The constant urge to snack can make it impossible to achieve your weight loss goals, but diet pills are usually ineffective and sometimes outright dangerous, especially laxatives. Luckily there are many healthy foods you can eat that will suppress your urge to snack.
Let’s take a look at the top 15 options:
- Fruit & Vegetables
- Mint
- Lemon
- Leafy vegetables
- Avocado
- Nuts, Seeds & Beans
- Protein
- Eggs
- Salmon
- Other Appetite Suppressants
- Yogurt
- Coffee
- Soup
- Oatmeal
- Water
- Summing Up
Forget diet pills, these are the top 15 foods that suppress your appetite naturally and help with long-term weight loss.
Mint:
The smell of mint actually works as an appetite suppressant as well as a calming influence, so have a cup of mint tea before dinner to prevent yourself from overeating. You can get somewhat less potent effects out of a mint scented candle.
Lemon:
It might seem counterintuitive but eating something sour can actually curb your cravings for sweet food. You don’t even have to actually eat the lemon—just add some lemon juice to your vinaigrette salad dressing. Of course, if you’re a big fan you can also have some unsweetened or lightly sweetened lemonade made fresh.
Leafy vegetables:
Leafy vegetables have a high concentration of water which allows them to fill your stomach up more quickly, especially when combined with a lemon vinaigrette dressing or a handful of flax seeds.
Avocado:
Avocados have hit the health world by storm recently and there’s a good reason for that. They are one of the only fruits to contain a high level of protein and avocados are also full of omega-3s and a host of vitamins that will keep you energized all day long.
Nuts, Seeds & Beans:
Forget diet pills, these are the top 15 foods that suppress your appetite naturally and help with long-term weight loss.
Nuts:
Nuts are one of the healthiest foods you can eat, full of healthy fats that lower your cholesterol, protein and a range of other vitamins. They also contain a significant amount of fiber which fills you up and helps you resist the urge to snack throughout the day. Eat a cup of nuts with your lunch or dinner to prevent later snacking.
Edamame:
Edamame (baby soy beans) offers a whopping eight grams of protein for every ½ cup despite only containing 95 calories. Added to your lunch a half cup of edamame should keep you away from unhealthy afternoon snacks and give you enough energy to get through just about anything.
Flax seeds:
Flax seeds are chock full of omega-3s, healthy fats that fill you up and prevent the urge to snack. They also contain a number of other vitamins commonly found in nuts. Add a handful to every meal and you won’t even think about snacking throughout the day.
Beans:
Beans are low on calories and high in fiber and protein, making them an excellent choice for filling your belly with nutrients and keeping it full throughout the day. There are also hundreds of different ways you can cook them depending on the beans you pick, so get creative!
Protein:
Forget diet pills, these are the top 15 foods that suppress your appetite naturally and help with long-term weight loss.
Eggs:
Eggs may get a bad rep because yolks contain a lot of fat, but as long as you only eat them once a day the dose of fat is healthy and the high amount of protein in eggs will help control your appetite for up to 36 hours.
Salmon:
Salmon and other light forms of seafood contain the omega-3s you’ve heard so much about as well as an impressive dose of protein that will help you stay full.
Other Appetite Suppressants:
Forget diet pills, these are the top 15 foods that suppress your appetite naturally and help with long-term weight loss.
Yogurt:
Yogurt is full of protein, healthy fats and stomach-healing bacteria. Greek yogurt is much lower in calories than regular yogurt. You should also avoid artificially flavored yogurt as these tend to be full of sugary corn syrup.
Coffee:
Studies have shown that caffeine may actually be an effective appetite suppressant as well as the wonderful stimulant most people know it as. Of course, you need to be careful about how much you drink so you can maintain a regular sleep schedule, but making your morning cup a little larger might help keep those snacking urges away.
Soup:
A broth based soup eaten before your meal will give you some extra nutrients and help stop you from overeating during your actual meal. Just remember to stay away from the creamy soups.
Oatmeal:
Half a cup of rolled oats contains five grams of fiber along with a massive nutrient boost to keep you going through the day. Oats are actually the healthiest whole grain, so make sure you’ve got lots of them in your diet. Add some dried fruit or honey to give it some flavor.
Water:
Believe it or not many food cravings are actually caused more by thirst than hunger. A tall glass of water will fill your stomach up and help cleanse your skin and your body of all the toxins it absorbs throughout the day. Try drinking a large glass of water every time you get the urge to snack. If you still want to snack twenty minutes later, you’re probably really hungry.
Summing Up:
These foods suppress your appetite not by messing with your hormone balances or suppressing your natural hunger system, but by filling you up with essential nutrients and energy. Incorporate at least one of these foods with every meal and you will significantly decrease the urge to snack, all while feeling much better than you would on any diet pill.
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