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

Too much booze, picking at the kids leftovers, snacking out of boredom...

Oh and portion size

Rewarding myself for exercise with cake. I adore cake but I am obese and eating a slice twice a week cancels my good work.

Snacking out of boredom.. crisps.. wine.. losing any willpower to eat healthily / not snack during wine consumption or the morning / day after

Oatly lattes and hot chocolate. Veggie black pudding!

Plain chocolate digestives.

Wine. I can't stop at a glass, I, 9 out of 10 times finish the bottle. The takeaway that follows the wine. Then I get into a fuck it mentality and it takes a few days to reign it in. I have a few 'good' alcohol free days then it happens again.

I struggle with moderation. Could take or leave sugary sweets and drinks but wouldn't refuse crisps or cake.

Eating too much bread and proper butter. Toast. Can easily have four slices in one go. Would happily eat toast for every meal and sometimes do. Also love things like scones, tea cakes, cheese biscuits, basically anything that acts as a base for butter.

Pastries. I absolutely love them, but they’re way too calorific to have for breakfast. I don’t normally eat breakfast at all, so to have an almond croissant at about 350 calories, which, if I have from a coffee shop, I will also have with a 100 calorie latte too, is 450 calories just for breakfast.

My TDEE is about 1350 cals, so if I have this breakfast too often, I simply don’t have enough calories left over to have enough to eat at mealtimes on those days. Let alone a snack.

I’m so much better off not having them at all!

Rick I am exactly the same. I absolutely love butter. I don’t eat bread products unless they have butter on them.

Oh my god I forgot about almond croissants! Yes to them @WellTidy

Not being able to stop at just. one. thing - mostly fatty/sugary stuff.

ie, packet of biscuits, start off with 1 or 2. Have another 2. Then 4 (to save a second trip for the next 2) and so on. Pack then ends up fully consumed.

Also refer to big bar of chocolate. Have 1 row to start with, and another 1, and then so on as per the biscuits . See also servings of ice cream. And slices of cake.

So I've decided that clearly I have no control, and the best course of action is to avoid biscuits/cake/ice cream/chocolate altogether, unless I can be trusted or it's supplied in very small quantities!

Late night grazing. After the kids are in bed and it's just me it's like I deserve a bit of me time and a treat for making it through another day. I choose popcorn or pretzels over crisps, gin over wine but can still smash an additional 800 cals in about 45 mins.

Secret binge eating.

I genuinely enjoy eating large quantities of food alone. In my secret heart, a brilliant day is one where everyone is out of the house and I stock up and eat and eat. It takes serious willpower not to do it - but the pandemic has helped as everyone has been home all the time!

When I was younger and lived alone sometimes I would deliberately have a 'treat' weekend where I would stock up on the way home from work on a Friday night and know I had the whole weekend to myself to binge away. It's pretty depressing when I think back.

And I don't really know why.

I have no guilt or shame eating around other people, so it's not as if I am reacting to aything like that.

If I eat the same things but reasonable portions then I don't get the same feeling of 'rightness' that I do when I eat far too much. Eating food alone somehow hits a spot in me that eating with other people does not.

I wish I understood it tbh.