Personal Appetite Supressors
 

So, is there anything that just gets rid of your appetite? Not pills.

Diet Lipton Green Tea works for me for a good minute, especially when I have a craving. And it's zero calories. :carrot:

I just tried Diet Lipton Green Tea with Citrus for the first time yesterday, and it did work as an appetite suppressor for me. BUT it probably only worked because tea makes me gag. I really don't like the taste of tea, but I'm trying it since people say it helps. It probably won't work once I get more accustomed to it and don't have to gag it down anymore. :)

I dig SF Koolaid, or something similar. Any drink that has 0 calories, really.

I also find that Fiber One cottage cheese fills me up REAL quick for only 80 calories, because it has a lot of both fiber and protein.

yeah, I put on a bikini and look in the mirror. I tell myself I can eat whatever I want as long as I eat it, in the suit, while looking in the mirror... haven't done it once!

Good call on the bikini! To answer the question, yep, tea (green or black) or coffee for me. Eating a lot of protein at meals also helps, and eating several small meals (I'm a calorie counter, and being able to eat all the time is great LOL).

This obviously isn't an appetite suppressant but brushing my teeth helps. After my teeth are all minty and clean I don't want to eat or drink anything to mess up that nice feeling. It really works.

Drinking a big glass of water, especially carbonated water (although tap works fine and it's free!) Unless I'm really, actually hungry, it fills me up!

My morning coffee and diet soda.

Also, my nicotine gum works wonders, but I wouldn't recommend that. ;)

HAHAHA!!! That is a FANTASTIC idea... I wonder what my hubby would think of me spending my evenings lounging around in my bikini...? ;)

i rely on sugar free gum, hot tea at night (or cold by the time i get to it!), lots of cold tap water, and when i am having a meal (like the lunch i am having right now, it is home made chili) i make it spicy sometimes... sometimes, if these do not work, i use diet cola but i am trying to get away afrom that because i often find it kills the appetite for a while but when it comes back, it is for sweets instead of healthy food and it is stronger...sooo...

oh, I just remembered another! to keep myself from snacking at work, I put on a coat of really nice lipstick in the morning. I don't like to have to worry about messing up my lipstick, so it discourages me from eating -- and if I do eat, I have to do it slowly and carefully. i know it's silly, but it works.

Lol! Thats awesome! I think I'll have to try this one.

really cold water with lemon helps. practically 0 calories and it satisfies my sweet tooth, to a degree

Coffee with a little skim milk and flavored coffeemate. I find I get hungry (bad hungry, like for sweets and junk food) when I'm tired, so caffeine helps. I also get hungry when I'm dehydrated, so I'm really trying to drink a big glass of room temp. water when I'm feeling munchie. I drank so much water last night, and realized how great I felt. And to think, all this time I was eating... I could have been drinking water. :dizzy:

Depending on my mood, a cup of coffee (hi-test in the AM, decaf in the PM), tea (green/oolong/black or rooibos most herbals don't work for me) S/F jello, boullion, miso soup -- all very low cal and high volume.

Problem is, it takes a bit for the "fullness" to kick in so it's a bad idea for me to allow myself to get too hungry.

I do like the bikini idea -- I'll have to buy one and try it, lol!

I used to have a rule that I could have a small portion of anything I wanted, after I had a big piece of fruit or raw veggies. Problem is, I didn't use to like fruit or raw veggies very much so now that rule doesn't work well for me.

To prevent/combat cravings for sweets, I will grab a couple chewable Vitamin C tabs in the multi-flavor fruit flavors by Spring Valley (found at Walmart, 1 carb, 0 sugar, 35 sodium, no preservatives, etc). Closest thing I'm getting to candy, tastes almost like Sweet Tarts to me. My cravings come at night, so I will only take half my dose of the Vit-C in the morning and save the rest for when/if I need an emergency rescue. It's worked so far since Feb, passing candy and sweets at the store and such doesn't really bug me too badly (I keep a few in my purse in a baggy in case).

another option vs tea is hot apple cider, my skinny husband has some more nights than not.

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Emergen-C gives me a boost & it's only 25 Calories per pkt. It has 1000 Mg. Vitamin C, lots of Antioxidants, Electrolytes plus B Vitamins. It's in the pharmacy section where I shop at WalMart.