Replace creme salad dressing with vinegar based ones, really good and delicious tip. Actually works and salads taste great without all the fat.
Replace mayo with sour cream in tuna/pasta/egg salads, this one is also a good tip as the salads taste different but still good with sour cream. In fact at least for tuna and egg I’m coming to prefer the sour cream version, you can add a splash of vinegar or lemon juice if you find it too bland or even better add celery and dill for taste.
Vegetables should make up 2/3 of your plate. Eat all of them first before starting on the higher-calorie items.
The use it smaller plates leads to smaller potions.
I know this isn’t exactly in-line with the intent of the thread :), but I’ve been trying to pass this info along when I can. The aspartame in diet soft drinks can increase appetite (among other things). It certainly did with me. So can Benadryl. I’m not sure about other antihistamines. I could never figure out why I tended to gain weight and had a raging appetite during the spring pollen season-finally figured out it was the Benadryl.
I came in to say the exact same thing.
Throw away the large dinner plates. It is amazing how this psychologically cuts down on slapping another huge couple of spoon fulls of whatever it is you are eating to simply aesthetically make the plate look nice.
Using smaller plates, eventually you start getting used to smaller portions. Simple easy trick that will perhaps cut your eating habits in almost half, but still eating whatever you want.
Ditto on the smaller plats thing. Also, it can be useful to weigh your portions. To see just how much you’re putting on your plate. I’ve been on a weight loss plan for a year now, and I still weigh my meat portions.
Don’t drink your calories - you can get a whole lot of calories in a hurry and still feel hungry with sugary drinks. Milkshakes are particularly bad for this.
Since this is about losing weight and not cuisine per se, moved Cafe Society --> IMHO.
This is complete BS. NOT true.
Anyway, my tip is to consume large amounts of water throughout the day; at least a gallon a day.
I’m discovering that a snack with fats in it makes me feel full and satiated; a carbohydrate snack makes me want to eat more carbohydrates. Will continue testing and report back. 
Years ago I got a new apt and had no cooking set up. Everymorning I headed to the donut shop and picked up a cinnomon roll and coffee. The sweet breakfast seemed to kill my apetitie and I lost about 40# in 5 or 6 months.
I found exactly the same thing. I’ve now cut out bread and potatoes, and minimised pasta/rice. I find my appetite much more steady instead of the big swings I used to get during the day.
Weigh every single day. Record it. Record every single thing you eat. Even if that’s all you do, it will make you more aware, more likely not to eat junk that you don’t even care about.
Five pounds a year is nothing, it’s an extra 50 calories a day, you won’t even notice you put it on, but a decade later, that’s 50 fucking pounds and you are wondering “When did I go up sizes? I didn’t even notice!”
The “keto” advocates will certainly agree with you. I think it’s very true for me, as well.
Bada bing. People are complete psychos (myself included) when it comes to eating what’s in front of them, no matter how much is in front of them, so do not place a lot in front of you. One will often be sated well before finishing the plate, but will continue eating because it’s there. So I only have small plates in my apt which makes it easy to eat small meals. Also, because I am the “eat it if it’s there” type, I’ve learned to Tupperware what I’ve cooked and put it in the fridge right away. If it’s sitting on the stove just hanging out, I’ll go up to it with a fork and just eat a little bit more, and more, okay let me put one more giant scoop on my plate, oh one more bite, and so on. If I put it away, then I can’t be bothered to bring it back out, heat it up, etc. I’ll only bother with all of that if I’m actually hungry.
Another thing is just don’t buy junk snack food. Period. Again, I have poor impulse control, so if there are Doritos in my home, I am going to eat the shit out of them. I cannot control myself; I will just eat every fucking chip in that bag, and then lick the cheese dust off my fingers after. So I just don’t do it. I have zero junk snacks in my home at all. Doing this has reprogrammed my mind to not even want to eat just because. Eating in my mind is now a process that involves doing a lot of shit, so I don’t even bother unless I actually want to eat.
Yeesh, typing this makes me realize how bad I am at saying no to things I like, so maybe this doesn’t apply to you. But if you’re like me, the short answer is create an environment that eliminates temptation to stuff too much of and/or the wrong things into your face.
Yup. A while ago I gave up soda cold turkey, and a while after that, pretty much everything with sugar in it ended up tasting to sweet to me. Hell, I went to dinner a while back, ordered a pink lemonade, and ended up pouring water into it because the sugar was just too much. Now I don’t drink anything at all except water and skim milk. Oh, and booze. Yes, I know booze is laden with calories, and I try to stay fit(ish), but a girl’s gotta live!
Another one: if you really want cake or a sundae, just eat it for dinner. Don’t eat a healthy dinner, then, when you are no longer hungry, cram cake on top of it. We have this idea that somehow healthy food cancels out unhealthy food, but the most unhealthy thing off all is too much. One meal once every couple weeks without a lot of vitamins and protein is not going to make that much difference in an otherwise healthy way of eating. Eating 500 calories of chicken and rice and veg or whatever + 700 calories of cake is not a healthier choice than just a 700 calorie dinner of cake, and you enjoy the cake less when you aren’t hungry.
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I’ve recently figured out that I snack at home often when I’m thirsty. I lean towards fruit and yogurt. Nothing too bad for me, but it adds up. I’ve taken to keeping lemonade (two liter bottle of water with powder mixed in, 5 calories, 0 carbs per serving) in the fridge. It’s a new experiment, so I can’t report results yet. But I’m confident it’s going to help.
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Don’t buy anything that comes in a box or a bag.
This was simply the very first cite I came across after 10 seconds of searching. If I had more time, I could produce much more exhaustive, comprehensive material.