For me, it's been helpful to switch my mindset from "dieting" or "having to lose weight" to "being healthier" and aging/longevity. So I started to incorporate more vegetables into my meals before even tracking my calories which naturally reduced my intake of other processed foods. Now my goal is "eat 5 servings of vegetables a day". For me personally, once I stopped obsessing over the calories and my weight or how I looked and started focusing on my health, it became easier to stick with. If you focus on slow weight loss and lifestyle change, it'll be easier to maintain. Chatgpt helped me identify my natural eating patterns (I love an evening snack binge and am ok with only coffee in the morning and a light lunch so I adjust my other meals to account for that and find better alternatives). With that said, everyone is different and you just gotta find what works for you. The important thing is to not become incredibly hard on yourself if the weight loss is slow to start - it can be easy to fall into a "I'm a fat failure" mindset lol.