If I may recommend a book,Well, I just stumbled onto this thread, and I'm working at losing weight. Last June I was 272 lbs and 6' and well into type 2 diabetes. 9.0 A1C. That was my wake up call. I got down to 262 by the end of October, by consciously cutting back portions, but it was seat-of-the-pants willy-nilly. I had another blood work scheduled in November and I wanted to get my weight down and hopefully my A1C. I weighed in at 256 on 11/17.
Weight management is simple math; if input > output, you gain, and vice-versa, as measured by calories. So I started counting them all, in and out. Suffice it to say, I like to eat, and I have a sweet tooth besides. My portions were double and triple what they should have been, with generous sweets in between.
I'm using the web site "Lose It!" dot com to track my intake and activities. To get down to 225 lbs by May, it calculated a caloric intake of 2100 calories/day. So I use a kitchen scale and I math the shit out of everything I eat. I love peanut butter, but it is ridiculously dense in calories. I still have a PBJ from time to time, but it uses up too much of my "budget" to be worth it anymore. Since 10/23/23, I went from 262, to 240 this morning. I still have a way to go, but that's how I'm doing it, obviously YMMV. I live literally 1180 ft from my front porch to the time clock at the school where I drive bus for bike money. I was driving it, but now I walk, and often walk the long way home, heading west when I live SE of the bus garage, eventually meandering home. (I don't need the money, but my wife and I have gone on some pretty nice vacations with the extra, along with me being able to have collected 7 XS 650s and several huge boxes of parts and engines. 2 are running and one more will be ready in early summer.)
This has worked for me and continues to work, but I have read the fasting posts and I think I may try that, just to jump start a weight loss when I seem to be stuck at a weight, like at 244 lbs and now at 240.
My A1C was 7.0 in November and 6.4 the last check in on Jan 17, and I was at 246 lbs. I'm getting there. Doc was impressed I got it down so far relatively quickly.
https://www.amazon.com/End-Your-Car...+carb+confusion&qid=1708022791&s=books&sr=1-1
Dr. Westman is at Duke University. In a nutshell, it’s an explanation of how our body functions. It’s not so simple as calories in, calories out. Also, this information applies plant based or meat based and in between.
Best wishes for continued success.