Weight / Fat loss

A more sensible approach would be to restrict calories whilst giving leeway for high nutrition/value items like meat, eggs or oily fish. Totally ditch sugar, and sweet treats you have.

With fat intake, ditch all the unhealthy fats like cheap refined veg/sunflower/corn oil, instead use olive oil, butter or make use of the fat from meat & fish. Saturated fat is good for your testosterone production, which will help you be more lean, muscular and athletic.

Very sound advice DFP and in line with what I try and follow. Have you read the Primal Blueprint?

Lots of different views on diet/nutrition but sticking to non-processed foods works for me. Meats, fish, vegtables, fats all day long.

The key for me is that any changes to loose weight or change body composition need to be permament changes - ie for life. This is the key for long term changes (1, 5,10, 25 years instead 1, 3, 6 months). So many diets are short term and only lead to bodies returning to pre-diet states. As a result any changes to diet need to be gradual and sustainable avoiding extreme options which are not tenable in long run.

If you can't see yourself doing it in the long term you are likely to have little success.