Leave well alone, these seem to be some one trying to rip off people starting the “fast diet”. Michael and Mimi have not suggested them as far as I know.
Good Luck.

I agree with the others, it sounds like a gimmick to cash in on the 5:2 diet.

The pills are being advertised as an appetite suppressant using the 5:2 as it’s platform for sales. Best not to waste your money. The zero noodles on the other hand are definitely not new and have been eaten in Japan for many many years, under the name Shiritaki noodles. They are not sold as an appetite suppressant. I don’t want to promote them but I do use them as part of my allowance. Having said that, I do allow myself to feel hunger.

Hi, I’m starting out on the 5:2 diet and I plan to combine it with Konjac-pills*.
BUT NOT ON THE FASTING-DAYS !
I don’t mind hunger (with a good purpose) and my only worry is over-eating the other days .
A bonus could be extra weightloss this way !?

The idea is to cut food-intake further as I got heavy mainly from over-eating at dinners, not from excesssive snacks & sweets !
I’ll exercise hard on a rowing machine ½ hour daily too .

I’ll let You know later how this works out 🙂

*= I got a small water-resistant (!) Travellers pocket-box with this type …

Hi TVD

Please don’t do this – read the other comments on this thread
The whole idea of 5:2 is to eat sensibly whilst cutting back on the 2 days, you will lose weight this way.

There is no need for these products which are starting to be marketed at us – they are just a way for snake oil salesmen to make money from people who want to get healthy.

Just do 5:2, train yourself to eat sensible amounts and the weight will go and you will be able to maintain a more healthy eating habit

Good Luck
Vicki

While there is a use for some types of “fibre pills” to give that “fuller feeling” I wonder why people take them. I agree that sometimes there are medical reasons that they should be taken but ultimately I believe that in a healthy diet they are not needed. Dieting is basically a psychological issue and diet supplements are I believe a psychological prop in many cases. Depending on the type of diet people engage in (but not all) enough fibre is naturally found in foods for bodily requirements. TVD, you say your weight problems are due to over eating, including the wrong types of food. The same can be said of myself and many others. The simple answer is to change. Difficult I know, but reading many of the posters efforts they have achieved this. I do not believe that these supplements are much use if when taking them one carries on eating the same types and amounts of food that make them over weight in the first place. Psychological change can be very difficult I know but ultimately for many it is the way forward. If, having said all of this an individual feels the need to take them then by all means do so but only as an aid medically required.
Good luck to you all.

It doesn’t matter which days you fast, one of the best things about 5:2 is that we can adapt it to suit ourselves.

I agree with the majority of others who have posted, appetite suppressants are not the way to go. Fasting enables us to recognise the difference between food cravings, hunger and thirst, something that most of us cannot do which is why we are all here.
We live in a society where everyone thinks that they need to eat every couple of hours or something terrible will happen and at the first sign of a rumbling tummy we rush to eat something without thinking about whether we are really hungry. The food industry have done an excellent job of convincing us we need a packet of crisps or a couple of biscuits two hours after breakfast, and a cake or a bar of chocolate with our afternoon cuppa. They are now busy counting their profits.

It is important to know what hunger pangs feel like and learn that we can ignore them and they’ll pass.
5:2 isn’t just about losing weight but also enables us to lose bad habits and give ourselves the ability to keep the weight off.