Progress: a positive change in my eating habits and breaking some really challenging habits, some small changes that worked for me personally

Like many my weight has crept up the last couple of years and my fitness waned. I have tracked CICO on and off for years. I struggle with a sweet tooth and binge eating, especially with sweets or other junk food in the afternoon/evening. When I eat quantities of junk I'm never going to be able to lose it!

I'm very excited about my progress with some small wins I wanted to share.

Some small changes I made recently:

1. Eating breakfast. A while ago I stopped doing so most days in favour of IF. I started again because I have low iron and fortified cereals like weet bix are a good source. Alternatively I have oats as a great low GI breakfast that actually does stop me from being hungry until lunch easily. I noticed such a massive difference in that I was FAR less likely to look to excessively snack on junky things or just eat to excess generally later in the day, which has helped me break the habit of doing so. I feel like there must be a lesson about blood sugar stability.
2. Making a conscious effort to have 3 proper meals a day. I'm prone to missing lunch or having a suboptimal dinner at times (I'm not missing all these meals on the same day!). When I have three good meals I'm not dealing with being ravenous or cravings later. Logical I know but it's easy to assume skipping meals is a good thing when trying to lose weight. This makes such a difference.
3. A bit of a change in my food. I'm slowly moving towards a 'mediterranean diet' way of eating with more wholegrains, seafood/legumes and veggies. I am applying it extremely loosely but it reminds me to balance these aspects and not restrict them e.g. having a wholegrain bread roll instead of entirely avoiding bread. Also (even though it's contrary to the med diet) I've added more red meat for iron because I'm low. I also take a piece or two of fruit with me to work each day to snack on so that's become my habit instead of nothing then the cookie jar.
4. A half glass of red wine with dinner many nights. I'm not a big drinker but this is a nice treat. A half glass of a light red that I've specially chosen is really enough with/after my meal in lieu of a dessert treat.
5. Just don't have junk food in the house. This isn't a new one for me but so important for me. I've only majorly tripped up once in the last month and that was when a full packet of lollies made it into the house.
6. I've temporarily stopped weighing myself, tracking CICO or being too strict with what I eat, so I can try and get my eating habits in order without paying too much attention to minor weight fluctuations. I'll focus more on this once I've got good habits embedded.

Super excited to finally be breaking some unhealthy habits and setting myself up to lose it in a more healthy and sustainable way.

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