What crap habits are you fully aware you have that sabotage your weight loss?

[GnomeOrMistAndIceGuy]

Feeling very down about my weight struggles at the moment. Trying to consciously recognise my bad eating habits so I can stop doing them. One thing I'm really aware I do - when I set my plate of dinner down and try it, if it's something delicious I can't just sit and slowly enjoy it, I start to race it down so I can get seconds and wolf that down as well. I don't know why I do it. I then feel sick, guilty and miserable.
Anyone else do anything equally ridiculous?1

Eating after dinner is my downfall. I do intermittent fasting so that I can't eat after dinner at 5-6pm.

Basically wine.

Picking at "bits" whilst cooking or from leftovers!

Binging, having that mentality of "oh I'll have a day off" and then going crazy and eating everything in my path! I wish I could just eat like a normal person

I snack a lot on crisps a lot. Like tons. Though I'm not overweight, it's definitely not healthy. No idea how to stop, but it's something I do think about when reading health articles from the press.

@carbonella

Basically wine.

Me too.

Too much

I’m trying to return to the eating habits of my childhood ( late 1950’s early 60’s) because as you get older it is harder to keep at a weight that is healthy for joints etc.
We ( children and adults) ate 3 meals a day, not big portions, no eating between meals or after “ tea”. No such thing as “ snacks”, cake maybe once a week on a Sunday afternoon, no multipacks or giant sized bags of anything in the house. Water with meals, not squash or fizz.
It sounds boring written down but it just seemed normal at the time.
My children go out with bags of “ snacks” etc for the grandchildren even on a short visit to say, the library, park.
I think portion control and no snacks are the only way to go, for me anyway. Easier said than done of course.

Wine. & cake. & biscuits. & crisps. It used to be just wine but I added the rest during lockdown for good measure.

Massively overeating things like crisps, crackers, toast. I am not even tasting it sometimes.

It's a strategy I seem to have developed for dealing with anxiety etc. I don't know why.

Being five stone overweight is even more anxiety inducing tbh.

Wine, crisps, bread

I'm a binger and very overweight.
I'm stuck in a cycle of restrict and binge and never lose because of it.

Whatever quantity of chocolate I buy, I will eat it that day. A simple fact, so unless I am prepared to write that day off, I don't buy any. I have been sober for 13 years - it used to be alcohol.

Drinking wine on a Friday then eating hangover food Saturday

Massive portions & take aways

Emotional comfort eating
Sugary fatty foods

Too many cups of tea...which in itself isn't bad but I'm totally incapable of having tea without a cake or chocolate biscuit or similar.

Also peanut butter on toast every day for breakfast. Pre covid if DH was working away there were days I'd have it for breakfast, lunch and tea . I bloody love peanut butter on toast.

I wish I liked fruit more, but its too unpredictable, sometimes too hard, sometimes too soft, or bitter or whatever. A squishy gone off tasting blueberry is one of the worst things ever. That doesn't happen with cake, or biscuits, or peanut butter!!

Wine.

and sweets, always fancy something sweet after my daughter has gone to bed.
Drink 3 nights a week but usually 3 quarters of a bottle of wine. Those nights i don't have sweets.

Oh and crisps mid morning as i don't like breakfast

Bread.

Laziness.

Lack of planning/shopping to have fresh healthy options always in my fridge at any given moment so I eat cheese and crackers instead.

I hate cooking and pretty much dislike most food so my list of healthy meals is around 5. Eating the same 5 meals on rotation forever isn't particularly appealing.

Add in my hatred of cooking and it's a disaster that has "eat all the jaffa cakes instead" written all over it.

This has been historically my biggest dieting flaw. This time round since last summer I've had maybe 6 or 7 "jaffa cake" or other inappropriate snack days in that entire time so I do feel like I'm in better control now...however I think a lifetime of being crap at losing weight has messed up my metabolism so even 1,000 calories and running 3 times a week isn't making great progress

Bread. And still eating despite being full, feeling sick and then guilty.

Chocolate, and knowing that dark chocolate has some healthy properties just makes it worse because I love dark chocolate.

For me it's lack of willpower; a constant daily battle which is dictated by my mood. I think peri menopause has something to do with it but every single day I think 'right, let's eat healthy' but there's another voice in my head saying 'don't eat the Easter chocolate, don't eat the Easter chocolate'. And then I do. And I feel crap and cross with myself. And then I repeat the cycle the following day 🙈 I'm only a stone heavier than I need to be but I can't see me ever losing it. The only diet that's ever worked for me is the divorce one!