CHIPS! ICE CREAM! FRIES! Help me, please!

Personally, as I've seen results and stayed at this for 6 or 7 months now I've actually come to embrace being a little hungry every now and then. Its not going to kill you. My palate has changed as well. Don't need sugar anymore to feel happy after a meal. The key is to stay busy when you are not supposed to be eating. Go for a walk. Do a project around the house. Keep yourself busy. The rare moments I watch TV now instead of having food with me I have an ipad.

No food porn pics which sucks, but here is what I do.
I always eat a Fiber One bar with lunch. Tames the chocolate beast.
I watch my sodium like a hawk, so I try not to buy so much processed foods.
I made a rule for myself: Thou shalt not eat anything I dislike just because it's healthy. I eat veggies, but I hate and refuse to ever eat another salad (unless it is at the diner near my house with homemade blue cheese dressing).
I indulge, but I limit it. I am indulging during the superbowl.
I make all my junk healthy and modify recipes accordingly.
I try to exercise 5 days a week. I wish I could all week, but my schedule gets crazy.
I eat six smaller meals a day or at least try too
I drink 8 to 10 glasses of water
I don't feel like I am on a diet. This isn't a diet. This is a lifestyle change. I feel better now and still eat what I love, just modified versions.

IMO you will either just have to deprive yourself and be miserable, or stop using the word "CAN'T" as a reason to overeat.

You CAN do the moderation thing if you really want. You can do anything you want, if you want it bad enough.

There is no reason you should never feel full while losing weight. Are you eating enough calories? Enough fat? Enough protein? Are you exercising and eating more when you do?

Workout a little extra or harder to "earn" the calories for treats if you need to. Tell yourself if you eat healthy foods all week, you can have the treat on the weekend. Do whatever tricks you need to do to make yourself healthy and happy. Happy is important, too.

After the 1st couple weeks the craving really went away for me once I was eating a more balanced nutrional diet. Here are the tricks I used when I got hungry and staying on track.

1.) I measure everything for portion control - this is huge.
2.) I went from my large dinner plates to the smaller salad plate. Correct portions of food will fill the plate and when you finish you have the same feeling of accomplishment that you get from the big plate. Most of us were brought up to clean our plate.
3) When I start getting hungry I drink water. A lot of the time your really not hungry your actually dehydrated.
4) If water doesn't work then I use the apple test. I keep an apple with me all the time. I ask myself are you hungry enough to eat an apple? If your not hungry enough to eat an apple then your not really hungry.
5) For my chip fettish I keep Special K cracker chips around. There really yummy, give you the crunch, the salty satisfaction. The best part is a serving size is 27 of them so you really feel that you having a snack.
6) When and if I do have regular chips. I measure out the serving and put the bag up and away. Amazing if out of sight & you have to get up for it you won't usually go back for a 2nd. Again the smaller amount looks correct with a snackwich on the smaller plate.
7) Ice cream craving - I have a ninja so I take frozen fruit add a little milk or silk or what ever you drink and blend you get a wonderful fruit sorbet which takes care of the ice cream craving.
8) Chocolate - Hersey kisses or miniture bars works. A hersey kiss is only 22 calories. So eating a few of these will take care of the craving without being detrimental to your diet.
9) Exercise - Sometimes just getting up and walking and getting your heart rate up with help subside a craving while at work, plus you burn off some calories.
10) When I know I am going out for dinner to a resteraunt I make sure that I get some extra exercise in to accomodate the glass of wine I know that I'm going to have with dinner.

So far it has worked for me I have lost 19#'s in month and a total of 9.25" from my waist, hips, thighs, & bust. Hope this helps.
Tina

It isn't that I "can't"... because I am doing it. I barely go out and eat these things. However, I find myself always wanting them. And every time I want them there isn't much point going every single day and trying to have JUST some because something clicks in my and makes it more difficult and I then want to binge eat once I have the taste in my mouth. For now I sit around uncomfortable and cranky craving these things. That is the part I need help with.

I strongly recommend taking up a project that will keep you busy and focused. That helps the most. I'll start out feeling like I'm just going to die if I don't have ______, but once I get busy I forget all about it.

I find it easier to take in with a cheat day. I know that if there is something I really want all I have to do is wait a few days then I can have everything! Also I keep a strict calorie limit. Once I reach my 1800 calories I get nothing else for the day, even if I hit it at breakfast. So I have to ask myself "do I want those cookies or dinner?".

Personally, I have found either buying things in snack sized containers, or imediately separating things into single servings has helped me. That way, I can grab a serving of something, and when it's gone I don't have any more. It's like I can trick myself into thinking that I ate all of whatever it was that I have in the house. I also drink a glass of water if I have a craving and then wait 30 minutes before deciding if I actually want it or not. Most of the time, that 30 minutes of waiting distracts me enough that I forget about whatever I wanted. If after that 30 minutes I still want something, I go get a serving or half serving of it, and nothing more.

Wait...did you just start MFP and are you close to your period? I started MFP the week before I got my period and I was ravenous. I though that it was because I was finally paying attention to food so now I was obsessed with eating. Turns out, as soon as I started my food obsession vanished. Hormones are powerful.

Play around with your diet. Let's say you get 1500 calories per day.

One day try:
500 cal breakfast
200 cal snack
200 cal lunch
200 cal snack
400 cal dinner

Then try:
200 cal breakfast
100 cal snack
400 cal lunch
100 cal snack
700 cal dinner

Etc! The great thing about MFP for me is that I look back at what I ate on "strong" days where I didn't have cravings and see the best way to divide my daily calories. Once I got the hang of that, I started looking at the chart that shows your ratios of carbs/protein/fats. I've learned that higher protein and fat days made me feel better than higher carb days. It could be totally different for you so study your diary! I've learned a lot in these 3 weeks and that knowledge makes me feel stronger.

For now I sit around uncomfortable and cranky craving these things. That is the part I need help with.

Tough it out. As others have said, in time the cravings will dissapate. In the mean time you can munch on some fruits or vegetables instead.

Another approach is to use to use a food scale and make it a point to measure servings. This way you're well aware of what you're consuming. If a serving of chips is 200 cals and you plow through 5 servings, you've consumed 1000 calories of chips. You've mindful of the decision to eat that much. Own it.