version. I got the idea of fasting 14 hours every night from this book, although the book only recommends the 14 hour fast on 5:2 days. But I do it every day.

Whatever you do, good luck to you on 5:2. I finally can do this.

You are welcome Slogan. I guess I’m so enthusiastic because I’ve dieted since I was 13, and I can finally stick to a way of eating that is easy and works. We can do this!