You have to find a sport or activity that works for you. Help you keep active even if it is just to improve your health. Another thing is finding a diet or style of eating that works for you. Piece by piece changing your diet and habits in order to make them healthier.
After that the weight should slowly decrease. But I suggest you focus more in improving the way you feel and your well being.

Good tips! 

1. I'm a foodie and I can not stand restricting myself on what I eat and how much I eat
2. I find that it is best to emphasize on exercise (whichever fits your individual case, in case you may have injuries etc)
   Exercise will make you feel better in general, will make it so that you dont get cramps and body aches as you grow older, etc. Its a win-win really.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/149090#diet

In any case, I insist: always talk to a doctor before starting any diet on your own.

@flozen:

Yes, go your primary doctor (if he/she has a strong interest in dispensing dietary advice).  If you're insured, see if you can get a referral to a certified nutritionist or similar.

On your own, the Mediterranean Diet is gaining wide acceptance as a healthy regimen, and as a general rule, avoid highly processed foods.    :hug2:

On your own, the Mediterranean Diet is gaining wide acceptance as a healthy regimen, and as a general rule, avoid highly processed foods.    :hug2:

Apart from the kind of food you eat, exercise is always good.

I had the exact same problem. I lost 50 pounds in 4 months - all I had to do was at eat 1,750 calories everyday, and did 20 push-ups in the morning. I ate basically whatever I wanted, just as long as I didn't go over my limit. I used an app called Fooducate. It did all the math for me - all I had to do was scan the labels of what I ate and it had all the info. Really worked for me

You may not see my comment as it has been like 3 years lol but I'm looking towards losing some weight and your advice really helps!

you have to change your life style. Change your diet and start working out (otherwise its the "yo-yo effect")

Quite true, but it's a struggle for me:  I have a high-pressure long-hours job that I truly love, and there's not always time or energy for the gym.

I try to be moderate with food, but I used to be a professional chef and I love to cook/eat…and I've been single for a while now, and many purchased items are portioned for two people rather than one...and I don't have the discipline to save half as leftovers.

One thing that does help is to put a few pictures of really in-shape guys on my fridge door.  It tends to slow me down reaching for the wrong things

like sexypooface I used an app to work out my calories and exercise etc, but I used lifesum instead, sounds like it had pretty much the same functions. I used the 5-2 diet though (eat normal 2000-2500 calorie diet for 5 days a week and eat v low calories (~600) the other 2) I bought a fitness tracker watch and set myself a reasonable steps goal, but I already have a dog I had to walk so that was an easy goal, I don't berate myself if I don't hit it, it's a target and I naturally make up for it on other days. Once I got to a reasonable level of fitness through natural excercise I joined a gym to help tone up where I'd lost the fat (with the added bonus of spying on the guys in the showers)

In terms of banting, it's probably not a bad diet, Ideally I would follow a paleo diet, but modern life makes that difficult, next best thing I would say is a farmhouse diet… i.e. what would be on a plate in a traditional farmhouse kitchen. Ideally your diet should be a good balance of fresh fruit & veg, nuts, seeds, meat, fish, pulses and legumes which will provide all the nutrition you need, anything without a label is your friend, if it has a label, the fewer ingredients the better and avoid anything with a scientific sounding ingredient you can't pronounce.

I had the exact same problem. I lost 50 pounds in 4 months - all I had to do was at eat 1,750 calories everyday, and did 20 push-ups in the morning. I ate basically whatever I wanted, just as long as I didn't go over my limit. I used an app called Fooducate. It did all the math for me - all I had to do was scan the labels of what I ate and it had all the info. Really worked for me

sounds like a plan! thank you!

Now diet is 80% of losing weight but if you are playing a sport you love you'll discover the weight comes off faster when you're eating right and it comes on slower when you're eating bad.  Finally, you'll also find you want to eat more healthy because as you make bad decisions and gain weight you'll find it hurts your athleticism in your sport or if you find yourself going out and drinking you'll find the hangover hurts your sports the next day and you won't want to have those consequences anymore.  So you'll find yourself wanting to make better decisions.

There are many free apps Like Fooducate
but I like the MyFitness ones
there are several and all free
My FitnessPal is good for food and you can connect it to MapMyFitness and MapMy Walk to add in exercise
Just remember less food meets losing weight
If you do a lot of exercises don't eat the extra calories

Good luck