Webchat with Dr Michael Mosley, author of The Fast Diet and The Fast 800, on Tuesday 15 January at 1pm

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We’re pleased to announce a webchat with Dr Michael Mosley on Tuesday 15 January, 1 - 2pm. Dr Mosley published The Fast Diet five years ago about the power of intermittent fasting. He has recently published The Fast 800 - where he updates the science and provides a programme built around an 800 calorie fasting day.

The book contains exercise plans and recipes - plus a range of tools designed to improve brain function and reducing blood pressure and inflammation.

Michael Mosley trained as a doctor before becoming a journalist and television presenter. He is the author of The Fast Diet, The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, and The Clever Guts Diet. He is married with four children.

Please do join the chat on Tuesday. If you can’t make it, please leave a question here in advance. Do bear in mind the webchat guidelines - one question each (follow-ups allowed if there’s time).

Thanks
MNHQ

Hi Michael,

I’ve been waiting for you to come back to MN to do a web chat with us since reading your last book.

My question is:
In the Fast diet revised and updated book.
You mention consuming the 500 calories either in one meal or spread out over two meals with a occasional snack.

It states in the book “A far as we are aware there have, as yet, been no studies which attempt to compare the health benefits of either eating all the calories in one go or splitting them into two meals and including the odd snack. When we know more we will update you.”

I was wondering if there have been any developments into the research of this?

I’m a huge fan of 5:2 / intermittent fasting. It’s not only changed my life but it’s also changed my relationship with food.

I'm also a huge fan of 5:2, although I've found to lose weight I have to do 4:3, and 5:2 for maintenance. I would echo the question about fiber on fast days and also on...why on earth would you choose to help the Daily Mail sell more papers? I don't understand it and think you're better than that.

I also wanted to ask about brisk walking. In one of your programmes you talk about 3 brisk walks of ten minutes each per day being better than 10,000 steps. My question is whether you would consider a brisk 30 minute walk at lunchtime to be enough exercise for a middle aged woman to maintain fitness and cardiovascular health? Coupled with some form of strength training too. Thank you.

Sorry I realise I sound like an arse with the whole "you're better than that" thing...I just really dislike the Daily Mail but am a big admirer of yours and so find it hard to wrap my head around!

Hi Michael,
I was reading one of your recent articles and was interested in your latest work however the use of ‘’magic 800” made me very sceptical, isn’t that just another ploy to pick a number out to make it into ‘something’ like the mythical 10,000 steps?

Another daily mail hater here. Big fan though! Use a lot of your stuff to teach biology in a more interesting way. Maybe you could move your press stuff a bit further from right wing media. They don't appreciate you properly anyway :)

Hi Michael,
Big fan of the BSD here.
Totally agree re the Daily Mail - just no!
Re fibre, surely following the BSD basically comes down to eating "some protein + some veg 3 times a day, plus lots of water" in which case I find I'm consuming a lot of fibre over the day in the form of, say, egg, avocado & tomato at breakfast, chicken salad at lunch and fish and pile of veg in the evening. So I'm not sure that is a valid criticism really as these things are most definitely fibrous.

Does anyone know if or when a baby can fly after a stroke ? Xx

@MummyRox ? That sounds awful, hope you and your baby are ok?..where did you mean to post?

@MrsEricBana I think the fiber questions relate more to intermittent fasting than to the blood sugar diet...No way could someone eat all that on a fast day.

You could eat what Erica listed there on an 800 calories fast day.

I think the guidance is 14g fibre per 1000 calories of food, so around 12g on an 800 calorie day. It's doable if you choose wisely, surely. I suppose the key is ensuring that we actually do choose wisely and don't just eat 800 cals of meat and cheese.

What's new that could well be the current advice, I've been doing this a long time now and that's just what I remember as being the advice at the time.

Actually scratch that, if the recommended calorie intake is 2000-2500 for women/men, then 14g per 1000 cals would be approx 30g a day. It stands to reason that if you cut your calories by half, you'll cut your fibre intake by half too!

Hello Michael,

Another big supporter and achiever on your previous blood sugar diet. I had an enormous amount of weight to lose before doing your diet, now after doing it I've lost a lot but still have at least 30kg to go before I get down to my target range.
I would like to ask how long can I safely remain on this diet as my 8 weeks are up but I've still got so far to go. I cannot do 5:2 as I tried in the past and failed miserably on the non-fast days and I'm scared of coming off the 800 diet now and gaining all the pounds back.

I have apoe 4 heterozygous revealed by 23 and me. I’m only in my 40s but also suffer from low mood and carb cravings. My bmi is 23 kgm2 so I’m not “overweight” although look a little well rounded 😀will the 800 diet help me?

Out of interest, I am maintaining, a 3 stone weight loss very healthily with Food Combining and the Blood Type Diet. Oh and the Paul Mackenna way of eating which is basically eating mindfully. I don't eat after 7.30pm and try not to eat before 9.30pm.

No calorie counting or weighing of food. I would recommend it!

Hi I am just reading your latest book and very new to fasting 5:2, my concern regarding following your plan is following the meals. I've had a brief read through of the recipes in the book and not convinced I will like a lot of them so my choices could be limited. Do you have any plans to create anymore recipes, or where can I find some more ideas? Thanks.

shooby there is a very active, well-read 5:2 group on here that should be able to help with recipes.

@essential - thank you !

Is there a way a person can assess at home their risk of getting gallstones before they try an I-Fasting diet?

I also wonder about tea when fasting, so second that question!

I'd like to know how much of your own advice do you follow , and have you persuaded your children to follow suit?

Is it true that any one losing weight will also lose some muscle/lean tissue as part of that weight loss? Doesn’t that mean dieters then have to eat an ever decreasing number of calories to maintain their lower weight and is there any method of weight loss that avoids muscle tissue loss?

Sorry 'typo' . I should have written.. " I generally don't eat between 7.30pm and 9.30ish am

Tanaqui
As somebody who has done 5:2 fasting since 2012, I cannot exist without mugs of tea on fast days, but I count the milk calories towards my limit