[tpeng]

Calorie logging is actually probably the best solution to the psychological problem. Your stomach is saying to your brain that it is hungry and that you must eat. Sometimes you might be so hungry that you feel you are actually hurting yourself. But if you have been logging your calories and macronutrients, your brain knows that you will be okay. You're not gonna die even if your stomach says that you will. It's a triumph of cognition over biology.

[SoftwareMaven]

How about fixing the physiological problem that is telling you you are hungry? If you are feeling hungry all the time, it is because you are leptin resistant. People become leptin resistant in an insulin-flooded environment. Solution: restore leptin sensitivity by stopping the flow of insulin. You stop the flow of insulin by reducing carbs (and possibly protein). You maintain leptin sensitivity using intermittent fasting (if you have iron will-power, you could use this as a starting point, but that sounds miserable to me).

Note that this physiological state (leptin resistance) is likely an evolutionary survival advantage as people would be insulin-flooded when eating fruit in the late summer and early fall, just as packing on weight for winter would be most advantageous. Since we never have the proverbial winter to lose the weight and restore leptin sensitivity, we are left starving and eating more all of the time.

People don't get fat because they are eating too many calories. People are eating too much because, physiologically, they are getting fat. Hormones drive the behavior.