love the new look, thank you!! 🙂

Thanks new woman and Angie – It’s a busy day at Fast Diet Towers!

Hi Doc Mosley! Great job, keep up the excellent work!

You and Mimi are a inspirational duo who are changing the way we all view our health and our power to change things for the better.

I really like the new fresh look, but where is the handy BMI/BMR/TDEE calculator? I loved that thing, and so easy to use! Could you please put it back?

I can’t wait to hear about any longitudinal studies that are changing the standard medical treatment of chronic conditions, using intermittent fasting as a way of helping the body heal and repair itself.

I’m a case in point, I no longer snore, suffer IBS, fatigue or have any dermatistis. These things have gone, I’m looking at having my checkup and bloods any listed soon to see if my high blood glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure are back to normal, compared to this time last year.

After 46 weeks I feel like a new woman, look younger and have so much more energy. And looking forward to making this a permanent way of eating.

Thank you so so much! Can’t wait for what’s coming up next!

Hi Michael

Sorry to go against the tide but I don’t like the new all blue fonts on everything; it all seems to be blending in too much to me.

Otherwise, Onwards and Downwards!

(Oh and you could have a look at a post on THE LOACA thread by Applecrisp the other day; she had an excellent idea about the subject matter of the next ground breaking documentary you could do).

Michael I loved your show. Thank you for showing us a different and more gentle approach to fasting.

Your book was great and I was sorry to finish it. So many new things I learned from it. I can’t stop talking about it and I recommend it to all my friend. It will be the standard Birthday present for this year. 🙂

Two friends from work and I, have started the 5:2 diet in January. We all three have lost weight and are very excited about it.

Mimi, I have a question for you . I love blueberries and I usually have them on fast days. Could you check again the list with calories from the book? The recipes at the end and the list give different values for blueberries. Maybe you were referring to the blackberries in the recipes?

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

I found the documentary by accident last year on PBS. I had been gaining weight regularly (reached that age) and could not seem to stop. I exercise an hour to hour and a half a day including yoga and aerobic workouts. By following the 5:2 i was able to lose 14 pounds and felt much better. I plateaued at one point but did 4:3 one week and that jumpstarted my weight loss.
In July I was diagnosed with colon cancer. I had radiation and oral chemo 5 days a week for 5 weeks. I kept doing the 5:2 and had the minimum amount of side effects and when I had my surgery in November, all of the tumor was gone. I had a remarkable recovery from surgery. I was told I could not fast because i had been given an ostomy so was disappointed to find that out. Also, I had lost a lot of weight and was having trouble eating regularly so did not need to lose anymore.
I started chemo in December and had to stop one of the meds in January. I resumed my 5:2 and have been able to keep my weight in a healthy BMI range.
I am passionate about the diet but only tell friends that are struggling and only after asking if they want to know what helped me.
I have tried pretty much every diet out there and nothing helped for long. This has been really exciting for me and I couldn’t wait until I was able to get back to it. Who says that about a diet?

I just wanted to say thank you Michael. I began 5:2 on August 1 of last year. By mid February of 2014 I had lost 30 pounds and I have been maintaining ever since. I was able to take a 2 week vacation with my husband during that time and had no trouble getting right back into 5:2.As a life long yo-yo dieter this is the best thing I have ever tried. I can see myself maintaining for the rest of my life. Hopefully that will be for quite some time as I have lowered my cholesterol, my blood sugar and my blood pressure. I am close to coming off all the medications that treat those conditions. My doctor and I are thrilled. Thanks again

Hi and welcome:

Hard to believe you can lose 14 pounds and no fat. I would suspect your formula or fat measuring device.

Women usually lose slower than men because their TDEE is lower. This will explain: http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/tdee-for-the-curious-or-why-dont-i-lose-weight-faster/.

Good Luck!

vtf, you probably need to adjust the amount you are eating on non fast days. I was eating 1500 calories a day during the week prior to maintenance. I eat what I want on weekends with an eye on mindfulness and Sunday has always been fast day for me. (56 year old woman, 5’4″)

Hi.

Believe it or not, I have used this strategy of fasting for years not knowing at all about Fast Diet or 5:2. In fact, every time my body alarmed me when too heavy or my blood parameters got drastically worse, it was obvious to me that something had to be done. Somehow, it occurred to me by instinct: What if I reduce my everyday food intact to only a few days and not eating the other days at all or eating very limited. Sometimes I used this strategy for longer and sometimes for shorter period of time. And it worked. Always. Despite of people suggestions around me that fasting is dangerous. Of course, if you exaggerate. Besides, I had never had time to study the calories intact and “eat this and don’t eat that” philosophy.

But now, I am very glad I found this quite a broad community and dr. Michael Mosley, which supported this simple theory in a rather scientific way. I ‘accidentally’ watched dr. Mosley’s documentary about the Fast diet not long ago and soon realized that this was something similar to what I did.