I've been slowly but surely losing a lb a week although plateaued off for a few weeks but has now picked up again. I'm not doing anything too dramatic, it's mainly food which I've focused on.
Porridge made with oats and milk with fruit on for breakfast. A big bowl of this gets me through to lunch with no need for snacks.
One roll with few slices ham or chicken (cook my own ham from a joint and slice it as shop stuff tends to have water and salt etc in it) and huge pile of salad. Yoghurt.
Banana in pm if I'm flagging.
Then normal dinners, home cooked, trying to avoid lots of Poland salt, also avoiding stodgy (Yorkshires, loads of pastry, dumplings etc). Fruit for pudding.
I drink one mug of tea in the morning and squash for the rest of the day as the sugar in that seems to help keep blood sugar up without needing to snack.
I try and get out every day, walk a fair bit etc and do some tummy exercises when I can. Also take stairs two at a time and use bottom to push up the stairs iykwim! I try and eat with DD in the evening so that I'm done eating for the day by 6.30. I found once my body got used t not getting food later on it kicked into digesting by 7.30 and if I did eat while everything was churning away I felt a bit sicky and bloated.
I think the hardest bit for me has been resisting cravings ESP if DS is cluster feeding and I gt the munches, but once I was used to eating less i found I didn't actually want whatever I was craving. I've actually been opening a twice bar, sniffing it then chucking it in the bin!!
My biggest tip though? Throw the scales away and take the pressure off. I plateaued when I was weighing and stressing loads. Now that I've relaxed and stopped worrying its started coming off again because I feel more positive so crave less and have more energy.