How exactly do you reduce your appetite? (smoothie, mayo, carb)

[Lodestar]

Eat a big, sour, deli-style pickle when you have a craving for something sweet.


Do it slowly with appreciation and savor the spices, the sourness and the saltiness. Works for me every time.

[Sarahsez]

Pretty much what everyone else has said.

I know the South Beach diet is an older diet. It's helped me. It's a lower carb, higher protein diet that starts you out with lower glycemic carbs and a lot of protein. You don't feel hungry eating it. Basically, you cut the higher glycemic or sweeter foods out. After a couple of weeks you don't crave them as much. You're not hungry t any time. You start eating less because the foods you are eating are more nutritiously filling. This isn't the only diet like this. There are some similar diets that eliminate the white foods like sugar, flour, pasta, bread, etc. Eventually, you stop thinking of it as a diet because it becomes you're regular way of eating.

[luzianne]

Stay away from carbs. They make you want to eat more and more and more and more and more.


And I saw someone on some thread mention intermittent fasting. That is what I have been doing pretty much my whole life, before it was a "thing." I do better when I limit my calories to a window of time during the day. I used to only eat dinner.


I have gained some weight and just starting today, in fact, to get rid of the extra pounds. I am using my Fitbit and planning a 500 calorie deficit per day. It tracks the food I enter plus my activity and calculates on how many more calories I can eat on any given day. I try to save most of my calories for dinner, because I know if I don't feel satisfied at dinner I will be more likely to want more and end up overeating.

[nALgirl]

My latest diet--ruptured appendix with emergency surgery..I've lost at least 10 pounds. As my appetite returns I am eating smaller portions. For some reason I no longer have a sweet tooth.

[jaminhealth]

Eat healthier fats, coconut oil is great. I'm never feeling hungry.

Some one mentioned ice cold water. I totally disagree, room temp water is best and add fresh lemon to about everything. Ice water keeps things frozen up inside us.

[otterhere]

This is what I want to know. If I ate everything I wanted, you'd see me on "My 600-pound Life."

[Nanny Goat]

Stop eating sugar & you won't crave it any longer. When I cut down drastically on sugar, all of my sugar cravings dropped. So obvious and it worked.

[Unsettomati]

Eat.

Just eat food that's good for you. Vegetables, fruit. Carrots and apples may not be the most exciting fare, but they will alleviate your hunger for a time.

[runswithscissors]

Get rid of white fake foods: flour, sugar especially.

DO NOT eat fake foods like "low fat". Your body needs healthy fats like olive or coconut oil. Even butter. NOT FAKE BUTTERS. Low fat foods are a scam because they make up for lacking fats by using more carbs. NOT healthy anyway. You can add some peanut butter but not a CUP of it at will! LOL

Eat a TON of veggies. Raw, steamed or saute.

Eat enough animal proteins.

Eat some fruit but not like, a constant sugar rush of them like 10 peaches just because of the taste.

Don't eat pounds of potatoes just because they sound like a veggie LOL. Maybe a sweet potato or so. LOW starch. Omit rice, too, while you're at it.

NO OJ or other juices- it's what diabetics drink to get their sugar UP.

Eat animal protein like an egg every time you eat something like a carb. Together.

It's impossible to be hungry eating alot of veggies. You may be bored and crave carbs and sugar but that's not hunger. If you're bored you can add a TBS or so of peanut butter to your celery or some home made italian dressing to your vegs.

[kitty61]

Originally Posted by Futurist110

Indeed, any thoughts on this?

A few minutes ago I read that one should drink a warm beverage like tea before sitting down to eat.