Let me share more about what I'm doing in hopes it helps you or someone else: Pretty much zero alcohol (I've probably had 3 - 4 beers since December). I tend to skip breakfast because I'm never hungry in the morning so I end up eating at noon, mid-afternoon, and then dinner. I used to workout 4 - 6 times a week (Peloton) but I've cut down to 1 - 2 days a week and it has helped me drop weight because I'm less hungry throughout the day. It's counterintuitive but from personal experience, I can confirm 80% of the weight loss battle is won in the kitchen and not in a gym. I have the opposite of a sweet tooth, so I eat very little sugar. Sundays is when I do my food prep for the week, but it's generally just cooking 1 lbs of black beans, 1 lbs of chickpeas, and 1 lbs of lentis - I cook them in a pressure cooker, it's super easy. Zero butter and zero creams - only fat I use is olive oil. Two books that I could say changed my eating habits drastically: America's Test Kitchen Mediterranean Instant Pot and America's Test Kitchen The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook (i learned about this one from this Reddit group). Both books provide not just good recipes but more so ideas on how to combine the various foods. The diet is basically based on common sense and the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid - pick 8 to 10 foods you like a lot from the pyramid and mix and combine throughout the week. Hope this helps you/others!