Anyone watching Doctor in the House?

[ImperialBlether]

Frightening stuff!

BBC 1 tonight 9 - 10 pm.

Yeah, what activity monitor is she wearing?

Not the 1950s medical comedy then?

Nobody?

He's giving them a 10 hour window for eating. He says they can eat:

meat
fish
eggs
nuts

5 different vegetables per day

Anything I've forgotten?

Ha, no! A doctor is spending a month with a family to sort out their (fairly common) health problems.

It is quite terrifying. Dr is getting a bit pissed off with them now.

They are just ignoring him

It is annoying but they must have been told to look like they're not following the rules at first. Then they will see the light and there will be some success at the end.

Actually, it'd be better TV if they continued to ignore the rules and ended up bigger/unhealthier at the end

None of this is new though.

I'm a few minutes behind - are they really ignoring him?

Oh okay, watching them eat the sausages.

I don't think the bread in the sausages will give him diabetes, it's more likely the fat in the sausages that'll harm him.

Did anyone hear at the beginning what they could eat?

My tv book said that there is a similar programme on channel 4 this week too.

What type of diabetes didnhe have that he cant eat a sausage?

How come she's not losing weight with such a strict diet?

No, for type 2 diabetes, he should be avoiding refined carbs so they should be buying sausages with a very high percentage of meat. The fat's not really the problem.

I thought fasting was a no-no for diabetics?

Ah, just said following GPs advice.

But, then we shouldn't be eating sausages or red meat anyway as we'll get bowel cancer.

The sausages he was eating only had 40% meat - the rest was rusks and bread and crap.

The 5:2 diet was designed by Michael Moseley for precisely this issue. His dad had type 2 and MM is one of those fat on the inside, thin on the outside people.

Dad is not going to stick to this once the Dr has finished visiting. Very extreme restrictions to the diet.

It's funny that I never think of a 24 hour as 7 pm to 7 pm. I would have thought it was the full day not eating at all.

It's hard doing the 24 hour fast when, when you come off it, you're so restricted, isn't it?

The 5:2 diet doesn't restrict in that way, does it?

You can tell he's lost weight.

Has the mum lost weight?

OK, I was wrong - well done them!

You can really tell he's lost weight. Less so with her, but she did really well, too.

I didn't see what the daughter did to stop getting colds. Did anyone see that bit?