Calorie counting diet helps by forcing you to stop and look at the food before you eat it, so you end up eating less compulsively. Another way to eat less is t

Calorie counting diet helps by forcing you to stop and look at the food before you eat it, so you end up eating less compulsively. Another way to eat less is to reduce unjustified feeling of hunger, which is often time produced by a sugar crash, specifically a vicious cycle of crash-gorge-crash that’s promoted by sugary foods. If you exclude all sugar and bread from your diet, the appetite will stabilize and you will only ever eat as much as you need, no self control required. The difficult part of this diet is that pretty much all prepared foods have tons of sugar and bread is also all over the place. The other difficulty is that sugar is addictive, so it takes a few weeks before you stop craving it.