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[Moogie]

The 2-Day Diet: Diet Two Days a Week. Eat Normally for Five by Dr. Michelle Harvie & Professor Tony Howell

The 2-Day Diet is the original, clinically proven 5:2 diet to get you slim and healthy, as developed by acclaimed scientists Dr Michelle Harvie and Prof Tony Howell at Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention. To reach your perfect weight, all you need to do is follow this low-carb intermittent diet for two days a week. For the rest of the week just eat normally but sensibly.


It really is that simple, and the science proves it: in trials followers lost more weight than those on continuous calorie-controlled diets, almost twice as much fat, and more centimetres around their waist - and they were more successful at keeping it off!


The 2-Day Diet is packed with clear, safe and simple guidance, plus meal planners and 100 delicious and filling recipes to help you on your way. You'll find out how and why the diet works, and the numerous proven health benefits associated with it, including: reducing cancer risks; lowering high blood pressure; anti-ageing effects; and improving well-being, mood and energy levels.


This is a unique way of eating that can completely retrain your appetite and rejuvenate your body on a cellular level. Finally, you can enjoy your food and stop worrying about your weight for good.

Thank you Moogie!!!

any sign of the full clinical trial paper spotted yet ?

[carorees]

The 2-Day Diet: Diet Two Days a Week. Eat Normally for Five

Not exactly eating normally by many people's definition of normal!!! Normal as in what we 'ought' to be eating perhaps!

Hopefully, though it will bring more people to the intermittent fasting idea, which is a good thing.

[Moogie]

Indeed, I don't think I could do it their way, it seems a lot more diety than 5:2 - but then I guess some people do eat that sort of food normally (but then wouldn't they probably be fairly healthy already?!)

Perhaps if they said "Eat healthily for 5 days" it wouldn't appeal as much!

Hi Moogie,

This is a question re using the forum, nothing about losing weight I'm afraid.

How do I post a 'thank you' to any particular post please?

Why do some of the topics have a scrolling icon on the left hand side please?

Is there anywhere I can visit that will explain to me, a totally non-computerate person, how
I navigate my way around and what all the symbols etc mean please?

Sorry for being such a nerd but I so enjoy this forum and want to get as much out of it as possible, also, just love this way of life and loving reading how everyone else is faring,

Ballerina x

I ordered it. Hope it's a good one

Hi Moogie,
This is a question re using the forum, nothing about losing weight I'm afraid.

How do I post a 'thank you' to any particular post please?


Ballerina x

There's a little Thumb up on the right-hand-side of the post at the top. Press it to say thanks.

Pashcaline, when you've had a chance to have a look at it, do give us the gist here (might tempt some more of us to buy it!) Would also love to know what it says (if anything) about Dr MM's (and our) 5:2.

Can anyone who has got the Dr MM book 'the fast diet' let me know what is said in there about Dr Harvie and/or Genesis and/or their work? It was never mentioned in the BBC Horizon programme, which is rather odd in retrospect. I have a theory about it, but I wonder what info is out there...

[Moogie]

Hi Moogie,

This is a question re using the forum, nothing about losing weight I'm afraid.

How do I post a 'thank you' to any particular post please?

Why do some of the topics have a scrolling icon on the left hand side please?

Is there anywhere I can visit that will explain to me, a totally non-computerate person, how
I navigate my way around and what all the symbols etc mean please?

Sorry for being such a nerd but I so enjoy this forum and want to get as much out of it as possible, also, just love this way of life and loving reading how everyone else is faring,

Ballerina x

Hi Ballerina & welcome

The Forum FAQ linked in the grey bar along the top may be able to answer some of your forum-related questions Here's a link to save you scrolling up to it!
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Thanks are given by clicking on the 'thumbs up' icon in the top right corner of a post.

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Can anyone who has got the Dr MM book 'the fast diet' let me know what is said in there about Dr Harvie and/or Genesis and/or their work? It was never mentioned in the BBC Horizon programme, which is rather odd in retrospect. I have a theory about it, but I wonder what info is out there...

If I remember correctly all the people tested were women (breast cancer prevention trial). They were split into 3 groups, 1 group were asked to eat a healthily Mediterranean diet of 1500 calories, 1 was asked to eat normally 5 days and a low carb 650-750 calorie diet the other 2 days and the last group had to eat no carbs 2 days a week, but could eat normally.

Both groups on the 2 day diets lost more weight than the other and had improved insulin sensitivity.

The study was portrayed in a positive way I thought, but the new book doesn’t seem to grab me in the same way the horizon programme and Fast diet book did, maybe it’s a guy thing.

[carorees]

Dominic, I just checked my copy of the book. Harvie's work is reviewed and referenced. Can't copy and paste...kindle won't allow it.

This is the 'diet' that has been serialised in The Daily Mail I believe. I bought it on Monday to take a look, wondering if it would add anything new to the mix. It seems to me that it is, actually, a 'Diet', in fact it is intermittent, low-carb dieting - has no element of fasting, intermittent or otherwise, unless the book is comprehensively different to the diet in the Daily Mail, which seems unlikely. What is interesting is the research behind the diet and the results obtained - certainly for people who find the idea of going without food for any length of time it appears to offer the perfect solution.

[carorees]

Aren't the two days a VLCD (very low calorie diet) of around 650kcal? That is v similar to 5:2 (for men at least). Do they not mention the benefits of having long gaps between food then? Interesting.