The 5:2 Diet vs. Daniel Fast: Toughing Out The First 10 Days

By David Bale

What is The 5:2 Diet?

The thing most people want to know is what this diet is all about. It’s simple, and most generalize it in the following, truncated way. Two non-consecutive days are required to fast. Fasting consists of eating very little, about 600 calories (500 for women) and that’s it. The goal is to eat highly nutritional foods, however, and not just 2 candy bars and call it a day. The other 5 days, you can eat a healthy diet. This is not fasting in the traditional sense, and you have to plan out 2 of your 7 days per week.

 

What is The Daniel Fast?

There are two references to fasting in the book of Daniel, and that is what the Daniel Fast focuses on for guidelines. In the first reference, Daniel 1, Daniel and his friends drank only water and ate only vegetables for ten days. At the end of their ten days, they appeared healthier than their peers who ate the rich food from the royal table. Then again in Daniel 10, Daniel undergoes another fast and abstains from meat, and wine (peasant food) for a period of twenty-one days

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Bale
• Release date: Apr 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781498987660

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The 5:2 Diet vs. Daniel Fast: Toughing Out The First 10 Days

David Bale

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Copyright © 2014 by David Bale

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Table of Contents

What is The 5:2 Diet?

Relatively New

New Icons in Fitness

The Diet At A Glance

A Balancing Act

The Hourglass of 36 hours not 24

The Prohibited Food List

The Good Food

The Benefits

Benefits of the 5:2 Diet Demystified

The Caveat (To Get Real Results)

Exercise is a MUST

DIETING is still necessary!

Tips For Success In The First 10 Days

5 Steps To Making the 5:2 Plan Work For You

Step 1: Set Realistic Goals

Step 2: Set Up A Plan of Action

Step 3: Assess Your Cupboards

Step 4: Go Shopping!

Step 5: Positive Thinking and Action

Things To Avoid In The First 10 Days

5 Things To Avoid In The First 10 Days

Social Media

Going Out To Dinner

Soda, Juice, Sugary Water

Alcohol

Bread, Carbs, Cheese

The Cons of It All

The Dirty Work of Fasting

Diabetics, Celiac Disease, Hypoglycemia and Others

The Hidden Role of Exercise

The Conclusion

What is the Daniel Fast Diet?

General Information

How was the Daniel Fast Introduced and Popularized?

Main features

Allowed foods

Prohibited foods

Benefits of the Daniel Fast Diet

Lifestyle Changes

Tips for Success in the Ten (or Twenty-One) Days on the Daniel Fast Diet

Things to Avoid in the Ten (or Twenty-One) Days on the Daniel Fast Diet

Cons of the Daniel Fast Diet

The Conclusion

Alternative Diets

Paleo Diet

5:2 Diet

Daniel Fast

Shred Diet

Low Carb Diet

Ketogenic Diet

Wheat Belly Diet

Dukan Diet

What is The 5:2 Diet?

There are a lot of different plans that you can subscribe to in regards to health and fitness. Just one quick search online and you can find a great deal of different options in terms of diet and exercise. One of the more popular options that seems to be getting a lot of attention, amidst health and wellness circles is that of the 5:2 diet.

This plan of action has some strong publicity right and results do in fact manifest. However, many people don’t even know what this is about or how one can jump into it. It’s that very topic that we are going to explore in the following pages.

The following will inform you on what the plan is, how it can help, what you can eat, can’t eat, and some pros and cons that may be beneficial to weigh out before adhering to the rules.

Relatively New

The 5:2 diet was made famous thanks to the broadcast of a television program in the UK. The BBC released a documentary under the title Eat, Fast and Live Longer in the summer of 2012 and from that point forward, the surge of influence that has been attributed to this plan has been immense.

It outlines a very interesting take on dieting, mainly to allow people to eat lower quantities of food throughout the week, specifically 2 days and eat a normal diet for 5 subsequent days.

In brief, it allows men to have 600 calories on days of fasting, and women to eat only 500 calories on these days as well. In order to hit such a short limit, one would have to seriously scale back portion, sugar, and all other food items.

New Icons in Fitness

Thanks to the program and the weight of the UK National Health Service, two new icons in health seemed to emerge as a result of this somewhat