I can't stop yo-yo dieting. I keep losing and gaining the same 10lbs over and over.

I don't know what my problem is.

I'm 32, female, 5'0 and my heavy weight is around 130, I'm sitting at 125lbs right now. Really would like to get down to 110-115lbs.

I just don't know what my problem is. I feel like because I'm shorter than the average person that I can't eat as much as them without gaining weight. Like because I'm smaller my body requires less calories and when I eat as much as taller people around me I balloon up. The thing is is that even though I'm smaller, my appetite isn't small. When I restrict myself in order to lose weight I can do it for maybe a month or 2 before I'm like "This is just not sustainable" and I eat more like the average person and gain weight again, and it doesn't seem to take much.

I love healthy food and have no issues with vegetables, my meals are healthy, I don't drink my calories aside from honey in my tea in the morning. It's the portions. But the portions are not big looking to me, for instance dinner will be a seasoned chicken breast, sweet potato and a salad.... things I love to eat so it's not a chore, but what, my body wants me to eat half a sweet potato? Less salad? That isn't sustainable to me. Then I think I'll make it up in exercise, but my job is already super active so by the time I get home I'm whipped. I'll go through periods where I'll use my stationary bike for a while, get bored or tired and not pick it up again.

It's like I know how to lose weight, I've done it so many times, but I have not found a way to stick with it.

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