Author of a 5:2 diet recipe book now says the concept is too difficult

She is a best-selling diet book author known as one of the pioneers of the 5:2 programme.

But now Jacqueline Whitehart has turned against the so-called Fast Diet as she says she finds it too difficult to follow now she is in her 40s.

The 42-year-old mother-of-three has now created a new weight loss scheme called the Metabolic Fast-loss plan, which claims to help you lose a stone in just one month.

Jacqueline, who has lost a stone since starting her own weight loss journey four years ago, told FEMAIL Food & Drink: 'I find the 5:2 diet to difficult to fit into my lifestyle these days.

'I find myself really lacking in energy on fasting days and get really ‘hangry’.

'I developed The Metabolic Fat-loss Plan as the perfect diet for me and will be following it along with everyone else and reporting on my progress.'

Jacqueline, who penned the best-selling 5:2 Diet Recipe Book, says slimmers only need to follow her new Metabolic Fat-loss Plan for 28 days to start seeing results.

She says it's a much more 'realistic and doable' diet to follow than 5:2.

The 5:2 diet is where slimmers eat a normal number of calories for five days and then only 500 or 600 calories on two fast days depending on if you are a man or a woman.

On the Metabolic Fat-loss Plan, Jacqueline says the focus is instead of eating the 'right foods' every day.

Dieters follow four phases which change every four days, which Jacqueline says 'shocks your metabolism into burning fat more efficiently'.

There is no calorie counting and no fasting on the Metabolic Fat-loss Plan.

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