Tbf, it wasn’t just that. I just think it was the biggest single factor. I also started exercising, started avoiding added sugars, cooked more food myself at home and cooked from base ingredients rather than packaged meals, and in general did my best to avoid processed food. I largely stopped playing video games and watching tv, and spent a lot more time having fun outside, meeting new people, and hanging out with friends. And in general, I adopted a mindset that I was a happy, healthy person, and so it was only natural I would do the things a happy, healthy person would do, and would spend time with other happy, healthy people

I will also say that I don’t think your current mindset/strategies are serving you very well. Personally, I just don’t think counting calories is a great strategy for almost anyone. But more broadly, you describe yourself as “greedy”, which is a sin, which implies some level of self-hatred - and this sort of motivation tends to result in binge-purge (or binge-binge) cycles. I think a better strategy is to find some kind of exercise you find fun and do it with other people, and make very tasty food that is still healthy