What's worked for me is to stop thinking about how hard it is to lose weight and to just approach it as a big math/science project that I can geek out on and ru

What's worked for me is to stop thinking about how hard it is to lose weight and to just approach it as a big math/science project that I can geek out on and run the numbers. I exercise daily, 20-40mins on a bike and usually a 30-60min swim, and I'll do some light weights a couple of times a week. This may sound like a lot of exercise, but it's really not. It's an hour or two a day of being active. That's in no way overdoing it, even though when I tell people this, a lot of times their reaction is that to tell me I am. I built up to this from an almost completely sedentary lifestyle in which I did almost nothing but sit at the computer and work. This helped, and definitely made me feel better, physically. I'm healthier than I have been in a long time, and doing this, I started slowly losing weight, but the big difference came when I cut out processed sugars and lowered my carbohydrate intake. It's not a super-low low-carb extreme diet, but it's definitely a lot lower than it was. I felt even better, more energy, more weight loss (about 3x faster than I was before), headaches went away, and I started sleeping better. Once I got used to not having all the sugar and carbs, my body stopped craving it. It took some willpower at first, but now it's basically easy to stick to, because I'm used to eating healthier and just don't have any desire not to anymore.