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Introduction

Hey guys, David Hoang coming at you from supplementsuperhero.com.

And today I’m going to be doing a 5:2 diet review, and really giving you the honest truth, the insight on whether the diet is a fat-burning winner or if it’s a complete loser.

What is the 5:2 diet?

So, let’s get into it. First off, what is the 5:2 diet? The 5:2 diet is a diet that became essentially really popular due to Dr. Michael Mosley’s book, The Fast Diet.

As you can see here, you can get it on Amazon for like 10 bucks. But, basically he wrote this book…it became really popular and he was actually given some television time and publicity and there was just tons and tons of publicity and tons and tons of propaganda regarding intermittent fasting.

Now, the basic concept of the diet is to essentially feast five days of the week and then to fast. Okay…kind of…fast two days a week. Okay.

So, on those five days of the week, you can kind of eat whatever you want, whenever you want, enjoy the foods you love.

But, two of those days you basically eat less calories. So, for the fast days, you eat significantly less calories.

For men, the recommendation is about 600 calories or less. For woman, about 500 calories or less. Obviously, it’ll also depend on a variety of things like our metabolism, age, activity level, so on and so forth.

Pros of the 5:2 Diet

Now, in terms of the good things about the diet is…it’s simple. What’s really, really good about the diet and what I personally really love, is it’s super simple.

A little kid could figure out how to do it. You don’t have to worry about tracking everything. You don’t have to worry about micromanaging your diet.

You don’t have to worry about all the macronutrients…planning out your meals. It’s just simple, very easy to follow. It’s just…eat normally five days of the week, but two days of the week, track your calories a lot more and eat significantly less calories. It’s that simple.

Another benefit is that you get to enjoy the foods you love.

And that’s one of the things that I think really attracted people to the diet and really the reason why it’s become so popular and why there’s this huge intermittent fasting crave or craze out there.

Because it enables you to eat things you really like to eat, like pizza, burgers, cakes, ice cream, so on and so forth. And whereas other diets, like the Atkins diet or the ketogenic diet, it restricts the kind of foods you eat.

So, with this diet, you essentially enjoy the foods you love, but you just restrict the amount you actually eat two days a week.

The Cons of the 5:2 Diet

Now, of course with any diet, there’s bad things.

The bad here: nutritional value. So, because there’s such an emphasis on calories in the diet, there’s not as much emphasis in terms of getting the right amount of nutrition in your diet and concentrating on macronutrients because a proper balance of macronutrients is also necessary for general health, and also for weight loss too.

So, there’s not a huge focus on like the amount of proteins, fats, carbs that you got to get in your diet or the vitamins and minerals, so on and so forth.

Another thing is that it might promote overeating on feast days.

Maybe not for everyone, but I think for most people, especially when you’re first starting on the diet, because you restrict your calories two days a week on the days that you actually eat your regular diet, you might end up overeating to compensate for those fast days, right?

So, for example, if I fast today and I eat less than 600 calories, I might be more hungry tomorrow and I might end up overcompensating because of those lost meals or those lost calories from the prior day.

Okay. The last negative thing is that it promotes a restriction mindset.

And, some people are okay with this, but some people, when you restrict calories, it kind of promotes in your head this negativity towards food. Like you try to avoid food…you don’t want to eat food.

Food is bad, and that’s not a healthy mindset. To a certain extent it’s good to control your portion sizes, but when taken to the extreme, it could be a really, really negative thing.

Verdict and My Experience

In conclusion guys, overall, the 5:2 diet is a good diet. It’s especially very good for newbies and it’s great for people who don’t like micromanaging their food.

It’s great for people who don’t like going to the gym because you’re going to have that caloric deficit and it can be combined with a variety of diets and exercises. Just because you’re doing the 5:2 diet doesn’t mean you can’t combine it with like the Paleo diet or the Atkins diet and so on and so forth.

And, you could still exercise with the diet as well. In fact, I actually used the basic 5:2 diet concept to lose 18 pounds in one month and I didn’t even know about the 5:2 diet or like the actual name of the diet, but I utilized it to help me lose 18 pounds within one month. So super powerful guys.

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