People, I have found, do indeed eat more food when they eat healthy since healthy food doesn't have all the fillers and crap that un-healthy foods tend to have. But you can do a calorie check just to find out. It's funny that I notice these things but don't practice them...

I spend more time thinking about food while trying to lose weight, too.

I've decided that the method is "constant vigilance". When I wasn't being vigilant about my weight it just crept up and up. When I don't watch what I eat I eat and forget and eat some more.

So the method of weight loss is conscious eating, as opposed to unconscious eating, which I used to do.