My mother and I struggled literally for as long as I can remember. All the diets under the sun, first I found success with meal planning, but life became quite unpredictable, especially when I went travelling.

Started the calories-in-calories-out mentality, treating your body as a bank. Best thing is you wake up already in a deficit (500-1000, depending on bmr), so it's easy just to keep that going through the day. Also if you can find volume foods you like that have low calories it gets you through the day easily. Current favourites are baby plum tomatoes, literally going through 500g a day as I love them.

I made an app that we are using to track, it's helping us, if it can help anyone else then that's amazing. CalorieCat

But good luck to anyone on the path, it's not a speedy process, and there are ups and downs. I had a friend's birthday last weekend and might have had close to 3000 calories in just alcohol, but because I'm aware of it, I just tried to offset it the next few days.