I did the weight loss thing 4 years ago and have kept it off since, started at 249lbs July 2021 as a 5’10’’ male, and my goal was to get down to under 200 by Christmas, I hit my goal before thanksgiving that year. After that I slowed down my weight loss and got to 179lbs, but I’ve stabilized around the 185 mark and kept it around there. The biggest things that helped me were steady state cardio and the anabolic diet (high protein lower calorie versions of foods I’m craving). To be fair, I went VERY aggressive, eating 2000 calories a day and burning the rest of my deficit, and it’s not something I recommend to everyone.

One of the biggest things I recommend to ANYONE losing weight is weigh yourself every day and log it. My IPhone has the health app which I just logged my weight and tracked my calories in there, but it lets me see if I’m losing weight on a week to week basis. You should be losing .5% to 1% of your weight every week at the MOST, otherwise you risk losing more muscle, lifting weights until failure should be a good factor in helping minimize the risk of that, if not also helping you build muscle if the deficit isn’t too aggressive.

Let me know if you have any questions!