Advice please

Stop trying fad diet plans. Keep it simple. Count calories, weigh your food, use my mfp and let that help calculate your calories, and set a slow and steady weight loss goal.

You know the problem. You said it. "I know I don't implement my knowledge"... "is there another way to break my mentality". No one can help you. Only you can change your direction.

You are 52 years old now. You won't fix it over night so stop trying.

Seriously, don't focus on the goal!

Start with next meal and eat in such a way that is more healthy than last week. Every week make one healthier choice than last week and hang on to it. Don't give it up! One small change at a time you can build momentum.

From a post that I shared with my MFP friends last week....

Kaizen is an approach to creating continuous improvement based on the idea that small, ongoing positive changes can reap major improvements. Typically, it is based on cooperation and commitment and stands in contrast to approaches that use radical changes or top-down edicts to achieve transformation.

How does this apply to health? A body can have good momentum or bad momentum. What stops a person from changing direction? Well Newton would tell you it's inertia. A body at rest, stays at rest and a body in motion will stay in motion. Are you at rest? Are you going in the wrong direction. No one can help you but you.

Wednesday I came across a cry for help on the community forum. Accountability Buddy Needed!

Accountability buddies are nice for starting out. But, to make a change in direction requires the individual to initiate it. Just like a rock rolling downhill, you will resist someone changing your direction as any body in motion resists a change inertia. You will revert to your original path when the external force is removed. However, when the desire and source of change comes from within change is permanent. Now you are steering the direction. Then support and encouragement only make that steering more accurate and effective.

You want to change your direction? Which is easier huge sweeping changes forced on you by some so-called expert telling you what to eat and how to exercise or small incremental improvements that you choose. These small incremental changes will result in a consummation of changes that propel you to make even more Kaizen continuous improvements!

I went the Fractional, Kaizen way.
In the words of a Mandalorian.... "it is the way"

I know what I'm talking about, I gained 35 lbs in 10 years and have since lost it in 4. It won't come back because I didn't diet, I changed my lifestyle! BTW I'm 48 years old and the profile pic is me.