Have a beverage. Preferably a low / no cal one, like coffee, water, or diet soda. Drink until I have to pee. That'll usually kill forty minutes or so, by which the craving or pang will have passed.
Take a walk. I get distracted easily. Ups the NEAT total.
Get upset. Nothing strips me of a hankering or appetite than a good virtual brawl with a friend, thumbing through my ex's photos with his new squeeze on Facebook, or talking to my mother.
Work out. Sweating blunts my appetite, weirdly.
Go to sleep. Although rendering oneself unconscious falls definitively under 'last resort', it works.
Things that don't work:
Calorie counting. It's like that study where the parents just started paying fees to pick their kids up late from daycare. Beyond a point, it's all just numbers and abstraction.
Looking at pictures of skinny people. Does this work for anyone? Looking at her makes me feel hungry.
Eating a little. Floodgates. Open.
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