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Originally Posted by braisler
WillyPete - You might be a bit out of the ordinary. Caffeine usually acts as an appetite supressant in most people, albeit of a short duration. Of course, caffeine also has bunches of other effects in the body including being a diuretic. I wonder if your increased food consumption was actually a sign of dehydration? As some others in this thread have suggested, hunger is often thirst masquerading.
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True, but when I drink coffee I'll go through about 1 &1/4 filter jugs at work.
With the diuretic effect I'm sure this is the case, whereas a regular coffee drinker doesn't consume that much.
Another good tip I heard:
Eat at home BEFORE you go shopping for food.
It makes you get rid of the old stuff that you'd just throw away when you brought in the new groceries and you're less likely to stuff the cart with cookies an candy that you are feeling the need for.
If you normally get home and eat several snack meals that you bought at the store, this will help you.
Also, place fruit in highly trafficked or visible areas.
If it's there, chances are you'll remember that you need to eat fruit regularly and it'll prompt you to snack on that instead.