Tilly'sMom-- The way I've been trying to lose weight and what's worked in the past is to workout about an hour a day, and to eat almost all unprocessed foods.
Like, I'll eat whole grain brown rice with tons of fresh veggies and some chicken with no salt seasoning.
For snacks I do LF cheeses and fruits, or veggies with low fat, homeade dip. I also used to bake a whole wheat tortilla and make fresh salsa to eat it with, super good! And cottage cheese was a favorite of mine when I was dieting (although now I am watching my sodium so I don't eat it too often, I do ricotta instead which is lower in sodium).
I eat TONS of salads, with goat cheese, vinegar, avacado, any veggies I have in the house, lol. Seriously just stopping eating LF dressings has helped me lose because there's hardly any sodium in vinegar and oil.
If I have chocolate, I have a few pieces of dark chocolate. If I have ice cream, I get pints instead of half gallons and only have one serving size. And most of the time if I have ice cream I will have pineapple or strawberries (fresh) on them. I also like sugar free jello with LF coolwhip for sweet snacks!
I really think it's all in moderation. Like today I had a piece of pizza... yes everyone else was having more, but I stuck with one small slice of cheese, felt ok with it, and added a little more time onto my workout tonight. We had leftover so I tossed it out so I wasn't tempted to dig into it tonight.
Those are a few things I am doing now to try to lose the mega amount of weight I gained this year and before doing that I lost about 65 lbs in 8 months so I know it works for sure
