@singingpinkmonkey how badly do you want it?
If you want it enough weight loss is very easy. You just need to know what to do for maximum effectiveness and stick to it.
Scientifically speaking, The most effective ‘diet’ for weight loss and health is one where you burn fat for fuel. If you are interested I can show you some peer reviewed studies that validate this statement.
Note that a diet is really only an expression of what combination of protein fat and carbs you consume. The body doesn’t care what the diet is called - it uses food as information then finds a way to process the food macro combination you throw at it. This then leads to a glucose or fat burning state.
What a diet is called is irrelevant. So Atkins vs blood sugar vs blood type vs low carb vs low fat are all fairly meaningless concepts to the body - they are brands that I find are unhelpful to achieving goals. Your basic choice is: do I fuel off glucose or fat and what’s the food macro combination that gets me there? The body ONLY has the choice of glucose or fat for fuel. Proteins are not fuel unless consumed in excess of daily requirements for amino acids in which case they convert to glucose.
By health is - btw - meant improved cholesterol, reversal of insulin resistance, reversal of diabetes 2, reduced inflammation, reduced blood pressure and many other improvements.
For a number of reasons losing weight while burning glucose (eg if you consume a carb heavy diet) is harder in addition to being less healthy - again if interested I can share the science but it relates to hormones - insulin in particular.
If you subscribe to these statements and choose to burn fat as a fuel then ‘diets’ you can follow are low carb / high fat or ketogenic. There are plenty of resources available. They will both require you track your food ‘macros’ being carbs and proteins mainly (the excess being fat which is the rest of what you eat after you’ve controlled carbs and proteins).
You will also need to put a cap on calories and operate at a caloric deficit so that your body burns body fat instead of dietary fat. You will starve your body of carbs but will not be hungry bc you will burn your own fat as fuel and finally access belly and other fat which you cannot do biologically while your body is fuelled off of glucose. Your cravings for sugary stuff should disappear.
Bringing in @BIWI who can talk about how to do this - she seems to have a ton of experience.
When you do this Make sure you limit your protein intake (no more than 50g per day) as protein intake beyond what is needed for amino acids converts to sugar and will prevent body fat burning.
Carbs to less than 30g per day.
Eat a ton of veg for nutrients too.
Happy to help as I’m sure @BIWI would be too. She has great posts elsewhere on MN.