What's the best and easy way to lose 80lbs

Tips:

Plan your meals for the day ahead of time
Drink lots of water
Fast food in moderation (also planned ahead of time so it fits with your daily goals)
Move! Even if it's a 15 minute walk, 3 times a week - better than nothing

The best way to lose 80 pounds is to eat less (and as healthy and unprocessed as you can get) and to work your butt off with exercise. It's far easier to exercise it off than to do it by eating better alone. But you must do both to lose the weight. Oh, and drink more water. Other than a little caffeine, it's the only thing I drink most days.

A little bit, day by day, and next thing you know you'll be a smaller you!

I would suggest making your first goal just to track your food accurately every day. Just the act of tracking helped me a lot. After you've done that for a week, you can decide which changes to make first.

Eat less, move more. And there will be nothing easy about it.

Very true - I on the beginning of week five and I'm doing the P90X workout program and I agree that it has not been easy but I am down 9 pounds and feeling great (I still need to lose 62 pounds). Just think positive and don't look at this as a diet and exercise plan - look at it as a new you and a new way of living. Stay positive and you will do great. Remember that even the smallest loss is a step in the right direction :-) Feel free to add me if you would like.

A MFP{Back2Basic} posted this for another question and maybe you will find some advice here now that I have seen your diary;

"Think of calories like money. Say you want to save $3,000 this month. You get $1,300 a day, but for some crazy reason you HAVE to spend $1,200 each day (Say for rent and bills) Now, if you only spend that 1200 a day, you will still save your $3000 by the end of the month. But you also can work for extra money. So one day, you work really hard and made an extra $500! Woohoo! But, you spent a lot of gas getting to work that day and need some more. There are a few things you can do. 1.) Ignore that you used gas, and save all $500. This will lead to an empty tank and you'll run out of fuel. 2.) You can get all the gas you want, and hey, why not get premium and spoil yourself. After all, you earned that extra $500. Might as well spend it all! Of course, nothing really happens this way. You will reach your goal in one month still. 3.) You can spend a little bit to make sure you don't run out of fuel and save the rest. This results in you having enough gas to get through the day, and at the end of the month, you'll have extra money saved!!

Hope that makes sense. I was worried to eat the exercise calories back until one day i was STARVING. I remembered to add my exercise for the day and got an extra 900 calories. I ate until I was no longer hungry, and actually ate 900 calories when I totaled it up. I try to save some if I can, but it's ok to eat them back. "

Hi Ashley,
I Have been a bit back and forth lately not always finding the time to record my food also. Having a plan and rules for myself has been most helpful along with planning my meals ahead of time. I am often torn about which plan to follow though. There are so many different tracks of thinking about weight loss. Have you found a healthy suggested eating plan to follow such as The Zone, South Beach Diet, or The 17 Day Diet or something else that looks Like a fit for you? Do you have forms of exercise you enjoy?

The only I really enjoy doing is swimming thats it

Swimming is just about the perfect exercise. Do it.
I'll echo what everyone else has said. Eat less - move more. Do not expect this to be easy because it won't be. But you are worth the battle and the changes that will happen mentally and physically to you.
If your diary is right you need to change some things. Start making mini goals and changing things bit by bit. First goal... Log every day. Every thing. Without fail. Next... Eat your allotted calories every day. Don't starve. Starve leads to binge. Next... Cook more. Prep your food. Plan. Make better choices if you do have to eat out. Try new foods new ways.

You can do it.