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http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/15/5-2-your-life-worry-jon-ronson?CMP=twt_fd

Oh iPad, why you so fiddly? The topic was meant to be Extend 5:2 to other aspects of your life!

Article in The Gaurdian on how to worry less, giving yourself 2 days a week off stress, Jon Ronson style.

I've edited it for you KataMac, although you can do it yourself if you wish with the Edit button in the top right of your post.

Read the article too. Quite interesting!

A positive review for 5:2 from the Guardian 5:2 your life asking can the 5:2 model be applied to other "habits".

Goes with this article 5:2 your life – the worry diet. Applying the 5:2 model to worries...

Goes with this article 5:2 your life – the worry diet. Applying the 5:2 model to worries...

Actually it doesn't - it's nothing to do with 5:2 except as a spurious lead in to the article. So you can ignore this link!

Should have read the whole article before I posted it!

Thank you! Now I see the edit button clearly, sure it wasn't there when I looked earlier

Katamac has beaten me to it, with the second article
Extend 5:2 to other aspects of your life

Thanks for posting that Peter. The article pretty much sums up everything I love about this WOE and why it's working so well for me. And I LOVE the quote from Bertrand Russell: "Conscious self-denial leaves a man self-absorbed and vividly aware of what he has sacrificed." That's every other diet I've tried in a nutshell.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/15/5-2-your-life-worry-jon-ronson?CMP=twt_fd

KataMac you beat me to it.

There is another article about 5:2 there.

At this rate I can confuse everyone nicely - hahahaha

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I merged the two topics thinking it would be less confusing, but I'm not sure I haven't made things worse! :-$

I merged the two topics thinking it would be less confusing, but I'm not sure I haven't made things worse! :-$

Classic

One of the few pieces of good publicity and...

5:2 is the best kept secret!

There was also a screen/tech 5:2 in a linked article which would probably be a really good for our entire family.

Not at all convinced about extending 5:2 principles to other areas of life. Works brilliantly for food (as we know!) but can't see how it would work for reducing TV viewing or anything else. Too much of a good thing!

Don't know about tv (none of us watch it) but a couple of days a week away from tech would mean my children might actually remember all those other sedentary things they enjoy doing that doesn't involve a screen - drawing, reading, board and card games, chatting, discussing, interacting. They spend plenty of time on physical activities, but sedentary seems to be taken up almost exclusively by screens. Twice a week isn't too scary, and rather than a vague "cut back" it's easy to just think "screen day" or "not screen day" in the same way it's easy to think "fast day" or "not fast day".