I always have a hard time staying within my calories. I partly blame my husband who is 6'4". For some reason, even though I know I cannot eat as much as he can, I still "try" to.

I agree with inside_lap, exercise helps. The more I exercise, the less I find myself wanting to eat. I have also found that if I can restrain myself for 2-3 weeks, my stomach starts to adjust.

I agree with Music. I too heard that fiber keeps us full. I used to have fiber supplements from Amway. Not sure if it worked. But I did feel better & less swollen.

It will be tough initially. But you have to control. I had this problem. I will eat up almost everything in sight & I had to finish it off in one go. One thing helped to get a grip. Not sure if it is healthy. I did the cabbage soup diet. It was tough. But I kept reminding myself that it is only few days. I had headaches. But it was worth the struggle. It gave me a little control. After that I concentrated on eating less. It will take time. Finally you will be able to control yourself. & Exercising will also help. Once you realise that you are losing weight, you will not want to look back.

& you could have a day Off every week. That day alone you can eat whatever you love to eat but lesser portions. Adjust any extra calories by subtracting from the other days.

Protein and fiber and seltzer water all help keep me full. I'm on a 1,200 cal/day regimen and it's shocking how little food that ends up being!

I space out my food in small portions throughout the day so that I can 'graze' feel like I can be eating every hour or two as I lke.

I keep little tasty lo-cal 'treats' handy for snacking and that keeps me going and satiateded between meals. For example:

-A lite Wasa cracker and 1/2 oz of gruyere cheese (about 90 calories)
-4 grams of really rich,dark chocolate (depends on the brand, but can be fewer than 20 calories)
-cantaloupes (one cup is about 60 calories)

When I'm having a craving, I will (1) chew gum - sometimes the flavor satisfies me, (2) drink a diet soda - again, the flavor and sensation of drinking may satisfy me, or (3) have a 100-calorie snack.

If you're hungry and never were before - that might be your metabolism kicking in - and that's a good thing. It took a solid month of exercising every day and sticking to the net 1200 diet before I finally saw that da** scale move. It can be very discouraging believe me. I've now lost 3 1/2 pounds and each week I am seeing the scale starting to creep down. I consider it a victory if I lose any weight, any fat, maintain the weight I've lost, or even if my clothes just don't feel as tight. Take whatever victory you can. The weight didn't go on in a day or a week or month - it took years. It takes time to reverse the body's trend to add fat.

If you are doing everything right, your body is changing - try measuring different parts of your body (beyond the neck, waist, hips this website tells you to) - measure arms, calves, wrist, ankles, thigh - I bet you'll see that you are in fact losing fat even though the scale hasn't caught up with it yet. Stay with it - you will see results - everyone loses weight differently and there's no magic pill or bullet to this. It's just hard work. When that cupcake is staring me in the face - I say to myself "nothing tastes as good as it feels to be thin." Stick that on your fridge and hang in there.