“The 5-2 Diet and the Fasting- Mimicking Diet Put to the Test” What about instead of eating every other day you ate five days a week and fasted the other two? The available data is similar to that of alternate-day fasting. About a dozen pounds of weight loss was reported in overweight men and women over 6 months with no difference found between those on the 5:2 intermittent fasting regimen and those on a continuous 500-calories-a-day…