Ok ALL this information is fantastic !!!

My mind is spinning right now I’m thinking my meals should be ice cubes and tossed air LOL

There’s so many factors to consider when figuring out how to find the best way to lose weight when you factor in so many variables , we all have different ones of course

How was weight gained?
Emotional eating ?
Med causing extreme hunger?
Metabolic syndrome?
My chronic overall body inflammation
My physical limitations ?
My battle with anorexia throughout my life that can also cause long term damage to metabolism
My fatty liver
PsA that’s a chronic inflammation
Fibromyalgia doesn’t allow for deep restorative sleep, with out good sleep the body stays in fight or flight mode which keeps inflammation up.

My daughter went vegetarian 7-8 years ago ?? She does really well. She’s also very lazy most of the time , she will throw a can of beans and say green pepper and a apple in her backpack for lunch. She literally opens the can drains and rinses well and eats straight from the can, cuts the pepper in half and munches away. She is very consistent about getting enough protein, lots of tofu. I have tried it prepared many ways ..I just can’t. I asked how do you do it ? She said I don’t like that shyt at all but I need the protein lol

She truly eats to live , not live to eat. I get that mindset when I have fallen into the hell of anorexia, 3 years ago I was eating a 1/4 of a chicken breast twice a week and given 2 weeks to improve food intake and lab work or it was going to be a feeding tube.

So I have to be very careful with restricting regardless of what food choices I made , anorexia likes to jump out and cause chaos.

Just in the past week I have decided all breakfast food I hate, I no longer will eat eggs I’m not sure if I can eat cheese. Cantaloupe ? The smell makes me gag. Apples have a weird consistency . I want nothing to do with bread, walking down the bread aisle I gave up , the smell overwhelmed me. Oh boy just typing this bit.. yes this is how my anorexia starts. I just knock out whole food groups to start with. Yeah I need to try and take a big step back and consider things very carefully.

Yes I need to really consider all my options.

Great info here Thanks everyone