re: Keto/Paleo diet doesn't appeal to me. What to use?

Look of this, most people will lose weight doing this.

Follow the greyskull lp or some other progressive overload program. See the putthaforkdown thread for links.

Do lift 3 a week. Other days you can do eat cardio if you want. Lift days, do a ten min hard conditioning session. Think metcon.

For diet, 3 meals a day. Eating from 12-8. Meals consisting on meat and veggies except after working out where you can have carbs from the following, no fried food allowed

Rice-any kind
Potatoes- any kind
Fruit


Your plates should consist of the following

Two palms of meat
Two fist of veggies

After workout do
Two fist of meat
Two fist carbs

If you want you can have a protein shake after workout. Other then that everything is real whole food, no fried food.

Do this for 12 weeks. Every time you make a plate, weigh your food and note everything into MyFitnessPal and compare the weights of the food versus your fist.

This is going to teach you how to count your macros and if you hot the gslp hard with the morning fasted walks and the conditioning hard you are gonna make more progress then you thought possible.