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@Acliff
A few tips that worked for me:
-Having a fully stocked fridge of diet coke cans / caffeine free diet coke cans was useful. Makes the procrastinating/bored/hungry fridge trip fewer calories. Appreciate that drinking diet fizzy drinks isn't optimal, but helped me stay on a calorie deficit.
-Drinking low calorie tea: green/jasmine/herbal/cereal - having a warm cup of drink can keep you going, being hydrated is good and might make you less hungry. Also the routine of making tea is habit forming, and might replace the habit of eating sweets and biscuits, especially as biscuits with green tea is just wrong.
-Reduce as best you can the barriers(physical or mental) for getting moving or exercising. You're more likely to do chinups if you have a chinup bar at home, rather than at the gym. A gym thats easier to get to, even if more expensive, or less well featured, improves your chances of going.
-Keep things boring and simple. The fewer decisions on variety of food, types of exercise, the easier things will be.
-Accept that you will be hungry and sometimes low in energy. You're losing weight, you're supposed to be. If you're not hungry at least some of the time, then you're very lucky. Possibly eating too much. There are plenty of foods and ways to increase your satiety (complex carbs, more fibre etc, smaller regular meals, etc) but unless you are very good at tricking your body that eating less than before is ok, you'll be hungry. I'm starving the morning after an approx. 4000 calorie all you can eat buffet, so I've tried hard to figure out what my body needs, rather than what my head wants.
-Finding suitable low calorie snacks to replace bars of chocolate, flapjacks etc is helpful. Better to avoid them altogether though. I cut out fruit, because I find it easier to avoid rather than moderate. If I'm hungry, one apple can spiral into half a box of easy peelers, 2 bananas, a mango, and a tub of Ben and Jerrys.