Is anyone else a 'volume eater'? How to change it?

I'm a volume eater. I like being a volume eater. You just have to choose what you eat a high volume of and you'll be fine. These days, I'll eat a half a sandwich/entree/pasta dish, but also a massive salad, fruit bowl, plate of veggies, etc. Low calorie = high volume.

Also, I've cut out most snacking. I will sometimes have a kashi bar in the afternoon so that I can get home without eating my arm, but otherwise, I save most of my calories (800-1,100) for dinner.

Great "high volume" foods (lower calorie) that satisfy: chopped broccoli, feta, tofu, salsa, bell peppers, watermelon, all greens (spinach, chard, kale, romaine, etc).

I eat slowly. S.O. makes it difficult, though. Spoils me with om noms D:

Me too, me too!! If I don't feel full, I feel deprived, and I will eat all the foods.

I do a lot of what other people have been saying here...

Bulk up my meals with healthy, light foods...a lot of times I will have a giant salad with a little bit of lentils and rice, a good amount of protein (chicken, steak, or pork) and 2 cups of broccoli or green beans for dinner. (This comes in at around 500 calories) I usually cannot finish it.

Also, it helps me to wait as long as I can to start eating during the day, because once I've started eating I have a hard time stopping. I can't "snack" because I don't feel full, and keep snacking until I do. I get up at 5am, and don't eat anything until at least 10. Am I hungry? Sure, sometimes...but it is usually 5 minutes or so and I forget.

Another thing I do a LOT (and this doesn't work for a lot of people) but I don't *eat* anything until around 3pm. I drink coffee with skim milk and protein powder. Or coffee with butter and coconut oil. Around 250 cals each, and since I'm not chewing, I haven't wakened the beast. This supposedly has some science to it...I don't know what it is, I just remember reading it somewhere years ago. Something about how the act of chewing and the digestion involved in foods you chew activates areas of your brain associated with hunger.

And...(can you tell I've fought with this a lot, hahaha?) The last thing I do, regularly, is when I sit down to a meal and I feel like I'm starving, or feel that I don't have as much food as everyone else, and know I'm not going to be full...I eat half my food, and then take a break. Keep sitting there with my family, but push my plate away and talk for a few minutes. Then I keep eating. It takes 15 minutes from food hitting your stomach for your brain to register that it has. The "full" feeling we crave comes, if we give it a chance.

Like anything else with weight loss, so much of this is a mind game. You have to find the things that work for you, and use them to your advantage...one thing to realize is that hunger won't kill you. And that what we know as hunger is usually not real hunger. Let yourself feel hungry. What is the worst thing that can happen? Someone else said something about telling herself that it's almost 4, and she can have her real calories then...
Sometimes it's as simple as being uncomfortable for a few days while your mind/body adjusts to a new thing.

Go with it. Fill up on low cal veggies! Your health will sky rocket!