How successful were you in loosing weight question?

Jim, Kitty and I have done the diet thing a few times through the years. I can honestly say getting it off isn't the big issue. Keeping it off is. The most successful thing we did was "The Whole 30" It works very well, but you have to cut out 100% sugar, bread, dairy and a few other things for 30 days. I'll say we both lost about 30 pounds in 30 days. It flat works. But the choices they give you to eat......ghee for butter, almond milk are not tasty at all. At this point all we've done is cut out all soft drinks and we don't use sugar at home. We use monk fruit extract. It's been shown to actually lower blood sugar and doesn't put on the weight either. IT's not artificial, but it does have a different taste than sugar. Sugar is the biggest enemy, because so many things turn into sugar once they enter our bodies. Here is the Whole 30 web site. It's not plant based, unless you want that option. What we liked about it is, they flat out tell you that you don't have to buy their products and tell you how to do it reasonably on your own budget.
https://whole30.com/