How do you go about starting a (simple) diet?

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It all sounds so complicated. But I need to do something. The local sports shop no longer stock trousers in my size. Weight has been creeping up these last few years and I’m over 40.
But all these “cut out that” “eat lots of this” “try fasting” diets. How do you work it when you are feeding the other members of the family at the same time? DH is mostly working from home, the (primary aged) DC eat all their meals at home and we all sit down together to eat together.

Today was a bad food day:
Cup of tea
B: Two croissants
L: tomato mozzarella bap, one large biscuit. Water.
Cup of tea, small bowl of crisps (craving salt!)
D: pasta& pesto, 1 apricot, glass of wine.
2 squares dark choc.
Also a 4.6km hike (550m ascent and then descent) and early start was reason for bakery breakfast and lunch.

Tomorrow we will go swimming and I’ll have
Cup of tea
Bowl of high protein cereal, 1 portion, measured plus milk.
Steak, 1 Med size jacket potato plus a spoon of herbs/sour cream, peppers and aubergine.
Cup of tea or two.
Salad (lettuce, tomato, avocado), one or two slices of brown bread, couple of slices of cheese, yoghurt and a piece of fruit.
Cup of tea.

Any tips on how to incorporate more healthy eating into family life welcome!

Those saying that it doesn't matter what you eat are wrong. Carbs will help you to maintain or increase your body fat, due to their effect on insulin, the fat-storage hormone. You can actually be in a calorie deficit and not lose weight, if your carb intake is high enough. Your body compensates for the deficit by putting less power into other functions, primarily hormone driven, so you can have sleeplessness and mood swings and depression and poor skin etc.

So, calorie deficit, yes, but also watch what you are eating. A really good tip is to give up flour and sugar. Your diet will change radically and I've not met anyone who doesn't lose pounds within a week of doing this. So, even if you just do it as an experiment for a week, I bet you'll see results.

It doesn't matter foe any. I am a carb girl, lost 50kg in a year.
Had a break and now back to lose the rest. Carbs are life in my case.

However, I agree about white flour. Not because if carbs but I think it's so overprocessed and I think kind of bleached and whatnot... I know quite a few people who had issues (nwver had any before in life) in last few years, myself included. It took a while to be able to have some without massive blows. Gut flora helped a lot in that case.