Super expert and celebrity trainer, Shannan Ponton expels the myths of intermittent fasting on Channel 10’s ‘Studio 10’!
The 2-Day Method (also referred to as the 5:2 or 5-and-2 diet)
Shannan Ponton explains, “There are a growing mass of studies that support I.F. (intermittent fasting). Which, exactly as the name says, is a short period of calorie restriction. Now, I’m as sceptical as anybody else about studies and believe you can just about find a study to prove or disapprove anything. But it’s the philosophy and theory behind intermittent fasting that I find so exciting, and that’s why the 5-and-2 diet, I believe, is going to takes things to the next level.”
“Here you are getting a lot of bang for your buck for 500 calories. No one is ever, EVER going to starve on this – you could eat this just about forever … So, with phase one, you align your 500 calorie days on non-consecutive days, for example Tuesday and Thursday … Once you get control of that you go to phase two. Phase two you align your 500 calorie days consecutively, so you might go Wednesday, Thursday.”
And how long before we see results?
“Straight away,” Shannan explains. “It’s one of those things that in this society we want instant gratification and instant reward, and coming off that fasting day is one of the most rewarding things I’ve done. I’ve always felt fantastic.”