Shed those Christmas pounds with Dr Michael Mosley’s fast diet and our EXCLUSIVE diet planner 

The Fast 800 Keto diet by Dr Michael Mosley and Dr Clare Bailey incorporates the health-giving principles of combining a low-carb, Keto Mediterranean diet with intermittent fasting.

The brilliant science behind the diet is that it puts your body into a state of ‘ketosis’ – causing it to convert compounds from your fat stores to be used up as fuel.

This doesn’t just have the effect of making you lose weight very quickly, but also promotes the production of hunger-suppressing hormones, so you’ll naturally eat less anyway.

To achieve this state of ketosis, you’ll have to focus on cutting out sugars and carbs. That means saying farewell to potatoes and rice and piling your plate high with luscious greens and leafy veg instead.

One of the best things about this brilliant new diet is you don’t have to sacrifice flavour. A Mediterranean-style cuisine is perfectly suited to Keto – and it tastes delicious as well.

 To achieve this state of ketosis, you’ll have to focus on cutting out sugars and carbs

Combined with the well-documented benefits of fasting, our new diet is a fast, effective and healthy way to lose weight.

This new programme not only puts you into ketosis faster than a normal keto diet, but is also, I believe, healthier and more sustainable. On the rapid weight-loss phase of the plan (stage one) you can expect to lose as much as 2kg a week (that’s a stone in under four weeks!), and you can stay on the plan for 2-12 weeks, depending on how much you want to lose. But you also have the option of moving to stage two which means picking anything from two to five consecutive days a week to ‘fast’ like you do in stage one, but easing into a lowish-carb Mediterranean-style diet on the other days (without having to count calories). We have found this works really well if you ‘fast’ Monday to Friday, then enjoy a more relaxed approach over the weekend, snapping back into ketosis each Monday morning.

Our brilliant diet planner on The Mail+ will ensure you’re following the programme that’s best suited to your body and its goals.

Combined with the well-documented benefits of fasting, our new diet is a fast, effective and healthy way to lose weight

Dr Michael Mosley has combined the best elements of both his Fast 800 and 5:2 diets to turbo-charge your weight loss. In his wife Dr Clare Bailey’s new book he reveals all (pictured together) 

Simply answer the questionnaire and you’ll be presented with our recommended stage. Or, if you like the look of a different one, you’re free to choose that instead.

Every day you’ll receive personalised recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, all designed to keep you on track on both fast and feast days.

And each day you’ll also receive a brilliant tip to fast-track your dieting potential and keep you going when you need that extra bit of encouragement.

With this flexible plan – and these brilliant digital tools at your disposal – we really have made dieting easy.

If you want to improve your health and shift a substantial amount of weight, fast – and keep that weight off long-term – this is our most effective programme yet.