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allthegirls6 said:
greenie,

maybe you should fill yourself up on fruit and vegetables. They are not fattening and will stop the hunger pangs. Its not a diet you should be thinking about, healthy eating will get you there in the end

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AGH! No, filling up on any one sort of food will not bring about weight loss. In fact, by depriving your body of the nutrition it needs, that's likely to lead to increased hunger, increased risk of binging, cravings, and weight gain.

Your body needs all sorts of foods. You need fat as much as you need protein. Trying to fill up on vegetables will not reduce your body's need for proper nutrition.

Eating three meals and two to three snacks per day, not going more than 2.5 to 3 hours without eating, never allowing yourself to get too hungry, and eating a balanced diet -- those are the things that will help. Eating a minimum of 1200 calories per day, that will help.

GL, there is a scale of hunger that a lot of dietitians use: 1 is weak and shaking from hunger, 5 is neutral, and 10 is too stuffed to move, and feeling sick. The goal is to stay between 3 and about 6. You will inevitably get to 7 now and again, but the goal is still to stay around 3 to 6. 3 is "strong urge to eat, but could wait a bit." That means that when you think to yourself, "oh, I can wait another hour or two before I eat, that would be better for my diet" -- you ignore that voice, and you eat. Have a glass of milk -- low or non fat -- or a piece of fruit, or both. Then, when the next meal comes around, have a mix of fruit, vegetable, protein, and carbohydrate, with some fat, too. Maybe a sandwich and a salad, with an apple. That would be a good meal. Then a couple of hours later, when you're hungry again, have another snack. Maybe some nuts, or some milk, or something like that.

Good luck.