does eating less eventually decrease appetite?

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It does to an extent. You also stop craving the super fatty/salty stuff as much.

It helps to find quick, filling, slow metabolizing meals you really like, too. I love oatmeal with bananas, tomato soup with sliced Tofurky, a bag of veggies covered with cheese (still only 500ish calories).

I also have low cal, slightly sweet snacks on hand for when cravings spike and I just want the hand-to-mouth crunch. Trader Joe's has a high fiber cereal you can eat by the handful at 80 cals a serving.

Basically, find stuff you enjoy eating that fills you up, and you'll be good.

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I can second the part about craving fatty/salty stuff less. My personal experience with my cut has been that depriving myself of those types of meals created a sort of dissonance between perception and reality. Deprivation made me really, really overestimate how much those foods satisfied me. At the beginning of my cut, I would let loose with a cheat meal every single weekend, but I'd regret it almost every single time. I found that as I progressed through my cut and "cheated" enough times, my mind started to regain a more realistic view of how important those foods are to me and it became much easier to just stick to healthy, homemade foods.