Starting Today

Tip 1: Change your weight loss goal to 0.5 lb per week.
Reason for that: Easier.
Tip 2: Enjoy this journey.
Reason for that: So you can stay on it and continue to maintain after reaching your goal.

Also, you must be honest and accurate with your food diary. All is for naught if you can't tell the truth to Diary. For this, you must acquire and use a digital food scale and weigh all your food. Maybe not spices, but certainly oils, meats, fats, veg, bread, grains, legumes, calorific drinks and such.

Claire, you should not experience hunger doing this. Vegetables in variety are your friend. Just Saturday for the first time I purchased a "jicama", also called "yam bean". It's a big ugly root. Anyway, it's easy to slice, peel, and eat raw. It tastes sweet, but has low sugar. It's crunchy like a water chestnut. It's an excellent source of fiber. I'm just getting started with recipe experimenting, but I already found that in case of hunger a little bit of jicama tastes sweet and immediately satisfies the empty tummy

claireforde14 wrote: »

Thanks Jerome I have it set to 2lbs for week that's 1200 calories a day need to be very clever with food choices, hoping to not use the exercise calories so I can loose it quicker.!

Your goal should not be to "lose weight", but to change your habits and ways of thinking that will lead to weight loss.
Setting your goal too aggressively and you risk "burning yourself out" and being frustrated. Set smaller goals to make the transition from your current life style easier.