Fried foods and chips are like about the worst you can do.
10 potato chips equals about the same as 1 potato and who just eats 10 chips?
Sweets and donuts-I was doing weights for one month and lost 10 to 15 pounds
I was moving the next month and not working out. No time for a good breakfast
Ate ONE doughnut every morning for one month and gained every single pound back.
When I quit drinking soda for at least a month that alone is between a 6 to 10 pounds loss
But when I start drinking it again it is right back on.
I heard that the Atkins diet is something you should not do for more than one or two months at most.
Most diets are only a temporary fix and you gain the weight back when you are done with the diet. You need a lifestyle change in eating habits.
Eat good home cooked meals with the freshest foods you possibly can.
Like pick fresh or frozen vegetables over canned.
Pick real cheese over anything with powered cheese.
Eat high fiber-whole wheat and whole grain
Also use the oils from the section with the olive oil rather than the crisco/wesson section
Pick juices like POM juice, Looza nectar, After the Fall, R. W. Knudsen,
Give up junk food, fast food and prepackaged foods
Many of them have additives that make you want more and cause your body to put on the pounds.
Also food nowadays is processed so that most of the nutrients are lacking.
They pick fruits and vegetables before they are ripe and then cook them until the enzymes are cooked out. So it is good to take an enzyme like one of these
Enzymes / Digestive Enzymes / Enzyme Supplements
Some people believe that the hormones that animals are feed are causing people to be overweight to so it is best to cut down on the meat and/or buy free range.
I have no idea what exercises would be best for you but
I think the burst exercises are suppose to be good
Or the weight machines.