Aha! You've discovered one of the Basic Tenets of ice skating - Don't Look Down! When you skate, ideally, your head (the heaviest part of you) should be centred over your hips, knee and skating foot. (There are exceptions to this, but not yet!) When you are centred that like, your weight is in exactly the right place for your blades to glide smoothly and easily, with least resistance. If you tip your head out of that alignment, ie to look at your feet, then your weight has moved and you won't be gliding as well. A seemingly tiny thing but it makes such a difference to the success of a move.
And yes, that's the badger! FM Level 1 Ex 1, continuous curves. I love 'em and practice them every time I skate. I cannot emphasise enough how important they are. Don't worry too much about the size of the curves at the moment, you'll get stronger and more confident and learn how to adjust them to suit as you gain experience. Just make sure that you push out towards the barrier for the start of each curve and let the edge bring you around to face the other way back at your axis. Just before the axis, your feet should be parallel but still on the one foot edge while you bend both knees and prepare to push onto the next edge, towards the other barrier.
It sounds to me as though you're struggling possibly more than you should with those outside edges. If you skate forward with both feet parallel and touching (on the flat of the blades), what happens? Does either of the blades try to take a sneaky dive underneath the other one? Also, have you tried arch supports/orthotics to help stop pronation...?