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The 2-Day Diet: Diet two days a week. Eat the Mediterranean way for five.
Lose weight fast with the international diet sensation. Diet two days a week. Eat the Mediterranean way for five.
The 2-Day Diet is easy to follow, easy to stick to, and clinically tested. Simply eat a low carb, high protein diet two days a week, and follow the classic Mediterranean Diet (now recognized as the gold standard in warding off heart disease) for the other five.
The 2-Day Diet is designed to maximize weight loss, minimize muscle loss and keep you feeling full. It can have dramatic anti-aging and anti-cancer benefits. With this diet you can finally be slim, fit and healthy. With meal plans and 100 delicious and filling recipes.
“A far more effective way to lose weight.” –Daily Mail
“Put an end to 24/7 calorie counting.” – The Sun
“Revolutionary and clinically proven.” –Good Housekeeping
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493 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
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January 29, 2015
I've never been a fan of diets. I've seen them work in the short term, only to be discarded weeks or months later to no effect, or worse, to a greater weight gain on the rebound. I've always tried to preach to our young, impressionable girls that a person needs to eat healthy and stay active and not worry about a number on a scale. I want so much to reinforce a healthy self-image and not fill their minds with the thought that their body isn't good enough. I don't talk about my weight and I've gone for months (maybe even years) without weighing myself.
To be honest, though, I've been blessed with good genes, with a healthy metabolism and a tendency to be on the slender side. At least until I had two babies and then hit my mid-thirties. Whoa, nelly. I'm in my forties now and I find my weight creeping up the scale slowly but surely. I am finally grasping the concept of 'middle age spread.' And I don't like it. I exercise and I eat good food (maybe a little too much of it, I suppose). But even training for a marathon didn't melt the pounds away, so I wondered what would.
I read The Fast Diet: The Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, Live Longer by Michael Mosley a year ago and have been following a 1-2 day fast most weeks for more than a year now. It hasn't overwhelmingly changed my body composition, and I know that I eat too much on my 'off' days, but I am happy that I have slowed and possibly even stopped the gradual weight/fat gain that I'd been experiencing since I hit my 40s.
I am not trying to lose a lot of weight, but I do want to increase my lean mass and decrease fat. I like the idea that I can maintain this 'diet' for a very long time without burning out. And I also appreciate that I can back off on certain celebratory weeks (holidays, birthdays, etc.) and only fast once a week or even not at all, with minimal effects. I try to at least have a 1 day a week fast and for the most part I like my two day fasts. I often do them on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which also coincides with my yoga practice, and this seems to fit in well with the concept of fasting before yoga.
Finally, I like that this is the book that explains some of the scientific research that went into the diet (as opposed to Mr. Mosley's more anecdotal book that refers to the research). As one reader mentions, "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."
It was a quick read, and if nothing else, it's a good way to keep me focused on my ultimate goal, to be healthy, get stronger and to reduce my overall fat percentages. I wasn't changed by this book, but it reinforces some of what I've already learned. I only skimmed the recipes, but many look pretty good.
To be honest, though, I've been blessed with good genes, with a healthy metabolism and a tendency to be on the slender side. At least until I had two babies and then hit my mid-thirties. Whoa, nelly. I'm in my forties now and I find my weight creeping up the scale slowly but surely. I am finally grasping the concept of 'middle age spread.' And I don't like it. I exercise and I eat good food (maybe a little too much of it, I suppose). But even training for a marathon didn't melt the pounds away, so I wondered what would.
I read The Fast Diet: The Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, Live Longer by Michael Mosley a year ago and have been following a 1-2 day fast most weeks for more than a year now. It hasn't overwhelmingly changed my body composition, and I know that I eat too much on my 'off' days, but I am happy that I have slowed and possibly even stopped the gradual weight/fat gain that I'd been experiencing since I hit my 40s.
I am not trying to lose a lot of weight, but I do want to increase my lean mass and decrease fat. I like the idea that I can maintain this 'diet' for a very long time without burning out. And I also appreciate that I can back off on certain celebratory weeks (holidays, birthdays, etc.) and only fast once a week or even not at all, with minimal effects. I try to at least have a 1 day a week fast and for the most part I like my two day fasts. I often do them on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which also coincides with my yoga practice, and this seems to fit in well with the concept of fasting before yoga.
Finally, I like that this is the book that explains some of the scientific research that went into the diet (as opposed to Mr. Mosley's more anecdotal book that refers to the research). As one reader mentions, "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."
It was a quick read, and if nothing else, it's a good way to keep me focused on my ultimate goal, to be healthy, get stronger and to reduce my overall fat percentages. I wasn't changed by this book, but it reinforces some of what I've already learned. I only skimmed the recipes, but many look pretty good.
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