First of all, I am not a doctor and the following may or may not be healthy for you. It is simply a listing of techniques I have used to successfully curb hunger while attempting to lose weight. I accept no responsibility for any negative effects the following may have on your health.

The key to losing weight is and always will be consuming less calories than you burn. Therefore you need to calculate what you burn on a daily basis. Do this by looking for a BMR Calculator on Google. BMR stands for Basal Metabolic Rate, and it's how many calories an average person of your age, sex, and size will burn.

Once you know that, you can begin your diet. If you intend on eating five hundred calories less than your BMR daily, you'll lose one pound in one week. You could complicate things with exercise, but let's keep it simple.

The best eating strategy for me is this: skimp all day, pig out at night. The explanation for this is that after you awaken, you have already spent all night without food, thus any small quantity will feel good. Additionally, when you know you have got your huge meal at the end of the day, you've got something to look forward to all day long!

If you eat the massive meal 1st, you'll be depressed once you get hungry later knowing that you have already had the best meal. Additionally, it is hard for me to go to bed hungry, thus eating a huge meal late in the day lets me fall asleep satisfied and happy.

Here is my daily plan.

1.Breakfast 8:00 am - 2 eggs, twelve ozof Diet Coke to help make me feel full without any extra calories. That's about 180 calories. 2.Diet Coke between meals to curb hunger. 3.12:00pm Lunch: something that's about 200 calories, possibly a large glass of milk, or half a sandwich. Now I am up to 380 calories. 4.Mid-afternoon if I really begin to get hungry, I will exercise. Why? Simply because five or ten minutes of strenuous exercise kills the hunger pangs. I suggest split-jumps. Google it. 5.Coffee: I will drink it laced with chocolate protein powder once I workout. This adds another a hundred and fifty calories therefore I'm up to 530. 6.Time for dinner! I invariably eat pizza for dinner! One of those frozen ones from the grocery store. I used to eat Digiorno's, but I have switched to Wegman's brand because it's so delicious. If you have a Wegman's consider yourself lucky. This may be as much as a thousand calories since you saved up all day.

So that's it. My BMR is 2500, so I lose two pounds a week with this method. Modify your calories in keeping with your BMR. Also, consider an alternative to the pizza--anything that can make you feel full. Clearly if you use chicken and veggies, you will be in a position to eat a LOT more food for the same amount of calories. I never feel satisfied with chicken, though, I need the bread to make me feel full.

Two additional quick strategies are: chew gum to keep your mouth occupied when you feel hungry, and snack on sunflower seeds. It takes a while to eat a lot since you've got to get each one out of its shell.