I’m short and slim ish, although another few pounds and I’d be bordering on an unhealthy BMI. Not sure if it’s relevant but I’m pescatarian.
I’ve never dieted really and tbh most people I know who diet lose it and then put it all back on.
I try not to eat fried food or highly saturated fattening things but I don’t eliminate them completely.
so basically I don’t very often eat chips, crisps that are fried, pasteries, chipper food/ McDonald’s, excessive sweets and cakes.
I do eat chocolate every day although I stop at two squares or two biscuits. I also eat Popchips (crisps) because they are lighter and popcorn. I eat ice cream or drink hot chocolate occasionally. If I get a takeaway, I eat non fried stuff if I can like Dahl and rice or noodles/ curry.I do try to eat nuts to fill up instead of crisps etc. I am quite bad at eating fruit but am trying to make a conscious effort. Supposedly you are supposed to fill half your plate with veg but I struggle with this, again I am trying and go through phases.
So far today I’ve eaten, sourdough toast, a homemade smoothie, tortellini with broccoli, for dinner I will likely eat tofu and noodles that I’ll cook with veg or I’ll have a veggie burger with homemade chips. I might have chocolate after. I walk my dogs daily also.
in my early twenties I was a notorious junk food eater and was just lucky that I was slim, I would not get away with this now. At about 26, I cut out all junk food and was a quite strict (obsessive), stopped eating chips, all sweets, pastries for about a year. Then I got over myself and started introducing a more balanced diet, I did find after that I no longer craved junk food and something like McDonald’s or a cake would make feel sick, it still does. Not saying you should obsessively restrict but you might find giving up some things for a while stops the cravings/ bad habits.