To find Michael Mosley annoying

As a short term way to lose weight that was quickly gained over the holidays, I'm sure it's fine. But probably not as a long term plan.

It's the trailers!

I don’t think I’d do it if I was overweight as I couldn’t do it long term.

But I piled on 7lbs over Christmas and was impatient to get back to my happy weight.

Having said that, it seems a good way to diet as you are never hungry 🤷‍♀️

MM says it reduces blood sugar, blood pressure and inflammation. But maybe losing weight any way dies this? I’m no expert.

@DillDanding - that's great but honestly, it isn't sustainable. The early rapid weight loss in keto is mainly water retention - still lovely to lose it and to feel that impetus. But long term, it slows down and the restrictions become tough to stick with. Losing weight that quickly usually results in weight gain as soon as the starvation period is over.

Isn't he touting crash dieting under a new name? Which historically is proven to lead to greater weight gain long term because it promotes extreme, unsustainable eating habits. I have a friend who loves MM. She loses weight very quickly on his regime and then puts it all back on and more. Every time I see her she's either lost weight or heavier than she was at her previous heaviest weight.

I have been doing his fast 800 keto for exactly 7 days and I am 8 pounds down. But - he does promote his stuff on the Daily Mail, so is fair game if anyone wants to hate him.

Yanbu. I quite liked him back in 2012 with the 5:2 diet thing. But since then he has become utterly ubiquitous (much like prof Winston before him) and now I instantly switch off or scroll on by.

And I agree ... how much money does he want to milk out of people's weight problems? Nasty.

I think that he has been a force for good . Bringing IF to the public's consciousness and making people realise that significant weight loss and reversal of diabetes are possible must be a good thing. I think that he is a good communicator on health issues. People buy his books and some of them subsequently have significant health benefits. He and his wife have profited but it doesn't take away any good done.

I don’t think he ever actually worked as a dr, went straight into journalism. It seems relentless, he must have made serious money, now his wife has joined in.

Correction: Can't stand him, every week he has a 'diet' to promote in the Daily Mail. (And the Daily Express is even worse.)

When he first started appearing on tv and in the press I thought he had something interesting to say. Now it's just yawn.

YANBU, he’s an absolute arsehole along with the entire ‘diet culture’ tribe of cunts.

I have Radio 4 fairly often, they have some great comedy for instance, but if they kept wheeling out the same experts I'd stop listening to that particular show.

I find his voice creepy. Nearly as bad as Chris Packham.

I agree with you @Flamingopinko and sometimes I find myself thinking that he states the bloody obvious!

Yep agree.
We have several of his books, which are researched in partnership with academics specialising in diabetes and which are logical and fairly easy to read. Think the recipes are generally really tasty, and if you follow the principles of the plans you do lose weight and feel much better!

However, I dislike that he so often works with the Daily Mail, and I do think that the marketing is a bit relentless, but as others have said, he is running a business. I'm inundated daily with marketing emails from countless other companies who are similarly trying to flog me stuff. At least what he's doing can have a positive impact on people's health.

If you have Radio 4 on a lot, then he seems ubiquitous. Some of us have Radio 4 on. A lot.

YANBU. I can't stand him either. He is patronising and creepy. I don't feel his focus is on health but on building his own wealth. Sure he's a businessman but there is something sneaky about making out you have the true key to physical wellbeing when actually you're just hyping the latest trends.

I hate how he states the bleein obvious as though it's a decree of wisdom from his superior mind: Get enough sleep! Reduce calories! Exercise! Wow - Michael, what phenomenal insights you are sharing with the ignorant masses.

His wife is a GP, I think.

I have no idea how people survive on 800 kcal per day. I couldn’t do it.

A lot of cultures live on carb-based diets and are very healthy.

I don’t think his ideas are perfect. There are many issues with the Western diet that can be fixed without using his methods.

I barely know who he is.

How has he managed to invade your conscience so much? Is he a family member?

I find his recipe books helpful for controlling weight and diabetes. I think he has brought about a revolution in dietary excellence, and don’t care if he’s making lots of money off the back of it, as he’s probably single-handedly saved the NHS a huge amount of money by helping millions of type-2 diabetics gain control of their condition by changing their diet and lifestyle. You don’t have to watch him on TV or buy his books if you don’t like him!

I don't like him, so I simply don't watch him.

This is what the "off" button is for!

I enjoyed his TV stuff early on, found it very interesting, but went off him when he first promoted the 5:2 diet as a way you could eat what you wanted on the 5 days then backpedalled to say you still needed to follow diet rules on those days if you wanted to lose weight.

I’m a bit of a hypocrite to be honest because I do get on well with intermittent fasting, which I discovered because of him, but his wife’s recipe book for the fast 800 diet were awful.