Hi – I’ve only been on the fast diet for a couple of weeks but have also noticed discrepancies with calorie count, within the book itself. E.g. the calorie count list at the back of the book says 100g blueberries have 60cals, but in one of the recipes (men’s Day 6 breakfast)it says 100g blueberries is 25cals! This must be a typo, but has me worried about how I’ve adjusted recipes and substituted different fruit and veg, that may have taken me over my calorie count for the day. Anyone else had this problem?

I am having the same problem. I want to make the red lentil tikka masala from the Fast Diet Cookbook for dinner tonight — for my first three fast days I made up my own recipes — but this recipe sounds good, I want to try it instead of having a slab of fish or tofu with a side of vegetables — but the cookbook says it’s 218 calories per serving, whereas calories added up from web sites work out to about 282, give or take a bit depending on what percentage of the masala paste ends up getting used in the recipe. So, I was going to have it with some cucumber/cilantro/low-fat yogurt raita (work out how much I can have to make 40 calories worth) and about 40 calories worth of fruit, but since I only budget 300 calories for dinner on fast days, can I still do that? I already ate my 200 calorie breakfast. I guess the best thing I can do for now is figure that other people have lost weight using these recipes and go for it (or else eat only 77 percent of the 1/4 of the recipe for 4 that I was planning on serving myself?) since I’ll feel deprived without my bits of raita and fruit, but this is frustrating, and in future I will have to work it out ahead of time instead of until waiting until the day of — I have to plan ahead because I’m also cooking for my underweight son, I have to plan out how to up his calories and protein while we still get to enjoy sharing a meal. Why did I even bother to check? I noticed in the Fast Diet book that it counts a teaspoon of olive oil as 27 calories whereas other references say 40 or 41. I was thinking maybe teaspoons are different in the US vs. the UK, but my Fast Diet Cookbook book is from a US publisher…