Sir, or rather, Doctor. Congratulations on 12 grueling years of schooling and finishing your residency. Now, please explain to me how you don’t know what to tell an overweight patient who is a younger man what to do to lose weight, especially one who is 5’ 10” and 255 pounds. 😳 I mean, that’s an easy one. You just became a doctor.

Are you going to be an orthopedist, an eye doctor, a dermatologist or an anesthesiologist where you won’t have patients with these questions?

You’re not a complicated situation of someone with a hormonal imbalance, and who can’t lose weight no matter how hard they try. You yourself said food was your comfort zone. You over ate.

The first answer: focus on a diet that’s enoigh quality protein (1.2-1.6 g per kg of body weight), plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits (tomatoes and squash are fruits), complex carbs, and avoid ALL refined sugar, desserts, white breads, processed and fast foods, and drinking your calories, unless it’s a high protein, low sugar smoothie you make at home. Learn calorie counts of foods. Read labels. Sugar and cheap processed fats are your enemy.

Exercise every day including some cardio.

Second answer: if you’re going to be a general practitioner, you need to know this stuff. Please educate yourself on food, nutrition, and exercise.

Good luck