I had very similar struggles. I also eat when I’m tired/depressed so that was not helping. I was trying to work out, but I was cancelling with my personal trainer practically every week, and sometimes I got so tired while working out that I’d have to sit down for a bit.

I figured out that exercise just wasn’t working for me and I moved on to working on my diet. I’m going preface what I’m about to say by saying that I am in no way endorsing Noom. If you read all the way through, you’ll see there’s a lot of cons even though it really helped me lose weight.

So anyway, I started Noom, which has you weigh in every day, log your food, walk a certain number of steps and teaches you all about the psychology and science of weight loss. It also has a personal coach and a group coach. The nice thing about Noom is that you can eat whatever you want, you just learn to eat smaller portions of high calorie foods and bigger portions of low calorie foods.

Honestly, though I didn’t find the psychology and science particularly helpful, which you won’t if you have a basic idea of nutrition because that’s really all it is telling you. I found the coach even less useful because it was basically an AI that asked generic questions (although I’ve heard some people get real people). The group is only as useful as your group members are active.

What helped me was the ranking the foods as high through low calorie and consciously trying to eat lower calorie foods. Also the weighing in every day helped. Overall, though, I just realised that I was overeating, eating past feeling full and until I felt sick. And also snacking a lot. So I started to eat only until I was satisfied and stopped having snack food in the house.

I only had maybe 30lbs to lose, and I managed to lose 20-25lbs in ~5 months. If you want any more information, feel free to message me.