[Fezzik]

Coupled with this, I found that eating the same stuff helps a lot to maintain a calorie deficit.

The first time I ate at a calorie deficit (it was for 3 months, randomly), I ate the same damn thing every day - a cup of cereal with a cup of milk for breakfast, a lemon zest luna bar for lunch, and a veggie-melt for dinner with an apple and peanut butter snack. It was barely over 1,000 calories. A also had a Blizzard every Friday, extra large, instead of the veggie melt. I'm a 6' male, and dropped rapidly from about 215 to 175. I also felt amazing and slept like I never had before in my life. I also swam a mile 3 times a week and did a little trail running. The diet was the only thing that mattered though.

That's my anecdote for losing weight.