Can't stand being hungry - good appetite suppressants?

I'm trying really hard to cut back on my portion sizes, but I'm always hungry! I really hate that feeling. Is there a good appetite suppressant out there now that PPA is gone? I do moderate exercise 3-4 days a week, but I eat too much, so I need something to help me out while I get used to eating less.

Thanks!

The way he wrote it, it sounded like he was eating something boring so as to make the idea of it disgusting.

Water and fruit sound fine.They sound refreshing and filling.

I just got the impression from his descriptions that the idea was bore yourself into not liking food.

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caffeine works for me. A cup of coffee or a diet coke... Some herbal teas have an appetite suppressing quality.

The water idea never did much for me. Works for others though.

The biggest tip is to try cutting back on carbs. A good dose of carbs makes many people (including me) ravenously hungry later on.

Try eating whole unprocessed foods. Eat a can of tuna, as is, and I bet by the end you won't be hungry for more. Eat whole fruits. Eat an entire box of frozen spinach microwaved, bet you won't want more afterwards.

Versus drinking a glass of orange juice instead of a whole orange (with its fiber). VERY hungry later. Eating a tasty mayo-tuna sandwich with bread - become very hungry for more of the same later, versus just the can of tuna.

This isn't average American eating, but it works...

Are you trying to eat for nutrition or make yourself hate food?

It sounds like you are trying to convince yourself that food is a bad thing and should not be eaten.

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Increase dense proteins, and healthy fats such as olive oil.
Refined sugars and flours are ingredients which can trigger or perpetuate cravings. The "cleaner" my diet is, the less hungry I become, and the less I crave.

Some of my favorite craving reducing meals are:

a tin of wild salmon, field greens, and a dressing of real olive oil and vinegar. The meal comes to a total of 500 calories, but fills me up more than the 2000 calorie pigouts I used to have.

Chicken, broccoli, clean mustard, a tablespoon (120 calories worth)
of olive oil. Sometimes a piece of fruit or two.

I praise olive oil because it is a "good fat", and because it is a fat takes a long time to digest, thus, I feel sated longer.

Food items and ingredients I avoid like the plague: refined sugar, potato chips, foods with additives and dyes, refined flour.
The "food industry" has bastardized and destroyed perfectly good, and legitimate food by making it something unrecognizable to nature, and highly addictive. See Ignoramus's post on addiction and capitalism. He has said in his post some of the same things I've been posting about for a while now.

I've found drinking grapefruit juice (8oz) before a meal is reducing my appetite. I drink 24 oz's a day. Another way to reduce appetite is to reduce the variety of foods you eat. Finally, eating 30 grams of fiber daily may help reduce your appetite.