Michael Mosley's 'fast' weight loss tips for breakfast that make you 'feel full longer'

21.02.2022 - 12:57 / dailyrecord.co.uk

For Michael Mosley, fast weight loss involves eating eggs for breakfast to help shed the pounds.

The diet guru is the creator of the 5:2 diet which advocates for intermittent fasting, so when you eat just 800 calories a day like the former doctor recommends, the food you eat is even more important.

Michael went on to BBC Breakfast back in 2019 to share how a healthy breakfast with eggs can help dieters.

It turns out the presenter has changed his mind about the best way to lose weight fast between creating the 5:2 diet in 2012 and then the Fast 800 diet in 2018, The Express reported.

BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker introduced: "The man who popularised the 5:2 diet is back with a new regime which, the claim is, is more manageable.

"Rather than cutting to 500 calories twice a week, Michael Mosley is now recommending 800 calories every day.

"Michael is here to explain - is this the next stage of the 5:2? How have you arrived at why - is it science that’s telling you 800 calories?”

Michael replied: "Yes, it's evolution if you like.

"I wrote the original book six years ago and that was mainly based on rat studies, and since then there have been quite a few human studies, and a lot of people have reported to me, and I’ve also spoken to the scientists involved in doing that research, and one clear thing is mainly people did well on it but struggled to eat 500-600 calories.

"When you look at what they ate, it was more like 800 calories.

"This is a staged process - the first stage being rapid weight loss, on 800 calories a day.

"You do the diet two to three weeks minimum, and some people continue to do it up to 12 weeks."

The diet expert discussed the science behind the weight loss plan and said: "A study based in the north of