We read the studies. You get the answers.

You add a bowl of soup to the table before the main course arrives. More food, more calories — the arithmetic should be that simple. Most people considering this strategy land right here, on that logic, and decide it cannot work.

Coffee kills hunger. Not subtly — the black cup goes down, the appetite dissolves, and sometimes three or four hours pass before food crosses your mind. The experience is so consistent, so repeatable, that anyone who's used their morning coffee to push through a fasting window stopped questioning whether it works a long time ago.

The salad was lunch. Greens, a handful of tomatoes, maybe some croutons and dressing. Within ninety minutes the hunger is back — not a subtle signal, a full return. The conclusion writes itself: salads are not filling enough for a meal. Not because anyone proved it. Because your body proved it, every time.