Don't know what to eat!

I've stayed as close to my normal way of eating as possible. I watch to make sure I get enough protein, fat, and fiber for satiety.

I eat some smaller portions, some bigger portions of things like veggies, and I've made some substitutions of some calorie-dense foods with other foods that I also like.

I've lost a bunch of weight (100 something lbs so far). I eat all the foods I like and avoid all the foods I don't like while staying within my calorie budget. That's about as complicated I'm willing to let my food choices get. The only foods I cut out were the foods that I didn't really like, but ate anyway.

Now to make dieting more comfortable I had to play with the amount and frequency of eating certain things. If I ate nothing but cheesecake within my calories I would still lose weight, but I would be pretty hungry and miserable, and it would not be very nutritious. Similarly, if I ate nothing but "diet foods", I would not be happy. I reduced the quantity of some foods (like oil), increased the quantity of some others (like vegetables), reduced the frequency of heavier foods (like french fries), and a combination of reduced quantity and frequency (like nuts). The things that were already fine quantity and frequency-wise (like ice cream) I did not change.

How you go about that is up to you, you will pick up a few personal tricks as you lose weight.

I lost 95 lbs.

I didn't avoid anything specific or do low anything. I ate a nutrition-conscious diet (I think this is just common sense -- get enough protein, eat plenty of vegetables, if you want to include "junk" foods -- I love some high cal, lower nutrient items like cheese and ice cream -- be conscious of portion size). I cooked from whole foods, for the most part, but I did that when getting fat too. I also -- and this was more important -- ate mindfully (logging helped with this of course) and according to a regular schedule as much as I could, as I figured out that I do better not snacking and eating 3 decent-sized meals. I also stopped putting foods on my plate that exceeded what I needed to be eating, using too much oil and butter in cooking, and filling up on foods that I don't even like that much because they were there (one example for me, rice, or bread on the table in a restaurant, neither of which I even like that much).