You don’t say what type of food you normally eat, though. You did mention social drinking, and as long as that isn’t in excess, you should be fine.

Here’s a tip: if you feel you’re getting too full, drink a glass of water. You should drink eight glasses a day anyway, it helps keep the digestion regular.

You need to eat, so there is no need to feel guilty about eating. Otherwise, you are in good shape.

though my mum doesnt let me leave house withhout breakfest lol. but thats parents ay.
but my friends always suss out when i skip meals because i show my true colours…. mood wise….
but yer you seen healthy
and clothes sizes britain i think are wrong anyway….
because i was about size 12-14 last year but i was really really fat and weighted nearly 10 stone…. think im about 5ft 6 or 7 because lotta my mates are 6ft odd….but now im not as fat size 6-8 and 8 stone and bit but lost some again recently but dont diet and im proper lazy lol…. i think just growing upness…..

but everyones body different arent they…..
have nice week anyways xxx

Your weight and size sounds perfectly normal and reasonable to me but if you feel uncomfortable, and think the gain may be as a result of social drinking, then the answer is relatively simple. Reduce the amount you are drinking and see if it makes a difference.

Taking laxatives is completely pointless as an weight loss exercise. All you lose is waste material, your body was going to get rid of that anyway. It’s fat you want to get rid of, in order to do that it is essential to eat. If you don’t your body will try and conserve it by using muscle tissue.

You may find a technique used by Weight Watchers useful. Track what you eat. There are several approachs but basically write down what you are eating. You can plan in advance what you are going to eat, write it and stick to it, write it as you go along, or write it at the end of the day (if you can remember) but get it into your head that as long as you have written down what you ate it’s OK.

You are maintaining a healthy weight so there can’t be anything major wrong with what you generally eat but writing it down with help you feel more in control and if you are in control then you are less likely to feel guilty.

Remember that you do not have an obligation to anybody to be any particular weight. It’s your choice, you have a perfect right to be any weight you want, live how you want, eat what you want. Guilt is one of the single most destructive emotions for women so work on ridding yourself of it. If you want to eat, eat, who’s business is it but yours?