Without knowing a ton more about your history I have no idea if this will be helpful, but I lost the weight by trying and succeeding in preventing extreme hunger and extreme rebound hunger responses by limiting the foods I ate, and not eating anything that might spike blood sugar levels or brain dopamine or whatever biochemical response was occurring to high calorie foods , and in me at least the response after that wears off a few hours later of extreme hunger.
The more your eating issues resemble binge eating disorder or food addiction the more this becomes relevant. I found that eating only low calorific density foods of max 1.5kcal/gram limited hunger a lot, and enabled me to eat as much as I needed to be no longer hungry without too many calories. Which is basically as low fat as is possible , a lot of extremely lean meat, fruit , vegetables, and zero high carb high glycaemic index foods like bread pasta or grains, and a bit of low fat high protein yoghurt and once a day 20 g of dark chocolate as for some weird reason it does not trigger the extreme hunger response. Lots of low fat protein as it is the most filling food there is per calorie. High lean meat soup is excellent.
The advantage of this type of diet is that it is sustainable, healthy, and you can eat as much as you need to eat to not be too hungry, it is almost impossible to eat too many calories of most fruit or vegetables, even if it is mostly sugar, it is mixed with fiber, absorbed slowly and to eat 1000 calories worth of a lot of fruits or veg is 2 kilograms which is actually pretty hard to stuff in even if you do it slowly all day. And you can still eat nearly twice that much and lose weight. You also adjust so that fruit tastes great and you do not miss the high calorie foods as much, but in my case it required total and absolute avoidance of high calorie highly rewarding foods, so far it has worked for 3 years.
I lost the first 70 kg without GLPs as at that time I thought they were too expensive. I kept it off for a year, but it was very hard, I was still hungry a lot of the time and almost never full and metabolic adaptation required an intake of about 1600-1800 kcal/day to maintain weight.
I discovered that prescription ozempic was not super expensive in Aus at low doses and tried that for a year and it helped but was nauseating, but it did make it a bit easier to not be so hungry. Then I discovered this forum , switched to 15mg tirzepatide , added in 5mg of retatrutide as well after a while when I was still a bit hungry all the time. They made a big difference, feeling full after small meals of 300 kcal or so , much less cravings for unhealthy food. And I ended up gradually losing another 8 kg over the past 7 months. I do not think I would have been able to get rid of the weight or keep it off without both the GLP's and the diet strategy. I had previously got to normal bmi range but had never been able to stay there for more than a couple of years, but then I did not fully understand my hunger responses to different foods, and there were no glp's. I think the strategy of avoiding all high calorific density foods works for me and my understanding of physiology suggests it should be one of the easiest ways to tolerate lowered calorie intake long term, with the least amount of hunger. But I think the total avoidance of rich foods is needed to reset your sense of taste, so that less rich foods taste better over time, and to prevent triggering of extreme rebound hunger if you are sensitive to that problem. In some ways it is really hard to stick to , requiring complete avoidance of a lot of popular foods , but in others it is the easiest, where you can eat as much as you need to and still lose weight. And GLP's definitely help make it easier.
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I dunno? I'm still 'highly functional.' Can't dwell too long. I got stuff to do. BTW, that (stuff to do) could be my saving grace. 
Thanks Rando!
