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The thing about the 5:2 diet is that it turns out a month’s worth of the funless chore that is basically starving yourself 2 days out of the week (even if I am managing to pull together some positively delicious 250-calorie meals at dinnertime) is pretty much wholly undone of one week of going on holiday and having to actually eat breakfast, which you never normally do. Not to mention the availability of cream tea ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE in British holiday destinations. Pure torture, and I’ve gained back all the weight I managed to lose by having nothing but a bit of fruit all day and a bowl of soup at night and generally feeling all kinds of grumpy and sleepy as a result. Boo-urns. I think my newfound fatness was simply meant to be, and I ought to just bin my 2-sizes-too-small, they-fit-this-time-last-year jeans and stuff. brb sobbing

So, as today’s a fast day, I’m trying to drink teas I don’t need to add milk or anything to, and mint and green teas tend to fit that bill well. This one’s a good candidate for drinking as is, as it’s refreshing and lightly fruity, but has a little substance to back it up, thanks to the scattering of gunpowder pellets throughout. Good.

On an entirely unrelated note, I’m rather hoping to send some of my surplus teas to a good home, simply because I haven’t the space to house them all in my poor little kitchen! They’re the ones that I still think are scrummy, but just don’t seem to reach for as often as others, and would rather see them get the love they deserve elsewhere. If I were to get my butt together and post a list, does anybody reckon there might be some interest?

Christina / BooksandTea

I’m not sure about this 5:2 system, but I’m using a smartphone app called Noom to help me lose weight and I’ve had success with it in the past. It’s all about lowering your general calorie count gently per day rather than fasting on some days and returning to normal on others. If you fast, your body just panics and tries to hold onto every calorie it can.

Sami Kelsh

I think the point of the 5:2 is that a day’s fasting at a time isn’t long enough to allow your body to go into panic-mode because it doesn’t give it time to get used to functioning on a reduced amount of calories. Since I’m teensy and therefore tend not to eat more than 1400 calories normally already, most diet plans don’t seem to be tailored to me at all.

I genuinely have no idea what works best, though, as the only time I’ve ever managed to lose any significant amount of weight in my life was the time I had dental surgery and the combination of painkillers and not being able to eat solids meant I was eating less than 600 calories a day for about 3 weeks. If I could replicate those conditions, I’d be totally set. GRUMP.

Christina / BooksandTea

Yeah, eating so little for so long is definitely not sustainable!

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Christina / BooksandTea

I’m not sure about this 5:2 system, but I’m using a smartphone app called Noom to help me lose weight and I’ve had success with it in the past. It’s all about lowering your general calorie count gently per day rather than fasting on some days and returning to normal on others. If you fast, your body just panics and tries to hold onto every calorie it can.

Sami Kelsh

I think the point of the 5:2 is that a day’s fasting at a time isn’t long enough to allow your body to go into panic-mode because it doesn’t give it time to get used to functioning on a reduced amount of calories. Since I’m teensy and therefore tend not to eat more than 1400 calories normally already, most diet plans don’t seem to be tailored to me at all.

I genuinely have no idea what works best, though, as the only time I’ve ever managed to lose any significant amount of weight in my life was the time I had dental surgery and the combination of painkillers and not being able to eat solids meant I was eating less than 600 calories a day for about 3 weeks. If I could replicate those conditions, I’d be totally set. GRUMP.

Christina / BooksandTea

Yeah, eating so little for so long is definitely not sustainable!

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