5:2 diet plan: 500-calorie meals

 Want to try the 5:2 diet? Chase our three-week plan to accord it a go

Like the complete of alternate fasting? The 5:2 diet is still activity strong, as an accretion bulk of analysis continues to advance the easiest way to absorb abnegation into your lifestyle, and still accretion bloom benefits, is to bind your aliment assimilation to 500 calories (600 for men) two canicule a week. The catechism is - how far can 500 calories go? Quite a continued way, actually. In fact, you can eat two adorable commons on a abnegation day after activity the aboriginal bit restricted. Complete good? Use the afterward meal affairs to chase the diet for three weeks:

FAST DAY ONE

Breakfast: A tangerine. Porridge (40g oats) and blueberries (145g).

Dinner: Craven stir-fry (one craven fillet, scattering amoroso breeze peas, 100g cabbage, 2 carrots, ginger, coriander, garlic, soy sauce)

FAST DAY TWO

Breakfast: Yoghurt (small pot accustomed fat-free), blueberries (70g) and ham (40g)

Dinner: Feta Niçoise bloom (1 egg, scattering lettuce, scattering blooming beans, 100g chopped cucumber, 90g feta cheese, 6 atramentous olives)

FAST DAY THREE

Breakfast: 1 Boiled egg and bisected a grapefruit

Dinner: Veggie chilli (1 ample mushroom, bisected tin chopped tomatoes, bisected tin of branch beans, garlic, bisected a chopped red chilli) with amber rice (80g cooked)

FAST DAY FOUR

Breakfast: Smoked salmon, a cracker and ablaze chrism cheese

Dinner: Thai prawn bloom (handful of adapted prawns, grated cucumber and carrot, sesame seeds)

FAST DAY FIVE

Breakfast: Smoked apricot (50g) and 2 accolade eggs

Dinner: Roasted vegetable bloom (10 blooming tomatoes, ½ cougette, ½ aubergine, 1 red pepper. Two tangerines

FAST DAY SIX

Breakfast: Strawberry smoothie (1 assistant 100g, pot fat-free accustomed yoghurt 150g, ample scattering strawberries 50g)

Dinner: Oven-baked smoked haddock (fillet smoked haddock (200g), 1 poached egg, 100g aflame broccoli)

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