Good afternoon.

I restart 5:2 on Monday morning. It worked before; it will work again.

This time it’s a lifestyle, not one more diet! In other words, an attitude adjustment. I just ordered the revised Fast Diet.

Anyone else fasting on Monday?

Penggu, good morning!

This is what definitely helps me: The first time around I did what the Fast Diet book recommends. I picked any two random days a week. As Dr. Mosley states, this was his personal experiment and it worked very well for him. Unfortunately, it did not work as well for me. I was losing great, but as time went on, I found myself not doing the second fasting day for the week. Then eventually, I just stopped altogether. Guess what? Weight came back and then some. A no-brainer.

So then I read a book recommended by Dr. Mosley, called The 2 Day Diet by Dr. Michelle Harvie. She has an even quicker read out called The 2 Day Diet Quick & Easy. This is what I love about Dr. Mosley; he is kind and generous enough to talk about all forms of fasting by other researchers.

Dr. Harvie is the one who has done all the human experiments on 5:2. She recommends two CONSECUTIVE days of fasting, both low cal AND low carb. Doing two days in a row burns more fat and doing it low carb really lowers your insulin levels so that you are not hungry. I am amazed at how much better I am doing on 5:2 this time around. Doing it two consecutive days means I get it out of the way for the rest of the week and actually do them! Dr. Harvie recommends doing a food exchange type diet for the remaining five days of the week, but I just ignore that and eat what I please, being mindful of what I’m doing.

This time around I am confident I will reach my goal weight and be a 5:2 success story. If you low cal, low carb for two consecutive days, your hunger is really blunted. I stick to a maximum of 650 cals per fast day/minimum 50 grams protein per fasting day/less than 50 grams total carb per fasting day, as used in the studies. I’m writing down my menus so that as time goes on, no counting anything on my fasting days; I’ll just know what to eat.

Hope this helped!