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Could you live below the line? 27 Apr 2013 | 08:55 am
On Monday a major campaign kicks off called Live Below the Line to show that it is possible to feed yourself on £1 a day for 5 days - i.e. £5 for the whole week. As I'm not taking the challenge (a lon...
Do you really need a 5:2 cookbook? 31 Mar 2013 | 10:36 am
Given the success of the 5:2 diet it was inevitable that there would be a rash of cookbooks cashing in on it but having looked through a few I’m wondering how useful they really are. I mean how much d...
Why Frenchwomen don't get fat - mark II 16 Mar 2013 | 10:32 am
After 9 days in Paris (it should have been 7 but we got marooned when Eurostar services were suspended) I was dreading getting on the scales. What would the damage be from a week's solid eating - the ...
Does the 5:2 diet work? 4 Mar 2013 | 10:08 pm
The question I get asked most often (mainly on Twitter) is whether the 5:2 diet actually works. And the answer is? Absolutely, yes it does. In the three months I've been on it I've lost almost a stone...
Brown shrimps: a 5:2 diet treat 22 Feb 2013 | 05:59 pm
Fellow 5:2 dieters will almost certainly have discovered prawns are a great fast day food. What you might not know is that brown shrimps even tastier. Not that they’re cheap - a 90g packet will cost y...
5:2 How I learned to love (or at least like) cottage cheese 15 Feb 2013 | 03:11 pm
Sooner or later everyone on a diet turns to cottage cheese. Everyone except me, up to now. I’ve always loathed the stuff. But with ordinary cheese ruled out, on fast days at least, and feeling equally...
5:2 A 100 calorie lunch (near as . . .) 14 Feb 2013 | 11:17 am
Although I find I can skip lunch more readily than I used to when I started the 5:2 diet there are days when the hunger pangs just won’t go away - particularly if I’ve eaten lightly the night before. ...
Spiced root vegetable soup 7 Feb 2013 | 08:45 pm
I know I've been banging on a lot about 5:2 lately so here's a recipe which isn't part of the diet or that you could run up after a fast day on which you've made yesterday's dal. The only ingredient y...
5:2: Quick red lentil and carrot dal 7 Feb 2013 | 08:08 am
After 24 hours of eating pure protein* I was gagging for something veggie tonight and hit on the notion of trying to make a low calorie version of my favourite dal. I found a couple of packs of pre-pr...
5:2 diet: Cutting down portion sizes 27 Jan 2013 | 03:26 pm
It is, of course, not just what you eat on a fast day but how much you eat of it. 500 calories a day (or 600 if you’re a lucky male) is not a lot so every calorie counts. Surprisingly one of the easie...
