You know what has helped me lately - I had a box of candy sitting on the microwave. Not my absolute favorite, but something tasty. And whenever I’d start thinking about having some, I’d stop and notice my emotions. Just experience what I’m experiencing.
It’s been fascinating.
For some reason, this reminded me of a quote from Airplane, “Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up methamphetamine.” I have no idea why. But I’m guessing meth would also be an appetite suprressant, though slightly more dangerous than cigarettes. Just slightly.
I’ve found a high fiber cereal helps me. I’ve been told I need 30 grams of fiber a day, and I can get almost half of that in one serving of Fiber One Honey Clusters cereal.
Reducing simple sugars and increasing whole grains and veggies helps, as does caffeine and small meals. Along the lines of the Fiber One cereal, I make steel cut oats or 12-grain hot cereal in the morning. I’ll also add protein powder to this (the kind without sugar). It lasts me until a late lunch.
What is the purpose of appetitive suppression? If you’re looking to lose weight, then it won’t work.
In fact, you need to go the opposite route and eat more OFTEN but less amounts.
Doctors agree that eating more frequent, smaller meals through out the day (with exercise) is the best way to lose weight/maintain a healthy weight. It revs up your metabolism.
Trying to force yourself to not eat will only make you hungrier/slow down your metabolism, which si probably why you are now seeking appetite suppressants. Again, this is not the way to create a healthy diet that you can maintain for the rest of your life. It’s a temporary measure that won’t help you out in the long run.
Herbal ephedra products are no longer sold. Pure pharmaceutical ephedrine is still available (in most states) OTC and on the net. Try looking for the brand Bronkaid.
The pure stuff is better and safer anyway, since you are getting an accurate dosage. The herbal stuff was unpredictable.
Maybe it doesn’t work for you. It works wonderfully for me, and many other people.
Except if after those small meals you are still raving mad with hunger, it’s hard to stop eating.
That’s fine. As long as you keep each “meal” small and healthy, there is nothing wrong with it.
You’re hungry when you wake up, so have some filling fiber, maybe the occasional egg or two and some veggies.
Hungry again in a couple of hours? Have an apple and a pear. Again feeling the pangs? Get yourself some granola bar goodness. Still craving something later on? Have a light lunch.
We have been programmed into thinking that eating often is bad and that eating three meals a day is healthy, when the reality is that eating more frequently (as long as it’s not unhealthy food like burgers every couple of hours) is the best way to go for your weight, your metabolism, and your long term health.
Yes, using appetite suppressants and starving yourself will work (IF you stick to it) in losing weight in the short term, but not in the long term, and regardless it’s usually not healthy. If you want to be healthy and keep a healthy weight, look into changing your eating behavior in a manageable, healthy way.
Popping appetite supressents is not that.
The people that tend to be the most successful at keeping a healthy, fit body and a healthy manageable diet are those who eat more often. These people seldom “think” about food. They just feel the hunger and have something light and healthy. The people on appetite supressants tend to do the opposite. They’re stuck thinking about food all the time and wondering about their next meal this tends to translate into over eating, as well as unhealthy eating.
It’s funny that a few people have suggested black coffee, because a mug of coffee gets my tummy rumbling! Even if I have oatmeal or another filling breakfast. Apples make me hungry, too.
Diet soda fills me up, I assume because of the carbonation.
Yeah, that’s the warmth, I think. It takes about 20 - 30 minutes for the caffeine to kick in.
I eat the fiber one bars for breakfast for just that reason.
Me, too. One of those bars eaten at 6:30 alongside a banana will easily last me until 11:30. If I happen to eat a fiber-y snack around 10 (such as the carrots & celery like I had today), I feel incredibly full well into the early afternoon.
No, not really.
There are no relatively safe, effective prescription ones either.
I find I am much less hungry when I cut down drastically on carbs (bread, rice, pasta). It’s those that seem to create the shaky hunger “eat now god damn it” stuff.
This is true for me, too. I try to get pretty much all of my carbohydrates from fruits or vegetables (including beans) rather than from grains. Grains and potatoes are things I just don’t seem to be as able to eat in moderation, and I seem to get hungry much faster when a meal includes pasta, rice, or potatoes. Very small quantities of dense, whole grain bread is a little better.
The Internet seems to have taken one study published in February with scant details and run amok with it. It takes only a very very tiny amount of artificial sweetener to sweeten yogurt compared to sugar; it’s tough to normalize within these parameters.
Also, I noticed that the study used glucose as a sweetening agent, which isn’t really that sweet–the resulting yogurt definitely would’ve had different levels of sweetness.
And, in the end, the rats ate more calories for some unexplained reason, which caused the weight gain. Excess calories in equals weight gained, period. One may infer that artificial sweeteners make one more hungry, but if Special K actually helps quell hunger, then the results of that study isn’t applicable, period, because then you’d be eating fewer calories.
IMO the best explanation for the study is that the rats were conditioned to a certain blood sugar high with the glucose-sweetened yogurt, and had to eat more of the carb-deficient yogurt to get the same response.
When my lunch was an energy bar, yogurt, and fruit, I noticed that eating a few slices of apple kept me full hours longer than any other type of fruit. Plus, they’re a nice tooth-scrubbing way to end a meal.
Wrong. Here’s an article about a different study, a year earlier, that came to the same conclusion without rats, and it references even earlier studies that reached the same conclusion.
Over the counter decongestant that contains pseudoephidrine is an appetite suppressant, it is the ingredient that used to be in dexetrim. You have to get it from behind the pharmacy now so if you want more than for a few weeks you might need help from some friends.
It really works for me to take it for the first week of trying to eat more healthy. Having no appetite helps me break the habit of snacking from stress or just because I’m not paying attention.
And really, people lose weight because they eat less calories than their bodies need to maintain their weight which for some people means almost constant hunger even with a high fiber diet and frequent small meals.