Thanks everyone all the support really helps in this journey

My method of choice is called sparkpeople.com it has a great nutrition tracker to keep track of calories and based on your weight and how much you want to lose it gives you daily goals for calorie intake etc and you just try to stay within your goals. Portion control is a big one for me. I never realized before how inflated my idea of "portions" really was.

After a while of tracking the calories I started to learn how much and what I could eat and stay within my daily ranges. So now I don't actually use the nutrition tracker anymore it's just become second nature.

Because of this method I don't eat ANYTHING without thinking about it first. I think about how it will impact my daily calorie numbers. Is it worth eating? am I really hungry? is there something better I could be eating?