No exercise

Exercise is important for yur health for sure, but the most important aspect of weight loss is maintaining a calorie deficit.

Think about it this way, you have to work quite hard to burn 300 calories 3x per week though exercise, but it's fairly simple to alter your diet to remove 130 calories below your TDEE each day.

So, don't be discouraged. You can totally do this if you are mindful and own up to your choices.

you can still lose weight without exercising. make sure what you tell MFP as far as how active you are is at sedentary and then make sure you stay under your calories. you can still lose because as they say - it's 90% diet, 10% exercising

My journey since 2014 was without exercise as a regular thing. I stopped and started a few times quite a way in and now i'm doing a little bit each day - walking with short sprints on the beach. Anyway when i started exercise was deliberately not part of the plan because in the past, i'd always done lots of exercise and then stop some time after i'd lost all the weight and then when i stopped i'd fairly soon pile it all back on again. So this time i just knew I couldn't rely on exercise. I just did it with my diet and its fine and wonderful. When you get slimmer, exericse becomes more important because your daily calories are low and you'll want to eat more. If you want to get really skinny then a fair amount of exericise - at least an hour a day is essential to maintain yourself at your lowest healthy weight.

So have no fear or worries, you can lose 30 pounds without exercise. What you do is set your daily calories to lose one pound a week. And eat strictly to that. If you aim to lose one pound a week, you will be eating enough to make you feel good, so long as you:

a), eat nutritious food and not processed foods and junk foods. why? because these foods fill you up and take longer to digest than junk food.
b) keep yourself stress free and in a happy head space. If stress continues for a few days you are likely to succumb to comfort eating and potentially binging so find other ways to deal with stress, disappointments and other sorts of emotional upset.
c) avoid snacking, meals are better.

If you don't know what to cook, just buy a bunch of healthy stuff and then look for recipes to match what you've got. Ensure you have all the cooking basics available in your kitchen so that you don't have to run out and get extra stuff. Or pick a recipe before and then go shopping for what you need.

You could also try this:
End all meals with a fruit course.
Start lunch and dinner with a small salad.

feel free to add me too! It's good to have mfp friends here with different struggles and aspects of trying to loose weight. Not sure I can give you any solid advice but I am more than happy to spur you on!:-)