Thank you! Could you expound on your point of eating a less caloric meal that's just as filling? I think I know that one's feeling of fullness isn't 100% correlated with caloric density, but what meal is two-thirds the calories but just as filling?
Like veen said, eating at a slower pace can help. Our processed food, fast food being the prime example, is so dense in calories that it's easy to consume more than your body required before the signal of "fullness" arrives to the brain from the stomach. And the signal delay makes sense, evolutionarily. A delayed response will give a person the opportunity to overeat, when the food was plentiful enough, and store the excess within their fat reserves for when times get tough. Unfortunately, it's 2015 AD, not BC. Try to eat things that occupy large amounts of volume, even though they're not dense in calories. Vegetables are great. You can make a huge salad, with chicken and a tasty vinaigrette, and you'll only tally up a few hundred calories. Personally, I cheat, and drink a fair amount of muscle milk dissolved in regular skim milk, and I'll substitute that for a meal pretty often, at least lately, during my "cutting" phase.