@knackredd on food intake, I'm broadly eating the same core foods, but almost none of the irregular foods, if that makes sense? Previously somehow my brain discounted these calories as not really existing, which is objectively mad, but hey ho, it's the truth! They were digital calories, without mass, as not scheduled.
So always I've mainly eaten plenty of olives, green salads, roast chicken and beef, lots of veg like courgettes, mushrooms, aubergines, etc. It's because me my late DH went low carb like 20 years ago because I was struggling to lift/turn him at the weight he was so we had to do something. We didn't diet, like, we still ate chocolate bars and roast potatoes and so on but we shifted our base/standard meal away from carbs. So my core diet just is like that by default.
Then in the last few years I would order burger and chips when I'd been working very long hours, or pick up a giant Snickers and a steak bake on the train, when I was travelling and travelling for work. I get so hungry when I'm tired! I always did this when strung out looking after DH too but I think crucially then I was lifting 200lbs multiple times a day, not sitting on trains, so it all packed on as muscle back then. Anyway this part of my diet has basically gone. I've had about three burgers and I couldn't finish them.
Through some volunteering I do, eat out a lot with different people, where they are cooking, so I'm not choosing the food. I love this part of my life and I feel so lucky to be invited into so many people's lives. But it does mean lots of unhealthy food. I'm not giving this up. I'm just pricing this in to my general diet now instead of adding it on top. Now I will consciously think to myself that I will be having a big meal later, so I won't have lunch, or that I ate a lot last night so I won't have breakfast. I have to notice and do this or I make myself feel really queasy!