Appetite Suppressants for severe cravings

I don't mind having chocolate in my diet, when I only had the periods once a month my diet was working great! I managed to eat healthy 3 weeks of the month and just treat myself that week when I had the cravings.

I've gone onto gluten free too so buy gluten free brownies as my treat instead of regular ones as I find wheat caused me loads of water retention so eliminated that from my diet.

I don't usually like more 300cals max for breakfast or lunch so if a bar of choc is nearly 200 then that is my breakfast or lunch.

My main meals is 600 max but preferably 400-500 and I go on exercise pedals for an hour which burns about 660 if I think I might have had too many calories that day so I'm left with about 1000-1200 which is what MFP set me at.

The cravings are severe at moment daily and for most of the day!

I wonder if its cos I barely eat carbs I rarely have potatoes, rice or pasta in my diet or even bread sometimes I allow gluten free bread 1-2 times a week when I was doing well with my diet. Recently as I was losing nothing extra each month I'm down to fruit, carrots sticks or a slimfast for breakfast and lunch and small portion of lean white meat or fish with half a plate of side salad (load of lettuce, one small tomato, bit of raw onion and some grated carrot) sometimes I reduce calories further in main meal by replacing meat with Quorn.

If I manage to burn 1,000 cals in exercise I might allow extra carbs like butternut squash with salad or sweet potato chips (1small sweet potato cut into chips and baked in the oven, no additional fat) or a gluten free fishfinger sandwich for lunch (2 slices of lowest cal gluten free bread and 3 fishfingers with a gluten free coating, lettuce and tomato in sandwich too and tiny bit of mayo).

Drinks I allow a cup of tea first thing, lunch and bed time and water rest of the day.

I've been looking up online and it mentions a shortage of serotonin causes carb cravings as the serotonin levels going up are a result of having eaten carbs or something so I've bought some serotonin capsules to higher my levels without having to eat carbs to get levels higher so hopefully that should work? (if levels are high enough brain won't trigger the cravings to make more?)

I suspect I'm starting peri-menopause even highering my Thyroid meds all week hasn't resulted in big drop whereas when my friends was too high she dropped 10lbs (I admit I was hoping for same result!) she's only on 125mcg I've been taking 400mcg plus T3 plus some capsules that encourage body to convert more T4 into T3 to raise metabolism so can't understand why it hasn't worked??? ... must be cos of hormones and menopause?? I'm 43.

Thanks I'll check out the L-glutamine and PgX.

I do like some dark chocolate but its hard to get around here from local shops. I used to love those Fry's chocolate cream bars with orange inside and Asda did a nice one at xmas with brandy in middle (not very slimming i know.. lol) but they are only dark chocolate I've ever had.

Any plain dark choc bars that aren't too bitter? If the cravings are sweet I'm not gonna want dark bitter chocolate?

Only pickles I've ever had are pickled onions I've never had pickled gherkins in my life! I'm not even sure what a gherkin is!

I've ordered the Serotonin now so I might as well give that a try. I found it mentioned in an article about why women crave chocolate every month! I'll see if I can find it again tomorrow (It's 10pm here and I'm off to bed)