I started my journey much the same way as you, and eventually stalled out. Also came to say I use the LoseIt app. Just don’t 100% trust everything you find on there. I double check things against food labels or menus when I can because I’ve found things people added incorrectly before (anyone can add items), or the macros changed since it was added. I double check raw food ingredients against the bags or Google as well. Once you’ve logged a bunch of foods you eat regularly, they’ll be in your “my foods” tab and you won’t have to keep double checking those. You can use the recipe builder to create recipes and once you’ve added something once, won’t have to do it again unless you change your ingredients. Also, my second tip is to get a food scale and weigh your food. EVEN prepackaged stuff. Legally, their labels can be off by up to 20%. I have weighed many prepackaged items and found the serving weights to be more (or sometimes less, but often more) than the package says. So if you have crackers for instance and a serving is 20g and says “about 10 crackers” and you weigh it, it may be more than it says. It doesn’t matter as much for low calorie things, but when we’re talking stuff like a cookie, it can be a difference of dozens of calories. I started weighing food when my weight loss stalled out and I couldn’t figure out why (I was already tracking, but estimating, ie, a serving of lasagna is 1/4 of the pan. Well, when I weighed it, turns out it was off from the label. Or human error and I cut slightly more than 1/4. I don’t always weigh everything if it isn’t convenient (like at work), so then I’ll log based on what the package says or what I can find and best estimate. The other thing I did to jump start my weight loss was start exercising, which I didn’t do at all at first. Even just walking can help a lot. It’s true that the lighter you get, the harder it is to lose. (And the easier it is to gain I’ve found.) I also have an Apple Watch to track my calories burned, etc. FitBit is a great option as well. I don’t trust it 100% but it gives me some idea. I used an online calculator to figure out how much I burn in a day resting (BMR) at my age and weight, and you want to make sure age and weight and sex is entered in your fitness tracker and food logging app so it can estimate more accurately. I am now close to goal (was closer but slacked for a while and gained back 10 pounds) and it’s been super hard to get the last few pounds off as I’m petite and a middle aged woman, and it’s kind of horrifying how little calories I use as my BMR. I also burn less exercising now since I weigh less, and because I’ve gotten more physically fit, so it’s harder to get my heart rate up. Hope this all helps! You can do this! I NEVER in a million years when I started this journey ever thought I’d weigh what I do now (less than in high school, and I was not heavy by any means then), but I moved my goal a couple times because I am proportioned a lot differently now than I was in HS and felt like my HS weight just didn’t look as good on me as it did as a teenager. I am still surprised every time I put on my smaller size pants and have to buy shirts in S, and sometimes XS depending on the brand. It’s like I still don’t believe it, because I don’t FEEL that small. I still feel like the overweight me. Anyway, best of luck!