The 5:2 Diet: 50 foods with 50 calories or less to help you lose weight

Diet author Kate Harrison offers some tricks and snacks for the two fasting days with low calorie foods to keep you going
However well you plan your diet, there are moments when the munchies hit and you feel like you need something RIGHT NOW!
Kate Harrison, author of the revolutionary 5:2 Diet, where you eat 500 calories a day for two days a week and eat what you like on the rest, has a few tips.
She says: "I've found the trick is to plan ahead and have something sweet or savoury handy to satisfy any craving and keep you on track.
"I love home-popped popcorn done in a pan with chilli powder, or a handful of olives from a jar.
"Or an Options Hot Chocolate drink satisfies any sweet longings at under 40 calories, too, maybe with a shot of instant coffee in it to make a home-made mocha."
Here are 50 foods containing just 50 calories or less to keep those hunger pangs at bay on your Fast Days.

1. 2tbsp houmous and 2 slices of red pepper, 50 calories
2. 12 strawberries, 48 calories
3. 6 dill pickles, 48 calories
4. ½ grapefruit, 39 calories
5. 1 cup of air-popped butter-free popcorn, 31 calories
6. ¼ cantaloupe melon, 48 calories
7. 2 egg white omelette, 34 calories
8. 10 pitted green olives, 42 calories
9. 10 grapes, 35 calories
10. 1 small pack raisins, 42 calories
11. 1 kiwi fruit, 47 calories
12. 1 rice cake with 1tbsp sugar-free jam, 45 calories
13. 8oz Miso soup, 36 calories
14. 1oz smoked salmon (about one slice) on two wheat crackers, 48 calories
15. 7 carrot sticks with 1tbsp low-fat ranch dressing, 45 calories
16. 1 slice fresh pineapple, 45 calories
17. 1 small green apple, 50 calories
18. 10 cherries, 42 calories
19. 7 celery stalks, 45 calories
20. 1 slice of chicken breast, 27 calories
21. 1 McDonald's Chicken McNugget, 46 calories
22. 16 cherry tomatoes, 49 calories
23. 1 Light Babybel cheese, 40 calories
24. A small scoop of soft-scoop vanilla ice cream, 50 calories
25. Options Belgian Chocolate Hot Chocolate drink, 40 calories
26. 1 Jaffa Cake, 46 calories
27. 10 spears of asparagus, 50 calories
28. 50g canned sweetcorn, 50 calories
29. 50g cooked prawns, 40 calories
30. 1 small tangerine, 37 calories
31. 1 oatcake with 2tsp Philadephia Light, 50 calories
32. 1 sugar-free jelly, 15 calories
33. 1 slice of Asda Cheese Singles Light, 38 calories
34. 50 blueberries, 39 calories
35. 1 Quorn banger, 50 calories
36. ¼ tin Heinz Baked Beans, 49 cals
37. ½ slice of brown bread, 37 calories
38. 8 dry roasted peanuts, 43 calories
39. 2 marshmallows, 46 calories
40. 1 slice of ham, 46 calories
41. 1 Refreshers Ice Lolly, 47 calories
42. 1 small peach, 38 calories
43. 1 Cadbury Chocolate Finger, 31 calories
44. 1 brazil nut, 32 calories
45. 2 crab sticks, 44 calories
46. 1oz fat-free cottage cheese on 1 slice Finn Crisp Crispbread, 38 calories
47. 1 Mars Celebration, 45 calories
48. 1 square of dark chocolate, 27 calories
49. 40 sugarsnap peas, 44 calories
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