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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 2304804" data-attributes="member: 196898">From what I can see from his book reviews he has based it on the Newcastle Diet, and uses Extante meal replacement sachets (3 per day) at an introductory discounted cost of £51.  Certainly for week 1, but it seems that for the TV show he did allow a LC diet based on protein and veg as an alternative, but still 800 kcal VLCD.  Note that this is very low fat so muscle loss during  ketosis is a probability.   Week 2 the diet changed to 5:2 where 5 days was the 800 kcal meals, then 2 days of a low carb low calorie low fat Mediterranean style diet.  This second week introduced Resistance Training and aerobic exercises to replace the lost muscle.Week 3 was using the Mediterranean diet from stage 2 and introduced some support issues, but did not seem to change the regime from Stage 2.  Apparently this Mediterranean diet and exercise schedule is intended to be the maintenance phase and is the sustainability bit.So it does not seem to be LCHF as we know it, and I think this reliance on low calorie low carb  with low fat diet is doomed to failure except as a pure crash diet.  I cannot do resistance training as was prescribed for a start.I cannot view the actual program on my 'pooter it seems, But I wonder if the programe intro made it clear that the diet is not suitable for a whole class of people eg diabetic on medication, insulin users, people with commodities.  People with history of eating disorders, thin people with BMI less than 30.  These are all in the small print on the CH4 website for the program but I wonder if it was made plain to people watching on SKY etc since a lot of the criticism I saw in the press was that it does not.Here is a review of the program by a weight loss organization (beware it does have a self interest sell at the end)<a href="https://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/diet/reviews/lose-a-stone-21-days-channel-4-michael-mosley.htm" target="_blank">https://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/diet/reviews/lose-a-stone-21-days-channel-4-michael-mosley.htm</a>Finally, the TV show only had a very small band of victims and so they had the incentive of getting it right for TV behind them along with personal intervention from the crew.  As a diabetic, I have my bgl meter behind me, but Joe Public is on their own,  But it sells books, so who cares?</blockquote>

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