It’s basically eating normally for 5 days and fasting for two days (non-consecutive) On the fasting days you can have 500 calories.
The 5:2 diet is an increasingly popular diet plan with a flurry of newspaper articles and books being published on it in the run up to Christmas 2012 and in January 2013.The diet first reached the mainstream via a BBC Horizon documentary called Eat, Fast and Live Longer, broadcast in August 2012.
What is the 5:2 diet populised by Michael Mosley in a Horizon documentary? | Metro News
Has anyone tried 5:2 diet?