Hello everyone, late to this journey but hopefully it's a good place to start. I'm about 10 stone off being at a healthy weight, although I'm 7 stone from where I last felt fit and strong so that's my general goal. Because I've so much to lose, I feel I can lose 3lbs a week healthily for a few weeks.
My biggest obstacle is emotional binge eating so I'm trying to take the advice for severe binge eaters and think about positive habits rather than restrictions which have never worked for me. I've tried to pick out the healthy habits that have helped me lose weight in the past, and I'm going to track these each day, rather than calories (that said, I know enough about calories that I'll be mindful of these).
(1) Replace coffee with green tea, twice a day
(2) Drink 2-3 litres of water each day.
(3) Eat a healthy, moderately-portioned breakfast (porridge or eggs).
(4) Eat a big salad with plenty protein and 1 slice brown bread for lunch.
(5) Family dinner, extra veg, moderate carbs.
(6) Eat healthy snacks mid-morning and mid-afternoon before I get hungry, and an evening snack if I need it.
(7) Eat all my food from a plate, at the table.
I want to crack this once and for all, and the main thing I'm trying to do differently is to focus on how emotional regulation helps me to eat healthily - so using exercise, breathing, meditation, chats with pals, to destress when I feel tense and emotional. For me, healthy eating is easy, but not binging is not so easy.
Hope that helps someone! I'm going to try and post my weight once a week here, to have some accountability. I'll post a proper starting weight tomorrow.