Hello everyone, and well done wmmc! That's my goal too (size ten clothes, that is, not your particular Ralph Lauren trousers). Does the packing mean you are actually moving then?
At the moment I am mostly starving hungry; I think this is a good thing, but it's taking some getting used to. I am eating when it happens, though, so we will watch this space and see.
It is extraordinary how patterns from the past repeat in food. I have certain foods that are almost security foods for me - they remind me of really specific things from the time before my parents split up. And those are the ones I always, always binge on. I'm doing the cravings buster on them, one by one, and going back a few times, and it is getting better.
Juicy Olive - having a brother and a step brother who ate like black holes, I completely understand the thing about getting your share. I felt exactly the same, but my step mother would always stop me having seconds because I was fat. So I felt like they got everything and I didn't. Which was also true as my stepmother resented me for being 'difficult'. So I got even fatter to spite her. Which was fine, but that was 25+ years ago so it's gone on a bit long.
And because of that, I really didn;t want DD to have food issues, so have always tried to let her decide when she is full herself. Was quite nervewracking when she was a toddler, as some days she would eat almost nothing, but now that she's 4, she's very definite. To the extent that she can leave chocolate cake and say 'I am full now'. Paul would be proud of her.