Hi, looking for some tips or recommendations as not severe enough to seek external help.
I've always suffered with weight fluctuations and always put it down to a number of different excuses but after having children I can now recognise it is down to my mindset. I am relatively small and usually wear a size 8 but during fluctuations can go from a 6 to a 14 in the matter of weeks.
I don't eat that unhealthy either it's more to do with quantity.
As far back as I remember I have always finished a plate of food even if I am absolutely stuffed I will keep going and going and even to the point where my partner tells me to stop forcing myself to finish it. I don't know where this has come from as I was never pushed to finish meals as a child. In my mind I always think that the food tastes so good it needs to be finished or how much a shame it would be to put it in the food waste bin etc....
Secondly my portion sizes are quite big and I feel like I always need something sweet after a meal. I don't eat unhealthy but I would eat a massive salad bowl or lots of fruit etc which counteracts the healthiness with the calories!
I rarely eat take out food maybe once or twice a month (in early 20's so compared to my friends this is not often)
When I am home alone I find it the perfect opportunity to eat food even when full...and I don't know why because my partner never shames me? Again nothing hugely unhealthy and something as simple as making tea and biscuits.
Has anyone had anything the same and what did you do to change mindset or bad habits?