Two_Faced wrote For one good reason, you haven't gave enough information about your body type, metabolism, age, sex or any other important information that is needed when deciding the best way to lose weight.
Although a lot of this is good information that was given by other members, it's nearly impossible to give a educated answer with the limited information you provided.

There's no "best way to lose weight" there's being in a caloric deficit or sugary. That's literally the only two ways humanely possible to lose weight. Either you get your arms and legs chopped off or you eat/exercise into a caloric deficit. There's no other way about it.

OP's gender isn't relevant, their age isn't relevent, their bodytype isn't relevent. All that matters is that they eat in a deficit of 300-500 calories per day and they will lose weight. It's like asking a car to drive 100 miles with enough fuel for 85 miles, it just isn't possible. The size of the car, type, colour or anything else doesn't matter aslong as you calculate the car's fuel consumption to the distance it travels.

Two_Faced wrote First thing you need to do is prepare your body and get mentally ready to commit to a routine. The most important thing you can do is come up with a plan.

OP has a diet already and he's asking if he should use weights or do cardio. He already has a plan.

Two_Faced wrote You should never commit to a set weight you want to lose, instead you should focus on being healthy mentally and physically.

That's just wrong, there's no disadvantage whatsoever to setting a goal and trying to achieve it. OP also asked how he should best go about losing weight, not getting mentally or physically healthy.

Two_Faced wrote If you want to PM me feel free. If not I'll give you a few things to help you get started on the right track.

Contrary to popular belief, you need to eat to lose weight (if you actually want to keep it off and stay healthy). Veggies are your best friend. STAY AWAY from processed foods. Drink WATER! When you stop eating or go long periods of time in a catabolic state it shocks your body and does more harm then good. You want to re train your bodys metabolism and jump start it again. Again, VEGGIES!

Contrary to popular belief, you need to eat to lose weight

So, if I don't eat for two weeks, then I wont lose weight? That's just wrong. The reason you eat is because it loses weight at a slower rate and does less damage to your body, the less you eat the faster you lose weight.

Nobody told OP to starve himself. There's no reason at all to eat veggies over any other type of food, if anything OP should be eating as much lean meat as possible as to keep protein levels high and minimize muscle atrophy. Good luck telling OP to eat only vegetables and no protein.

You want to re train your bodys metabolism and jump start it again

I have no idea what you're on about. Your metabolism is based purely on your genetics and it isn't going to change massively until you're older. you certainly shouldn't be "jump starting" your metabolism or "retraining it".

Two_Faced wrote Over the next month I would suggest that you come up with a game plan. Set 3 goals, easy ones.

You just told him not to set goals at losing weight. Nice contradiction.

You should never commit to a set weight you want to lose

Two_Faced wrote My first ones were, no more soda, no more cows milk (I drink unsweatened almond milk now) and veggies with EVERY meal.

3 years later, I drink soda sometimes, maybe 1 liter a week, I eat more veggies then anything else, I feel better then I ever have, and I've lost a ton of weight.

All on my own, I started small, met my goals, gained confidence to continue my journey.

It's not about how much you lose and how fast you can do it. It's about making better choices and getting healthy, and getting being content with yourself.

That's good that you lost weight and you did it by stopping drinking soda and eating vegetables but please don't go recommending to OP that he only eats vegetables because that's just stupid. There's literally no protein in vegetables which is going to mean that he's giving his body little to no incentive to maintain his muscle mass. OP should be eating lean meat like chicken breasts everyday to try and keep as much muscle as possible when he's losing weight.

OP isn't asking to be healthy because it would take a 500 page long essay to describe to someone how to live a healthy life, they're asking how to lose weight. Don't tell him that our answers are useless when you're recommending that he eats only vegetables and then start saying how it's impossible to give an answer because we don't know his age and so on.