It has been suggested as a way of curing Type 2 Diabetes - and a friend (a sitting MP) says it worked for George Osborne; the 5-2 diet; eat anything you like 5 days a week; but fast for the other two. I started this week; water only for 48 hours. Then this…

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As I'm from up north (Leicester) I would have some brown sauce with that.

Excuse me Strat - NORTH? I've been to Leicester many times (it used to be one of the main distribution places for music - Selecta) and it's hardly North at all - more West. Try going to Newcastle - I had to drive there once from Huddersfield (where young Tommy was at Uni) and I consider that area (I'd been in Manchester for In The City) quite as far North as I wanted to go (don't even mention Scotland, essentially Arctic) - when, after hours and hours, I finally saw the Angel of the North I almost cried with relief.

I'm on the 5:2 diet, there is a lot of evidhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01lxyzc/horizon-20122013-3-eat-fast-and-live-longer

I eat up to 600 calories a day for day days, and a "normal" diet on the other days.
ence to support the fact that it dramatically reduces the likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease, stroke, and dementia. Its also virtually guaranteed that you will lose weight.

Week Two coming up!

JK2006 wrote:
Excuse me Strat - NORTH? I've been to Leicester many times (it used to be one of the main distribution places for music - Selecta) and it's hardly North at all - more West. Try going to Newcastle - I had to drive there once from Huddersfield (where young Tommy was at Uni) and I consider that area (I'd been in Manchester for In The City) quite as far North as I wanted to go (don't even mention Scotland, essentially Arctic) - when, after hours and hours, I finally saw the Angel of the North I almost cried with relief.

Let the train take the strain. I find that when I occasionally go first class on the train, I don't want the journey to end.

See the Portillo Thread Robbie; I've told Michael that my favourite railway journey in the world is Paris-Nice which I still do at least twice a year.

I highly recommend the Horizon documentary about this diet. It is very inspirational, particularly the 101 year old man running a marathon.