Made some progress but then cracked and ate a packet of biscuits and I feel terrible

I've (34f, 166 cm) been overweight for most of the last eight years (highest weight 73 kg/160 lbs I think? in 2015), and honestly, it was down to bad choices re: eating sugar-rich food and lack of exercise. It's not that I didn't know I had a problem, but I just didn't do anything substantial to change it - it was always 'I'll eat this last bit of junk food/snack today, then start eating better tomorrow/next week' and tomorrow just ....never came.

I've never been any good at resisting food when it's in front of me, but my grandmother died recently and part of our customs during the mourning period involve staying vegetarian and generally eating simpler food - which for my fam translates to 'not too oily'. I adored my grandma and knew I wanted to do at least this much to honour her (she was very religious and this was a custom from there, even though I don't believe in the religion at all), so I stuck to the no-meat diet and tried not to eat unhealthy/fried vegetarian food either. In my case, I also stopped eating my daily round of biscuits dunked in my tea/coffee, and drank water instead - it wasn't until yesterday, which was the last day of the mourning period, that a stray comment from my mother's friend led me to check the scales and discover that for the first time in my working life, I was clocking in at just under 60 kg (about 135 lbs-ish?)

Fast forward to this morning and I've bought a packet of chocolate biscuits and scoffed roughly two-thirds of a 120 gm pack and now I feel TERRIBLE. I mean, physically terrible - my stomach just feels so uncomfortable and like (sorry for the TMI) like I'm going to need the bathroom any minute.....this was something I hadn't realised, and sorry for bathroom discussions here, ☆but going to the loo was SO MUCH EASIER during this last month and a bit.

I really don't want to lose that or get on the slippery slope of a increased diabetes risk just because of making bad choice after bad choice - I really need to see the changes in my body as a work in progress and not a "goals reached, let's celebrate this+end of mourning by going back to eating lots of unhealthy things on a regular basis all over again", remember what got me here, and get back in the saddle to maintain my health. And it really helps to know that there's a community out there trying to do the same.

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