Hunger comes in waves, ignore it and it goes away. Drink hot water with lemon or I stick to tea and water. Keep busy and have a list of things to get on and do.

I have found a mental method that really reduces hunger pangs and appetite too. So for me it is just a feeling of freedom not to be subject to hunger pangs and all other symptoms associated with fasting and being hungry. And I don´t have to suppress the hunger by drinking or the like to cut the hunger. So I have lost 15 kg´s in the last 3 months, doing 5:2, 4:3 and also 3:4. I have still some 10 kg’s to go, so by the end of February or in March, I will have reached my goal.

Someone interested to create a group helping each other?

Well, what you suggest is really like painting on a rusty peace of steele. As soon as you don´t do what you suggest, the hunger comes back. Why? Because You have not addressed the root cause of the hunger and 95% will fail in their attemt to lose weight because of this. Unless you remove the rust before paintiing, it is just a quick fix.
The remedy for this is a few, short meditation sessions and the hunger and ravenous appetite is gone. For good.

I think the bottom line is that, in the beginning, you will have hunger. Your body isn’t used to fasting yet and your past experiences will take it very seriously. Maybe even react fearfully or panicky.

You don’t have to. If you’re curious enough, just pay attention to it and you will see that it doesn’t grow and grow. It just DOESN’T. It comes and it goes.

If you don’t feel like doing that experiment, get busy. Do anything: read an engrossing book, go shopping, clean out a closet, arrange a long walk in a new place with a friend. Just distract yourself.

You’ll get through a day, feel empowered by it and be ready to eat reasonably on your food days. Maybe you’ll even decide to optimize the impact by doing 2 back-to-back days. Maybe you’ll be a person, like me, who finds it easier to really fast and stick to water on Fast Days than to eat small amounts of food.

Experiment. See what works best for you. Don’t set yourself up for disappointment by thinking there’s something “wrong” about the way you’re doing it or it’s “too hard” if you feel hungry. Just be active, drink lots of water, avoid sugar and starchy foods especially when you’re fasting, get lots of sleep and tough it out for a couple weeks and you’ll master it and find it easier and easier. I think you’ll also find very quickly that you feel energized and whole lots better for doing it. I — and I’m all of 5′ tall — actually felt *taller*! I knew that was ridiculous, of course, but the unmistakable invigorating feeling I had was strong and really motivating. Hope that will be the case for everyone else too!

It does get easier with time. Not the best analogy but hunger pangs are like an annoying sibling. You just get used to them and put up with them.

Hi, thought I’d chip in, and add my view to what are already sound ideas above. My ways of addressing hunger include: Always having a bottle of water handy, and sipping – because a lot of hunger is actually thirst; avoiding boredom, because one way of addressing boredom is seeking food or drink; remembering that I first started on 5:2 by doing a 3 day water only fast – any time I think I can’t last till tomorrow, I remember the 3 days and laugh at myself; and obscurely, I often have the Cold Chisel song ‘Little Bit of Daylight’ running through my head. The lyrics are not relevant but the chorus ‘Just Trying To Cover Up A Little Bit of Daylight’ means to me that that’s all we are doing – occupying ourselves. If we find ways that don’t include eating, it makes the time before the next non fasting day go easier. Hope there’s a kernel in there for someone.