@gingerw
Agree!
Humans are very different it the way medications work, metabolisms, how much they can eat and not gain weight, and so many factors that affect weight.

It does some down to specifically your body in what goes in (food) and what goes out in terms of exercise and movement. But that ratio is different for every single person. So wathing a person eat this or that and thinking you can do the same is not correct.

You really have to find that balance of how much you can eat based on your lifestyle activity that creates a calorie deficit and you lose weight.

I found a simple technique mentioned many times of drinking a cold glass of water prior to eating helps reduce how much you eat due to stomach content of the water. The second one is to eat slowly and I meant chewing and chewing until completely chewed to slow down your eating. Putting down you spoon or fork between bites and eating to last at least 20 minutes to get to that time frame that your brain will say okay not hungry now.

Then on the other side. Find an exercise you like doing (check with doctor first). I love water aerobics as you use weights in the water for resistance and lots of aerobic activity. But that does not mean you will like it. Walking, biking, swimming, walking dog, gardening, hobbies, anything that burns calories and you like doing it.

Everything helps so doing a lot of different things helps for success versus drastic things like just diet or thinking exercise alone will do it.