It's weird but stuff that seems to help others don't for me. Or worse it does the complete opposite. Like drinking water to stay full. I tend to get more hungry it seems with that. Odd I know. Sometimes I wonder if it's just me that thinks that. Either way I'll still drink water instead of other things. But one thing that does always work for me. Cooking. If I cook by the time I'm done cooking I'm not hungry anymore and I don't want it. Smell of food and preparing is apparently enough for me. So at least I got that on my side. Maybe I should work in a soup kitchen or restaurant, I would never eat. Added benefit people assume that if you cook you ate some of it even though you didn't!
Mentioning of people thinking you're eating when you're not. I got to figure out safe foods to eat for when I have to sit down at the table with the family. Thankfully that hardly ever happens but when it does I want a plate of safe foods that are low or preferable no calories but that doesn't scream that it is. Other words something besides a plate of salad. Cause my family will pick at me for eating only salad. Any suggestion on things that are low/0 calories but would come off as a "real meal?" I'm a vegetarian so that helps cause they are not. Therefore they are lost on what I can and can't eat. But the problem is they pick at what I eat with things like "you can't just eat only that?!?!"
drinking water ALWAYS makes me hungry, lol. Coffee or caffeinated tea is a natural appetite suppressant for me, starts working about 30 minutes after you have it so you just need to wait a little bit and poof! hunger is gone. Try eggplant for low cal acceptable things to eat. A whole medium eggplant has something like 130 calories. I think things like zucchini and other squashes are also very low cal for the amount of bulk they seem to have
ReplyDeleteYay, I'm not crazy! lol I love my coffee and it's a good suppressant for me as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you! That's what I was needing. Idea that would make it look like a normal meal. Cause eating a lettuce and few pickles makes people think it's a odd meal and start talking about it. Then the questions of "why are you eating that?" start up.