Eat more foods that have a higher satiety value. Also, your hunger is just dictated by hormones (normally), and after a few days, your pangs should subside. The first 2-3 days are the worst, and it gets easier after that. It might help too if you try intermittent fasting, depending on how you've been scheduling your "three meals". When you start cutting down on the actual times you are eating, you adjust to being not hungry during those periods. So instead of eating during a twelve hour period, try cutting it to eight. It would be like skipping breakfast for most, and then just eat lunch/dinner, but around the same amount of calories you would normally eat with three meals when trying to lose weight.
People are different, but generally the "you should be eating more, smaller meals throughout the day" isn't good advice for losing weight. You want your frequency to be less, even if you are eating the same amount of calories. Also, unless you just have no self-control, you don't need to go full cold turkey on all of the "bad foods". You can still eat them one or two days a week as long as you can moderate them. It's better to give them up entirely, but not all at once or you're just asking to relapse and go on a junk food binging spree. Just start the substitution process slowly, because that way it should last.
Imagine how hard it is when you have a friend who has awful eating habits, and every time they come over they bring a bunch of snack cakes or oreos and constantly ask if you want any. For those who have been in a similar situation with junk food, it's like offering an addict their vice.
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