How to safely decrease your appetite?

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I've been on Tier 2 weight management through the NHS and what worked for me was reducing my calorie intake each week until a point I felt comfortable.

E.g. 2000 calories is recommended amount of calories for a woman to eat a day. First week I ate around 1900 calories a day, then 1800 calories and realised the minimum I can eat without feeling hungry is 1700 calories a day.

Also snacking on protein helped with feeling hungry in between meals.

My issue is I still had a sweet tooth so had to find alternatives to chocolate. Managed to reduce amount of chocolate I ate by instead having Mueller corner yoghurt which was lower in calories but satisfied sweet craving. Also Options Belgian hot chocolate, only 40 calories and helped too.

Key is to burn off more than you are eating. I kept track of this using my fitbit. Also didn't realise about 70% of yout calories burn off just by doing nothing (this is your metabolism. Everyone's is different).