To think I can lose weight this way...

[Regalparade]

I am 5'3 and 13st7. I am ashamed. Yesterday I got a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I was horrified I looked like that. Although I'm really fat, I am super fit. I am a postie and walk on average 10 miles a day and have lots of flats to run up. I do come home tired and my t-shirt is wet with sweat so my weight does impact me in that way. I never put on any weight anymore because of my job and I can eat what I like but because of this I'm not shifting any weight either.
I've tried slimming world and weight watchers before and it just depresses me. I find them too restrictive and I don't have the time or energy to cook separate things for dd and dp. For instance if I was making sausage and mash, I couldn't eat that on slimming world without counting syns.

I've made a bit of a plan. I plan what I'm going to eat in advance of a day. I will eat healthy, wholesome food and have a homemade dinner in the evening. Snacks will only consist of fruit or sugar free jelly and maybe a weekend treat of a bar of chocolate or a packet of crisps.
Takeaways are off limits.
At the moment I eat like that but add in a binge session of crisps or sweets or both. I also have a can or two of fruity cider like kopperberg which I could easily give up tbh. I'm also quite bad for drinking diet fizzy juice.
I'm fat because I binge eat. I need to stop.
I'm a worrier and worry about silly mundane things and I comfort myself by eating like a pig.
I used to be thin and attractive. I'm 27 and don't want to be massive and frumpy anymore.
So aibu to think if I just cut out the rubbish I could lose weight? Without the aid of slimming world and other diets?

I'm the same height as you OP. I use a calorie counting app and put in everything I eat and limit myself to 1500 cals a day plus at least 10k steps a day.
I've lost almost 2 stones in the last 15 weeks.
Until I did the calorie counting I didn't realise just how much food/crap I was stuffing into my gob. I can still eat the odd plate of chips/curry/whatever but I limit it so I keep within my daily allowance with the occasional binge. It doesn't feel like a diet because I'm not banning any foods or living on silly shakes and smoothies.

Have you tried having your biggest meal for breakfast because all that walking would burn it off then light meals for the rest of the day , but yes i think your idea is sensible , long term healthier eating habits help you keep the weight off too

regal Your plan for healthy eating sounds great.
If you know your problem is bingeing (and then the awful guilt and shame that follows it, followed by comfort eating) you might need professional help with that.
My DD has been having therapy for a while to help her with binge eating. She restricts calories now, and hasn't binged for 9 weeks. She has occasional meals out with friends and doesn't feel guilty.
Good luck

I felt utterly disgusted with myself. It's disgusting and greedy and totally needless.
I feel so upset and ashamed writing that.

You've acknowledged it, don't give it any more headspace. That was the old you. This is the new you.

I lost 2 stone cutting out rubbish. I was really strict with myself and had no crisps or any sweet things at all. I have terrible willpower and really had to force myself to do it. After a while I didn't actually fancy the rubbish stuff anymore. My top tip is - don't buy it. If it's not in the house you won't be tempted to eat it. I buy snacks for the kids that I don't like, so I won't eat them, e.g. salt and vinegar crisps! It really is mind over matter (mind over body matter, sorry!) more than half of losing weight is in the mind. You really want to do it, so that's a big step forward. Good luck!

I did that today. I bought snacks for dd that I don't like. I bought penguin biscuits which I'm not a fan off. If I had bought a pack of fun sized Maltesers however I could see myself gorging the lot in one go if a craving came along.
I bought oranges and some frozen fruit to snack on instead.
I've meal planned for the week and I'm going to cook everything in fry light instead of oil. Granola for breakfast most mornings, grilled bacon in a wholemeal pitta bread for lunch with salad and a healthy dinner with the fruit and sugar free jelly for a snack.
I've only ate five plain crackers and a small roast chicken dinner today because I feel so disgusted with myself for last night. For bloody once it's put me off my food.

"I can't do any sort of fasting or cutting out carbs because of my job. I'm walking and carrying a heavy bag the whole time so I would get really unwell. I even feel it when I have a small breakfast."

In that case, eat a big breakfast, decent lunch and cut your dinner size way down.

Increasing your protein might help with that too.