I lost 60 pounds and of that 45 was only normal walks and diet - counting calories. The thing that helped me in the beginning was to think about calories equally, which they’re not, and think about spending them like coins. So I could spend them on a burger fries and a shake and then I was out of coins for the day or I could eat 600 baby carrots same thing. Later as you get skinnier that doesn’t work well but when you have a lot to lose it works great. I also set small goals realizing I haven’t weighed below 238 in 5 years and 230 in 7 years and so on so I would be able to be like well yeah I only lost 10 pounds but I’m the skinniest I’ve been in 5 years! That combination of tricks but listening to David goggins audiobook and signing up for a difficult fitness event to motivate me achieved the weight loss goal