Hi Beginme! It's nice to see you!
I had that mental block about scarcity for a long time. I have started to overcome it, but it took quite a while.
By following my natural hunger I have pretty much fallen into 3 meals a day and somewhat what they now call "IF" or 16:8. Which for me has always been not eating after dinner and not being hungry for breakfast until late morning.
I also started exercising about an hour 2-3 times a week and I have been doing that for about 3 months. It's a new record and I think it will last because I finally built up the strength to go running and I have been doing the couch to 5 k program. I am pretty excited about it and am really enjoying my newfound strength and fitness. I am really looking forward to the fall and running in not 90 plus degree weather. I have been lifting weights as well for about 4 months and that has been awesome. I love being stronger and I have not injured myself (knock on wood) and a lot of my chronic back/neck aches pains tension problems have gone away.
I finally reached my original goal weight a couple months ago and I have maintained it so far.
Things are really different for me than they were. I don't feel the compulsion to eat when I am not hungry very often anymore. I still work on "feeling fat" when I eat what I think is too much, even though now, what I think is too much is way less than what it was.
It's a lot easier for me to stop eating when I feel full, and full comes sooner than it used to.
I let myself feel hungry a lot more than I used to. I think that is one of the biggest differences. For a while there, for some reason I couldn't let myself feel hungry ever. It was way too uncomfortable. Not physically, but maybe emotionally or mentally. I also had to stuff myself at every meal to feel OK. Now, I look forward to hunger because it means a delicious meal is coming up soon and I don't want to stuff myself because it will feel bad and it will take much longer to feel hungry. Food tastes SO MUCH better when I am hungry. I love it.
Anyway, that is just a little update on me. I hope everyone else is doing well!