Appetite suppressing foods -- NOT pills!

Natural strategies for appetite suppression

This is a summary of an article by Mike Adams, the Editor of Natural News, suggesting several natural appetite suppressants. A few of his suggestions involve protein powder or other man-made chemicals, but since I'm avoiding anything "food-like" substances man has invented in the last several decades, I've winnowed his suggestions down to the whole foods choices (and one non-food, non-chemical choice):

• Water + wait 10 minutes. (My bonus advice: Do something interesting while you wait. This will eliminate thirst and/or boredom disguised as hunger pangs.)
• Vegetable or chicken broth. (You could try my simple "Get Well Soon" Soup.)
• Green leafy vegetables -- but not if they're slathered in sweet or "low fat" salad dressing. I have seven easy salad dressing recipes.
• Sugar-free, dye-free pickles.
• Raw apples.
• Also: Exercise - "...the very act of exercising releases stored body fat and converts it back into blood sugar, which raises your blood sugar level and suppresses your appetite cravings." Interesting! I wonder if just a little exercise will kick that off, or if it takes a certain level of effort or minutes. Anyone know?

I also thought that he makes a very important point: enduring some feelings of hunger is just part-and-parcel of losing weight:

There are many strategies that help reduce hunger: avoiding refined carbohydrates, getting plenty of natural sunlight on your skin, drinking large amounts of water on a regular basis, and getting plenty of fiber in your diet. But there is nothing that absolutely eliminates hunger. The bottom line is that if you are going to lose weight, you are going to experience hunger at one time or another....
The key in all this is realizing there's nothing wrong with experiencing hunger from time to time. It's a normal human response to a decrease in your consumption of calories. The problem that most people,,, feel it's some sort of emergency. It feels like they are dying or wasting away when, in fact, the body is just signaling that it doesn't have enough calories to add new fat to the fat stores it's already carrying around. The first feelings of hunger are really more of a false alarm than anything to be concerned about.

The original article, here.