Wakeup call

There I was,kneeling on the floor, head bowed, fingers clutching the rim while I retched and, not to put to fine a point on it, vomited copiously into the toilet. The first few retches returned a bag full of popcorn. The next time around, a couple of (very uncomfortable) hours later, my dinner made an inelegant entrance... an hour after that and we went again and I still hadn't emptied my stomach. It was here at this unlikely moment that something I already knew really hit- really got through: I‘m eating too much. Immediately followed by an promise to myself that I would never eat so much again.
For a long time I've be been eating too much- I haven‘t eaten too badly (which probably explains why I‘m not fatter than I am ) I always have salad with dinner, I make a lot of lean protein yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, that wasn't the problem. For me the main problem was that I was constantly eating. I would eat breakfast and then have a sugary snack, and then (particularly in the past two months) I‘d be eating another sugary snack before lunch. Then lunch and a snack, a snack when I got home, then dinner and then an entire microwave-popcorn bag before going to bed. In short... not good.
Spurred by my disgust it is now a week later (not by any stretch of the imagination a long measure of time, but still!) and so far I have managed to change how I eat. That is, for the most part skipping snacks, and eating smaller portions. The first change that I have noticed is that I am not so bloated all the time, which is nice. Two, I actually get hungry, which is also nice to experience –I had really stopped listening to my body and hearing what it has to say is a nice change of pace.
But I am not dieting- since I know myself and if I would tell myself in all seriousness that all sweets/baked stuff/salty goodness would have to leave my diet I would be binging on those selfsame things within an eye-blink. So I‘m going for the same plan with those. I skip them on a daily basis (a huge change btw) but will be having a little bit on occasion. Like say Saturday night where I took two mini mars bars and chopped them into little bits and nibbled on them all evening (and nothing else).
Now I don‘t know if this will last- but for now its working. It is so logical, but so difficult to get started on changes like these. For now I don‘t have any real long-term goal, I am only focusing on getting through each day and hopefully one day I won‘t have to concentrate on stopping myself from eating too much. That day half the battle will be won.