I have GOT to lose weight..

This worked for me. As much as my carb-loving heart hates to admit it, the low carb is important. I’ve been able to maintain while eating more carbs, just fasting, but I haven’t lost the last few pounds and realistically I think it is the carbs 😏. But I never gave up carbs completely, just really really cut back.

This is what works for me. 

You gave yourself the best advice when you said you should talk to a nutritionist. You hit the nail on the head. You can get a recommendation from your doctor. You'll want a medical nutritionist who is very knowledgeable about your health issues. That person will be a tremendous resource for you.

Keto has been great for me, but if you really love potatoes, you could do IM and no processed sugars (potatoes and fruits are okay).

If it were easy, I'd be a size 4.

I am not a size 4.

Sigh.

Do you like soups?  I made a big pot of vegetable soup every week and ate it for lunch or dinner until it was gone.  I sometimes added cooked ground turkey to it.  I have a pot in my refrigerator right this minute and ate it for today's lunch.  I only pick my favorite vegetables too.  I mean, I do like almost all vegetables, but not necessarily in my soup.  Sometimes I put cubed potatoes in there and I don't feel at all guilty about it because it is balanced out with so many other vegetables.

I vary the flavor of my soup by making the main batch pretty generic and bland.  Then I flavor each bowl as I heat it up.  I may add some marinara and a few noodles if I have any.  Or I add some mixed beans, avocado, shredded chicken and taco seasoning for a chicken taco soup.  

I just find that by eating soup, I'm getting in so many different colors of vegetables painlessly.  I also make a lot of roasted vegetables.  Last night I had roasted Brussels sprouts and I squirt a little balsamic vinegar on them before eating.  I found this thickened type of balsamic vinegar at Costco that is tasty.  I had the sprouts and a half of a chicken breast.

I eat chicken, turkey, and fish and that's it for meats.  I rarely eat a salad in the winter unless I am at a restaurant.  All of my winter vegetables are cooked either in a soup or roasted.

Also, I don't worry about sticking to 3 meals a day.  If I've eaten 3 meals and I'm still hungry, I will have another bowl of soup or something else that sounds appealing.  I think limiting how often you eat is asking for problems as long as what you are eating is healthy.  

I eat a bowl of Coach's Oats with either fresh blueberries or strawberries. And I put almond milk on it.  I eat the same thing every morning and other that changing up the fruit, I'm quite happy eating the same thing.
 
On the rare occasion that I had to buy a meal from a restaurant, I would bring it home and immediately split it into at least two servings.  Restaurants always give you too much food!  And since I was cutting it in half, I didn't mind splurging on something a little bit more caloric than I usually ate.

Right now, on the days that I am too busy to make my own vegetable soup, I have been buying Panera broccoli cheese soup from Walmart.  Not Walmart's own brand, which I tried and it was nasty tasting.  I threw it out.  Just Panera's own brand. It isn't quite as tasty as from the restaurant, but I still enjoy it.  What I do is microwave a full cup of frozen or fresh broccoli in a bowl first and the heat the soup in a separate bowl.  I combine the two so that my soup has an extra cup or more of broccoli in it.  It keeps me full longer and I don't feel guilty about the cheese.  Oh, and I use my kitchen scissors to cut the broccoli up into little bitty pieces because it tastes better to me that way.

I also have multiple health issues so consistent exercise isn't something I can pull off. I go for walks with my dog when I can, but I'm not a gym person. I lost 50 pounds last year by doing the above. I was diagnosed as diabetic and that is what scared me into changing my eating to healthy options only.  I had blood work done last month and my doctor said my numbers were perfect.  I told her I want to lose the rest of the weight that I had put on during the pandemic and then look at stopping the medication my previous doctor put me on for the blood sugar.

Agreed

I agree with more protein, fewer carbs, regular exercise. Also I suggest reading all labels and don't consume anything with sugar in it for as long as possible. I begrudgingly did this for 2 months and my appetite and taste for foods changed. I then started losing weight (finally) as I kept up the no sugar allowed rule. I had to cut out (and replace with something else such as spices) bbq sauce, salad dressing, jam, peanut butter with sugar (pb without sugar allowed), bread with sugar (bread with no sugar allowed) etc. Plus all the usual (cookies, cake, ice cream etc) sugar culprits not allowed. It has really worked for me.

Well first up I would recommend a certified Dietician not a nutritionist. A Dietician has way more learnin' under their belt. Pretty much anyone can call themselves a nutritionist (doesn't take nearly as much education. At least where I'm from)

What works for me is to count my macros and then just stay in a calorie deficit. There are plenty of macro calculators on the internet. I wanted to aim for under 50g of carbs, so that put me at 100g protein + 112g fat per day. If I stick to that, the pounds do come off and I don't feel deprived.

Doesn't have to be Keto, but I have had success with eating low carb with more protein. In all honesty, if you are really serious about losing weight, you will give up potatoes completely, at least until you lose some weight. You don't need to give up your iced coffee but depending on how much sugar you typically use, you would need to figure out a way to enjoy it with reduced sugar.

I was on the drug ozempic and lost about 46 pounds. I exercised and ate healthy, but I think ozempic was the real key. Unfortunately my insurance stopped paying for it because I am not diabetic. It has been approved for weight loss, but my insurance doesn’t pay for weight loss drugs. I’m doing everything I did before I was on ozempic (recording every bite of food and exercising at least an hour a day) and still not losing weight, although I am at least maintaining. As I understand it, ozempic, munjaro and other new drugs somehow affect hormones, which I believe is the major cause of my weight problem. (I’m apple shaped and was diagnosed w/ PCOS by an endriconologist years ago). I learned about ozempic on Tic Toc and asked my GP about it. She was completely on board with it.