Do personality types affect weight?

[Fairenuff]

I've been dieting on and off for years. When I stick to it I do really well but then something throws me and I give up, go back to old habits and gain at least some of it back quite quickly.

I've been working on changing my habits, rather than my food because, actually there is nothing wrong with what I eat, it's the over-eating which is the problem.

But I also struggle with lots of other 'everyday' things that others seem to just incorporate into their lives so easily. For example, I'm a terrible procrastinator and have got loads of stuff I want to do but can't seem to get started.

I'm definitely an 'all or nothing' sort of person. I don't see the point in just cleaning the sink if the whole kitchen needs a clean, so that means I also need to do the cooker and defrost the fridge. Seems like a lot of work just to get the sink clean. That's the sort of thing I'm talking about. It's hard to explain, anyone else find it difficult to moderate everything in life, not just food?

I think I'm lazy but I don't know why. Is it just my personality?

I put it here in weight chat because I think somehow it's all related and if I can learn to change my 'whole life' habits, the eating habits will change too.

Any thoughts or am I just rambling

[TalcumPowder]

I think you have a point. I'm also overweight not because I eat junk, but because I eat too much good food, and I'm doing the Cambridge diet because something comparatively extreme suits me far better than the slow and steady losses of more moderate diets - if I don't see results, I just give up, and I'm dreadful at getting back on track after I consider I have failed at something.

I procrastinate too, and I realise since starting a diet where I eat only two soups and a bar a day that I used food to procrastinate with eg. 'I will make a cup of coffee/sandwich before tacking the next chapter') -- am a writer.

[scousadelic]

I could have written your post OP

Someone has just recommended this to me. She has come down from 22 1/2 stone to a normal-ish size after reading it as it helped her thinking "click". I'll let you know if it works once I've stopped procrastinating and found time to read it

[Fairenuff]

if I don't see results, I just give up, and I'm dreadful at getting back on track after I consider I have failed at something.

Yes, that's the sort of thing I struggle with. Is it perfectionism do you think?

Thanks sousadelic I will take a look when I have a moment

[GuybrushThreepwoodMP]

I could have written your post too OP. With food, I either have to be completely 'perfect'- is make a very strict plan and stick to it 100%. Or I go completely the other way and just don't think about diet at all. It means when I fall off the wagon, I fall off big time. If I am going to stay from my strict plan by having a biscuit, I'll eat the whole packet. I can see how disordered this is and wish I could just be moderate and mindful but I just can't.
I too am like this in every area- professional or personal. Either have to be perfect or don't do it at all. Don't know if I'd personality but I think it must be.
My biggest worry is passing this along to my dd. My mum definitely helped develop the disordered attitude to eating when I was little.