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I just tell myself that I'm not going to eat anything. Sure it can be very hard sometimes, especially if you're bored and your mind is wandering, but it can be very beneficial. If you can manage up enough self control to stop eating between meals then your self control will probably increase in other things too just because you've realized that you can control yourself.

I would suggest always having some water close by because a lot of the times that you think you're hungry you're really not, and just drinking something can alleviate those urges. But if you can't handle that then just eat some low calorie foods: carrot or celery sticks (though i'd probably recommend not using dip with them because dip is rarely healthy), low salt pretzels (I say low salt because the salt tends to make them taste better which will probably make you eat a lot of them which is what you're not trying to do, and plus they won't hurt your blood pressure), flavored rice cakes, gum. I wouldn't tell yourself that you're just going to eat a couple cookies because if you do lose control and end up eating the whole bag then that would really be unhealthy, same thing goes for candy or other sweets. Try and start off slowly and then build up your self control and so in the end you won't have the cravings anymore.

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