Really REALLY like junk food

You can still eat all the foods you love. Just fit them into your calorie goal. It's called moderation.

I still eat pizza, ice cream, cupcakes, chips, fast food, etc. I just make sure it fits into my goal.

Don't start labeling foods as good or bad. They're all just food. Eat them... just less of it. Cutting them out will just make you crave them more and make you feel deprived, and then you may end up binging.

1. Know yourself and understand why you want to lose the weight at some stage you will want to get on with losing weight more than you want the ice cream. Perhaps you need to get your mind right first and make sure its not just emotional eating, self esteem or any other issues?
2. Learn about obesity, nutrition and the dangers as well as the benefits of eating more healthily and exercising. If you understand its likely to make more sense rather than salad v ice cream.
3. Learn from MFP about how to create a claorie deficit, logging your food accyrately and making small changes including exercising and earning extra calories to eat back. Youll soon realise it takes a lot of exercise to earn a tub of ice cream.
4. Find a way of dieting that includes having soem friends so you can get support.
5. Find a way of doing some exercise that you enjoy. Might be swimming or walking are good starts.
6. Learn what to eat and get some new recipes. It doesnt have to be all about salads. You just eat less.

At some stage you have to decide that you are doing it for yourself and write down all the reasons or are you going to stick at being over weight because you can have ice cream in unlimited quantities?

Any diet is really a sustainable lifestyle change, You just eat less than you burn. Your eating habit has just been out of kilter. You cna still eat your favourite foods.

I rarely eat salad. I find the texture of lettuce is bothersome on my tongue. Instead, I eat a lot of raw crunchy veggies, like carrots, celery, cauliflower, and broccoli.

As for "junk" food, it's all still just food. The key is to track everything you eat so you can see how you are doing on calories as well as on macronutrients. If you have, say, too many carbs and not enough protein in your day, look at what you eat and see if you can substitute a little less of one thing and a little more of another to get your macros right.

That means that you can still eat the junk food you like as long as it fits your macros. By logging and reviewing, you can make small choices that can yield good results.

I don't know if this will help but you can try it. Years ago I struggled to quit smoking. Finally I got the idea to visualize what I was actually doing, INHALING SMOKE! Just the thought of sounded so strange to me. Why would I want to fill my lungs and body with smoke? After that, every time I had the urge to light up I would take a minute or two to think about what I was actually doing to myself.
Perhaps the same could work with food. You say you really like JUNK food. What does the name itself tell you? You are actually putting junk into your body. Look at the labels. Would you find that stuff in your cupboards or pantry? Likely you wouldn't. Most of it is man made JUNK and nothing we would add to the food we cook. Now think about your body, the many different organs that need to be fed properly to work properly. What can you feed your body to make it run its best? Natural foods that are grown are best for us, filled with all the vitamins and nutrients we need to fuel our bodies. Too much sugar feeds cancers and can lead to other health related issues. Think about when you're 60 years old. Do you want to struggle to walk, ride around in a motorized scooter because of your inability to walk? Do you want to wake up every morning to a barrage of pills for all of the ailments you have self afflicted your body with? YOU CAN AVOID ALL THAT! If you just eat right. That doesn't mean salad for every meal. There are healthy pizza's especially if you learn to make them yourself. Get smart about what goes in your body. No more junk, your body is not a trash can anymore than mine was a smoke stack!

I've stopped following diets that have a list of allowed / not allowed foods. There is no way one diet can fit everyone's personal preferences.
Most diets say to eat a good breakfast, cut carbs and cut night-time eating. That doesn't work for me personally. I love carbs and I prefer eating later in the day.

So a doctor friend told me to just stick to simple calorie counting via MFP.
It didn't matter if I skipped breakfast and ate a midnight snack. It didn't matter if I had rice and noodles every night. So long as my total numbers came in under a certain level, I lost weight. If I go over that number, I don't lose. (For me, that limit is about 1500 calories).

Of course, I couldn't eat 100% of what I wanted. I can't have a muffin, a croissant sandwich and fried noodles in one day. But I did not have to cut any particular food.

If you like junk food, give yourself a modest treat of junk food. If you hate salad, don't eat it. There's no rule that you must go 6 weeks without a kebab to lose weight. Have the odd kebab with a side of vegetables.

As for going to the gym -- it's a nice thing to do with many other benefits, and might buy you leeway of a couple / several hundred extra calories a day. But, ultimately, losing weight is just about cutting total calories.

I really like junk food too! And I don't really like veggies. AND I'm not fond of exercise. Here's what I'm doing: 1. I have a list of things that will change when I lose weight. I carry the list and read it every time I want to eat. 2. I log all my food and exercise here. I'm committed to that. Yes, I go over the daily allotment. But I log them. 3. I'm not weighing myself for at least 1 month, maybe not till Christmas. This is about new habits, not a diet. -- for me.

Good luck to you! I know you can find a new way of eating! And be patient with yourself. New habits take time.