Workaholic needs some advice

start packing your lunch - either whatever you have for dinner the night before, set enough aside for your lunch the next day. Or make sandwiches or wraps with deli meat - ask the person working the deli which of their turkey, ham or whatever meat you like has the least amount of preservatives and artificial flavors. Ask for taste if you aren't sure you'll like it.

Take fresh vegetables and fruit in your lunch as well.

If you have no time to cook, get a crock pot and start planning on making crockpot meals - get everything prepared the night before and in the morning just turn on the crockpot and walk out the door. Come home and dinner is ready.

You know your schedule, so prepare for it. I work 70+ hour weeks, so I feel you pain, but I bring lunch with me and pack several smaller things for throughout the day (fruit, nuts, protein bars, minybel cheese wheels, etc.) and fit them into my calories and macros. When I get home, I do my hour of Insanity, and then I eat a lot of food. The foreman grill is my friend since I can cook a lot of things on it with relative ease. You're not going to find the time to do this, you have to make it. If your health is a priority, you'll make it work somehow.

Prepare as much food ahead during whatever downtime you have as possible and store it (you'd be amazed at what yiu can freeze) in appropriate sized portions. Comb the boards and internet for recipes to try and find some you like. When I'm cooking for just me I tend to go for simplicity - measured portions of cereal and milk or a bagel thin and a tablespoon or two of cream cheese for breakfast, salad with three to four ounces of lean protein, various veggies and light dressing for lunch, and then for dinner throw some protein like chicken or fish (preportioned, seasoned, and frozen after I buy it) into a pan while some veggies cook in the microwave and a roll heats in the oven. Fill in with 100 - 150 calorie snacks as necessary. That may seem like a lot to think about and plan for, but once you've been doing it a week or so it is automatic and doesn't require much thinking or planning. Once you figure out what you like it is just a matter of having that stuff on hand and eliminating temptations from your kitchen if you need to.

I would also second the responses saying that you need to get serious and make time to do good things for yourself if you're really going to do this. And learn to like black coffee

I used to work crazy hours at a job I loved, too. However, I realized that if I didn't have time to eat healthy and exercise, I didn't have time for my job.

You don't have to give up coffee, you just have to give up drinking coffee that has 650 calories (!!) of other stuff in it.

I bring my lunch from home, usually a sandwich and a salad, sometimes yogurt, fruit, pretzels, trail mix, etc.

I cook dinner at home, and I know this can be tough on weeknights when working long hours, but one thing that helps is that I typically make recipes meant to serve 4 people for just myself, that way I can eat the leftovers a few times rather than cooking something new every night. If you really have no time during the week, cook a few things on the weekend so you don't have to cook at all during the week.

If you're busy and more comfortable drinking your calories, start with high protein, meal replacement shakes.

Then cut out one of your shakes, whenever it's the easiest, and replace it with a healthy meal, made with real food.

Only after your new habits become routine, cut out another shake and add a snack each day made with real food . . . and so on.

Gradual change is more likely to stick, and be realistic - you might always want to keep meal replacements close to hand for when you really don't have time for food. They may not be ideal, but they're better than coffee.

Like someone else mentioned, start packing your food.

Have a healthy and filling breakfast. Oats of some kind, porridge, etc.

Throw together veg stews and freeze them.

Start introducing exercise and light weight lifting into your daily schedule (find time for it)

Log your calories here on MFP - know exactly what you're putting into your mouth.

Replace coffee's with green tea (helps keep your metabolism burning)

take ownership of your problems.

While I don't agree with the way Cp731 worded their reply, I have to admit they do have a point. I understand where you're coming from as I, too, hate having to figure out what people are talking about with all their shortcuts and terms I've never heard before. And I wish there was an easy way without having to care about all of these things. But I'm afraid there isn't.

You come here pointing out all the things you KNOW you should do but give us reasons why you cannot / don't want to do them. You don't want to take the time to prepare proper meals because you work so much. You cannot make room for (more) exercise in your schedule. You do not want to spread your calories over several meals and snacks per day as WW suggests because you do not want to eat "so much". When people direct you to the information that could help you, you say it's all "blah blah blah" to you. That's all fine and well, it's your right to choose what you do.

But what can we do for you, then? No one here can change the laws of nature. Don't you think that if even just one person on this forum knew a way of losing weight without making the time and effort, we'd all be following their path? We may not all be workaholics but I'm sure everyone here has a bunch of things they'd rather do. Eating less and cutting down on the things you know are bad, i.e. your "coffee" is a good step but obviously it's not enough or otherwise you wouldn't be posting this. So you need to go a step further. And that could mean getting more / some exercise done, eating several proper meals and first and foremost understanding what you're doing. That means learning a little bit about calorie deficits, TDEE, macros and all the other technical terms I, too, wish I didn't have to learn about. Otherwise the only thing you can do is go on as you have before which is vaguely cutting out things you think are bad for you.

I'm starting to think you don't need advice on weight loss but on time management. Perhaps you should just learn to plan far ahead, making meal and exercise schedules for the next week(s), so it'll be easier to fit in. Maybe cook all your lunch / dinner meals for the week in one day and put them in the fridge / freezer. Something like that may help you if you have problems with making the right decisions spontaneously.